Halloween

I love Halloween.

I may go as far to say it's probably close to my favorite holiday ever.  And couple that with Dia De Los Muertos on Saturday, and I'm a super happy kid!

Gonna make this short, because I have rituals to follow.  Vietnamese food and a viewing of the original Halloween.  This is a picture of what I wore to hand out candy tonight.

To my one trick-or-treater.  I sure wish this neighborhood was more Halloween friendly.

Add a sidewalk or two, or a street light for Pete's sake.  Hope y'all have had a great Halloween!

Cigar Bar - Bar Celebration

This past weekend I went to Atlanta.  I got to share in the celebration of one of my friends passing the GA bar.

Hooray for you, Rachel!  

So how did we celebrate?  Champagne, scotch, cigars, fancy meats and cheeses and dancing.  It really was a great time in Atlanta.  One day I will move back there.  So I'm gonna cop out and just share the pictures. 

Hope y'all enjoy.

 

These girls were super fun.  I hope to get to hang out with them more!

Love you guys!!

See Some More Balitmore

Sorry for the hiatus  the blog here; I've dropped my lap top a couple of times, and it's finally rebelling against me.

 

Trip to the Geek Squad is in store for me.

 

Inner Harbor Baltimore was beautiful.  I'm sad that the weather wasn't so great while we there.  It didn't rain, but it was cloudy, and just chilly enough to kind of piss you off.  We spent the afternoon roaming around the shops, and eating at Bubba Gump.  I'm sort of embarrassed to say that, because, hey, what the hell, Laura, you sort of live in the state where that is supposed to be a big deal.

 

BUT, I had never been.  And you can't really mess up shrimp and crab when you're in Baltimore.

 



 

 

Sign that my dad just had to take a picture of.  At Bubba Gump. 

 

 

The shrimps!  Doused in Old Bay amazingness.  (wrapped in dumb Bubba Gump paper...ahh, who cares.  I went!  And I loved it!)

 

 



 

Also inside the Harbor.

 



 

 

A pretty shot of the aquarium and Harbor.

 

Then we went on the Constellation.  I stand by my story that I was tricked into going in a museum, which happened to be my only stipulation for the trip to NOT do.

 



 

 



 

Ok, I admit it was pretty fun.

 

BUT the best part of the trip happened on the way to dinner, where my dad was spoken to by a crazy lady.

 

And you know what she called him?  A white bitch.  I am not kidding.  This happened.  Followed by her monologue of how much she hated him.

 

I still think it's funny.

 

And plus, new nickname for dad?  I think so.

 

 

Just Another Decompression Session

Last Friday was awesome.

 

It was the first time I'd been able to get together with some old co-workers in a long time.  One of the best things that I ended up loving about CRST was the actual long-term friendships that I made with the people there.

 

I'm not sure what the connection was and why it was so different than with the people at Penske, but it really is.

 

I actually care about these people and their families.  They've become part of my family, and I truly love them.  Nothing makes me happier than getting together with them, having a few drinks, and getting to talk about our new lives; outside of CRST.

 

This kid is quite possible the cutest baby I've ever seen.  He almost, almost, makes me want one of my own.

 



 

And these sweet kiddos belong to another old coworker of mine.  I absolutely adore them.  They are some of the best behaved children I've ever met.  She is doing Taekwondo and loves it, and he's doing tackle football.

 

I know it's very out of character, but I love these kids.

 

I'm so glad that even though I really didn't enjoy my job at CRST that I got these people out of it.  

 

 

Sunday Song

Last Thursday I went to see Holly Williams.  Yep, she is the great grand-daughter of the Hank Williams Sr.  And she was awesome.

 

But a lot of the times when I go to a concert, I have a tendency to fall in love with the opener.  And the opener for Holly was incredible.  His name was Rayland Baxter.  Take a listen to this, and keep an eye out for the full-length post about the concert later on this week.

 

 

 

Absolutely beautiful!  Hope your weekend was too!

Some of the Most Humiliating Pictures of Me Ever.

I'm not even sure this post needs words.  My dad took this in Baltimore, and yes Internet, I am going to post them.

 

Want to know why?

 

Because I'm not scared.

 



 

 

My dad took all of these, so credit toward the man who took pictures only a daddy could love.  My personal fave is the one with the crab hat, because honestly, where else are you going to find a hat like that.

 

Still kicking myself for not getting it.

 

I'm such a dork.

 

But I'm ok with it.

 

I've also never been so pale in my life.

 

Damn skin cancer.

 

Oh well..

 

All of these were from Baltimore, from our trip to Inner Harbor, which there will be more about.  I just like to embarrass myself in front of the Internet first, of course.



Auburn This Year

I'm gonna break right in the middle of my Baltimore trip (mainly because my Dad sent some ones that I'm going to steal), to talk about Auburn football.

 

Because ladies and gentlemen, my team is 5-1.  That is two more wins than they had all of last year.  And honestly, I think the game they have coming up, they could win.  It's against Texas A&M, and hey, crazier things could happen.

 

Just like when Mizzou beat UGA.  Ha.  Haha.  It's still funny.

 

Anyway, a couple weekends ago, we went to Auburn to watch them play Ole Miss.  It was the first actual game of the season that I got to attend.  And it's always as beautiful as I remember it.

 

We got there early, as usual, to tailgate and drink.  Also to buy more Auburn gear that I most certainly don't need.

 

So we picked a nice shady spot, sat our booties down and began the pre-game festivities.  Which mainly consists of drinking.  We even brought the mini grill, which produced these babies...

 



 



There are very few things on the planet that I love more than hot dogs.  But put them on the Plains and add mustard, and I'm in heaven.

 

Coach Malzahn had asked the crowd to bring the noise, and it was definitely noisy.  It made me so happy to get to be there.

 

The Tigers did win the game.

 





 

Beautiful Jordan-Hare at night.  The weather was perfect, the Tigers won, and we didn't have to drive all the way back to Birmingham that night.

 

Plus it was capped with some cheeseburgers from McDonalds.  It doesn't get any better than that ya'll!  We're hoping to make it to one more game this season, but it may not happen. 

 

Fingers crossed!

 

 

Brunch In Baltimore

This past weekend was spent in Baltimore.

 

Watching the Packers kick ass.

 

But more importantly getting to spend it with my dad.  We started the tradition last year of going to at least one Packers away game a year.  If you remember, last year was St. Louis, so this year, we decided to go all out and hit up the home of the defending Super Bowl Champion Baltimore Ravens. 

 

Due to new job changes of course, I couldn't have Monday off, but we spent pretty much all day Saturday at the Inner Harbor, eating, drinking, enjoying life (more on this day later, plus a super awesome trip to H&M where I bought nothing, because I probably could have bought the whole store.  Maybe Birmingham will one day get one of those.  But I won't hold my breath), and seeing all sorts of Packers fans.

 

If you know nothing about pro football, know this....the Packers travel well.  There were a ton of Packers fans everywhere!

 

Again, I get ahead of myself.  It's now Sunday morning, and the semi-hungover, tired as crap people need some food.  So we found a place that wasn't full of hotel food and coffee:  Saturday Morning Café.   It was definitely a little Southern joint with specialties like shrimp n grits and chicken and waffles.

 

Plus their coffee was amazing. 

 

 



They had those little muffins/scones for a breakfast appetizer...and they came out all warm and delicious.  Plus I had the shrimp n grits, which was incredibly full of bacon and cheese, and really well prepared grits.

 

The service here was incredible, their coffee was complimentary, and it wasn't unbelievably crowded with the Sunday brunch kids.

 

Definitely an awesome spot for breakfast will in Baltimore. 

 

Although, if you are wearing opposing team gear, they may just seat you in the basement.  

Elizabeth's - Fun NOLA Brunch

Last weekend was spent in NOLA.  Spent watching the Tigers (of the Auburn variety) and the Packers lose.  It's a sad sad weekend for Laura when both of her teams lose.  Plus it rained on Saturday, which is a really crappy thing to have happen when you're in NOLA.

You know, because you walk around everywhere.

And it severely screws up your hair.

But that morning, there was a cute little brunch spot.  It was mainly inhabited by hipsters, but it had a really great and unique menu, plus mimosa's that were called ghetto just because they came in clear plastic cups.  Save $3 on alcohol by putting it in plastic?  Yes please.

The waffle was a duck waffle, and then the amazing with sour cream and the tortillas, their version of huevos rancheros.  It was super incredible.  Sort of wishing I had them right now.

Anyway, it was definitely a good brunchy spot.

Even though, Chick-Fil-A wasn't had this morning, so Auburn lost.  Damn stupid tradition.