And how about this bad boy? P.S. Steph it's weird to see your hair that short... I feel like that is not how I remember it from yesteryear.
Anyway in honor of her visit, I raced home from work to prepare the following snackies before we met up with our other friends.
The fruit/cheese/nut plate. FYI for maximum efficiency I assembled this exactly as is (the triscuits were still in their own bag) then I saran wrapped it several times so I could just pull it out of the fridge and unwrap. However the almonds got STALE. boo boo. lesson learned.
This was pre-made spin/artichoke dip that kelly brought over last weekend. In my processed food snobbery of the moment, I decided to thin it out with NF Plain yogurt.... it was a good move (considerably less gunky)... so yummy and oniony though :)
A SUPER easy bruschetta recipe that had the following:- tomatoes (obviously)
- basil (mcduh)
- garlic
- parm
- balsamic vinegar
- EVOO
- ?? eh can't remember (onions? does that sound right?)
And best of all.... SANGRIA! :) It was the same recipe I've used before:- merlot
- ginger ale
- gin
- oranges
- lemons
- limes
- strawberries
- love.... the most important ingredient.
It was fun getting ready and pretending to have a roomie full-time live-in fashion consultant again! We headed over to our friend's house who has the most adorable front porch ever... which is where a group of us sat, chatted, boozed, reminisced, joked, and she smoked while we attempted divine intervention:
Ash-tray art/miracle. She's catholic so maybe that guilty conscience will start creepin' in. Then we went to the bar where a purse set of the alphabet and numbers in post-it notes came in pretty handy as we schemed our way out of paying the cover. FYI.. this lady turned 26 two weeks ago.... NOT 33.
She was having fun though... i think she convinced herself it WAS her birthday. The letters started falling off so we borrowed some scotch tape from the bartender and wrapped it around her torso 5 times. CLASSY. but hilarious... right?
The highlight of my life was when we tried to walk to the next bar a few blocks away. Trying to use a shortcut we found ourselves trapped at the end of a parking lot, and someone's brilliant idea was just to hop down off a wall and cross the street to where we need to be. Brilliant.. right? I don't think ANYONE'S shoes or cat-like-reflexes were ready for ........
Falling into the bushes. MWAHAHA (below is me holding my friend's cigarette and falling down laughing)
We celebrated our hiking/mounting scaling success by romping in some fountains by our destination and wall summit. (please not the masking tape still around miss 33rd birthday)
All that work for a bar that was SUPER packed.
We hung around and played with letters anyway.
And decided that we don't need third party vendors to laugh all night long. Spontaneity makes for the most hilarious of evenings.. no? Anyway all in all it was a FABULOUS weekend. I celebrated it's coming to a close by preparing a vegan take on Chili Mac:- WW elbows
- onion
- spinach
- kidney beans
- tomato sauce
- chili powder
- crushed red pepper
John liked it (GASP!)...
Hope errrrrrrybody had a crazy fun weekend.. and a Manic Monday. Later gaters.
