Ok, I’ll admit, tonight is based entirely on sipping on some Riesling and watching Degrassi (click the link if you’re into watching high school kids get into the craziest hijinx of all).
But here’s the thing, I just watched this video. It broke my heart.
But then I laughed.
Because ducks are cute.
and they’re silly when they get blown away.
Hope you’re having THE BEST WEEKEND EVER!!
In case you’re not sure what I’m doing tomorrow morning….. UNC FOOTBALL!!
Plans for the weekend?
Hello there, all, we made it to Sunday! Hopefully, you all survived Irene unscathed (or only barely scathed…)
We managed to get through it without having to deal with anything too crazy, a power surge or two, a lot of wind, and a temporary cable and internet outage (TORTURE!) This particular weekend was supposed to be spent with 50 of my cousin’s closest friends and loved ones hosting a wine tasting in Ocean City. Alas, due to a mandatory evacuation, the only wine tasting was my mom and I with a classy bottle of Riesling (ending that Summer of Riesling on a high note.)
Dainty dearest and I, making the most of a bad situation (also, my black eyes are due to my CONSTANT red eye. I may be a demon.)
There were all sorts of parts of this weekend that weren’t according to plan. But it ended up turning into something wonderful, so thanks Irene, but no thanks.
And so, in honor of that classless broad, Hurricane Irene, I’d like to honor this Six Pack Sunday with the distinction of being the Best Laid Plans edition.
Best roomie ever.
He moved to Manayunk in Philadelphia to begin a super smart PhD program. However, 10 hours later, guess who I found in my home in Pennyslvania?
Beer-friend! Like a boyfriend.... with beer!
Since his new place didn’t have a bed yet, he spent some of the weekend with my family. It was like weaning a child off of bottles, and I got to be surrounded by family when I finally said goodbye. It was the best surprised of the weekend.
Vintage garlic.
Sometimes, in my home, we forget that we have garlic. So we buy more garlic. and then, a few months later, VOILA! baby garlic plants. These didn’t make it into dinner, though. But they did make a beautiful science experiment.
But, least of all, me.
I promise, I cleaned up my face before I got on a plane. I wouldn’t want to scare the children who get on between groups A and B.
omgomgomgomgomg
This is, quite literally, my favorite time of the beer-year. On the beer-calendar, this is my Christmas. And the presents are wrapped in oranges, browns, and gourds. Yumbo. I’m hoping that at the next Girls’ Pint Out event, or maybe sooner, we get a hold of some Big Boss Harvest Time, my favorite local pumpkin beer. Can’t even wait.
The apple doesn't fall far from... the other apple.
So the thing is, when I was a little lady growing up, I always used to make a beard out of my looooong hair by braiding it. And today, I found out that my sister Kiley, 9 years my junior, does the same thing. Like sister, like sister. But NOT like Sister, Sister. Did you know Tia just had a baby? My, how the times have changed….
I did something today that I hadn’t done in maybe 5 years. I went into an Abercrombie & Fitch… and looked for myself. When I started putting weight on, I stopped fitting into their tiny sizes, and wouldn’t even try anything on. Also, when you walk in, the music blaring added to the aromatic barrage of their combined fragrances made me feel an instant headache in a perma-rave. But, when shopping with the little sister for her newest skinny jeans…. I grabbed a pair myself. AND THEY FIT!
Super Skinny and Semi-Short!
Feeling my newfound denim-daring, I picked up a pair of Paige jean shorts, an article of clothing I’ve been trying to find all summer with no luck (everything’s either too short, too tight, too long, or too dowdy looking). These are JUST right and I feel like an all-American gal rocking em. I LOVE Paige jeans, they’re always long enough and I can frequently find them on RueLaLa deeply discounted (in FACT they’re on sale tonight in the Sunday Night Styleathon!!), and the quality is impeccable. In addition: they make my booty look incredible.
I will happily say that this weekend was a surprise hit, despite the best efforts of Mother Nature. I’m off to soak up the last few hours with the people I love the most. And, in honor of my sexy new butt-huggers, here’s a shot of my family with me WEARING SOME!
See what I mean? EXCELLENT booty shot.
What’s your favorite brand of denim?
What was the highlight of your weekend?
TGIF, bloggers and bloggettes! Hope everyone’s weekend started off with a BANG. Mine is currently starting off with more of a low rumbling as the thunder is finally catching up to the lightning that I’ve been seeing all night.
Even though I’m a MUCH bigger fan of beer than I am of wine, when opportunity rears its grape-squeezing head for a wine tasting of German wines with two German girls, who am I to not heed the call? Knowing that I had to meet my resident fraulein friend at 5:45 and I got off work at 4:45, I decided that was plenty of time to squeeze in the second level of Jillian Michael’s 30 Day Shred. I haven’t completed the program, as I won the DVD in a giveaway long ago, but it’s always there for me if I need an intense workout in 20 minutes. Considering I hadn’t done the Level 2 circuit before, and I hadn’t done heavy working out recently, it only made sense to dive right into it. The result?
Oh, hey sweaty crazy face. missed you!
I also decided that I could wear the workout clothes that got me through my 16 minutes of exercise on Monday because “they couldn’t have gotten that sweaty/smelly in 16 minutes, right?” Wrong. I was very happy that there was no one else in my “gym” aka “the space in between my tv and my couch in my one bedroom apartment” to enjoy the refreshing beads of sweat I flung left and right.
After a speed shower and a drive-by makeup application, I deemed myself ready to face the world. Veronika and her pal from Germany, Jessica, were off to A Southern Season (my second time in less than a week: a new record!) in Chapel Hill for their fridays uncorked, special wine tastings on Friday nights always based around a theme (a country of origin, a type of wine, etc). Tonight’s featured wine style was “Rieslings from the Mosel River area in Germany.” Translation: Riesling, and five pours of it. Riesling would have to be my favorite type of wine, courtesy of an all-too-long fall break 2008 during which we drank only Riesling all the time. Since then, I’ve been hooked. For $12 a person, this night seemed like a perfect deal.
Bottoms up, ladies! (Veronika, Jessica, Me!)
We grabbed our classes at the front and were ready to go.
#1 Peter Lauer Ayler Kupp "Senior" 2009
Our first and second wines were the dry type of Riesling. #1 was a nice way to start the night, with a bit of a bite to the wine. We were supposed to be aware of the aromas of apricot and honey with a taste of pear and peach. While I definitely got the pear, the peach eluded me. I’m definitely not a sommelier by any means.
#2 Spaeter-Veit Piersporter Domherr Kabinett Trocken 2009
#2 , another dry Riesling, was a little smoother than the first, though we were all aware of a sort of acidic hint in there. Again, apricot was supposed to be in there, but I’m just not familiar enough with apricot to even know what that tastes like. The one cool part about this wine was that it came from the Veits, one of the Mosel’s oldest wine growing families. Even though it was a 2009, I felt like a very legit wine drinker sipping on it.
Prefere de Nos Motagnes - HELLA GOOD CHEESE!
With these wines, we were also supposed to pair them with the softer, spreadable cheese. It didn’t have a strong taste, but it was smooth and delicious. We may or may not have taken enough of these little cheese samples to harvest the napkins and start our own cocktail bar. (I’m going with we may’ve…)
Next on the agenda were the sweet wines.
#5 St. Urbans-Hof Piesporter Goldtropfchen Auslese 2007
#3 Prum Wehlener Sonnenuhr Kabinett 2009
Numbers 3 and 5 were both definitely sweet, with 3 smelling a lot like apple and tasting sort of peachy. It was delicious, and I’d love to have a bottle with me right now. 5 I’ll admit was a little… gosh, I want to say salty because the pourer mentioned salt, but salty’s not the word.
Allow me to show my classlessness for a moment by saying what I really mean. You know that feeling you get when you get a REALLY cheap box of wine. I’m talking Fran-zia, a juice box of wine, something like that. And even if it’s not touching the cardboard, you think to yourself “maybe this wine tastes a little like there’s some cardboard in it.” THAT is the feeling I got with number 5 (which, ironically enough, was the most expensive wine of the night, normally sold for nearly $50 a bottle.)
And then we have the crown jewel of the party.
#4 Meulenhof Erdener Treppchen Spatlese 2009
This wine was everything I could ask for in a Riesling. It was sweet, but not like… pouring honey down your throat. It totally had the taste of a baked apple in there, and was smooth and paired perfectly with the harsher cheese of the night, a Sharfe Maxx. If this bottle of wine was not 25 dollars but, instead, 3 for 25 dollars… I would’ve bought one (ok, yeah. I’m cheap. Such is life.)
It was glorious to live like a rich gal for a little evening, and I even picked up a tasty 4 pack of beers for future reviews.
BEER HEAVEN!!
We finished the night off at City Beverage with some tasty foods and beers and friends. And now I’m in my cozy bed, getting ready to nuzzle off for the night.
Do you ever like to do anything that makes you feel wealthier than you are? If so, what is it?!
Food, Sweat, and Beers 