See ya, Summer

Posted on September 19, 2012 by Jenn

Tell your friend Fall to hurry on over.

We’ve been enjoying the last days of Summer but craving Fall so much.

Here are some of our end of summer happenings.

I recently went to Atlanta for my friend Crystal’s bachelorette party. She is a sweet friend and Phi Mu sister from UT. I can NOT WAIT for her wedding in Austin in a few weeks! We had a blast in Atlanta. The crew was about half friends from college and half friends from her post-college days in Atlanta. So that was really fun. We all got along so well and had a blast – duh, Crystal picked us all as friends, so we’re clearly all awesome. It was so much fun.

We spent Saturday “shooting the Hooch,” or tubing down the Chattahoochee River. So nice! It was like redneck tanning. Just laying in a tube, getting some sun and drinking from your floating beer cooler next to you. Yes indeed.

Then, it was bachelorette time. On the right is Edgin and I – my freshman year roomie!

There was a serious game of Jenga. Each piece had a question about the bride and groom on it or had a “drink three drinks” or “never have I ever” kind of phrase on it. It was hilarious.

Me and the bride!

OMG – dinner at Two Urban Licks. I had scallops over gouda grits. GOUDA! I love you.

Jen Hester and I have a mutual friend back in Nashville – like, besides the ones who know Crystal. Small world.

Beginning of night – end of night. 8:30 vs. 3:31. Wow.

Back in Nashpatch, we went to Bartender Bash. Just as fun as I remember! But the drinks were not as yummy as last year. There were only a couple that blew my mind. The rest were just, eh, so so. But when you’re in good company, it doesn’t really matter.

Stud!

Alice and I, and Samantha and I. Samantha, our month-long roomie, has moved back to GA since her rotation, and we miss her so! Hopefully she’ll do her residency at Vandy.

Beautiful Union Station Hotel where Bartender Bash was held.

End of the night – sorry so blurry, but things were…well, blurry.

Also while Samantha was here, there was a Food Truck contest in Centennial Park across the street from our place. We headed over because Samantha won a spot as a judge! She got to try like 20 food trucks on her last day in Nashville. Jealous.

I ordered lunch from Riff’s Fine Street Food, my favorite food truck that I’ve tried.

I had the shrimp and grits (OMG) and the salt cod fritters, which was their “tasting” portion available for the event. Y’all. I could eat those one more time, top it off with their cucumber basil (I think that’s what it was) lemonade and die happy.

Look at Samantha and all her loot! Fortunately, she left a lot of it in our fridge when she drove back to GA the next day. Muhahahah. I ate it. All.

Come on, Fall! I’m tired of sweating every.where.I.go.

XOXO,
Jenn

Jennstagram

Posted on July 20, 2012 by Jenn

Here’s a little photo wrap-up of the week I fondly call, Jennstagram.

Me — driving back from K-town last Sunday. A little sad to be leaving the “country,” but ready to get home to my kitty baby and Rog! Who is this girl with long blondish hair, PS?

As you can see, Callie was STOKED to have me home. She could hardly contain herself.

While at home, I took a photo of this photo (yeah, technology!) of my Dad in his early days working at Y-12. Look at how cute he is! He appears to be about 15 years old, but he is not. Check out that sweet PC.

Momma and Daddy were wealthy with tomatoes from the garden and sent me back several. I’ve enjoyed one of these with lunch every day this week.

Rogers put in a new closet organizer in the hall closet. Lawd, we needed it. He knows the way to my heart is through organizational gestures.

I met my friend Alice at Taco Mamacita for a Tuesday night gab session and margarita indulgence. Pomegranate Margarita. Thank you may I have another. And I did.

Wednesday, when there was a humidity of about 168 percent, by some sweet divine intervention the new food truck RetroSno was parked at our building. Kim and I both tried the Vanilla Toasted Coconut flavor “snoball” which was topped with coconut flakes and “cream,” aka sweetened condensed milk. Instead of cramming my sweaty face in the middle of it, which was what I really wanted to do in that heat, I ate it. Every bite of it.

My life is complete and I’ll be stalking this truck all over town, now. There are about 15 more flavors I’d like to try. So I guess my life isn’t that complete.

After 11 years with the Eclipse, I am finally car shopping and think I found “the one.” Mitzi the Mazda is currently en route from Georgia to Nashville to meet her new owner (me!)

A.) You’re welcome for getting you out of Georgia, Mitzi. B.) I hope we have a long, repair-free, life together. You have big wheels to fill.

Weekend Recap — the (not so) Wild Weekend

Posted on July 8, 2012 by Jenn

Rog has been in North Carolina helping his Mom repaint her house, so Callie and I have had quite a wild and crazy girls’ weekend. It went something like this:

Saturday, I worked out at the Delta – Body Sculpt with Stephanie, which never disappoints. I’m always sore, every Sunday. She rocks my face and there’s always just 5-7 of us ladies in the class, so it’s really like one on one training.

I came home and Callie and I organized the guest bedroom. We’ve still had furniture on top of furniture since my townhouse sold. I put the guest bed together and rearranged the guest room. It’s quite precious. Callie’s helping consisted of her being exactly where I needed her not to – like sitting on the box springs while I was trying to put the mattress down and refusing to move until I almost squished her. So helpful.

I skipped lunch while working and was starved at 4:30. I got takeout from Chuy’s and watched Kardashian reruns. Then, I finally bathed after my workout 8 hours prior. I spent the rest of the evening reading and was in bed by 8:30. CRAZY times, I tell ya.

Here are some other recent snapshots from the week/weekend.

For the 4th of July earlier in the week, we went to my friend Sally’s house. She hosted a cookout and there were red, white and blue mudslides and a slip n’ slide. Enough said.

Rog manned the grill – he’s my grillmaster.

This is Lulu – I am basically in love with her. She is the sweetest doggy.

We have a family of opossums living under our stairs outside. They frolic late at night and drive Callie crazy! They are cute and I have to remind myself that they are nasty, germ spreading little suckers, or else I’d invite them in and make them dangle off my hand by their curly little tails. Look at that little gymnast!

Excuse my dorky “I’m Callie’s Momma” voice.

Callie hates opossums

I went to the library Friday after work, killing time before picking Rog up from the airport. I was isolated in a nice comfy chair upstairs and heard this CRAZY yelling that sounded like a foreign language. Turns out, it was jibberish. It was one of the many homeless people absolutely losing his shit about who knows what. I mean, he was yelling at the top of his lungs and we were the only two people around. He spotted me as he was trotting down the aisles and back-tracked, then lingered for a good long look. I thought, “well, this is it. I’m going to have to taze this dude in the f’ing library!” What the heck. Why are 50% of the people in the downtown library, at any given moment, homeless? I guess I can’t blame them wanting to escape the heat, and cardholders don’t pay anything to be in there so we’re all just as entitled, but DANG. That’s not the first time I did not feel safe in there because of the riff raff. I’ll never go back and tuck myself into a cozy little corner like that, and that sucks to feel that way about utilizing such a great space.

I bought this great futon a mere four weeks ago and now we don’t need it since my house sold and we’re furniture rich. Want it? Come and get it.

Saturday nail art.

I did a little car browsing this morning, before CarMax opened, so I wouldn’t be bothered. I just want to look, not talk to anyone about it, yet. Every time I look I feel like I’m cheating on my Eclipse. I mean, we’ve been together and she’s been faithful for 11 years! But the ol’ girl just can’t keep up much longer. And who really wants to be debt free in America, anyways? I’ve unloaded the house, so bring on the next thing!

Oh man – McKay’s book store. I can’t quit you. Every time I go in there it’s like some kind of competition to see how many books I can find on my Good Reads list – and I like to win, so just get out th’ way.

All Callie said she wanted was my grocery bag.

I rounded out this rowdy weekend with a trip to Costco. Watch out people – you can’t handle this wild child.

XOXO,
Jenn

‘Merica — TCB

Posted on July 4, 2012 by Jenn

Happy 4th of July!

Hey y’all. Sorry for the hiatus, but lawd, I’ve been TCB! Taking care of business. You may have gathered from my previous couple of posts that I FINALLY sold my dang townhouse. It sold three years to the day that I put it on the market and I couldn’t be more relieved. It was weighing on me like I didn’t even realize, until it was gone. But all that to say, I hope to be back on the regular blogging scene now that I have my head back in a good, normal space!

In the meantime, let’s do a photo recap of what else has been going on.

I went to Kingston and watched two of my favorite Wade men do a triathlon. They basically kicked tail.

Mom and Dad visited Nashville for Father’s Day. We had a joint Mother’s Day/Father’s Day outing to Arrington Vineyards and had a picnic. It was so fun and they both really enjoyed it. Of course, there was wine.

We had dinner at Ted’s Montana Grill and lunch at Germantown Café the next day.

Mom has always wanted to tour the Hermitage, Andrew Jackson’s home, so we did. It was really interesting and I loved the self-guided tour with headphones. You just punched in a code from a sign based on what you were looking at. I thought that was nicer than some period-costumed lady walking you around the entire time.

Kim took me down to the Farmer’s Market to try Bella Nashville’s pizza. OMG. It’s like Bella Napoli, and its ah-mazing. I die. I think about it daily.

I went to the courthouse one morning and TCB’d. Isn’t Nashville beautiful from the park?

The month of June I worked out 4-5 days a week at FIT Nashville’s bootcamp at Centennial. It was beautiful and we never got rained out. Thanks, drought! Fabulous way to watch the sun come up and start my day!

And in case you haven’t heard yet – I sold my townhouse! Ha.
So empty!

If you need a realtor, call that guy on the sign. Frank J will TCB.

Then, I celebrated the move.

And celebrated the sale. A lot of celebrating.

Rog took us to J Alexander’s for dinner. All I wanted was mac and cheese (it’s to die for), but had some steak tacos too. He had the steak.

In other news, I’m still obsessed with our McKay’s bookstore. I love it. Here are some of the latest finds.

Are you bored with the randomness of this post yet? Hope not – because here’s an update on my hair! It’s getting looong, and I love my bangs longer, now. I can curl them back a little and keep the little turds out of my face.

Last Saturday Rog and I got all dressed up and went to Junior Chamber gala. It was so fun. We topped it off with a trip downtown to Robert’s Western World and then acted refined and had a nightcap at the Patterson House.

My handsome date.

Phi Mu ladies!

Mal pal.

Two of my favorite Nashville friends – Rach and Linds.

And two of my new friends thanks to NJC – Elisabeth and Evelina. I don’t befriend ugly people, clearly.

Lastly – I ate half a sticker off my apple yesterday. That was awesome. Then, I checked my mortgage account and saw my outstanding balance. YES sir! Ha. Ok, I’ll quit talking about it, I swear.

And, I finished this book today and HOLY moly. It scared the poop out of me! And had so many twists and turns. It would make a fabulous movie. But OMG – y’all. Read this book. I read it in three days and had nightmares. Ha.

How’s that for a random brain dump? Now that we’re all caught up, I’ll try to keep it that way.

XOXO,
Jenn

Weekend Recap–Downton Abbey Style

Posted on May 6, 2012 by Jenn

Yesterday was my Girls on the Run 5K. Girls on the Run is a program for 3rd through 8th grade girls that uses the power of running to help prepare girls for a lifetime of self-respect and healthy living. It is an AWESOME program and I have so enjoyed being a “running buddy.” We do one practice 5K (about a month ago) and then the real deal 5K that’s an open race that anyone can register for and run. GOTR has one running buddy (volunteer adults) per girl, to keep her safe along the run, pace her, help her meet her goals, etc.

I was paired up with Leandra yesterday, who was the cutest girl out there. Don’t argue – because you would lose. She was the cutest by a landslide. Le Le (as I call her now since we’re BFFs) is in the 4th grade and loves her dogs and school. She doesn’t know what she wants to be when she grows up because she “has way too much time to figure that out.”

We had the best time running (and walking) and talking A LOT. She beat her previous time by 3 minutes and her mother and brother who were there supporting her were SO proud. I can’t wait till the professional pictures are posted and I’ll show you one of Le Le and I. I was afraid to take my camera because it had rained off and on all morning – but trust, Girls on the Run (and Le Le) are the jam. So awesome.

This was what the sky looked like around 6:30 a.m. when we were about to leave for the 5K – and this is my “you want me to run under that sky?” face.

I came home and ran some errands, then swung by Redbox and picked up the first season of Downton Abbey. I wasn’t really interested in this show (I mean, it comes on PBS) but everyone was just going on and on about it, so I thought for $1.20, I can check it out. Well I’ll be damned if I didn’t watch the entire first season in about a 12 hour time span. And, I learned I’d mistakenly been calling it “Downtown Abbey.” It’s Downton. We Americans butcher everything. Bollocks.

After I unglued my butt from the couch, I managed to clean the house with Rogers today. He is such a good partner and we had this place shining in no time. Josh and Ashley, my brother and sister-in-law, stopped by on their way back from Missouri and had a late lunch with us. I made the Mongolian Beef, Chinese Takeout at Home, that I blogged about recently. Nom nom.

Broseph.

He likes to have pretty women in his life.

Here’s some other random moments from the weekend.

Essie “Tart Deco” – very summery. I may need a support group for my nail polish addiction.

My friend Kim mentioned that her friend said Mabelline Falsies mascara is the greatest thing since sliced bread, if sliced bread went on your eyelashes and made them long and luscious. And since I’m no one to resist peer pressure, I promptly went out and bought some. I have to admit, I quite like it. I also have been applying my mascara wrong for about 15 years. I never knew about the whole “start at the base of your lash and wiggle horizontally back and forth.” What? I like my eyeballs unscathed and tend to keep them that way. This will take some practice.

If you want to witness the “proper” way to apply mascara, PixiWoo does it in this video.

Maybelline Falsies.

I went to McKay’s books and took my Good Reads list with me. I found lots on my list! And one that wasn’t. AH! I love McKay’s. I got 5 books for 28 bucks. A couple of them were more expensive than usual – $10 and $8, but that’s still a bargain.

Can’t wait for some beach reading next week.

I got this adorable shirt called Robot Flirting from Ript Apparel this week. R2D2 giving flowers to a trashcan. Had to have. Ript Apparel has a new t-shirt featured each day by an artist. You can buy it for 24 hours, then it’s gone, never to be purchased again. Odds are, you won’t see someone else walking around with your shirt on. And if you do, you should high-five them because you are both so stylish and sophisticated.

Then I packed for the beach. Oh beach!! Next weekend I’ll be beached.

And since I know you can’t resist the Callie Cat (and since I can’t blog without including her), here you go.

Have a good week, friends! Mine will be hectic trying to wrap up things before vacay. I haven’t taken a whole week off of work in 7 years…that would be “ever since I started the real world.” Crazy. I am going to savor the flavor.

XOXO,
Jenn

Weekend Recap — I Feel like I Ran a Marathon

Posted on April 29, 2012 by Jenn

Happy Sunday, friends! This weekend was pretty awesome – hope yours was too.

Back up though…

Earlier in the week, Kim and I went to Fight Night at War Memorial Auditorium. It benefited Not Alone, which is a part of the company I work for. Kim scored us a couple of tickets and we had a blast. Neither of us knew what to expect but we heard there would be food, wine and people fighting each other. There was no stopping us.

Turns out it was a sanctioned, official, totally legit boxing event – very pro and very scary. Well, I was scared for a minute. Then all of the sudden I was practically out of my seat yelling “Yeah! PUNCH HIM!” Kingston.

Although it turned a little Hunger Games for a while, when the 90 pound and 110 pound weight classes came out. They were middle schoolers – punching each other in the face.

It was a super fun night and for a good cause…even if our tickets were free and we ate our weight in appetizers.

See the little guys? So tiny.

Friday, some merch came in from a project Rog did last year – and we just love the Max Jones Brigade! We had to send put our hats on and send these photos to him. Get your taste of Max here.

Friday night Rog and I watched J. Edgar. Weird movie – slow, but interesting. It definitely had its moments, but wasn’t my favorite. Rog agreed. The best part of the movie night was that Callie was quite cuddly. Little nugget. I have to soak up the moments when the little hell cat is being a sweetie pie.

Saturday I woke up at 4:45 a.m. – I know, it should be illegal – and went downtown to volunteer at the Country Music Marathon. I ran the half two years ago, and last year my brother ran the full and I ran a little at the end with him. This year, I was a little bummed to not be a part of the race in some way. Then, I heard they were short on volunteers and jumped at the chance to help out. The atmosphere is just so fun.

I started out at 5:30 putting out food at the finish line – I was in charge of bagels and gogurts (those gross to-go yogurts).

Around 7:30 I went over to gear check. There were 20 UPS trucks that people used to check gear at the start line, then those trucks drove to the finish line so they could pick their stuff up after the race. Apparently last year there were 3-4 people working a truck, but I manned a truck all by myself. They were SO short on volunteers. It was chaotic at points – because a couple of bags were missing – but overall it was really fun and the runners were sweet and appreciative. I did have to tell one lady, “So, you understand that I, personally, did not lose your bag, right? And that I’m a volunteer doing everything in my power to be sure you get it back, right?” She apologized. I mean, if I just ran 13.1 miles and then my car keys had gone missing, I’d be pissed too – but come on lady. I’m sweating like a cow in the back of this UPS truck and I will kick you in the shin.

After 6 hours of volunteering I felt like I’d run the marathon. Smile It was so fun though – if I don’t run it next year I’ll be volunteering again.

The finish line – 5:30 a.m.

Good morning, Nashville!

My truck!

I came home and sat on the porch with Rogers after volunteering (and before my nap!), and this little kitty cat was ready to snuggle again. She loves to be outside.

Write this one down in the record books. I went to Trader Joes on Saturday and brought my own bag. And it wasn’t plastic. I’m officially “one of them.”

Dinner on the deck Saturday – Chinese Takeout at Home. See previous post for recipe.

Sunday was full of errands and I finally switched my closet over from winter clothes to summer clothes. Woo hoo!

And, I woke up to this little girl on her “princess pillow” this morning. Ha – she is rotten.

Have a great week, friends!

XOXO,
Jenn

Weekend Recap

Posted on April 15, 2012 by Jenn

Ah, weekend. How I love you. Please don’t leave me.

Although the weekend has already come and will soon be gone, knowing that I’ll be at the beach in one month is getting me through. I’m literally counting down the days!

Here’s the weekend in photos for you.

Well, this photo isn’t actually from the weekend – but is hilarious. Rog and I always drink our wine from the ol’ Bota Box. When his friend Jimmy visited us a few weeks ago, he was appalled that when we “finish” the box, we don’t cut it open and then cut open the bag to get the most bang for our buck. We hadn’t ever thought of this – but it’s a must-do. There’s like a whole extra glass of wine hiding in there! Life’s important lessons, I know. Just sharing the wisdom.

This was Callie’s Saturday morning. Pretty much like every other morning – but I like to think she enjoys it even more when I’m next to her on the couch.

I ventured out to Hillsboro Village Saturday morning because I just needed some new summery nail polish. You know how it is. So I went to one of my favorite places – Cosmetic Market. Swoon.

Ole Caliente – Essie. I’ve become a nail polish snob since I always keep my nails painted these days. Essie is the best. What’s your favorite brand?

Rog and I had a date night Saturday and went to see the Hunger Games – finally! We both LOVED it. I had read the book and was pretty sure Rogers would like the movie, but you never know. Fortunately, he loved it and we’ve been analyzing it ever since. It is so good. I can’t wait to read the rest of the books.

My handsome date.

We snuck our movie treats in and cooked dinner at home before the movie. Frugal dates.

So, funny story. Saturday morning I went to have my oil changed. All went fine at the Jiffy Lube, then they pulled the car out of the bay and parked it in front – so the next customer could pull in. They got me from the waiting room and I went out, hopped in and turned the key to start it. Click click. “Um…WTF.” Click click. Obscenities.

I stepped out and the guy who had just serviced the vehicle was like “What’s the problem?” Well, it won’t start. “Hmmm – that’s interesting.” Yes – interesting was the word I was thinking of, too.

Turned out one of my cables was almost totally shot so it wasn’t getting a charge. They jumped it and were super helpful and I drove home.

Thank heavens for a boyfriend who is handy and likes to work on cars. We spent a couple hours working on it this morning (I mostly supervised) and $10 in parts later, it was up and running. Love it. Who knows what that would have cost at the shop.

Come on Eclipse – you’ve made it 11 years. Let’s go 11 more.

Nothing a zip tie and some pliers can’t fix.

I took this entering the neighborhood to my townhouse, today. How pretty and green is everything? I always think fall is my favorite season – but then spring comes and I just love the green.

Tonight, Rogers is cleaning up his studio. He’s been doing some major renovation this week (pictures to come). I’m going to make some kind of lemon, garlic, herb ricotta stuffed chicken breast (I’ll post a recipe if it’s any good) for dinner. Other than that, we’re savoring the last moments of the weekend.

I hope you all have a wonderful week!

XOXO,
Jenn

Weekend Recap

Posted on March 25, 2012 by Jenn

This weekend I got to go to my “nephew” Brantley’s first birthday party. He’s my best Wendy’s baby – and I just love that baby as much as I do his sweet parents. I can’t believe this little booger was born a whole year ago!

Brantley’s birthday.

I maybe cried a little when I first laid eyes on him. I couldn’t believe my Wendy had a person come out of her.

Wendy put out quite the spread for the first bday celebration! It was so yummy and special, with so many good friends and family. Wendy and Brad have the greatest group of friends out in Spring Hill and Franklin. There were about 50 kiddos in attendance (slight exaggeration, but there were a lot), between the ages of six months and three years – and I just kept thinking how fun that will be for all of them to grow up together with all of those sweet friends.

Brantley and I took a few photos together. Look at those curls!

When I turned the camera around and he could see himself on my iPhone he was finally interested. Who wouldn’t be?!

He skipped his nap and was still about 200% sweeter than other babies.

Excuse me sir – you have some cake on your face.

My best blonde.

Wendy’s older sis (and my older sister I never had), Kelly.

Kelly has managed to have two of the other sweetest kids I’ve ever met. Cade is my forever boyfriend and sat on my lap for a while, telling me about his birthday presents. He turned 5 last week. One day he won’t think it’s cool to sit on Aunt Jenn’s lap, and that’ll be a sad day!

Emmy got a couple of presents too. She opened up a movie (Charlotte’s Web) and said “OH! This is the newest movie I have!” So excited. Girlfriend – you keep that outlook on life and you’ll be just fine.

Thanks so much for including me in y’all’s life, Davis/Linville fam. I just love you all so much.

Today I did a little home improvement around my townhouse. I gave the back porch rails a good ol’ white wash. They needed some repainting and it was too beautiful to stay inside anyways.

Plus, this meant I got to go to Lowe’s! And take my shoes off and feel grass under my feet. Win win.

I do have a fourth toenail. I’m just not sure where it is in this photo.

I also found this little guy, who I named Herman. I gave him a drink and almost brought him home, but decided he was happier in the wild. He was SO cute. And pretty feisty.

“What you looking at,” says Herman.

Oh it was a good weekend. Rogers’ friend Jimmy has been in town and we’ve been eating way too much and enjoying way too many craft beers. So fun.

Chuy’s!

Lastly – dear heavens. Look at this cat – and those precious cat feet. Could you just eat them up like I want to? Look at those feet!

I hope you have a lovely week, friends. As lovely as these cat feet. (It’s a lot to live up to, I know).

XOXO,
Jenn

Weekend Recap — Turn on the AC, Mother Nature

Posted on March 18, 2012 by Jenn

I am so glad to see that we’re going to have some more normal, spring-time temps this week. Highs in the 60s, lows in the 40s. Yes please. I cannot stand this Tennessee heat. It is March 18 for the love of baby Jesus. Please let us have a spring. Based on how warm last summer was and how winter was non-existent, I am destined to burst into flames with little to no notice this summer…I’m sure of it.

Anywho – weekend recap, lovers:

Friday night Rogers and I went to Sambuca to celebrate with my friend Evelina. I met Evelina through Jr. Chamber and she is basically adorable. We were so pleased to be able to celebrate with her and a few other close friends over dinner and birthday cake.

We wrapped up the evening by sitting on the back porch with some wine. It was cool but pleasant out and so lovely. I don’t think Rogers and I have laughed that much in a long time. Everything he said made me giggle.

The rest of the weekend was full of errands and relaxing. I finished the Hunger Games this weekend. OMG. It was too good. I can’t wait to see the movie and read the other two books.

In other bookworm news, our next Book Club selection looks hilarious – particularly since I share similar sentiment about the human race.

book description, here.

We had some green pancakes for St. Paddy’s Day this year – which was about the extent of our wild celebrating. We are CRAZY, I tell ya.

P.S. – did you know it’s St. Paddy’s Day and not St. Patty’s Day? Patty is derived from Patricia, not Patrick, which is downright insulting to say to an Irishman. I learned that this weekend and had always thought the opposite. Get your education on, here.

I ran two miles this afternoon. It was beautiful out – and 79 degrees. I about died. It reminded me about how much I hate the heat, hate running and hate running in the heat. (of course, this running part changes with the wind).

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I should not be this sweaty.

Callie, on the other hand, did not exert herself too much this weekend.

She loves her cat condo that her grandpa Jeff made for her several years ago. She sits up there and looks down upon her kingdom. And eats. A lot.

I went to Trader Joe’s today because I was craving their chicken sausages. More news on that delicious dinner I’m going to whip up, later. But oh man – it was like every hipster and hippie and wannabe hippie from here to East Nashville was in there. I blame the weather, again. People were everywhere – driving with their heads practically sticking out of the sunroof.

I love Trader Joes, but I do not appreciate the judgmental looks when I don’t bring my own bags or ask that they not pile 25 pounds of other food on top of my eggs because they are afraid to use an extra paper bag. Get over it.

Next time, I think I’ll bring in my own bags to re-use. And they will be plastic Kroger bags. Oh the humanity.

I think that’s all for now – hope y’all have a lovely, cooler week!

XOXO,
Jenn

Weekend Love

Posted on March 11, 2012 by Jenn

This weekend was just lovely – even though we lost an hour of sleep. But as I write this, it’s well past 6:30 and it’s still light out – so I can deal with it.

Friday night Rog and I RedBoxed Hugo. We had zero interest in seeing it until it got all of those Oscar nominations – then we wondered if we were missing something. It was really cute and we definitely got caught up in the childlike fantasy of it all. But it was almost like it was written just for the “Academy.” It was all about movies, making movies, what’s great about movies, etc. But definitely worth a watch and the characters were so cute.

Saturday I went to our brand new McKay’s bookstore. They moved from their other location to a bigger one. They closed for a week to move and reopened yesterday – so yes, I went on opening day like a crazy person. It.was.packed. I had some trade-ins and stood in line quite a while, but I totally racked up so it was worth it.

Two stories of fun.

My loot. I printed my “to-read” list off of Good Reads and took it with me – it was so easy! I got lots from my list and started the Hunger Games first, so I can see it in the theater, soon. It’s SO good! I also got a couple classics – to Kill a Mockingbird and Catcher in the Rye – never read either. Can’t wait to be all cultured, and what not. All of this cost me $1.31. Love a trade-in.

Next, I went to Target. I ordered a swimsuit off the World Wide Interwebs and I guess Medium is the new Small, because that thing pinched me in places that only God needs to know about.

But, props to Target, because you can return online items to the store and get refunded right there. Super convenient.

While I was there, I spotted this little gem of an outfit. Really, girl? Really. People can see you. And I don’t care how much of a hipster you are – white, fringed, short cowboy boots are never ok.

Hopefully I fared a little better with these babies.

Callie thinks so.

That sleep shirt on the right, by the way, is SO comfortable. Go fetch yourself one, ladies.

I finished up the errands with some grocery shopping. Check out this “uniq” fruit at Publix. Uniq indeed.

And, I must have been thirsty, because I just had to have this chocolate milk. It was divine.

I came home to this stuck in the front door. He’s a keeper.

See my previous post about my culinary delights that I wrapped up Saturday evening with – Kale Chips! Delish.

Today has been full of house cleaning, relaxing and general doing nothingness.

Callie is terrified of the vacuum cleaner, so cleaning day is not fun for her. She hides under the bed or in the kitchen depending on where the cleaning is happening at the moment. If you get too close to her hiding place, she blasts by you, leaping over the vacuum cleaner like an Olympic long-jumper and scurries to a different hiding place. It’s just pitiful.

But selfishly, I like it when we clean, because she is SO lovey dovey when “the monster” gets put away. (She knows the word “monster”). It’s like she thinks you’ve rescued her from it, so she wants to stay real close to you and thank you for it. She has cuddled on the couch with me all afternoon and made biscuits on my legs.

Love her.

In other Callie news, today she was on the couch looking out the window and a pigeon landed RIGHT on the windowsill. I thought she was going to jump through the glass. They faced off for a while. It was hilarious and the highlight of her week, I’m sure. She’s never wanted something so badly.

Callie vs. Pigeon

Hope your weekend was as lovely as you are, friends!

XOXO,
Jenn

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