It’s actually almost 1 here in Asheville. We got served by a 1 1/2 hour detour only about an hour outside of Asheville. Didn’t get here until about 12:30 after eating, so I’m technically good for Friday by seven minutes, MO time. Will document more of our adventure tomorrow.
First off, as promised, check out my take on an underground supper club here in St Louis in this week’s Novice Foodie. I can’t say enough good things about my meal and the entire experience.
Chris and I up and decided to take an impromptu road trip this weekend. We have a long tradition of road trippin’ that we started the summer between us getting engaged and getting married, when we spent almost a month on the road driving out to and up the West Coast. Almost every summer, we’ve done some long trip together, except last summer, when I was working. These trips are an adventure and help us recharge ourselves and our relationship. It’s been a while since we had that feeling of adventure, so we decided that Chris would take a day off and we’d just drive with only the skeleton of a plan. We have great conversation and communication when we’re in the car for long periods of time. We take turns picking music, get shitty gas station snacks like beef jerky and slushies, take pictures, and watch the landscape change. It is extremely therapeutic.
We decided to drive out to Charlotte, North Carolina. Our friends Josh and Michelle and their daughter, Ansley, moved out there a while ago, and we miss hanging out with them immensely. Josh and Michelle were not going to come home for the holidays this year, so we decided to go see them so we can talk about pop culture, listen to music, and get insanely competitive in board games. Tentatively we’re going to drive halfway Friday, stay in Nashville, drive the rest of the way Saturday, stay with Josh and Michelle on Saturday night. Leave Sunday afternoon, drive to Louisville, stay the night, drive back Monday. This is all up for debate though. Any of y’all have suggestions on (especially) dining or things to see/do in any of those towns or in those general areas, leave a comment, please. We are flexible about everything except the final destination being Charlotte.
You may have noticed that recently all I do is bitch about the fact that I feel shitty but I’M NOT PREGNANT. And I’m not pregnant. But because I felt shitty yesterday and seriously couldn’t do much but lay and bed and wait for the nausea to pass (it didn’t for about eight hours), I decided to start watching FX’s show Sons of Anarchy because I had heard good things and it completely slipped under my radar. If you are a fan of The Sopranos or Deadwood, you should watch this show. Let me present my argument in convenient-to-read list form, favorite of rushed bloggers everywhere.
Reasons Why You Should Watch Sons of Anarchy → continue reading
I thought I was going to puke for the majority of the day. Missed the kickball tournament. Missed most of the beautiful day outside. Got nothing done except some knitting and made stock. Hopefully more tomorrow.
It’s late on Saturday night, and I just got back from an unreal dinner at an underground supper club. Watch for my column on it in Tuesday’s Novice Foodie. Thanks to Matt for the invite, and the whole team who put on the event. Great food, great company, great conversation. I can only hope my column does the food justice.
I’m off to put on sweatpants and watch shitty television, then rest up for our kickball tournament tomorrow, as well as some garden maintenance and garlic planting. We’ll see how it goes.
Bigger! Better! post tomorrow.
I watch a lot of Law & Order, which is on either on TNT or sketchy channels that have ridiculous commercials because they’re so damn cheap. Some of them blow my mind. I wonder if the people who make them actually have marketing degrees, or work at a marketing agency, or if the owners of these companies just have their friends make up the commercials while they’re working on their Geocities page. ( Oh, sorry, I forgot Geocities is over. TOO SOON. I’m very insensitive.)
Anyway, I get it that some of you work or don’t like Christopher Meloni after Oz or whatever so you may not have seen these. Luckily, as usual, the YouTubes will help you fill the gap in your pop cultural knowledge. → continue reading
Friday night, Chris and I were lucky enough to go to the St Louis Symphony Orchestra as guests for their third Bloggers Night. This was my first time attending the symphony in St Louis, but not attending a symphony. I’d seen several during my time playing violin. However, I’ve been disengaged from any type of musical performance outside of karaoke at Double D’s since I graduated high school. I’m pretty sure if I picked up a violin right now, I’d sound no better than the Duggar orchestra, sawing out their rendition of “Amazing Grace”.
It has rained every day since I can remember. It’s far and away the wettest October here on record. Last night, it rained an inch in a half hour. This is not a great way to enjoy your new work-from-home situation. As it stands, I’m cooped up in here with a dog who doesn’t understand that me being home doesn’t mean we’re going to run in fields of gold every day until he’s tired, which means he looks at me and whines to go out every 20 minutes. Then he goes on the porch and realizes that its really fucking wet out there and kinda half-asses it like maybe if he just sticks his nose out and get it wet that he can get away with NOT getting his precious fur coat wet but still get a treat out of me. Every 20 minutes, no joke. I just BRIBED MY DOG, y’all, with a bone filled with peanut butter so he’d quit whining long enough for me to type this. I am a sucker. Also, he pooped inside this week while I was at my boss’s place and THEN ATE IT. → continue reading
I was totally going to write this snarky, ranty letter to my now FORMER place of employment as a farewell. Then I realized that the only people who work there who are savvy enough to actually know what a blog is, that I have one, and how to findit are probably the people I liked or at least didn’t have a problem with, so I decided to refrain. Fuck it, I’m FREE, y’all.
So I’ll just use my last Friday working for the Dunder Mifflin of universities to invite all of you in the St Louis area to a little meetup. I’ve been wanting to organize another once since our BlogHer one in July, and the other day on Twitter, I spur-of-the moment planned one for next week. It will be this Wednesday (October 14th) at the Atomic Cowboy, where Nuclear Comedy (now, with a pirate twist) will be at 8. We’ll meet before at 7 for drinks and chatting. If you don’t want to watch stand-up at 8, Atomic Cowboy has a few different areas, so you can keep hanging out without feeling as though you are interrupting jokes. A few of my favorite Twitter/blogging types have already confirmed. Who? You’ll just have to wait to find out. It will be laid-back and friendly (at least on my end), and you don’t have to wear a nametag if you don’t want to. Come hang out!
Have a good weekend, my friends. I know I will. Chris and I are celebrating our 4th anniversary and me getting the fuck out of Dodge, tonight at Niche. First day of my new professional life begins Monday with me, my laptop, and (fingers crossed!) a Maury paternity test.
Among other shiteous things to happen this weekend, I completely fucked up my blog when trying to update WordPress. Yes, I realize I’m an idiot. Working to remedy the problem. Hang in there, buddy.
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