OTRrrrr We Done Moving Yet?

Still doin’ our thing.  Draggin’ couches, pinchin’ fingers, sweatin’, and gruntin’.  Fortunately we’ve stopped bickering with each other at this stage since 90% of our stuff is now officially in its new home.  Luckily we still found the time to do a little exploring.

Before the weekend hit, we took an unplanned trip to our local Swedish mass-produced furniture store and spent Thursday night wondering where our $100 went and putting new knobs on the kitchen cabinets.

Friday night we somehow ended up at The Rookwood again and I had the most epic lamb and gnocchi combo of all time. Our super-friendly waitress witnessed our inability to decide between key lime pie and salty caramel ice cream and brought us both.  They’re so good to us there.  Did I mention that my friend did their arts on the wall?  Seriously go there, kids.  After stuffing our faces and moving a few meager boxes we called it quits and didn’t even venture out to party on a Friday we were so tuckered. 

Saturday morning my boyfriend practically had to drag me out of bed to go to pick up our U-Haul. It was overcast and cold and a little snowy and it’s soo toasty in our new bedroom.

BLEEEEH.

BUT! Discovery! It’s sooo much better moving in the winter than in the summer.  Even when it’s freezing cold, you can start out bundled and by the time the truck is full you’ll have removed all layers but the essential ones.  It didn’t take long at all for us to finish up, in spite of our munchkin status, and we took an afternoon break to hit up Findlay Market and sample about a thousand things.  My favorite thing we tried were these super interesting Belgian chocolates made by a local Northsider.  We tried the chilli chocolates and pink champagne with pink peppercorns.  Seriously so worth the 8 bucks for a box of four and so pretty I was a little sad to rip into the box and hurt the poor little babies.

I HAS A PEPPERCORM 

We weren’t quite satisfied dinner-wise with a thousand samplings so we went to Rock Bottom Brewery for a beer and some apps.  Titan toothpicks = too much food for two people.  Shoulda’ known.

That night we pre-gamed at our friend’s loft and went to a bar called Mainstay for the first time.  I’d been there many times when it was called The Viper Room which later changed to The Poison Room, but not to the new place yet.  We saw one of our favorite local bands called The Sundresses and drank a lot.

Sunday should have been recovery day as the bf was nursing a raging hangover headache, but we didn’t want to miss the 20th century design show at the Sharonville Convention center that afternoon.  I didn’t take any pictures due to my pre-occupation with dropping elbows on people who were, as my dad would say even though it’s 2010 and he’s like 55, “All up in my mix”.  Nothing too notable happened after that.  We just kinda drove around for beer and burritos and some industrial shelving for the kitchen.  Didn’t go out that night, although I would like to check out Mainstay’s Sunday night karaoke.  We opted to marvel at that Nickelback guy’s shiny straight hairs and wonder what was up with Alanis Morissette’s bewbs.