today i dropped matt off at the airport in milwaukee and, somewhere on the way home, realized that i had racked up zero updates for the month of august. not due to lack of things to recap so much as lack of moments to recap them.
matt was here for about two weeks. the first week was almost insanely hot. as has been most of the summer. so, we'll call the first part of this trip the "hot part." perhaps needless today, this was the part of the trip focused on indoor activities. although our date night picture was taken out of doors, for example, we were on our way to dinner and a movie. matt had seen a preview for beasts of the southern wild and sent me the trailer below along with an e-mail saying that we should try to see it. not two days later i had a message from the local sundance theater saying that said movie was to be in town during matt's visit. fate? obviously. as suggested by the trailer, the movie was spectacular. gut-wrenching and tear-jerking. but spectacular.
the little girl (whose voice you hear) was phenomenal. i actually still can't believe how great she was given how young she obviously is.
secret ingredient
yummy. . .
it was actually shortly after matt got here that we headed to chicago to visit with dj and laura. i apparently took no photos of this, but this seems an appropriate time to share the laura-inspired recipe that we made after we got back. since it was still a little warm, we tried to spend a few days cooking using the crock pot. remembering laura making us delicious, italian beef sandwiches, we decided to give a simplified version our own shot. like really simplified. beef broth, roast beef, and spicy giardinera. rumor has it that the giardinera really makes the experience. we haven't ever found it in athens and it seemed not to be available in state college. madison kind of pulled through for us non there. i'm not going going to lie - the hot version is definitely hot. like, "don't-pile-it-on-unless-you're-ready-to-set-your-mouth-on-fire" hot. however, it was also delicious. we don't eat that much red meat at all, but we're definitely having this one again.
and as long as in an "i'm-not-going-to-lie" mood, i'll tell you that i was pretty proud of myself for just happening to have a potato on hand to toast up a tasty side dish. just like a real grown up.
two more things to round out part one of what promises to be a roughly three part saga. first, i forget why, but matt and i definitely made a trip out to dick's sporting goods. i forget what we were looking for and i don't honestly remember if either of us bought anything. but i can tell you that i was pretty ridiculously humored by this mannequin.
holding its own hand.
what is this display supposedly saying, anyway?
and what type of sporting product would it sell to the average consumer?
tough call.
but very funny.
and finally, in addition to delightfully collecting RSVPs for the wedding, we've been getting a good number of invitations to the weddings of others. unfortunately, many of them are right around either the time of our wedding or what will be our honeymoon. what is not unfortunate, however, is that we are still pretty delighted when things come to us addressed like this:
most of our invites actually aren't for formal affairs, but there have been a few that have come addressed to dr. and dr. it's kind of fun still. and it also definitely feels kind of weird. kind of makes me wish we would have added a few "drs" to the invites that we sent out.
sorry, dr. friends. we'll try to step it up a notch with the thank you notes.
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