Olive Juice & Elephant Shoes: February 2013

Tuesday, February 26, 2013

Day 153

Contrary to popular belief, you do not have to eat only healthy food if you cook with a CSA box! Hehe chard and leek pasta with an alfredo walnut sauce, yum.

My project this weekend was my bed! This started with lots of online browsing of different platform beds, all of which were at least $150 for the crappy ones, ranging all the way up to $400 for the nice ones. Just for a freakin platform! Plus, I was feeling bitter about this money even more than I normally would because my bed is a full and I will probably be wanting to purchase a queen in the somewhat near future, which makes buying an overpriced bed frame even worse. SO I decided to take control of the situation, spend $200 at Home Depot on a drill and some wood, and build a bed myself! I went the easy route by leaving it on the ground since I like that look, and pretty much just built a frame around my box spring. But I still put some work into it by staining and I love how it turned out :) It makes a huge difference!

Day 151

Today Bryan tried to have a mustache! It was funny :)

Day 150

We've had a lot of visitors from England lately at work, so one of my coworkers thought it would be funny to fly a Union Jack... I agree.

Day 149

Wine tasting and dinner with Jenny and Maddie... great fun! And the bread was unexpectedly delicious.

Thursday, February 21, 2013

Day 148

I've been swimming during my lunch on Monday Wednesday and Fridays, and it's seriously the best thing in the world! I don't feel like such a lazy bum and I even get a little tan... but it was way less warm today than it looks...

Day 147

I bought a drill this weekend!! And I am obviously way too excited about it... but now I feel like a real independent woman :) My first project is to make my own bed frame. Photos to come, hopefully by this upcoming weekend!

Wednesday, February 20, 2013

Day 146

Today I made an apple pie!! It was Jaimie's grandma's recipe, which is the absolute best apple pie I've ever had. The secret is slicing the apples super thin instead of doing chunks... YUM!

Monday, February 18, 2013

Day 145

Morning fire saved our freezing toes :)

Day 144

Today Bryan and I hiked to West Lion Canyon! We climbed up a bunch of boulders and found this pretty water fall and pool :) The water was freezing... literally. Ice. In it.

Friday, February 15, 2013

Day 143

Today was the most BEAUTIFUL day!! I walked outside of work for 5 minutes and thought about running away forever... sadly I didn't do it. But the sunset was lovely :)

Day 142

Happy valentine's day! Rasberries are red.

Thursday, February 14, 2013

Day 141

At work today I spent the majority of my day setting up our new million dollar espresso machine, reading the manual, making failed drinks, making good drinks, and teaching everyone how to make drinks. It was fun!

Day 140

Today I made a bagel spread at work! It looked delicious... I realize all I've been posting about lately is food. Get over it.

Tuesday, February 12, 2013

Day 139

Say hello to my little friend! Today I cooked a whole chicken for the first time ever. I think I had too much fun making this little guy walk around before I doused him in salt and pepper...

Day 138

Chinese new year!! In honor of the holiday I laid in bed and read half of The Fellowship of the Ring. It was wonderful :)

Sunday, February 10, 2013

Day 137

Every once in a while, something shows up on Smitten Kitchen where I go to the page and then I'm like I MUST MAKE THAT NOW. That happened. Salted caramel brownies :)

Day 136

Awesome little rainbow on the way to work today! As a followup from yesterday... I made that spaghetti squash, and let me just tell you, it may look like spaghetti but it does NOT taste like it. For all you spaghetti squash virgins out there.