I’m back home to Colorado today, bundled up in my own bed and quite happy about it. I love checking out new places and sleeping in new hotels, but MAN, I love my own bed. Especially since my husband worked out early this morning so I got to starfish out for…2 minutes. Then Jackson woke me up to snuggle. Understandable. It’s been 6 days. Poor lonely guy! I missed that doggy so damn much!
San Diego and La Jolla were awesome and so much fun to visit but I’m ready to have my routine back. After eating all things delicious while traveling, I’m ready some tough gym workouts, some homemade meals, and some major snuggle on the couch time…for the next 2 weeks, then I’m back on the road again. This time, Texas bound!
Speaking of couches, when we moved in our house 2 years ago, we thought we found the perfect couch for our living room. It felt SO comfortable in store and our friends even had the same couch and said it was awesome. Well, they are liars. And I hate them. It’s so not comfortable. The feathers inside the cushions aren’t wrapped in anything so they start sticking out like little needles in your back. And the two cushion couch just isn’t big enough now that Jackson is almost 40 pounds. So he’s always passed out, happy as a clam, and I’m going to bed early because I’m sick of being stabbed 743829190 times in 2 hours. We are so over it and ready to get a new one. And after having an L-shaped couch in our hotel room in San Diego, we are definitely ready for that kind of couch at home. BUT, we are afraid we are going to make the same mistake again and get a couch that we actually hate longterm, but spent so much money on. Ahhhhhhh being an adult is the woooooorst.
Where did you get your couch? Our friends recommended Room & Board and absolutely love theirs, but my husband is having a hard time with that price point. My husband also recommended we get a leather couch and I then went on to say we get a red leather couch and make it a full bachelor pad household! But then figured I was being a bit too passive aggressive. Leather ain’t going down. As much as I would love to just wipe the fur off our couch, I’m just not down for the leather look.
Ok no but seriously – where did you get your couch that you love more than your own bed?
Carnitas Nachos
- Yield: 6-8 1x
Ingredients
- 1 batch Instant Pot Carnitas
For the marinated tomatoes
- 1 cup cherry tomatoes, halved
- juice of 1/2 lime
- 1 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil
- 2 tablespoons fresh cilantro, roughly chopped
- pinch of salt
For the nachos
- 2 bags of Siete Sea Salt Cassava Tortilla Chips (or plantain chips or cassava chips)
- 1 jar of Honest Stand Nacho Cheese
- 1 avocado, thinly sliced
- 2 fresno peppers, thinly sliced
- 1 jar pickled jalapeños (or pickle your own)
- handful of fresh cilantro, roughly chopped
- fresh lime wedges
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 450 degrees. Make instant pot carnitas and shred.
- Mix together the ingredients for the marinated tomatoes and set in the fridge.
- Layer tortillas on a baking sheet and sprinkle the shredded carnitas. Place in oven to bake for 8-10 minutes, until chips have browned slightly and meat has begun to crisp up.
- Then add the rest of the ingredients: heat up the nacho cheese and pour it on top, however much you prefer. Sprinkle on the marinated cherry tomatoes, then top the rest with the avocado slices, fresno peppers, pickled jalapeños, cilantro and lime wedges for extra pop of freshness on top! (I like to squeeze fresh lime juice on before serving!) then eat up!
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I went through 9 months of couch shopping HELL for all the same reasons you are saying (even the husband/leather issues!)…we settled on a giant sectional from Lazy Boy (all of places!) and really happy with it. Our pug and dachsund also love it and haven’t destroyed it….feels sturdy and comfy!
Good luck!
We bought our sectional at Macy’s. It’s pretty big and all the seats are extra wide and three of them have power recliners that lay almost flat with very little clearance between the wall and couch. My husband passes out on the couch about 6 days a week, so it’s pretty comfortable.
Do you have any other suggestions for a similar cheese sauce? This stuff looks amazing (by the label.. potato cheese?! yes!) but I live in Chicago and don’t want to purchase it in a 4 pack until I have confirmed the amazing-ness. Thanks!
i don’t, i haven’t seen anything else like this in store. you could try my friend recipe (http://fedandfit.com/2016/09/06/paleo-nacho-cheese/), i just don’t think it’s super creamy, but i also haven’t made it either
I’m in the same boat as you. I loved my couch in the store, I loved it for maybe a year, but now I hate it. It’s an L-shape with a chaise lounge feel, but I hate it. The bottom cushions don’t stay put so I find myself falling in a crack, the back cushions are pillows, which I do like but again… cracks. It is microfiber so its pretty easy to vacuum pet hair off of it, and its easy to take all of the covers off and toss in the wash, but the pillows aren’t in any kind of plastic or bag and so its just stuffing floating around so I constantly have to beat them to make them fluffy again. I got the Couch at American Furniture Warehouse in Colorado Springs when we lived there.
Adulting is so hard.
it’s so hard! and so many people have loved AFW then so many people have hated it. you never know what you’re gonna get with that place!
We got ours from Restoration Hardware- the cloud and it is l shaped and we love it. Expensive but we love it.
We have the lounge sofa from Crate & Barrel and looove it. It’s wide enough for my husband and I to watch movies on laying down side by side and looks and feels great. We’ve had it for 3 years now and it still looks and feels like new.
The price point is a little higher, but you can often find people selling their 10-20% off coupons on eBay. Well worth the $8 coupon to save $$$ on the couch.
I feel your pain! We have an L-shaped sectional, and I loved it at first, but now after working at a desk all day, I’ve found it hurts my back to sit or even lay on it. So now I sit on the floor, lol.
isn’t that the worst?! how can it feel so comfortable at first and uncomfortable later on!?
We bought our couches from AFW. They’re oversized brown microfiber couches with leatherette arms/base. They are super comfortable and we love them. We bought two identical couches so I could sprawl out on one and my husband on his.
We also had the world’s most comfortable couch that we bought from someone on Craigslist somewhere in Thornton or Westy… way back in 2008 or 2009. Authentic Italian white leather (yes, it did get a little dirty from our cats, but we just wiped it clean). That one was the best couch.
Alas, we are selling all of our furniture and most belongings to spend a few years living abroad and traveling. Closing on our house on Thursday and spend 6 weeks between Indiana and Colorado before heading to Paris onboard the Queen Mary 2.
You can find a lot of fabulous furniture for a fraction of the price if you buy from someone on a Facebook garage sale site, Offer Up, etc. don’t go spending $1000 on a couch when you could buy a super nice one for $100-$200!
Love Sac couch! We’re obsessed. You can move the prieces around make the couch bigger or smaller if you want , I have a French bulldog myself and a yellow lab who sheds like crazy and with the Love Sac couch you can take the fabric off and wash them. You can also change the colors of the fabric as much as you want and if you move to a bigger home and you just buy a few more pieces to make it bigger. It’s honestly the most comfortable couch I’ve ever laid on
ooooh that’s so so good to know!!
When my husband and I moved in together, I had to convince him to get rid of his leather Ikea bachelor pad couch.. After months of searching we found a really comfortable sectional from Macy’s for under $2,000.