<\/p>\nHi gang!\u00a0 Whoa what a busy busy day this girl had yesterday!\u00a0 Whew!\u00a0 Let’s start at the beginning, shall we? <\/p>\n
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First before Birbigs I made us a little snacky-poo plate.\u00a0 Since we had lunch so later, neither of us were super hungry.<\/p>\n
The back plate had:<\/p>\n
Mmm mmmm!<\/p>\n
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Birbigs proved to be a long night and this girl was worn out by the time we got back home!\u00a0 The show was supposed to start at 8pm but started about 15 minutes after that.\u00a0 Which is normal because people are always late getting to their seats.\u00a0 Then the warm-up act came out and it was Geoff Tate from Cincinnati and he was alright.\u00a0 He had his funny moments but wasn’t continually funny.\u00a0 Then we had a 20 minute or so intermission.\u00a0 What the what?!<\/p>\n
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By 9pm Birbigs finally came out and his set was fantastic!\u00a0 And it lasted for an hour and a half.\u00a0 I know!\u00a0 There was a kid in the audience though.\u00a0 Someone thought it would be a great idea to bring their 10 year old and he was smack in the middle of the front row.\u00a0 When Birbigs asked him who he was there with, the kid said his dad.\u00a0 Birbigs asked how old his dad was and the kid replied, “58!”\u00a0 And Birbigs was like, “Okay I’m just going to leave that one alone right there.”\u00a0 
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We got out of the parking garage easy peasy and made it back home in record time.\u00a0 And I heated us up some pasta and had a glass of red.\u00a0 Then I crashed out in bed hardcore!<\/p>\n
Friday morning I was up bright and early to get my day going.\u00a0 It was pouring rain and so that meant no run before all my meetings this morning.\u00a0 No worries though because since my eats ended up being so weird and staggered yesterday, not running was a good thing.<\/p>\n
This is where we’re going to start playing some pretend!\u00a0 Because there were times I didn’t have my camera or could not take a picture, so you’ll have to pretend to see something. <\/p>\n
I started the morning off with some coffee and breakfast.<\/p>\n
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A yogurt mess with vanilla Oikos, apple, and granola.\u00a0 Mmm mmmm!<\/p>\n
Then I got dressed and high-tailed it over to Dublin to meet with Inggrie<\/a> to talk about the farmer’s market and local business things.\u00a0 At Tehku<\/a> I had a mug of her new fall blend tea and a chocolate chip scone.<\/p>\n [Pretend you see a steamy mug of tea and the greatest chocolate chip scone right here.]<\/p>\n We chatted for a bit and then Ryan<\/a> and some of his business partners made their way in because they were in Dublin scouting out locations for a possible new business location.\u00a0 I don’t know if I can mention it, so that’s why it’s vague! :p<\/p>\n I had to cut my meeting with Inggrie short because I had to make my way back home for another meeting!\u00a0 This time with my SF<\/abbr> instructor to chat about the dojo (gym\/training area\/what have you).\u00a0 Scott and I help him out with some stuff and so we needed to discuss things about that and toss around ideas and get things sort of straightened out.<\/p>\n That lasted close to two hours.\u00a0 During that time I had a mug of decaf coffee with milk and sugar.<\/p>\n [Pretend you see my “A” mug right here with lovely creamy cafe color coffee.]<\/p>\n I had to cut that meeting off too because I had to bust butt back over to downtown Dublin and meet with my very favorite Lawgirl<\/a> to chat about life and just have some face-to-face girl time. It was after 2pm by this point and this sister needed some veggies in her STAT because I had not had any yet that day.\u00a0 Lawgirl and I met up at Sugar Inc.<\/p>\n Sugar Inc. <\/a>is a tea salon and cupcake bakery in downtown Dublin.\u00a0 The cupcakes are all organic!\u00a0 Do we not love this?!\u00a0 And tea with cupcakes is about as cute as it gets, right?\u00a0 Ava is the owner\/operator of Sugar Inc. and I first “met” her on Twitter.\u00a0 We’ve been chatting away since then and I’ve been trying to get to her shop for ages!\u00a0 Finally yesterday I had the chance!<\/p>\n I started off with some blueberry (I want to call it heaven but I don’t think that’s the right name!) hot tea.\u00a0 It was delish and came out in my own little cafe to pour.<\/p>\n I also had the Sugar Inc. Signature Salad with spinach, pecans, beets, two wedges of brie,\u00a0 and pine nuts with a cherry vinaigrette on top.\u00a0 Mmmm mmm!\u00a0 It was tasty and light and perfect for a little quick snack.\u00a0 I did not eat the brie because I was cheesed out from yesterday. :p<\/p>\n While Lawgirl and I were chatting, Ava brought us out two mini cupcakes to sample.<\/p>\n Dark chocolate with vanilla icing and a bourbon cupcake with what tasted like a buttery sort of icing.\u00a0 I split both of these with Lawgirl and they were divine!\u00a0 You all know I’m not much of a sweets person but these were fantastic!\u00a0 Just a slight hint of sweetness with a creamy icing, not one that is so overly sweet it makes your teeth ache.\u00a0 This was light and almost just like a flavored cream on top.\u00a0 The small portions were the perfect size for me!\u00a0 And the cupcakes were light and airy, not dense and heavy like some I’ve had.<\/p>\n Ava does an amazing job with her business and her cupcakes are fantastic.\u00a0 Her place also has free wi-fi so you can pickup your laptop and head to Downtown Dublin for an afternoon of relaxing with some tea and eats.\u00a0 Ava also hosts many events at her salon and does catering for parties as well.\u00a0 She blew me away when she said that her business has only been there for 6 months.\u00a0 The amount she’s accomplished in that time is amazing and definitely gets major props for that.\u00a0 Support your local businesses guys and go check out Sugar Inc. and Ava<\/a>!<\/p>\n There were also some random chats with another patron who was sipping tea and working on her laptop.\u00a0 But like a butthead I forgot to get her name, doh!\u00a0 But HI! *waves*\u00a0 Hope you stopped by my little blog! Lawgirl and I chatted for about 2 hours or so and then she had to depart. *sniff*\u00a0 I hung out for a bit waiting on my ride to pick me up and chatted with Ava.\u00a0 Then I was whisked back home to see my kid (Rocky) and get him some dinner in his bellah.\u00a0 Scott and I were debating on what to do about dinner and we decided to go to Matt the Miller’s<\/a> since we hadn’t been there for a while.<\/p>\n That meant back to Dublin! Um, I’m wondering if Matt the Miller’s Tavern is under new management or something because our experience was not like it had been before.\u00a0 In fact it was a little disappointing and I regretted heading out to eat.\u00a0 I hate when that happens!<\/p>\n We started the evening off with a glass of red for me and a beer for Scott.\u00a0 We assumed this beer was going to be big because Scott had it before and the bottle was larger.\u00a0 The description on the menu even said it was going to be 18 and some odd ounces.\u00a0 Nope, just a regular 12oz beer.\u00a0 It was good though!\u00a0 I had a Cab from Chile.<\/p>\n I was hungry because remember by this point my eats were on the super low end of the scale.\u00a0 The soup of the day was black bean and chorizo chili.\u00a0 Yes please!\u00a0 I started off with that.<\/p>\n Mmmmm it was so good with a sweet spicy kick to it!\u00a0 I forgot to ask if chorizo was the only meat in the chili and once I realized that it probably was not, I picked out the beans and handed the rest to Scott.<\/p>\n He finished it for me. Remember how much I love Matt the Miller’s bread?\u00a0 I was wondering where it was because by this point none had arrived at our table.\u00a0 When we asked (because I wanted me some dang bread!) our server said they had bread but it would be $1.<\/p>\n Wha?!<\/p>\n Before it was complimentary and came with a fantastic garlic butter.\u00a0 And you got a huge honkin’ chunk of it.<\/p>\n Not so much any more.\u00a0 A few very thin slices of bread with packaged butter.\u00a0 HMPH!\u00a0 And the bread didn’t come out till we got our main dishes. And I didn’t even take a picture! So you know it wasn’t much to look at.<\/p>\n Scott had the chipotle shrimp flatbread.\u00a0 I had a bite and it was alright.\u00a0 The shrimp were salad shrimp size.\u00a0 Basically non-existent and sparse.<\/p>\n I had the Balsamic salad, small, and I added salmon to it.<\/p>\n Guys this salad was so disappointing.\u00a0 It was supposed to be mixed greens but instead was romaine that looked like it came from a bag.\u00a0 There were a few pieces of something else in there but you could hardly even tell.\u00a0 In no way would I call this a mixed green salad.\u00a0 My salmon was perfectly cooked and loaded down with butter because I forgot to ask for none.\u00a0 I had maybe half of it and picked at my salad.<\/p>\n Here are<\/a> previous trips<\/a> to Matt’s and you can see that the food doesn’t even look the same.\u00a0 What happened?\u00a0 I don’t know but I don’t think I’ll be heading back for a while. I had trouble finishing my wine so Scott helped me.\u00a0 The pour was just too big for me to push through it quickly!<\/p>\n When we got home, I quickly changed into jammies to snug with my boys.\u00a0 I still felt hungry though.<\/p>\n I cut up an apple and dumped some oat bar (homemade) crumbs on a plate to pick at while we watched HOCKEY!\u00a0 I also had a wee glass of red.<\/p>\n I only had a few slices of apple before calling it quits. My body was like, “No more random food! Let’s just start again tomorrow!” I was worn out!\u00a0 I had such a busy day but it was fantastic and capped off a great week. Hi gang!\u00a0 Whoa what a busy busy day this girl had yesterday!\u00a0 Whew!\u00a0 Let’s start at the beginning, shall we? First before Birbigs I made us a little snacky-poo plate.\u00a0 Since we had lunch so later, neither of us were super hungry. Sliced green apple Raisins Pistachios Sharp cheddar Colby-jack The back plate had: Kashi […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4KYWa-2gb","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8691"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8691\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/p>\n![\"Tea](\"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/OHC-10-02-09_tea-300x225.jpg\" "\\"Tea")
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<\/p>\n\u00a0 Opposite side of where I had been all day though.\u00a0 I love Dublin!\u00a0 But to live there would be a little too much on my pocketbook.\u00a0 Yikes!<\/p>\n![\"Wine](\"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/OHC-10-02-09_wine-300x225.jpg\" "\\"Wine")
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<\/a><\/p>\n\u00a0 He also started off with some clam chowder which was just okay.<\/p>\n![\"Chipotle](\"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/OHC-10-02-09_scott_dinner-300x225.jpg\" "\\"Chipotle")
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<\/a>I ordered a side of sweet potato fries to go with our meals.\u00a0 This was a really small bowl of fries for $3.95.\u00a0 Totally overpriced for the small amount you get.<\/p>\n
\u00a0 That’s sad because I had really enjoyed the place before and it was a favorite place for a bit.<\/p>\n![\"Apple](\"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/OHC-10-02-09_apple-300x225.jpg\" "\\"Apple")
<\/p>\n\u00a0 I got through the first two periods of the game and had to hit the hay.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"