Proof of Awesomeness: Not To Toot My Own Horn Or Anything...

I know these are really late, but better late than never, right?




Two things...

I like that I'm skinnier now than I was in these photos.
I also like that in the second picture it looks like there is a black cat riding on my head. Or hanging out, whatever.

A Very Informative List...

Things I would like to do at this very moment…

Eat a giant Chipotle Veggie burrito with black beans, pico, roasted corn, cheese, and guac

Be back on the road with LSU Friend heading to Baton Rouge for yet another Madi Gras celebration

Go home and do all the laundry that’s been piling up and be a good roommate to Boyfriend because he’s wonderful and amazing and cleans so well

Run outside and demand that Mother Nature turn off this over cast, crappy, “is it gonna rain” weather

Watch more Gossip Girl and drink more cheep white wine while making more sugar cookies because that was so much fun over the Christmas break

Stand on the scale and finally see a number that is below what I’ve been looking at for the past week

Curl up on the couch and pretend my pillow is George Michael while I look at photos of my adorable puppy

Steal my Co-Worker’s gold necklace because its shinny and sparkly and I want to touch it

Cash in my giant bucket of change that has about 100 dollars in it (I know this because my Grandma Texas gave Boyfriend a change counting bank for Christmas)

Go meet my new nephew and play with my old nephew

Cover my hand in glue and then peel off the glue skin like my friends and I did all the time in 4th grade

Clean out my car including the wrapping paper that has been in there since the day after Christmas and the change that is stuck to bottom of the cup holders

Drain my bank account and take Boyfriend to London and then Spain and then Greece and then the Maldives

Take a nap

Yummmm… tequila

Take a bubbly bath

Weed my backyard (at least by the fence) so we can start a garden and grow our own cucumbers so I can then make pickles

Random Thoughts: Puppies, Pots, and Songs That Heart Didn't Sing But I Thought They Did...

Can it please be 4 weeks from now so I can bring my puppy home, because OMG how freaking adorable is he???

Boyfriend and I bought art supplies on Sunday to paint new homes for Pedro (for who our fictional third child is named after) and Rasputin. Who says Sister is the artistic one in the family?

Boyfriend and I went to Fredericksburg on Saturday night for dinner with some friends and on the way home I had a near perfect radio experience. We were listening to BobFM and we heard Alannah Miles' Black Velvet (am I the only one who thought Heart sung this song?), John Lennon's Imagine, Alanis Morissette's You Oughta Know, and some other amazing song that I can't remember now because I didn't write it down because I had had three beers but I promise it was awesome as well ALL IN A ROW!!! So because I love y'all so much, check out this klassy (yes, with a k) lady...

Random Thoughts and Alcohol...

I can’t get Katie Perry’s song Firework out of my head. Evidently neither can Boyfriend because every time I think I’ve moved on and successfully forgot what comes after “Baby you’re a firework” he starts singing “let your colors burn” and I want to gorge my eyes out. Actually that really won’t help that much. Then I would just be blind, but still able to hear the lyrics and melody. It’s like this one time I was home for a holiday, it must have been a holiday because Sister was home too, and I couldn’t get Blind Mellon’s No Rain song out of my head. It drove everyone crazy! All weekend long I was singing, “all I can say is my life is really plain, I like watching the puddles gather rain”. Really that’s the only part of the song I know, so that’s all I sang ALL WEEKEND. I vividly remember my sister telling to shut up in the middle of an intense game of Monopoly.

An intense game of Monopoly… like there’s any other kind…

Also, last week I realized I’ve been wearing my earrings in two different holes. I usually only wear little studs to work, because I’m on the phone a lot and earrings can annoy me when the phone is held up to my ear or I have my head set on. All last week I just wore a tiny pair of fake diamond studs in my ears. On Sunday when I was putting on bigger earrings, I saw that on my left ear the tiny diamond stud was in my second hole, where it should have been, but on my right ear the earring was chilling in my first hole. All week I went around with lopsided looking earrings. I know this isn’t a huge thing, but this realization was the icing on the proverbial cake of the crappy 7 days I had last week.

Things that are not crappy...

Second Bar + Kitchen

It opened only 48 days ago and it’s already landed on my people’s bests lists in Austin. Boyfriend and I went to see for ourselves on Sunday for a late lunch. Billy Hankey and Adam Bryan are the in house drinkmasters and wow do they know how to make a drink. Moe, our waiter, spoke about them in awe when we asked about the cocktails and as soon as I put my first drink to my mouth I completely understood why. So many amazing and quirky flavors hit my tongue at different times. Sweet, then sour, then tangy… fabulous.

I started with the Congress GT made up of Cascade Hopped Gin, House Quinine, Grapefruit Bitters, and Seltzer. It was refreshing but had a slight spicy aftertaste. Boyfriend enjoyed the Pisco Sour which is Chilean Pisco, Lemon, Egg White, Amargo Bitters. Pisco Sour is a classic South American cocktail and Boyfriend and I both thought it was better than La Condessa’s Pisco Sour, which is saying a lot considering La Condessa’s bartenders make my most favorite cocktail EVER. We both loved that in between the layer of fluffy egg whites and the actual liquid drink, there was a thin layer of very fine crushed ice. So when you drank you got the frothy egg whites, creamy drink, and just a bit of crunchy ice. Perfection.


Then we ended with me drinking the Queen’s Park Swizzle which is Scarlet Ibis, Falernum, Lime and, Angostura Bitters. This was sweet when it first touched your tongue and then cooled off with a refreshing lime after taste. Boyfriend had the kinda girly looking Pilgrim’s Afternoon made up of White Port, Clear Creek Cranberry, Seltzer, and Citrus. We both agreed that we should have been drinking it outside at a horse racing event or something. It reminded me of the British drink Pimms, only a little fruitier, but very refreshing. Really, I could have downed about eight of those very quick.


We washed all of these drinks down with a pot of black truffle pomme frites with a big hunk of foie gras on top. (Sorry the foie gras isn’t in the picture, I stool the food photos from the website.) We also had the GREATEST FRIED PICKLES EVER!!! Buffalo Fried Pickles!!! They were like Buffalo wings and fried pickles all rolled into one. AMAZING!!! a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCuvseQS47foXwNlNbekvhyphenhyphenaeRRvKwJMUwClbjQ-S4rz1rlKRVOUjkWZN9MWeWUbAV5s0uupqPcpDFy6twz2xYFyzq9e_D2Abz0XRJaZkxxd-tvAxdvHC2TV7PehaOcNFvnT5yyiVUMq83/s1600/trufflefries2.jpg">


(Thank God I worked out this weekend…)