Surviving the Snowpocalypse

 If you haven't heard, it snowed here...and people freaked.

First things first, Mike and I both count ourselves blessed to be among the few that made it home safely mid-day on Tuesday. I still cannot believe the chaos that a mere dusting of snow can cause. There's a lot of finger pointing happening after adults and children were stranded for 20+ hours. 

My Snow Bug

Here's my takeaway:  Snow is the south is actually pretty scary. I definitely didn't fully understand the magnitude of what it meant for it to snow here. I always thought the people down here just had some sort of Wicked Witch of the West type phobia of snowfall. Not the case. These people, this city, this state is not equipped for snow, period. I get it now.

On a lighter note, we had a cozy day at home. Starting with a yummy pancake breakfast:

Then for lunch we made our way to the park. Lot's of sledding and happiness there. Looks like all the ITP people were saved from the worst of it.

We ended up with just under 2 inches in metro Atlanta, and all of it should be gone by the weekend when it's projected to get into the 60s.

Sledding in Peidmont. There were a lot of unconventional sled choices :)

Wishing you all a safe and happy week!

From Frozen Pipes to Sunglasses and Sweatshirts to Drowning in Work

Oh Hi! Is it not Monday?? Ooops...

Well it's year-end and that means it's crazy time for me and my sistas in accounting. I'm beyond busy and trying to fit 80 hours of work into the next 4 days. Luckily we had a beautiful, sunny Sunday. Here are the highlights:

Sunday walk..out in just a sweatshirt!

Puppy time in the park. Nice view of the Midtown skyline.

Watching Greek and feeling goofy.

Soaking up the sun :)

November Already??

Hola! Welcome to November! That's crazy.

Does time always go faster as you get older? Does it keep getting faster and faster? Someday when I have kids and they are on a school year schedule will it slow back down or does the preciousness of each milestone make the moments seem to slip away even quicker? 

This Sunday is our 3 month-a-versary. Here's where time really gets all messy in my brain. How can something feel like it was soooooo long ago but not at all that long ago at the same time. Here's another milestone for you: I've been eating vegan for 7 months now. No cheese for 7 months, guys! When did this all happen?? Is 7 months a long time? Is that not a long time? I don't know anymore, but here's what I'm thinking...

When you start collecting long-term constants in your life, i.e. a husband, a job, a house, a baby (choose those that apply), time becomes this weird nebulous of lots of amazing moments that are at the same time part of the  mundane day-to-day of a bigger life story. And that's really what this blog is about, telling the story.

Deep thoughts to start your Friday, but here's my biggest question: How the heck is it already November??? I think Halloween helps to make November extra sneaky with its arrival.

Halloween Festivities

I have a love/hate relationship with the fall down here. September is horrible. All I want to do is book a one-way ticket back home to the Midwest. I HATE that I have to wait till the end of October for the temps to dip and for fall colors emerge. But then when we finally get there, and it's 75 on Halloween night, it kind of rocks.

Since we don't have any chilis of our own to dress up, we have to rely on the cuteness of other people's. With that goal in mind we went for a lovely fall stroll last night.

Dress Code: Fall colored long-sleeve t's

Right away we saw an all white cat...on Halloween...that has to be super good luck right?? 

That large black spider at the top moved its head from side to side...spoooky.

Best house decoration award goes to the house above. Rats on the fountain...Mike hated it hahaha.

Beautiful weather meant that we extended the walk into the park. Lovely.

Piedmont Park

The walk ended with pizza on the patio of Mellow Mushroom. Luca did a better than expected job chilling on the other side of the fence whiled we nom nom nom-ed.

We got home and watched Halloween episodes of Modern Fam and Big Bang, then as the finale: The Great Pumpkin.

Charlie Brown was cracking me up. Poor guy.

It was great :)

Oh and the plumpykins...not carved. They are part of our autumn decor now. 

Happy Friday! Hope you have an awesome weekend!

Weekend Recap

Well the weekend went as awesomely as planned with a few fun bonuses.

Friday is quickly becoming salsa for dinner night. Our new place is walking distance to the neighborhood Trader Joe's so we made a quick run once we got home on Friday. We picked up stuff for the veggie burgers and my newest obsession Cowboy Caviar, which is basically a corn and black bean salsa. We make ours stretch a little further by mixing one jar of the caviar with a can of black beans (drained). It's a quick and cheap way to double the salsa :) We planned to make up the veggie burgers as our main course, but after demolishing the salsa we thought it would be best to hold off.

The weather was as beautiful as predicted. Saturday morning we walked up to Piedmont Park. We're beginning to establish a nice walking routine through the park: in through the 10th St entrance, back to the dog park, rest while Luca runs wild with his new buddies, walk out through the farmers market, then home past the Flying Biscuit.

Making friends at the water cooler.

This time there was a special treat after the dog park. A King of Pops stand just happened to show up right as we were leaving. Not wanting to mess with fate, we both indulged in a pop. Arnold Palmer for Mike and Raspberry Lime for me. Messy, but worth it.

Hooray for King of Pops!

Once home we got to work on the burgers. I made two types: basic black-bean and curried chickpea. Mike grilled them up, and we nom-ed them down to the Little League World Series which I got weirdly into.

Backyard BBQ: check!

Next on the agenda: WHIRLYBALL!! Let me tell you, it did not disappoint. I got to meet the new first years  and hang out with some of my fave new second years. As a surprise bonus we ended up heading to the house of one of the old second years. It took a while for us to get back into our grove, but a few games in Mike and I were rocking at beer pong. TEAM SOCIE!

I hope your week is off to an awesome start!