Bloody Best

Hi everyone. So I didn't keep my promise and blog throughout the weekend. Gah. Sorry. I will make up for it with a post about the weekend...as boring as it may be (: 

So Friday nothing fun happened. After a couple weeks with 5 year olds painting everywhere, including on my shorts, legs, and feet...don't ask how that happened...I was pretty cashed out. It was spent relaxing at home while N fixed his brothers vehicle and I devoured my third book of the summer. It was fabulous and I highly recommend it. It was called And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini. This is the third book of his I read and they are all AHHmazing. My next read of the summer is much longer so it should take this speed reader a bit longer. It is Inferno by Dan Brown. Love his books, especially Angels and Demons, another good read if you happen to be looking for any. It requires more thinking, definitely not a relaxing read I'll tell ya that. 

Saturday started off with a farmer's market, which I love. We got some bison burgers to cook for supper tonight, and egg rolls for breakfast that morning. Super nutritious. Not. But extremely delicious. The line for these babies is usually super duper long, which is always a good sign. There is also this bar called Bazil's that has specials for their Bloody Mary Buckets during the farmer's market. Their bloodies are always delish as is, but on Saturdays they put them in BUCKETS with lots of CONDIMENTS! This brings me to my love for bloodies. N and I regularly have bloody mary bar on Sundays at home, but also like to scope out the best ones around our area. This is definitely up there as one of the best...

This is just to give you a reference of the size. Pretty big and delicious. 

Speaking of bloodies. We are headed on two different road trips this summer to find the best. One is in Milwaukee, which is a couple hours from us and would also be the perfect time to attend a Milwaukee Brewers game.  I'm a fair weather fan...I admit it. But when it comes to bloodies I will do whatever it takes. 

This is it...can you believe it?! So outrageous! Who doesn't want a burger on their bloody!?!?

The next bloody road trip is much closer, Fond du Lac to be exact. But this one requires getting up at 6 am, waiting in line for a long time, and beating out buses full of blue hairs before they run out. But SO.TOTALLY.WORTH.IT!!!! Unreal I tell you. 

I can't help but feel proud these delicious concoctions are both less than two hours from my home. Yikes! 

Saturday night I was forced to go out for a friends birthday after out huge bloody mary's. Which is probably why Sunday consisted of nothing but watching movies and relaxing. 

In the future when my bloody mary dreams are finally realized I will be blogging about that baby. For sure.

In other news I'm attempting to paint our closet doors at some point this week...which have remained oak while the rest of the bedroom has white trim and doors. Yikes. 

Until then! 

Bucket List

So...today is my first official day of summer vacation now that school has ended. I so far spent it sleeping in, drinking coffee, and watching tv shows, and searching for a puppy. 
Speaking of PUPPY! N and I have been talking about getting a puppy for a LONG time. The conversation usually consisted of trying to agree on the kind to get. He always wanted a lab, but our backyard is pretty small and the front yard faces a busy street so that just wasn't practical. 
When growing up my parents had a basset hound, which I have only seen in pictures...but always loved them. I knew we needed a calm, friendly dog and a basset hound seemed to fit the bill.
N also agreed because he thought it would the perfect garage dog, seeing as he spend lots of time in his garage. 
Aren't they just adorable????? I just can't get over that face. 
Anyway, the puppy search has proven to be tough....I guess there aren't a lot of basset hound breeders in our area??

That brings me to my summer bucket list. Some things rather simple, some that may prove difficult, and some that N doesn't know about yet. Hehe.
Summer bucket list...
1. Find a basset hound puppy and adopt 2. Refinish desk

(It needs to be done...well, lots needs to be done in here. Isn't that computer ancient? N doesn't want to get rid of it?!?!?!). 3. Refinish kitchen table and put cushions on chairs 4. Paint basement and make shelves 5. Buy a new washer and dryer 6. Run a 10k 7. Find a new end table 8. Go camping as much as possible 9. Find a chair for the barren corner

(This is the barren corner. I need a cool chair...another thing that has proven hard to find).
10. Curtains for office and guest room 11.  Road trip to Cedar Point in Ohio 12. Get rid of couch and computer in office 13. Finalize as many wedding plans as possible 14. Make more products for TpT and get selling! 15. Take on my summer reading list. I am already two books down (I started before summer break really began).  Here is my next read...


That is it for now. I'm sure it will be ever growing as the summer goes on, but for now I think I can tackle this.  TTFN