Friday night we were some wild and crazy kids.. we started out the evening at Best Buy, looking for some special part AJ needed for rerouting the internet. Then we headed over to Home Depot to buy paint and supplies for the nursery. And we ended the night at a supaaa cute pizza place that I can't believe we've never been to before. It's called Pitfire and all of the pizzas are served personal size. Seriously, the best pizza of my LIFE. Crust was just the right thickness and was perfect crispiness, amazzzzing pesto and argula on top, and no yucky gooyness in the middle. AND they are only 10 or 11 buckaroos! You will find me there again this weekend, promise.
Saturday we got started on the nursery. Because I couldn't help out with the painting, I did all of the taping (which made for perfect edges I might add :)), while Age got the paint stuff ready. Depending on if the blinds are open or which lamp we have on, the color looks different. At times it's darker than I want it to be.. I thought about repainting it, but I'm just going to go with it. I'm sure it will be perfect after everything is in there. I went and sat in that room no less than 10 times this weekend. I cannot wrap my head around the fact we will be bringing our sweet baby girl home to this room in 18 weeks or less. My oh my.. I love you so soooo much sweet Maddie Jane.
I did several loads of laundry while AJ painted the room and we had everything done by 11 am or so. We spent the afternoon grocery shopping and lounging around. By Saturday evening I HAD to get out of our hot apartment, so we went watched the sunset in Santa Monica. I say this all the time, but why don't I take more advantage of this view? I should go watch this stinkin sunset every single night!! (PS traffic. THIS is why I don't go down there. traffic.)
And we had dinner at one of my favorite Mexican spots right by the pier, Casa Martin. Great service, yummy food and a nice night out was JUST what my soul needed!
While I was waiting on the deli meet to be cut at the grocery Saturday, I spotted Hawaiian roles on sale and KNEW we would be having ham and cheese rolls for breakfast Sunday morning. These things are SO good. And they were enjoyed EVEN more in bed, under the covers, before our apartment turned into a sauna.
Sunday afternoon we needed to escape the heat yet again.. so we headed to the movies. Man oh man, I LOVE coke icees. And at the movies, they are the size of my head!! We saw Trainwreck.. at times I couldn't catch my breath I was laughing so hard and times I was like what the heck is going on?? I mean I was happy.. I was in the air conditioner with a coke icee, but not sure I would recommend it. Can't believe it got 85% on Rotten Tomatoes.
We had dinner on the balcony because it is sooo much cooler out there and sweet pup pup joined us. I guess I should explain our inferno apartment situation since I have spent this entire post complaining.. a majority of apartments within 5 miles of the beach don't have air conditioner. California is usually 75 degrees year round in this vicinity, so you can get by with a wall unit and fans. WELL we have had some serious heat waves this summer with temps in the high 80s/90s. Now living in Georgia, that doesn't sound bad at all, but without air conditioner it is UNBEARABLE, especially being pregnant and fat and swollen. Our apartment is the top unit, so we really get the brunt of the heat when the sun is setting AND to top it off, our wall unit is putting out the same temp air as a fan when it should be acting as an air conditioner. I have gone round and round with our landlord.. paying the exorbitant amount we do a month should get us some kind of working air conditioner. So they are supposed to come look at is this week.. fingers crossed..
August 17 ~ Menu Monday
Sunday: Chicken Salad and Chicken Chipotle Bowl
Because our apartment is 5 million degrees, I have been trying to get a little more creative with dinners/cooking ahead of time so we don't have to have the oven on at the worst part of the day (i.e. 4-8 pm). So I roasted a whole chicken yesterday morning while it was nice and cool then took all of the chicken off the bone. I used some of it for chicken salad for lunch (and leftovers for AJ this week) and used the rest for dinner for a chipotle bowl.
Chicken Salad: chicken, mayo, sweet relish, hard boiled eggs, raw onions, salt and pepper.
Chipotle Bowl: chicken, rice, corn, beans, cilantro, sour cream and a taco seasoning packet.
(Both are quick, easy, cheap meals and are great leftovers!)
Monday: Shrimp Alfredo
I could eat pasta all day, every day. I don't want AJ to get tired of it and I don't want to gain an extra 25 pounds with this pregnancy, so I'm really trying to keep it in moderation.. The kind of pasta I REALLY want every single day is alfredo.. straight out the jar alfredo! (I've had this really weird aversion to fresh parmesan.. it smells/tastes awful to me.) So some linguine, half a pound of fresh shrimp and a jar of alfredo sauce is what's on the menu tonight.. YUM.
Tuesday: Taquitos
I've clearly gotten over my chicken aversion.. we are having it three times this week! I pinned this recipe a few weeks ago and it finally made it on this week's menu now that my aversion is gone. I am handing the cooking over to AJ on this one (normally I tackle all Pinterest recipes) so it will probably be some sort of moderation on this. He never quite follows recipes, he likes to do this own thing. ha I'll let you guys know how it goes! You can find the recipe
HERE.
Wednesday: Tacos
A plain ole taco usually sounds good to me. Plain and simple.. ground beef with taco seasoning, lettuce, sour cream, cheese, flour tortilla. This meal is tried and true and takes me less than 10 minutes from start to finish. Pryor kids.. this meal is going to be in your future A LOT. Hope you like tacos!! (Side note: Tortillas have to be on the menu twice this week. When you buy the pack, and only have two people in the family, you gotta use them up so they don't go to waste!)
Thursday: Crab Cakes
Seafood sounds so yummy... specifically fried seafood! (Can't wait to get my hands on some shrimp at Herbs in two weeks!!!) So I asked AJ if he could do some crab cakes this week. Our grocery store didn't have much of an affordable selection of fresh crab, so we are trying it out with canned crab. He explained how he was going to do it and it most closely sounds like
THIS recipe. Serving them with rice and his homemade tartar sauce.. again YUM.
xoxo,
