Dinner + Movie and Other Fun Things

At the beginning of this year, I told Todd that I wanted to have friends come over for dinner regularly.  It is something we didn’t do as much last year that I missed.  We decided to call it “Dinner + a Movie”, because… well because that’s what it is!  About once a month we will invite one friend or a couple over to have dinner together and watch a movie.  This month, Anne & Gilbert were our first “Dinner + a Movie” guests on Monday, 2/10.

Todd cooked Fish Tacos with Tomatillo Sauce, and it was fantastic!  This is one of our favorite meals lately.

Mmm… tilapia.

Anne & Gilbert brought over a fruit mousse cake that was divine.

We may or may not have had more than one piece.  I’m not saying.

The movie choice for the night was “Oz The Great and Powerful”.

It had a slow start but picked up and the ending was pretty good.  Always love a weird movie with James Franco in it, lol.  We’re so excited to kick off “Dinner + a Movie” with friends.  Anne & Gilbert were great company.

In other news…

My February Ipsy Glam Bag came last week.

So far I’m not as sure I like this bag.  The lip gloss was too bright for me and smelled weird.  The lavender cream eye shadow is not really my color.  I haven’t tried the skin masks & fake eyelashes yet.  I love the light pink Zoya nail polish. 

One night when I came home from work, Noodle was such a ham that I had to take a bunch of photos of him.  It was too much cuteness for one cat, ha ha!

On Monday 2/10, I had the pleasure of meeting up for a late lunch with my good friend Meera.  A much needed girl-time indeed!  So fun to hang out, just the two of us.

Some stuff we’ve been cooking.  (And when I say “we”, I really mean Todd.  He’s the great chef of our family.)

This Coconut Curry Chicken Soup was so delicious.  8 WW points.

Love this Broiled Salmon with Roasted Tomato Sauce.

I took Friday 2/14 off work and spent most of the day remembering my mom and re-organizing my craft studio.  Lots of in-progress photos but no “after” photos yet.

On Friday evening, I had to drop my car off to the shop because I kept smelling a burnt oil smell.  It turned out I needed about $800 of work done and they kept my car until Monday evening.  I had to work from home yesterday.  But I digress.  The car repair shop was only a couple of blocks away from our favorite Indian food, so we got takeout from Punjabi Tandoor for our Valentine’s dinner at home.  Todd surprised me with a lemon cream bundt cake from Nothing Bundt Cakes. 

And Noodle and I both made handmade cards for Todd.  I helped Noodle with some tools which required usage of opposable thumbs.  It was a really nice & quite Valentine’s at home.

I ran five miles at the lake on Saturday.  It was a hot day and even at 9am it was 80 degrees. 

The last two miles were tough due to the heat, but I made it.  I’m sort of still on schedule in my training for the Hot Chocolate 15K at the end of March.

After going home and cleaning up, we went to Miguel’s Cocina for lunch.  Because I burned over 500 calories running and had a craving for enchiladas.

My lunch companion is the cutest!

I finished more Project Life pages for February.  Still need to photograph them, but that post should be up later this week.

Also, I just want to thank each and every one of you who take the time and effort to comment on my blog.  I’m thankful for you.  It makes the effort of blogging slightly more worth it.  THANK YOU!