{"id":3394,"date":"2008-01-26T12:01:11","date_gmt":"2008-01-26T17:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/?p=3394"},"modified":"2009-08-26T14:28:37","modified_gmt":"2009-08-26T19:28:37","slug":"beaten-again-and-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/beaten-again-and-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Beaten again and again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So Friday night is date night around Casa de Blundell. It&#8217;s been kind of inactive due to the holiday season.<br \/>\nSo I think we both figured it was time to reenact this important piece of legislation.<br \/>\nThe great thing about date night is there&#8217;s no requirements for what we do, where we do it or how we do it &#8211; just as long as we do it together &#8211; just the two of us.<br \/>\nWe had a great time last night.<\/p>\n<p>We made a huge dinner of homemade spaghetti and meatballs along with salad and bread.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/lblundell\/2219491405\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2033\/2219491405_a34a67df3a.jpg?v=0\" alt=\"dinner\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ok &#8211; it was homemade in that we put it all together for a full menu.<br \/>\nHEB had one of their great specials a week ago that I&#8217;m a super fan of. Buy a package of frozen meatballs, get spaghetti noodles and sauce for free. Awesome! $6 for the whole thing. Laurie bought some artisan bread and pre-packaged salad Friday evening and we put it all together. We also made a dipping sauce for the bread with crushed red peppers, olive oil and balsamic vinegar.<\/p>\n<p>After dinner we talked a little more about the Casa de Blundell.com re-design and then headed to our local Starbucks to enjoy some hot drinks and reading.<br \/>\nShe&#8217;s working on &#8220;Emily Ever After&#8221; that I got her for Christmas and I did some more reading in &#8220;Ragamuffin Gospel.&#8221;<br \/>\nAlthough with the girls working at Starbucks I found it hard to concentrate on what I was reading verses the latest gossip about their relationships.<\/p>\n<p>We came home and I built the first fire we&#8217;ve had in our new house.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/lblundell\/2220284814\/in\/photostream\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2404\/2220284814_4c2fd9d174.jpg?v=0\" alt=\"first fire\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It was a rough start &#8211; hadn&#8217;t realized how small our fireplace actually was and the big log I put in never really got started. Glad we had some fire starters and Duraflame logs.<\/p>\n<p>As the fire grew we played three rounds of Sequence. Laurie beat me again and again and again.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/jdblundell\/2220544055\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2276\/2220544055_17a4ca8579.jpg?v=0\" alt=\"sequence\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\nWe started with one game, went to best of 3, then best of 4\/5. Apparently she didn&#8217;t want to give me a chance to win ;-). That&#8217;s OK. She beat me three straight games. Everytime I started to get some offense built I had to jump over and play defense. And if I remember correctly I was usually three good cards away from beating her each game. But no excuses &#8211; 2nd place is the first loser :-).<\/p>\n<p>After the games we had the pleasure of cleaning up after Presley and her upset stomach. We finally called it a night and crashed for the long night.<\/p>\n<p>Great time! Doesn&#8217;t get much better than spending time alone with my life. I LOVE YOU BABY! Thanks for making my life fun and memorable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So Friday night is date night around Casa de Blundell. It&#8217;s been kind of inactive due to the holiday season. So I think we both figured it was time to reenact this important piece of legislation. The great thing about date night is there&#8217;s no requirements for what we do, where we do it or &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/beaten-again-and-again\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Beaten again and again<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2414],"tags":[720,722,721,723,386],"class_list":["post-3394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eats","tag-date-night","tag-fire","tag-sequence","tag-spaghetti","tag-starbucks"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pEnSo-SK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3394\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}