Good Morning party peeps! There is this bright yellow ball in the sky this morning, if I remember correctly it is called the SUN!!! FINALLY! Alabama has missed you! And that is what I am going to start off being OK with today!

It is OK that I get super excited in the mornings when I pull out of my driveway and see the sun rising over the Appalachian Mountains and think…I have been blessed with wonderful home and a beautiful view.

Only in the Southeast do you have warm weather, snow and ice, warm weather again, followed by tornado warnings and severe storms in a weeks time….in JANUARY!!

This morning, after having no less than 24 near full blow anxiety attacks, I decided to put my big girl panties on and head to work like a mature adult. Ignoring the fact that I am scared to death of bad weather, and there was some coming right for us. Don’t worry, I clearly made it to my office in one piece.

For whatever reason, I had some college flashbacks in the car on the way in. No judging, this was my former college self. Now I should preface this to say that I was, for the most part, a “good” girl in college. I had to work a part time job while going to school full time and get good grades to keep my HOPE scholarship (God bless Georgia and the lottery.) So, I didn’t have much time for the usual college shenanigans of being drunk every night. I really only reserved Thursday nights and the occasional random night for throwing in the towel and having some fun.

Now, with that being said. There are a few times that come to mind that I remember a significant/dangerous weather event while I was at UWG (University of West Georgia for those of you not cool enough to have heard of my suitcase college.) And I remember that I don’t remember much about them at all….because I may or may  not have been….drunk. Oops, yeah that happened.

So one time my friends and I had partied it up somewhere (more than likely it was in fact at my actual apartment) and we were full of awesome. I didn’t believe in drinking and driving, so anytime my friends drank with me…they usually ended up on my floor, bed, couch, where ever. My friend and I were getting settled in and trying to fall asleep in my room, and one of our guy friends was passed out on my bedroom floor. All of a sudden the apartment started shaking, and the pictures on my walls were rattling. My friend and I started yelling at our guy friend to stop shaking the room. (Like one person can shake an entire bedroom in their sleep??) Then for some odd reason, we started jumping up and down on my bed quacking like a duck? Why, I am not quite sure…like I said we were full of awesome. The next morning I found out on Myspace (this was before Facebook was cool people) that there was in fact an earthquake that had shaken our little area in Georgia. Hmmm, ok?

Then there was another time (the same semester) that we had a bad thunderstorm come through. My friend and I were studying for finals, I had an accounting one the next morning. The power went out, and we did the only thing that a college student can do when the power goes out…start drinking! I remember that there were siren noises in the distance, and the sky sure did look a little off. For whatever reason, our building was pretty much empty. We were a few drinks in and dancing to some Britney Spears thanks to my battery operated boom box when my cell phone rang. This was in the time when Samsung flip phones were popular, when all you could do is talk on the phone. There were no smart phones. Shocker, I know! Anywho…I answer all innocently and it is our friend Eric. He is confused as to why in the world we are hanging out in our top floor crappy built student housing apartment. I tell him the power went out and we are having a drinky drinky and he should join us. He says, umm we are at the shelter, there are tornado warnings and one touched down near campus. What the??????? Hmmm apparently we were completely clueless that those siren noises were in fact the tornado sirens in our city, and the reason the parking lot was empty was because everyone fled to take shelter. We are so freaking brilliant!

Perhaps this is the reason I don’t drink often, if at all anymore. I just enjoy watching the rest of the people around me acting awesome. It was probably for the best really. My sober self has horrible anxiety during bad weather, and I would be better off oblivious. One day, I really do need to do something about my anxiety, haha.

That’s all folks!

2 blog posts in one day? Yup! Gotta link up for First Things First! 

Hello there my loves. It is Tuesday, not Monday, so we can all be a little bit happy about that!

I have accepted the fact that I am old. And probably boring. I don’t really know what my early college self would think about me now. I even thought I was so cute that I had a magnet on my refrigerator that said “Domestically Challenged” and something similar to this on there too.

Gee, and I wonder why I didn’t have many boys tripping over each other to get to me? Probably because all boys want to be taken care of! Even though back then the guys loved the way Jessica Simpson looked, they didn’t really want to settle down with someone who is ditsy and doesn’t know the difference between tuna and chicken. Luckily, a few years ago I started to actually enjoy going to the grocery store and cooking. My husband is probably thankful for that!

I am here today to tell you about Spicy Thai Noodles.

I love Pinterest for so many reasons, but my favorite is all the recipes that you can find! I don’t even know what I am looking for sometimes, Pinterest decides for me with wonderful pictures of randomness. I stumbled across Spicy Thai Noodles sometime last year. It is a great, versatile dish. You can serve it hot or cold, for dinner or lunch, as a main course or a side. The choice is yours! I like it for lunch because it tastes wonderful cold! It makes a lot and keeps well for about a week.

What you need:
1 box of linguine noodles (I prefer whole wheat)
1-2 tbsp crushed red pepper (I use 1 tbsp, it is pretty spicy like that…don’t know if I would do 2!)
**1/4 cup olive oil
**1/2 sesame oil (make sure that you use regular sesame oil. I bought toasted before and it just doesn’t taste the same)
6 tbsp honey
6 tbsp soy sauce (I use the green bottle with less sodium)
Green onions (I use about 3 of them)
Toasted Sesame Seeds (I probably use about 2 TBSP)
crushed peanuts (I just buy a can of regular peanuts like cocktail or party nuts, and I put about 1/4-1/2 cup in a ziplock bag and crush them with my meat tenderizer or a hammer)
**I like to use a less of each oil that what the recipe calls for, some people completely omit the olive oil…just depends on what you like.

What you do:
Cook you noodles according to box and drain
Heat the oils over medium heat in a small sauce pan with the crushed red pepper
Strain out the red pepper, but keep the oil
Whisk the honey and soy sauce into the oil
Toss mixture with the noodles
The recipe says to use the green onions and peanuts when you serve this dish, I toss this in when I mix it up because I know I want both in mine.

Enjoy!

This is what mine looks like for lunch today. Yum yum yum!

Well, apparently it is Monday again! I hope everyone had a fabulous weekend!

Friday night after work Chris and I headed to meet up with his parents and we went to the Tavern on the Summit for dinner. It was all rainy and nasty out, so dinner was really all there was to do. The food here is always amazing, and I loved the company.

Saturday I decided to look “trendy” with my outfit. I wasn’t sure I could pull off the colored skinny pants like all the cool hip young girls are wearing. Yes or no? (Be nice) Everything you see, except for the shoes, is from Ann Taylor Loft.

Mac refuses to eat his food near his food bowl in the kitchen. I am pretty sure he works off every last morsel running back and forth between the kitchen and the living room. He takes about 3 morsels of food each time out of the bowl and walks to the carpet, goes back for 3 more and repeat.

Someone needs their fur did!

Gracie decided it was mani/pedi time and got to work on those daggers claws nails of hers.

Gracie in action outside. “Hey squirrel, I am coming for you!” Sadly for her, she never catches one. (How cute are those ears bouncing up and down?!)

Can a girl get a belly rub?!?!

Daddy is giving Mac all of his attention, and Gracie is jealous because she wants him to play tug with her dinosaur.

This morning’s post was brought to you once again by the letter D. As in Dunkin’ Donuts large  iced coffee!!!