Weekend Recap/Shenanigans
Helloo!!! This weekend was one of those weekends that makes you realize that you wish you were a younger twenty something just so you can hang longer, but then you also appreciate being an older twenty something because you successfully day drank all day Saturday, went to bed at a reasonable time (10:30pm) and got home the next day and scooped ALL (well probably 95% some were way to smashed) the dog shit out of the yard.
Lets rewind…
Friday night we did nothing, not a damn thing. We ate dinner, drank a little wine, watched some tv, and packed up a bag for the Saturday shenanigans. Which brings me to Saturdays St. Patrick’s day celebration. Jeff wanted to be downtown at 8AM… We live in BFE, and had to drop the dogs off that morning at his parents house.. So you know what time he made me leave the house. 6am. Yes, 6am on a Saturday. Shit sucked. But I did it.
so tired, the sun is coming up.
We got to our friends Tino and Carries apartment around 745 am and immediately popped the champagne for some mimosas… boom. Surprisingly, I didn’t get too weird. No accents, and i’m pretty pissed but I didn’t find a fake red beard to wear around. Which, I probably spared Jeff too much embarrassment on that one. Because, we all know that if you are wearing a fake red beard you have to have an accent. You.Are.Welcome.Jeff. I DID HOWEVER have a pretty awesome headband, with crazy Medusa like arms and flashing lights (thanks mom, my moms cooler than yours). Seriously, the second you get your filthy paws on one of those snake like objects hanging off my head and give it a squeeze (twss), there’s no going back. Its like one of those Chinese finger traps, you know the ones where you really start to panic because you think that your sausages fingers are stuck and you might have to call 911 for a panic attack and to free your stupid fingers addicting. Yes.. it was like that. I did request strangers to give it a squeeze. I wish I could put the feeling of it on here, but that’s the best description I have for you.
Carrie and Myself
no explanation
On a side note, Jeff looked like Abu from Aladdin all day. For real.
Jeff
Abu
Im dying haha. Seriously.
We ended the night playing a little golf, shoving my pie hole with an egg bake, ripping my contacts out of my eyes and going to sleep.
Anytime we go anywhere Jeff wakes up at the butt crack of dawn and takes me down with him, and I say takes me down because its usually not pleasant.. I’m usually pretending to sleep and only opening the eye that is pressed up against the pillow praying he wont see that I’m kind of awake. In all actuality i’m praying he will come in with a fat glass of water, dump it in my mouth without me moving, and go back to bed. But, that doesn’t happen, we get up and get on the move. I am usually happy as long as he takes me to Dunkin so I can get myself a bagel and some coffee, otherwise, i’m not talking to you the entire car ride home.
Overall, we had a fantastic Saturday!
SO, that brings me to Sunday. I’m just going to call it Sunday poo day. I spent a good hour and a half cleaning up after the dogs. Seriously when will they be smart enough to clean up after themselves. Or when will they at least figure out to just go in ONE area. Not every single orpheus of the yard. We did have a pretty productive Sunday, we cleaned the house, had a nice healthy dinner, scooped shit for hours (I scooped shit for hours, or an eternity, I don’t know, it was a long time).
OH, and today, I bought CORNED FREAKING BEEF.. You are lucky I love you, It’s even gross in the packaging.
Jeff really wanted corned beef tomorrow on the real St. Patrick’s day. I.WILL.NOT.BE.EATING.CORNED FREAKING BEEF. Ill have Mac and Cheese shapes, the best kind of mac and cheese.
Buzzes Girlfriend, Woof.
How was your weekend? Did you celebrate St. Patrick’s day?
-T-
Stinkin’ Overthinkin’
– When ordering food at a restaurant is it noticeably impolite to order in any way other than a question?
“Let me get a pola-sassage & fries.”
“Give me a pola-sassage & fries.”
“Could I please have a pola-sassage & fries?”
……Or am I stinkin’ overthinkin’?
– JR
It’s the Freakin Weekend Baby, About to have me some FUN (almost)
So this weekend marks the beginning of St. Patrick’s day celebrations. Last year Jeff and I celebrated by moving into our new house, exciting I know. No green beer, no all you can eat buffets, no Chicago drinking at 8am or Captain and Coke train rides. Just manual labor.
So this year, we are heading downtown again! We have done this in years past and its a blast. Shit gets weird, I like weird. This year we will be dropping the dogs off at the In-laws around 7am (they can deal with the poos, you will understand below) and heading straight to Jeff’s buddies downtown.
Bring on the screwdrivers, and fake red beards. That is the only time those two statements should ever go together.. screw drivers and red beards.
We will be going to a bar around 9 am for unlimited mimosas, screwdrivers, green beer, a breakfast buffet (I still don’t fully understand how shoving our pie holes with sausage and eggs mixed with green beer is appealing but its fantastic.. minus the sausage… that’s too much (twss))
Anyways, things usually get weird when Jeff and I start drinking that early in the morning. For instance, the last St. Patrick’s day we participated in downtown.. I refused to speak to anyone without an Australian accent (after hours of festivities). So I’m sure it was legitimate. Jeff wasn’t allowed to speak to strangers because his accent wasn’t good enough for me.. So I told people he mumbled too much. I literally took it so far to the point where I was asking complete strangers for directions… to the L… One girl was so excited to meet someone from Australia (and I’m pretty sure I told her I was a model.. I’m 5’3″.. and not stick skinny, and was dressed like that..) that she “helped” us get around, but really, she took us in the wrong direction and about 45 mins out of our way. BUT I WAS IN CHARACTER. Im.Sorry.Jeff. I will try not to do that this year. No promises.
Yes.. that’s a red beard..
I just don’t know
So that was the last St. Patrick’s day. I’m sure I’ll have some good ones for you this year!!
And NO I will not eat corned freaking beef. That’s just sick. CORNED BEEF.. say it a few times.. CORRRNNEED BEEEEEF… woof.
On another note: Rant.. I suppose… If you don’t like poo.. leave now.
I have two labs. I know a lot of people have dogs, big dogs, but big dogs mean big Poos, and when you live in an area where it snows, those warm poos have a tendency to disappear for a few months.
Out of site out of mind right?
WRONG! THE SNOW IS MELTING and out pops the shit. and lots of it.
Now don’t get me wrong, Jeff and I did spend an hour (yes there was a lot of poo) cleaning it up one sat in the winter. But then, it snowed again, and a lot. So once again out of sight out of mind..
Well there it is… in all of its soupy poo glory (Jeff hates that I call it soupy poo, but if you have a better way of describing it.. let me know.) I can literally see the bombs out of our LR windows. I have a birds eye view since our LR is on the second floor (we have a walk out basement)
Marley ran outside in all of his butt wiggling glory so pumped its warming up. That’s when I saw it… poo flying in the air. splashing everywhere… While Alex watches on like WTF is going on.
So you know what that means. Time to scoop the poo.. its more like smearing chocolate icing into a dish… and then hoping it will drop into the garbage bag without touching my skin.. Its a two person job. Really.
I need this..
Okay enough of that, do any of you keep up with cleaning up after your dogs when there’s 2 ft of snow on the ground, or are you just as bad as us and wait till it melts?
Marley
Alex-shes special
I want to hear from you, what are your plans for the weekend? St Pats day?
-T-
Taphouse Grill
Tonight we ate at one of my 3 favorite restaurants, Taphouse Grill, with my parents. I ordered the Shrimp Tacos. I order these quite often and I washed them down with Revolution Anti-Hero IPA’s, which are one of my favorite beers. At some point I may do some of my own beer reviews but when I post a link to a beer, it’ll usually be to http://www.beeradvocate.com. They are very straight forward with their reviews and they allow consumers to have a very prominent say in the rankings.
Yesterday 3 of the Chicago Cubs top prospects hit Back to Back to Back home runs in a spring training game.
(FYI – 2015 Chicago Cubs Preview Article Coming Soon)
– JR
Chicken Burrito Inspired Empty Refrigerator Scrambler Combo Recipe
Check out last night’s dinner recipe in the Recipes section.
Chicken Burrito Inspired Empty Refrigerator Scrambler Combo
JR
The Struggle is REAL
Lets just preface this post with this…
I started working out back in July 2014. When I say STARTED working out I mean actually trying. Not the ol’ college try where I go to the gym, run around the track till I pant a couple times and have beads a bead of sweat run down my forehead. I have my days where I just do not want to give any effort into this fitness stuff. But, then I realize that I will be more disappointed and ragret 🙂 not going.
SO now i’m paying for all of those beer breakfast’s, frat parties, and margarita challenges throughout college. This is what I get for enjoying those 30 racks of Busch Light and the two cheeseburger meals from crapdonalds at 3am (i’m drooling) or chubby sticks (you people are gross, its pizza.. jeeze). I should have started working out then… butttttttttt I didnt (the bead of sweat from my “laps” around the track don’t count, I know that now)… so here I am 4.5 years later trying to rid myself of the Busch lights… I’ve moved up to wine and captain.. but that’s for a different post…
So that brings me to that crazy B Jillian.. Yes Jillian Michaels.
Ive decided to do the 30 day shred, on top of my normal gym routine (which is usually 3-5 days per week).
I’m on day four and lets just say this, if I could cut my legs off and give them to my dogs as chew toys I would. I thought all those squats and step master workouts were really doing wonders for this phat ass. But noo, Jillian’s got her shit together.
I love that she does the work out in the 3-2-1 platform. 3 minutes of strength, 2 minutes of Cardio and 1 minute of abs. There are 3 parts to each full work out. All with different moves. She keeps you engaged and moving forward. All you need are some weights and a soft surface, so a mat or a carpeted area. I just use 5lb hand weights.The workout is only 30 minutes long and that includes her stupid intro, warm up, 3-2-1 workout, and stretch.
by the third section im grunting like an old sloppy man who’s had too many tamales. But seriously it kicks your ass.
I have yet to take my measurements (target was out of tape measures and lets be honest I did not want to go to Joanne’s and get sucked into a conversation with the 90 year old customer service lady on my lunch break.. as cute as she may be I’m in a time crunch)
But I will… I’ll post my before measurements and my after..
With that said… I’d really like to eat all the bad foods right now, but in order to get results you have to stick to healthy balanced meal.. THE STRUGGLE IS REAL. I want a big fat piece of pizza smothered in ranch and sriracha.. I could drink ranch, I love it.. Seriously love it.
Wine is healthy right? Its made of grapes…. that makes it good….especially after a tough workout…
ignore my post sweat makeup…
Okay, and for work out gear, what kind of workout clothes (brands) do you like the best? I do love wearing leggings or more fitted pants but the ones I have (from target, champion brand) have a tendency to fall down.
I DO LOVE THE CRAZY pattern on these though!
Have any of you done Jillian’s 30 Day Shred? If so I want to hear from you! Did you like it? Have great results!! Leave a comment!
-T-
All opinions are my own, I was not compensated for this post!
A Whole bunch of nothing about the Two Adult Rookies!
Well, this is our first blog post ever! This is a little place we decided to chronicle our adventures as life’s Adult Rookies!! We are twenty something’s just trying to figure shit out on our own. Here you will find us talking about a whole lot of everything, we can’t always guarantee we will be 100% focused, or a 100% right, or even that great at dat der grammar stuff 🙂 But we hope that you stick with us and join us in our fight against with adulthood. About us, I suppose. Well there are two of us, we are married, and we are from the Chicagoland area. We are college grads, with big people jobs, and big people chores and household duties. We won’t be discussing where we work but we will say that Taylor (girl adult) is an administrative assistant and Jeff (male adult) is a web developer/designer/computer whiz person. We have TONS of animals, well 4. Two Dogs and Two cats, which I’m sure you will hear plenty about! We plan to talk about a hodge podge of everything, food, recipes, fitness, things we like, dogs, cats, grass (no not that grass), home décor, web design, music, our challenges on becoming established adults, shit we may even talk about shit (literally)(just kidding)(maybe)… We hope you enjoy following along on our crazy journey through life! We would love to hear from you!
J&T
DISCLAIMER:
- We dont claim to be grammar guru’s or professional chefs or fitness experts, or even well-organized blog posters (Hence the name Rookies).
- Just because this is how we do things, it doesn’t mean you have to do them that way too.
- This is our space, no negativity welcome! (Unless you want to discuss batteries and power sources, HAR HAR HAR, (good one Jeff).
Grown Up Rookies 