Getting To Know All About ...Me for ALWB.

Hey everyone, it's me Laura here!  I'm super excited to be a part of the Alabama Women Bloggers network!  I'll get to introduce everyone to the fabulous food that is a part of Alabama!!  We're starting to be big news, ya know!

I'm a Capricorn, who just turned the big 3-0 this past January 4th.  Although my license says January 1st.  Don't y'all worry about that...  two birthdays is never a bad thing!

I started this whole blogging journey when I was a freshman at Auburn.  It was on a site called easyjournal.com, and thankfully for me and the rest of the world, I deleted the website a long time ago.  it was pretty much the ranting (and the swearing!) of a college freshman.  That thing was a mess!  But it was fun, because me and three other girls would all post up to it.  I had another blog on xanga.com, which is still there.  I read it for giggles on occasion -- it was terrible!  I started this site and haven't looked back.  I mainly started blogging, because well, I'm the only family member left in the South!  With mom and sister in PA, and Dad out in KC, it's a super simple way for them to catch up with me.  

My husband and I have called Birmingham home since 2006 (we weren't married yet, but both living here), and live a short ten minutes from downtown.  No kids yet, but we're pretty ok with our fur baby, Stella.  She's a mess.  Sort of like her momma.  

I was born in Wisconsin and moved around a whole bunch of places (including Denmark!), before my family settled for awhile in Atlanta, which I usually call home.  Husband, B, is from Montgomery and Stell-dog is from Aberdeen, MS.  

My most favorite place in the world is New Orleans, but I absolutely love to travel!  If I could get one of those sweet gigs where someone pays you to travel and eat and write about it, I would pretty much be in heaven.

I love love love the color pink, old black and white films, photography, running, pretty much any and all types of music and marathon watching TV shows.  Things I do that I'm not so happy about:  kill every living plant, suck at cooking, pretty much fail on all Pinterest crafts, and always spill something on me when I'm wearing white.

I can't tell you how excited I am to be able to share my love of food in this great state, bringing y'all The Taste of Alabama every two weeks!  I hope that I can get you guys as excited about the all the food here as I am!!  And...if I get to use this as an excuse to try all the new places here, it certainly can't be a bad thing!!