Weekend Update

Busy times.  I had a big long check list of wedding to-dos for this weekend, but after returning home from our cupcake tasting (lavish, I know) and dress fitting, we saw that our wedding invitations had been delivered which means that any previously made plans were thrown out the window.  

I opted for "self assembly" to save a few bucks and oh man do you really pay for it in wasted time.  I spent the entire weekend bent over my coffee table making thousands of trims, cuts, and re-cuts.  They will look good but I easily spent 16 hours on these stupid things and will never do "self assembly" ever again.  They are almost done and hopefully will appease the handful of people that keep asking us "so what is going on?  what are the plans? what are the details? why haven't we gotten an invitation yet? what should I wear?  can I bring my girlfriend?"  Give me a break!  It's still 2.5 months away!

On another note, we successfully met our goal of not eating out during the week.  We survived on the normal salads and sandwiches for most of the week, Dave made a quiche on Thurs. night, we splurged on Dion's for Saturday night, and last night we made fish tacos which were del-i-cious.

Calabacitas, Lime & Chile shrimp, Dos Equis and Tacos (soy ginger marinated cod from Trader Joe's, garden tomatoes, store avocados, red onions, homemade yogurt / lemon juice / garlic salt / garden dill and parsley sauce)

We have three tomato plants this year.  I bought two of them from the Co-op's Earth Day celebration, and the other one from Home Depot.  The Home Depot plant isn't even close to producing ripe fruits, yet we've been yielding about 5 tomatoes a week from the other two locally grown plants for about three weeks.  Goes to show that local is better and that the Home Depot plant is a genetic mutant. (The orangey tomatoes are called "Golden Sisters" or something and have the most amazing flavor!)

Saturday afternoon, after the cupcake coma wore off, David made his specialty, the egg mcmuffin

Oh, and aside from cupcake tasting, dress fitting, and invitation making, on Saturday morning I also crawled through some old buildings on my dad's new "family farm" (more on that later) and found some awesome looking rustic wood to make wedding-ish signs, some old mason jars with a natural pearly patina from being outside for 50 years, and an old wooden Scottish whiskey crate from a NM liquor distributor from the 1950s.  All very cool.  They will all find their way into my list of wedding projects.  Here's a teaser from my most recently completed DIY wedding project:

corn hole board:  prep work before painting chevron stripes