Month: January 2015

Camera Shy

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Hi! Happy Monday! (If there is such a thing)

Today’s a bit of a slow day since we’ve got the day ‘off’ for MLK day. We lazed in bed and watched 2  whole episodes of Dr. Who before actually getting the day started. Well…ok I made coffee for the second episode but that’s just the basics.

Since it’s such a weird great/gorgeous day outside, we went for a run!!

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Now, for those of you in the know I think running is kinda awesome. And during my last marathon (City of Oaks), I inconveniently tore my IT band and haven’t run in a couple months. Needless to say, I’ve been a little cooped up and frustrated….sorry Steve.

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So I took it short and slow and had NO KNEE PAIN!!! (insert backflip/happy dance). I also got to try out my new heart rate monitor. That’s the number with the heart next to it, aka my Garmin not-so-secretly loves me or has approximately 167 loves.

Indy came on the run with us and had a great time trying, and failing, to catch the squirrels. One day….

We tried to get a picture of how happy she was, but she’s a little camera shy and refuses to look at me when I’m holding my phone. Seriously, she’ll back up to you when you call her. Weirdo. (Note Steve trying to get her to look at me. Oh well)

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I’m off to get a little work done since grad school never sleeps. Seriously. It never does.

What are you up to if you have the day off?

The First Post

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It’s still somewhat the start of a new year, so let’s just keep rolling with that theme shall we? New year…..new blog….you get the idea. The idea for this has been in the works for some time now, but during the adventure that was our anniversary dinner last night, Steve and I decided to just go for it. Cause why not?

Cause, let’s be honest, reminiscing about 2014 reminded me of just how much happens in a year and how much gets forgotten (awesome dinners, cool day trips, little ins and outs of the day). So here we are. Grad school. Running adventures. Crazy dog stories. Dating. Recipe wins. Recipe disasters. Travels. All documented for the world to see 🙂

So!

Last night was our 1 year anniversary dinner (a day early but who’s counting) at The Melting Pot.

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We had made reservations for 8, and, as usual, arrived early. Gah. Maybe one day I’ll get timing down. Until then I shall be perpetually freakishly early to everything. Yes. I’m that person. Anywho.

So we get there. Get a table. Look at the menu. Aaaand nothing. Nada. We sat there for 23 min (yes I counted because I’m hungry and impatient) before Steve flagged down someone and asked who our server was. While we never did figure out who was supposed to be the server, Roddy took us on and grabbed us a bottle of wine and tried to turn on the burner. I say tried because, as adventurous dinners go, it didn’t work. Sooooooo then we moved tables, got a burner that worked (yay!), and had a fantastic rest of the evening made even better by the free bottle of wine as compensation for the rough start to dinner 🙂