An Observation

When I started this blog, it was flippin horrible.  That's not to say that it's awesome now, but at least there are pictures.  I still suck at formatting stuff and I'll never understand HTML.  I've been contemplating for a couple of months now of buying a domain, switching to Wordpress, but when I even looked up someone to pay to do it, I couldn't even do that.

Some could say that I am incredibly technologically impaired.

I've learned to deal with it... I don't like it, but I make it work.

I think.

Anyway, not the point of the post.  When I started this thing, I didn't know that I would actually meet some really fun people!!  I got to hang out with Nadine and her hubs this weekend!  They adopted me for the weekend since B was gone.  We had our romp at World of Beer, ate another cheeseburger at Jack Brown's and made dinner plans again for Friday!  It's so awesome that I actually got to meet and hang out with such awesome people!  

Disclaimer:  some of these may or may not have been stolen from Nadine and Chris, because theirs are way better.  If you get the chance to hang with these folks, you should just do it!

the Elvis -- peanut butter, mayo, bacon and cheese.  it was heavenly.

It was a super fun weekend!  I can't wait to spend more weekends with blogging friends turned in real life friends!

Charleston Day 2

Instead of the obligatory "this was what happened on my Fourth of July," I'm going to throw you all a curve ball and talk about day 2 of the Charleston anniversary trip.

Don't worry, though, that Fourth post is coming.

Our second day, we got up, a little hungover, and decided that we needed breakfast.  We found this cute little place on Queen Street, appropriately named Queen Street Bakery, where they were known for their crepes and iced coffee that contained three times as much caffeine as regular coffee.  I was in heaven.  I usually don't take anything in my coffee, but this coffee really didn't need anything.  Even B who isn't as much as an avid coffee drinker as myself agreed that nothing additional was needed.  Plus, the place carried Cheerwine -- the best soda on earth.  I think I've confessed my love for it before, so I won't make you listen to it again.

    

 Also, AU runs the world in case you didn't know.

savory crepe, with mozzarella tomatoes and basil.  and a spinach salad on the side.

sweet crepe with bananas and brown sugar and chocolate.  and that whipped cream was like heaven.

After breakfast we walked around admiring the homes we'll never be able to afford, and probably to walk off some of that breakfast before heading to the beach.

We drove the short drive down to Folley Beach - a beach that allows no alcohol.  Zero -- and they have officers that walk around and check.  Which pretty means, they don't want you to have any fun.  The water was warm, but this beach wasn't our thing.  Rocky sand -- no alcohol allowed -- and absolutely no places to park.  Hence our beautiful parking ticket -- for what, might you ask.  Well, our tires were 1/2" outside the white line -- and while none of the cars in front of us got parking tickets for the exact same parking job, our poor little car with the Alabama tag sure did.  Needless to say, there will be no fun had at the beach, and the parking police make sure of that.

happy beach day.

That night was the best night of the trip -- the best part of the whole trip.  We had reserved tickets for a sunset catamaran sail -- it was raining when we showed up, and we were afraid the ship wouldn't sail.  But we settled in to a nearby restaurant bar for beverages -- until the rain let up and the captain announced only a fifteen minute delay.  It actually ended up being a beautiful ride.

We ended the night at that same restaurant with some amazing food -- or it could have been because we were starving.  I did have the most amazing shrimp burger I could have had.  Which made for a pretty happy girl.  

The sail ride was incredible.  We ended our trip with a fancy brunch the next day and then proceeded on to our seven hour trip back home.  It was definitely a welcomed escape from reality for a bit, and it was so beautiful.

Charleston Day 1

Normally I hate splitting up vacation posts, but I took a lot of pictures and don't want to picture overload anyone, because that's not very nice.  Is that a run-on sentence?  It sure feels like it could be, but the commas and stuff look correct...any grammar police out there, please feel free to let me know.

But that's way off topic.  Anyway, hubs and I decided to take a long weekend in Charleston to celebrate the long five years we've been together.  We took off Friday, but drove to Atlanta on Thursday to help split the long drive.

We ended up eating at The Porter in Little Five, and it was delicious!  I had the shrimp and grits with an amazing IPA, and B had some delicious looking sandwich thing that actually was pretty delicious.  I didn't take pictures, because I was starving and gobbled that thing up pretty damn quick.

Next day, we got up and faced a four and half hour drive before getting to Charleston.  We decided to run around and explore before our dinner reservations that night.

the pineapple fountain!

selfie snappin fools.

first drink for B during the trip -- a dark & stormy

my first beverage -- a refreshing Moscow mule.

got to walk through a pretty old cemetery...some plots as old as the 1700s.  

After our obligatory first drink and snack (because I thought I was going to die of starvation), we went back to the hotel to get ready for dinner.  

B had made reservations at Cypress, a pretty fancy little joint.  And I will just tell you that the food and service were both fantastic.  It even started pouring down rain while we were in there, and they have a cute little bar upstairs, where we rode out the storm.

first time ordering champagne at a restaurant.

our amazing appetizer with three spreads.  soo delicious.

i'm a steak girl through and through.  perfectly medium rare steak with beer battered onion rings . did i mention how fancy I am too?

b had a seafood stew thing with mussels and all sorts of goodness.

and white chocolate truffles, because five years yo.

After dinner and our after-dinner drinks, we headed across the street to the Gin Joint for our night cap.

It was a perfectly quaint little place with old fancy drinks and a section for you two pick two words and the bartender will make his own drink for you.  I didn't get quite what I asked for (which was sweet and refreshing), but it was good nonetheless.

Of course, this is only day one, and there's lots more to come!

Five Years

I have been an awful terrible blogger.  I barely wrote last week, and decided that starting Monday's post at 930pm was a good idea.  In addition to that, I barely commented on anyone's blog, and for that I am truly covered in blog girl shame.  In all fairness, we did have internet problems, and my computer is dumb.  

So had it not been for super awesome Casey from AT&T coming to fix our shizz, you would be left without my amazing words of wisdom for today.

Not that I have many, because, well it's 930 at night, and I want to go to bed.  

This past weekend hubs and I spent our five year anniversary in Charleston.  Our five years have been sprinkled with hard times -- really hard times -- and for some reason through everything, it has prevailed.  It's not perfect, nor will it ever be.

 

It was a great trip, and I'll indulge more details later.  I just had to clear my blogger conscience and post something. 

100 Dishes In Alabama

I had contemplated for all of a day and half about taking a blogging hiatus.  That was just a fleeting thought, obviously, because I'm back.  I got way too into the soccer game on Sunday night; more than I thought I would, and then decided that watching Moonstruck for the millionth time was way more important than blogging.

Then, with my good intentions, I brought my laptop to work yesterday, but was so busy, I worked right through lunch, left the laptop at work, and just said, "well, eff this."

I am clearly a day behind on blogging about my weekend, so here goes.

Saturday morning, we got up earlier than normal and decided to go running.  I'm talking at 7 in the morning folks, and just so you know, it's still humid as hell and running still sucks.  After that, we decided to go to Pepper Place Market.  I was in search for another succulent wife for Antoine, but alas, they only thing my little stand had that day was some blackberries.  And even though they looked awesome, they didn't make a suitable wife for succulent Antoine, but we did get to visit the 100 Dishes in Alabama exhibit, which was awesome!

It was a really tiny exhibit, so it took about 20 minute to walk through the whole thing.

After that, I was about to eat my arm, so we grabbed some pork sliders and a cinnamon roll from the jim n nick's stand and also grabbed an iced coffee.  I also didn't know that Octane was a sister company of Jim N Nick's...so there's that too.

That night we got to meet up with Nadine and her hubs, Chris, for beers at World of Beer, then dinner at Jack Brown's followed by late night cocktails at Crestwood Tavern.  We were up till 2am.  2am.  Which made it completely acceptable for me to lay down and watch TV all day.

It was an awesome weekend and Nadine and Chris are super awesome people.  I really think everyone needs to have more weekends like that.

Week-Ending Happies

Praise Jesus, it's finally Friday.  This week seemed to drag on and on and on.  Do you ever get in that state where you haven't had a vacation day in months, and you're just working working, and you just sort of feel like you're going to snap??

Hello, that is where I'm at.  Luckily, I am off next Friday, so I'm hoping to keep the peace until then.  

There were a few bright spots in the week, and here they are!

** I got to meet Nadine!  It was my first real blogger meet-up.  She is so super sweet, and I had a great time!  Plus I got to try out the new Sidebar in Lakeview and that was fun too!!

** Britney and I had Toes and Tacos Thursday.  Pedicure followed by Mexican food.  On a Thursday -- she opted for a more muted adult color -- I've got neon orange on my toes.  

*** This little bit of honesty.

** Fried Oreo (found at Jack's Beer & Burger Joint in Lakeview...more on that later).  Yep, it tasted just as good as it looks.

** New contacts!  Sayonara glasses!!  I had worn those sons of bitches for three weeks straight trying to get an appointment.  And I love my glasses, I do, but sometimes, I really really get tired of having them on my face.

** My dad's dog, Rosie.  I keep getting adorable pictures of this thing.  Sweet puppy head.  I love her, and I've never even met her.

Oh!  And I got wine at my hair place.  Super score there.  No roots and a glass of wine to celebrate me not having roots.  

I sure hope that y'all have a great week and have an awesome weekend!!