Weekend wrap up

Dutch and I had a great weekend as always.

Friday my Dad/Cheryl/Pman went to the Braves game to see Bobby Cox's jersey be retired. It was awesome. The crowd was so pumped up. It was great to see lots of past braves players come out to support Bobby. I got to see David Justice and Javy Lopez (who I definitely thought were hot when I was probably in middle school.. lol)  Dan Uggla beat the Braves record for a 32 game hitting streak. There were at least 5 home runs hit that night, a pitcher was thrown out of the game, and the braves cleared the benches at one point. Pretty awesome game.

Saturday Dutch and I had free Moe's burritos (if a certain braves player hits a home run in a certain inning everyone gets a free burrito with their ticket stub) Dutch picked up a brisket from our favorite butcher and we went to our favorite hang out, Wild Wings. They were having a coney island festival (they have a different festival each month all summer) They had a freak show which I could only watch for about 3 minutes. It was making me nauseous. The guy was hammering long steaks in his nose.... gross.... not entertaining. Still have the heebie-gebbies on that one. We hung out the rest of the night listing to music, eating buffalo chips, and people watching. Always a great place to kick back.

Sunday was the traditional WAHO, and brisket smoking. This one was the best one yet. Super juicy and yummy..... cant wait to take some for lunch tomorrow.

 Wild Wings Bufflo Chips...yumm

Getting ready for the freak show

About to unveil Bobbys retired number

Braves win!

Post game fireworks!

Now time to finish laundry and get ready for bed. Back to the grind!

Office makeover

Well I was busy making over our office.....

Decided I needed a black and white striped wall. Its one of my favorite places in our house now.... loving it....

Painted side long walls peacock blue with a white chair rail below. Created a gallery wall with white frames and white mats to offset the deep peacock blue color. I love seeing my favorite people and some of my photography framed.

Also, repurposed an old dresser into a bar space. For glassware display/bar storage etc. I need to update the hardware for a quick fix I repurposed an old framed print that was UGLY by painting the frame white and the mat white. Then I got a new print (on clearance) from Michales and replaced the old print. I had a new framed piece of art for less than 5.00!

Still finishing a few projects in the space. Then Ill share some larger photos of the room.

Enjoy!

Murphys laying down the law

Even a chocolate chip M&M cookie cant make me feel better today....

I am thankful that the dicks sporting goods kayak gods denied Dutch and I our kayaks a few weeks ago (we walked out after they wouldn't match their own advertised price from their website) I was grumpy but tried to see the positive. Ends up we would need that money for more important things. However, I am still playing catch up from being out of the workforce/paycheck for 2 weeks while I was transitioning jobs. So why, when you finally think you are going to "get ahead" (aka catch up to normal financial life after lay-offs)  there is always something to hold you back. Home taxes due, vacations, car repairs, health insurance, etc.


Boo. Being an adult is no fun......

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)

Architect Barbie

Finally, a barbie I can relate to... lol... now only if she was a brunette... : (

read more here

Whats black and white......

Ive had something on my mind lately......

Dont worry, its only a small dose : ) Pics to come

Chick/Broc Crescent Braid

Yummmmm

So I found this recipe on pintrest and was inspired to give it a shot tonight. I adjusted it to be a little more WW friendly. If you divide braid into 4 servings it comes to 8 pts+. However , I could eat 1/3 easy so keep that in mind.

1 package reduced fat crescent rolls
1 cup shredded reduced fat cheese (sharp Cheddar etc) I didn't have enough so I used what I had and added some reduced fat Velveeta on the fly. Made it nice and creamy.
1 cup steamed broccoli
1/4 cup reduced fat mayo (although I used 1/4 cup fat free cream of chicken soup)
1 cup shredded chicken (I bought a can of chunked chicken breast to be super easy)

Mix chicken, soup (or mayo) , broccoli, and cheese in a bowl.

On cookie sheet lay out crescent rolls. They should make a long horizontal rectangle. Press all the seams together. Put filling down center of dough. Cut 1" diagonal sections on either side of filling. Fold them over filling to make a sort of braid. Cook @ 375' for 28 mins. (Mine was done closer to 22mins and I used a pampered check stone)

Enjoy!!!

* not that pretty but it was my first time lol

This could be made 1000s of ways. A pizza braid with pasta sauce, mozzarella and pepperoni? A Mexican version with fajita meat and grilled onions? Let me know if you try it!!!