Miscellany Monday

My SIL posts her miscellaneous thoughts on Mondays. You can check it out here. I thought I would give it a try....


1. How can any family afford health insurance. We had a company wide meeting to discuss our new plans. We can choose from 3 (basically 500,1000, or 3000 deduct.) If you had yourself, your spouse and your children on the best plan (500 deduct.) it would cost 780.00 per month! Wowza . Looks like were never having kids.... or Dutch will work at UPS forever. I instantly became 1000x more thankful for our free benefits through UPS and our ultra low deductible.

2. Aren't chocolate chip M&M cookies the best. Found a small container of them in the publix bakery yesterday. Winning....

3. Marlows Tavern (regardless of their AWFUL front entry design, even Dutch could "feel" the bad space planning when we were there) has an amazing patio. Friday nights they have live music, i.e. guy with a guitar singing covers, they had fans/misters to keep everyone cool. Dutch had their famous fish tacos and proclaimed "there is like a whole piece of real fish in here" so that was a good sign. They also keep bottles of woodchuck pear in stock so they get brownie points from me.

4. East cobb is getting a new restaurant! (gotta love the expansion of merchants walk. New whole foods, ulta, carters, etc) Its called Cheeky's. They have a pour your own draft beer wall/tables? Once Dutch hears about that I am sure we will make an appearance. It is going in the east cobb avenue. http://www.eatatcheeky.com/

5. Biggest and best news.... I purchased a ticket to NYC the end of September. Ill be going to see my BFF for the weekend. Most of you know she has been living there for almost a year now getting her masters in museum studies at NYC (I'm a proud friend!) Cant wait to explore the city with her. Any ideas what I should make sure to see? I was there in 2003 with my mom for xmas/snow and we saw the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Time Square, Little Italy, and the Empire State Building. It was snowing and cold so I would mind seeing a few of those things again in the nice fall weather.

I hope everyone has a nice week! Happy Monday! (Good Monday mood attributed to #2... its lunchtime)