This weekend…
- …We both worked at least one full day – Ted worked more than that. I long for the day when our only weekend working is shows on Friday and Saturday nights and the occasional Sunday matinee!
- …An abandoned six-foot python was found hanging out in the dumpster of the KFC a few blocks from our house chowing down on some fried chicken. He has since found a foster home and, my parents informed me, made it onto the local news in Boerne, TX last night. What a little star!
- …I received a comp ticket from my friends at the fabulous movement-based performance arts company I’m working with to attend the Contemporary Dance Theater’s Area Choreographer’s Festival at the Aranoff Center on Saturday night. I enjoyed a lovely night out in the throws of Cincinnati’s bustling nightlife and entertainment district and got to enjoy some contemporary choreography, through I have mixed thoughts on the actual performance pieces. Two were fabulous, two I liked well enough, and two were absolutely, painfully, dreadful. As always, it was well worth free and I do enjoy me a good dance concert every now and then!
- …I finally gave in to my nagging hipster desire for all-things-pretty and planted a succulent garden to pay homage to my love of the coolest plants ever. If you remember, my ever-so-slightly non-traditional wedding bouquet featured tons of rad succulents. They’re unique, colorful, resilient, and look super fetching on our kitchen island. I may have given in to the latest newlywed 20-something trend, but let’s be real here, thanks to my mom I was into succulents long before it was the cool thing to do.
- …I found an easy recipe for coconut milk mango sorbet that I will be making immediately because it sounds like something that is so delicious that it requires immediate consumption. I’ve also been craving homemade snickerdoodles and mini single-serving orange rhubarb and mixed berry pies served in 4 oz mason jars. I better not get fat (though I would totally deserve it).
- …We caught up on episodes of Deadliest Catch, starting with season 1. Thank you Netflix free one-month trial offer! Deadliest Catch is a Discovery Channel TV series about the world’s “most dangerous job” – the 200+ fishing boats and their crews who venture out into the unpredictable, frigid, and stormy waters of the Bering Sea to catch the U.S.’s annual supply of Alaskan king crab. In a week (if the king crab fishing season lasts that long) these men can easily bring home a whole year’s salary – if they survive, that is. It’s a pretty amazing show and exciting prep work (um, of sorts. we’re not that cool) for our honeymoon!
