First Austin City Limits experience

It only took me 4 1/2 years of living in Austin to finally get my butt to the Austin City Limits festival downtown, but I finally did it this year!!!  Every year I have some kind of lame excuse as to why  I'm not going to go, but with friends ( Suzie and Chris) flying in just for the festival- I really had absolutely no reason not to go. In the past I've walked the trail along the venue and posted up with a little picnic and listened to the concerts outside the fence, but now that I've actually been in the festival I'm not sure if that will do it anymore ; )

The whole festival was tons of fun!! My only regret is that it is so over packed (roughly around 175,000 people a day) I didn't get to hang out with as many friends as I had originally hoped : ( 

But I did get to share this experience with Ricky and I wouldn't have traded that for the world  

This is only my personal opinion but the best performances of the weekend were:

Florence +The Machine

Averitt Brothers

The Lumineers

The Roots 

The Black Keys

The Red Hot Chilli Peppers

Jack White 

 

The weekend in a nutshell

It's hard to tell but this was a picture of the crowds on their way down to festival on Friday night. I had to work during the day on Friday so I took the bus from our house and met Ricky down there. It was perfect $1.00 and dropped me off two blocks away -beats the $30 parking that I passed on my way over, lol

The entrance to festival on Friday

The weather was perfect during the first show I caught- Florence + The Machine

The main stage at the festival

This is the only picture I took with friends really in it, and it was only a fraction of everyone who was there. I tend to shy away from the camera when I've had a few drinks,  I'm sweaty, and muddy. Lol but that is just me ; )

a blurry picture of Florence + The Machine

The Black Keys on Friday night

This was the weather on Saturday

And this is how I felt about the weather on Saturday. If you know me I don't do "getting wet" very well, but I think I handled it better than Ricky would have guessed, ha ha

Jack White on Saturday Night

The Lumineers on Sunday

Beautiful view of downtown landscape from the venue

The Red Hot Chilli Peppers on Sunday

Another pic of red hot Chilli Peppers

a panoramic view Ricky's photo

 

 Below are a few videos of some the performances we saw

On Sunday there wasn't a cloud in the sky so Ricky and I drove over to our friend Anna's house with our bikes in town and rode them down the festival. It was really nice and was a great start to the last day of festivities . The only thing was we rode down hill for most of the ride- which meant we had to ride uphill on the way back. It wasn't as bad as I had originally thought we walked only here and there if it was just too steep for my cruiser. All in all, again it was a fabulous weekend : ) 

Now my body and wallet are slowly healing, ha ha 

I have a feeling this next weekend is going to be very low key- have a great week! Love Di

Wonderful laziness

I did absolutely nothing this weekend, and I loved every second of it : ) 

Ricky headed out of town on Friday to visit his family in Miami, and since I wasn't able to take off work I hung out around home. Don't get me wrong I LOVE spending time with my husband, as cliche as it may sound, he is my absolute best friend . But that doesn't mean I don't enjoy a very rare "me time" weekend either, lol.  I caught up on the TV shows he hates to watch, painted my nails, did some at home facials. To sum it up- it was lovely (except for our embarrassing FSU loss). We had great crisp fall weather so I was also able to crouch by the fire and dig into a new book. I have to admit though I'm ready for Ricky to come on Tuesday though, ha ha. 

 Austin City Limits Music Festival is this weekend, can't wait!!! 

I was sooo comfy with the fire yesterday afternoon ( the high was in the 50's!) . P.S. the coffee table in the middle was an awesome score at goodwill yesterday. I bought it with every intention of going to sand it down and paint it, but since this was late Sunday afternoon I figured I would clean it for now and see how it looks before I get into the hassle. Well I noticed on the bottom that it had an authentication certificate for cherry wood so I pulled out the wood shine cleaner. This table is a beautiful solid cheery wood table in almost perfect condition. I googled it to find out the comparison price online they were roughly around $300 dollars and considered antique- my steal $9.99, wahoo!!! Now with the money I saved I'm going to look for a rug : )

I'm hesitant to post this up her because she is NOT allowed on the couch, but of course we can't regulate it when we aren't home.( plus if Ricky see's this he will not be happy)  I found her like this on Sunday afternoon, and just couldn't muster myself to kick her off. I just love her!!

Have a great week Luv Di

Just another weekend in the books : )

This past weekend we had planned on getting in a little fall camping, but the rain dictated other wise. So instead on Friday I snuggled up with my favorite guy and fur ball, and we caught up on some "Breaking Bad"  episodes with Netflix ( Ricky and I are really getting into this series-we highly recommend it if you are looking for something new to watch!)

On Saturday we headed out to the FSU vs USF watch party down at Star Bar. After our great win : )  we  made our way out to a few other bars to watch the rest of  college football's late night games. It was one of those fun, kinda random but nothing crazy kinda nights. We meet a few news friends, and had a great time with some oldies but goodies.

Our late night snack stop on Saturday. It is one of Ricky's favorite food trailers downtown, and since they moved up north for lunch this is pretty much the only time that he can get it now

He was really excited,lol ( please excuse the blurriness of this photo but this was how I was seeing everything at this point, lol. It was best that I put some food in my belly ; )

 On Sunday we made our way to the Pecan Street Festival downtown for a few hours and met up with our friends Sam and Becca who had already made their way down. The Pecan Street Festival is a big art festival the city puts on twice a year that they make open to the public. They section off a large part of downtown and tons of local vendors set up shop along with local musicals who have small stages set up in various areas.

Some east side street art I found on our way to the festival

Pecan Street Festival view 1

Pecan Street Festival view 2

Ricky and I  really had no intention of eating at the festival because nothing looked that great. It was all pizza and fried food and really greasy fair food. But then we stumbled on this little Venezuelan stand. They were making homemade grilled arepas with cheese and meat. We knew we needed a snack before dinner and these were perfect and sooooo good!

One of the many street performers we passed along the way

another one of the cool street performers

 Lastly, we met up with more friends ( Paige and Griffin) and tried out one of the restaurants featured during Restaurant Week. I'll be honest there were a few things at this place I was not sure about eating like- beef cheek and cow bone marrow. I was brave enough to try them, but I don't think they will be on my weekly meal plan anytime soon ; )

Where we went for dinner to experience restaurant week, it was delicious

I just had to take a picture of this drink when it came out. The presentation was great, and it tasted delicious ( or so Becca told me- it was her drink,lol)

Have a good week- Luv Di

wonderful FSU weekend (in Austin)

Little fun fact ( just in case you didn't already know, ha ha)
 Ricky and I both met at FSU and we are HUGE  Florida State University fans! 

This past weekend was our first big game of the season, so we were super pumped for Saturday. We temporarily thought about just packing up the car and heading to Tally for the weekend, but then reality set in - it's a just a leisurely drive of 14 hours, no biggie lol.

But the excitement got even better when we found out the Ray family ( Taylor and Andie ) would be joining us at the watch party. They only live 45 minutes away, but we just don't get to see each other as much as we would like to. So having them down made the game even better ( if that was possible). 

There were a few Birthdays I helped celebrate this week, and one of them happened to be my friend Laura's ( she is to the right of me). We met up with some of her friends at the Rattle Inn bar on Thurs.

We Celebrated my friend Kirby's birthday on Weds. and Friday this week as well. Unfortunately, I did not get any great pics, but I did capture the awesome skyline view we had while  celebrating on her rooftop terrace at her apartment on Friday.

Taylor, Andie, Ricky, myself, and Anna at the FSU watch party

The fabulous Anna proudly showcasing her halftime raffle win, lol

By the end of the night the awesome Seminole cape was passed around - spreading the word of our awesome win!

On sunday I meet up with these lovely ladies ( Morgan and Meagan) for a fun little paint and drink session. In hindsight I should have maybe planned this for a day where I wouldn't be recovering slowly, but it was still a blast (with drinks or not) when you have these two as company : )

Everyone deep in artistic thought, lol

My finished product- it doesn't look anything like the original, but I'm still pretty fond of it ; )

We refrained from working on the house this week since we needed  to recover from celebrating FSU's WIN over  Clemson. We are 75% done and I should have some after pics soon! Have a great week- Luv Di

Life update : )

Sorry it's been almost a month since my last update, but sometimes you just get caught up in life and you forget about the little things (like this blog) lol. Let me tell you right off the bat NO I AM NOT PREGNANT!! 

Just in case you were wondering ; )

 But we have been wrapped up in small projects around the house along with start of FSU football season! So here is a little photo montage of what has been going on in life the past month... 

enjoy and I promise to update you sooner from now on- Luv Di

Our new watch spot downtown with the FSU alumni club

One of our traditional after Church brunches downtown at Perlas off of Congress

Our other Sunday tradition of dinner and drinks with Chloe

My new hipster glasses that I love, and yes I am legally blind without them or my contacts lol

My wonderful Fur baby Chloe

one of our favorite places for Friday happy hour- La Condessa resturant

Our friends Matt and Michelle- The boys with thier fruity martinis and the girls with our beers, lol

 

A beautiful sunset downtown while out on a patio with drinks

Our sneaky dog who jumps into bed with us in the middle of the night - lol I secretly love it!

A rare glimpse of the bear in his natural habitat, ha ha

FSU predicted as National CHAMPS!!

My beautiful one year anniversary flowers from my hubby- since Hurricane Isssac ruined our mini vacay plans : (

One of the many new recipes I've been attempting from my new Jessica Seinfeld cookbook

We had a weekend with amazing weather... so we decided to get outside and enjoy it. We had an impromptu day with the sprinklers in Zilker Park. It was sooo much fun, and one of those memories I'll keep forever  : )

One of the many beautiful sunrises I see on my way into work each morning

Our sad faces we sent our friend Ali during our weekly texting time we share with her

Lol we really wanted her to see how much we miss her

We have had lots of lazy weekend afternoons with Football and pintrest crafts lately

One of my new favorite downtown murals on 6th St.

Out celebrating Jimi's birthday last Friday

What has been consuming our lives right now- floor renovations

We are almost done and I'll post after pics soon!