Good morning! Ah such a great weekend I never wanted it to end.
Let's start with Friday. Friday night I had a girls night for my friend, Karen's 28th b-day. She, my friend Nicole, and my sister all went to dinner at Tábare in Brooklyn. It's an Uruguayan place with a darling backyard/courtyard area where we ate. We split a mashup of different empanadas. Most of them had meat, but I tried the tuna/olive and the fontina/carmelized onion. Delicious! I also had 2 $11 dollar drinks that did not disappoint. I should have stopped at one, but you only live once, right? They had muddled limes and lemons, mint, yerba mate, and vodka. (Yerba mate is a type of tea).
I won't give you every detail about the night but from there, we went to a movie called Frances Ha, which was the perfect movie for the night. Then we walked over the Brooklyn Bridge and went to a place called Home Sweet Home and met up with some more friends to dance & drink more. The bar played like oldies style "Twist" type music and such. I had a GREAT time!!! Got home late, ate pizza and a Klondike bar. I spent an ungodly amount of money but I do not regret 1 penny!!!
Saturday morning I took Bear to agility. It was our first day of the new class where you get to start putting obstacles together. Bear knocked my socks off - he was the best one there. and I'm NOT just saying that ;-) We did combinations of jump - tunnel - jump and jump - tunnel - tire jump. I'll have Brian take a video some time so you can watch.
Brian's mom had come for the day/night but they were at the a Met - they have a cool Civil War photography special. I went running and almost died in the heat. When they returned we hung out, watched Django (which was a bit off - I'll give it a rating of 3 stars). Entertaining, but too long (sort of like my blog posts for you!!!) Brian cooked us dinner.
Sunday we went to brunch at Fulton and got an omelet with mushrooms, spinach, and cheddar. They were great as usual. Love their little warm pastries bucket. We then had to do a bunch of house stuff after Edna left - it was wonderful to see her!!
We took the doggies to the dog park where they got massively dirty b/c they have the doggie pools set up for summer - Sofie loves the water so she was in heaven. She likes when you throw a toy in the water and she has to search for it by sticking her head under. We did all the laundry, then I went running during a spectacularly creepy evening in the Park. It was eerie, the sky was doing all types of crazy colors and cloud combinations. The birds were quiet, not many folks were out. It thunder-boomed a thunderboomer that only 4+ days of 90 degree heat on the East Coast can induce. Bear also helped me work on my abs. He literally comes and sits right on me when I'm trying to do crunches. Attention-hog.
For most of the year I make soup to eat for lunch b/c it's easy, healthy, and holds up well during the week. Since it's summer I've transitioned to doing more salads. Sunday I did all my choppin' and got my veggies tucked away for the week to sprinkle on at lunch. I'll share my salad combos with you each week.
This week's salad is:
-romaine
-cucumber
-grape tomatoes
-button mushrooms
-red onion
-clover sprouts
-salted sunflower seeds
-poppyseed dressing
Have a great week!!
Carpe diem,
J
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