After lady beards a couple weeks ago, how could we not follow up with cat beards? We’ve also got a dog making an omelette, some “Scrubs” and “Saved by the Bell” lists. There’s really not a whole lot more to say. The internet gave us amazingness during a tough week.
So Zack decided to go ahead and fall in love with a vegetarian. He’s been very flexible and understanding of my dietary restrictions, and generally will just eat meatless dishes with me, or cook a filet of some kind on the side*. However, this normally means one of three entrees: pasta, veggie burgers, or pizza. I’m not exactly a picky eater, but I’m a very particular** one, and I have to be in the mood to eat what I’m eating. To change things up (slightly) this weekend, we decided to cook our two dinners at the apartment and see what we could do. We still involved pasta, but in a re-imagined way so I’m counting it.
*This is pretty rare. Only a handful of times do I make a little chicken or fish to go with what we’re making for dinner.
**She’s especially picky/particular for a vegetarian. She doesn’t like avocado, mushrooms or spinach, aka the building blocks of a vegetarian’s alternative meals.
This picture from the set of “Anchorman 2″ gets me all kinds of excited*. The cast list on IMDB has everyone from Jim Carrey to Harrison Ford and Sasha Baron Cohen, and now Kanye? This week’s collection is just as all over the place. We’ve got Ryan Gosling refusing cereal, a stubborn kid with a seatbelt, a puppy failing at catch and a great DFA doc. Oh, and in case you were living under a rock, the “Space Oddity” from outer space** was amazing.
*I have never been the biggest “Anchorman” fan but this photo is killer.
**Best. Astronaut. EVER. He’s now my no. 2 fantasy uncle, with Tom Hanks still coming it at no. 1. Continue reading
There wasn’t an explicit discussion, but after such a jam-packed first day of hanging out around Austin, it felt universally agreed upon that we’d all sleep in as late as we wanted and get up leisurely. We woke up sore from our Go-Karting, making us all feel a little bit older than we’d hoped* (and, the boys had horrific bruises on their backs from being bumper-car’d into the whole time), so we decided to fight this feeling with a healthier lunch. We headed to Whole Foods to grab some sushi and treats, and then wandered around that area, hitting up Waterloo and Book People, where I invested in a tin Beatles lunchbox that I now use for my work lunches.
*It’s sad how much easy it is to get bruised and sore muscles in your late 20s.
“Enough of this, let’s go to the zoo,” Caitlin exclaimed after a frustrating couple rounds of go-karting. If there’s one thing Caitlin and Brittany unabashedly love, it’s animals, so even though Austin isn’t famous for its zoo, we figured we had to go check out the Austin Zoo & Animal Sanctuary. This isn’t the fanciest zoo, but the four of us loved that it’s a rescue zoo*, since we all got our dogs from a shelter. It was sad to see so many animals with a missing leg or some deformity**, but comforting to know they’d gotten a better home and they were awfully cute. Just look at those doe eyes.
*It makes it much more palatable that these animals aren’t simply there for our amusement or enjoyment, but they were actually rescued from being kept as pets (!!!) and brought somewhere where they could be properly cared for.
**Or even just really, really tired and seemingly depressed animals. It’s not an easy thing to see, and you could tell these babies were hot in the Texas sun. But Brit made the good point that, at least for the big cats, they were from Africa which is a much hotter place. Continue reading
One of the great bonuses of dating someone who is amazing is, that person typically also surrounds him/herself with amazing friends*, and you get to inherit them. Two of my favorites, Brittany and Sam, came down from Indianapolis and even put their beloved greyhound Treat at overnight camp to hang with us for the weekend, and it forced us to get out of our comfort zones and try things we wouldn’t normally try without visitors. For Zack, this meant biting the bullet and heading to the zoo**, which we’ll talk about more in a later post. For me, it was time to suck it up and get down in a go-kart for the first time in my life. The results were … mixed***.
*I do have some pretty great friends, it’s true.
**I think I decided I disliked the zoo in that period between childhood and adulthood when I didn’t know what one did at the zoo without Instagram and Vine. I’m all-in on Zoos now that I have a task.
***It wasn’t as bad as this picture. Sorry for the worst selfie ever taken.
Did you notice something besides the awesome beard? Wait for it … Yeah, that’s two people. There’s a couple more of these in the set. It’s funny, high school friends like to say Caitlin’s my beard. I’m just kidding. I didn’t have friends in high school*. Anyway, here’s a bunch of gifs and videos of the Bulls, because other than our vacation and writing about our vacation, that’s what I know I’ve been thinking about**.
*Ba-da-tschhhh! (Me either.)
**Me too, for the most part. Continue reading
