we had much fun this weekend and we were even a bit productive. who knew? we also pretty much ate our way through the weekend, which was very much tasty. really, ben should be blogging about the foods because he, of course, took pictures of all of it, because that's what he does. friday night the ryan came over and we made greek lamb/beef burgers and sweet potato fries and snap beans. they was delicious. there was half a burger left, so saturday morning it went into omelets with spinach, mushrooms and feta. very much yum. saturday night was jared's birthday extravaganza which means gathering around a giant hibachi at mikado and watching our tasty dinner being made with flair and pyrotechnics, then going to (where else?) wilhagan's. sunday, in a stellar feat of wasting no foods, we grilled some chicken rubbed with the same gyro spices we used in the burgers, then used the rest of the tzatziki sauce we'd made as the sauce for pita pizzas with mushrooms and feta and parmesan and zuchinni and tomato for ben (and the chicken of course). the rest of the mint shall be taken care of tonight in some pesto-ish sauce for pasta. win!
after we had those scrumptious pizzas (brilliant idea i had there, i must say), we went downtown to war memorial auditorium to see ryan adams and the cardinals. the show was great, would've probably been awesomely fantastic had there been more vocals in the mix. alas. still, the band was super tight, i don't think i've heard them or any ryan adams band sound that good. i was kind of interested in how the show would be, because he's been clean for a while, but he also got married within the last few weeks, so he's (hopefully anyway) been happy and healthy and stuff, the combination of which i'm pretty sure is unprecedented. but, he is of course, still weird and goofy and geeky so it was great. at one point when the house lights were on, he noticed a guy standing up in the balcony was wearing the same shirt as neal casal, the guitarist and back-up singer. so he proceeded to improve a ridiculous song about it. hilarity. he also played a surprising mix of songs, all in the trademark faster rawkin' live version he tends to do. if you have heartbreaker, then you know the song "lucy." last night, he played a straight up punk version of it, which was clearly the way that song was meant to be done. glad he figured that out. he played for just about 3 hours, which was awesome, but also not, because it was sunday night and the show started at 8:30. very late going to bed for ben who had to get up at 6 this morning to go to the gym and me who should've gotten up at 7:20 to be at work at 8:30. don't tell anyone, but i didn't shower this morning. tiiiiiired. sleep and relaxation weren't completely on the agenda this weekend, though we did sleep in saturday a bit i suppose. it was a good spring break wrap-up weekend and hopefully a good "last weekend" for ben. they have a huge project at work, so apparently i won't see him until june. sad.
Tags: greek food weekend, i'm going to need lots of coffee today, ryan adams is still a badass, ryan adams yay!, we like food a lot
