Week AND Weekending! A Double Dose

Hi loves! I hope you all had a wonderful holiday break! Is anyone ready to be back at work right now? I sure as hell am NOT. I was fortunate to get a lot of time off from work- we were closed from Dec. 23-Jan. 3- but I need like...one more day. But isn't that always the way?! Anyway, here what I've been up to.

In case you missed it, I posted about Christmas here. And then I posted my very last post of 2015, the second edition of Shit Blue Said, here. But in between, I celebrated my friend's birthday. His birthday falls on December 24th, so he always gets kinda screwed over. We celebrated with a full bourbon tasting (courtesy of our recent trip to the Kentucky Bourbon Trail earlier in the month), and dinner courtesy of Mighty Quinn's- pulled pork, ribs, and brisket. It was SO FREAKIN DELICIOUS. I've never had anything from there before, but it may have been the best BBQ I have ever put in my mouth.

happy birthday buddy!

I posted my top 9 pics of 2015, in true blogger fashion

I spent New Years Eve at Blue's downstairs neighbor's place. I have always been a fan of NYE house parties. I've never been one of those people who want a huge party in a club with a bunch of strangers, or NYE spent in diapers waiting for the ball to drop in Times Square (did you know they don't let you out to go to the bathroom? If you leave, that's IT, no re-entry. Uhhh... yeah, no thanks. If you are into that, more power to ya! But that just has never appealed to me.) I've been attending house partied for at least 6 years, and they are the best! This one included a little one (age 8, I think), so no CAH, but we did play Jenga, Charades, and Name That Tune. It was a great time!

Clockwise from top right: Jersey Spirits distillery, NYE, New Years Day supplies, and Magnify brewery

Over the weekend, we visited one of the five active distilleries in NJ, New Jersey Spirits. We did a tasting and a tour. They had vodka, rum, whiskey, and some hooch selections for the tasting, and we tried their bourbon for the very first time! It was really good- way better than their whiskey. Right next door there was a brewery, Magnify, which was super awesome, and not at all affiliated with the distillery. We also had our first "real" meal of the new year (since the day before all we ate was different forms of pizza), went to the Farmer's Market, and I got Blue hooked on Catfish, which somehow she had never seen before. 

NYE shenanigans

How was your winter break? Linking up with the lovely Biana for Weekending!