Five Favorites For Friday YEAH

1. It's no coincidence that three of my five faves are food.  In my attempts to cut calories wherever possible, I've discovered Monk Fruit In The Raw.  

Let me just preface with this: I am totally against artificial sweeteners.  I think they're disgusting and carcinogenic, but this stuff is actually really dang great.  

No calories, and I put a packet into my tea or coffee daily and can't tell much of a difference in taste apart from real sugar.  Plus, it's natural.

I'm not a huge fan of sweets, so I don't use a lot, but it does the job nonetheless.

2. Macaroni + cheese grilled cheese plus a raspberry weiss brew from Trim Tab Brewing Co at Melt with my bff, Rachel

3. Black bean hummus and farmers market broccoli, plus not-farmer's market baby carrots for lunch at work 

4. My sweet boyfriend ordered some stuff from my Free People wishlist to be sent to my apartment! <3

5. AKA the best news of all, Hunter and I got our tickets to go to San Francisco next month.  As a person that rarely ever takes a vacation, I'm so excited.

Cool Cube

I added some show posters to my cubicle this week!  I feel like going to work is a lot better when you have a lot of colors and personal touches to my environment.

I’d accumulated these fliers from Bottletree when I worked there for about three years in college.  I love holding on to show posters.  These represent some of my favorite bands, the locally produced artwork is amazing, and I get a little reminder of great shows I’ve been to over the years.  They’d all been hanging up in my old apartment, but after I moved, I couldn’t find a place for them that felt quite right.

I hung some of them up by my computer, next to some cute photos of my dude :), with “Birds On a Wire” clips I’d gotten from Urban Outfitters forever ago. 

These are my favorite bands, Shovels + Rope (from my twentieth birthday show), the Dirty Lungs, a local band comprised of good friends of mine, and The Black Angels from a show at Workplay.

Other bands featured: Jacuzzi Boys, King Khan & The Shrines, Nightmare Boyzzz, Wye Oak, The Growlers, Natural Child, Maps & Atlases, The Big Sleep, Those Darlins, The Felice Brothers, Diamond Doves, Hanni El Khatib, The Night Beats, and Jonny (Corndawg) Fritz