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September 3, 2016

Life Lately

Good morning friends!

I’ll be heading to Atlanta shortly, but I wanted to pop in and catch the blog up on some things going on lately since I haven’t been around much. I’m so excited about my trip to Atlanta – I’ll see my precious cousin and her little ones, my grandmother, some aunts and uncles, and friends on this trip while also taking a class for the Series 7 Exam. So what’s been going on?

I bought a house!

Crazy, I know. I had a great experience buying a house and would love to recap that at some point. I have a few projects on the horizon, so there will definitely be some before/after posts coming soon.

I’m getting fairly settled in, but it’s been crazy busy in my neck of the woods and things are coming together a lot more slowly than I initially anticipated. The kitchen is organized though and I have my coffee pot brewing coffee, so that is the biggest start to making a house feel like home in my opinion. This has been such a fun and exciting experience for me and I’m so thrilled to have my sister living with me during this time!

Street Vegan and other Vegan Cookbooks

I’ve been waiting to have my own kitchen back for 3 years now. Over the past 3 years, I have collected a multitude of vegan cookbooks. One of which was recently given to me by some friends. My birthday is in April, but I didn’t get this gift until last week, which turned out to be perfect timing with buying a house. This cookbook looks so unique and fun! I’m also looking forward to cooking from Raw. Vegan. Not Gross. and Vegan Cooking for Carnivores.

Book Club is Back!!

This is very very exciting, y’all! We took a little book club hiatus and kept talking and talking about getting it back together…. well, we finally took the plunge!! We started off with a night at Katy’s picking books and hostesses. Katy provided tiny home-made pizza’s that we could personalize. It was so much fun, we always have a great time getting together! It’s wonderful to love who you work with and I certainly do.

Then Chris made the cutest bookmarks to let us know when/where/which book we’ll be reading! The first book club was at Chris’ house and she made some delicious bruschetta.

The host always provides the dinner and then you bring your own choice of beverage, usually wine.

My best friend is back

Back in July, I got a text message from my friend Lacy (who I met as a VISTA and who was currently working and living in South Carolina) that said she was applying to Law School at Mississippi College in Jackson, MS. I was thrilled to say the least, but honestly didn’t believe it would actually happen. I knew she’d get in and I knew she’d get the scholarship she wanted because she’s brilliant, but I wasn’t sure if she would actually take the plunge and move here. Her boyfriend is still in South Carolina and I didn’t really think she’d be too excited about moving back to Mississippi. She got accepted, got the scholarship, and decided to accept! She’ll be here for three years and we have so many memories to make! The very first memory made was with Sweet Tea, of course.

Well, that highlights a little about what’s been going on. I’m off to finish laundry & packing, but I’m hoping to be back more frequently these days. I have internet at my new house now, I have inspirational places to blog, and I have lots to blog about!

What’s been going on in your life lately?
Have you bought a house, what was your experience?
What do you think makes a house feel more like a home?

June 22, 2016

Life Update – Food & Things

Good morning!

How is your Wednesday so far? I’m looking forward to wrapping up a work week today. At 3:00 AM tomorrow, I’ll be off on a fun road-trip with Katy & Chase to see our co-worker, Jeff, get married this Saturday in Milwaukee. I haven’t been on this long of a road trip with anyone except Nick and my friends Lacy & Noelle (when we ran the Disney Wine & Dine Half Marathon.) I love road-trips and I think this will be so much fun getting to know my co-workers a little more. We’re taking the Prius of course!

For now, let’s just do some catching up!

Nick’s 10 Year High School Reunion

A few weekends ago, Nick and I attended his 10 Year High School Reunion. It turned out to be a lot of fun! I saw an old friend, Amanda, that I hadn’t seen in a really long time and we got to hang out with a couple, Will & Anna, that we’ve recently become good friends with. Anna and I didn’t go to school with these people so she text me right before and asked if I was coming to this shindig and I was ecstatic that her and Will were going to be there because it was a nice surprise to spend an evening with them.

The lighting wasn’t great at the venue, but the food, beverages, and company was awesome!

A few things about this picture… 1) That dress is a new favorite! I found it on sale and the picture doesn’t do it justice. It’s a good maroon color and is very flattering. 2) My skin has seemed rather oily lately, so I’m trying out a few Arbonne products to help with that. Hopefully part of it was the lighting in the room. I’ll get back to you on what the products do for my oily skin right now! and 3) This girl.. she’s just the sweetest! It was such a treat to catch up.

Cade LOVES his Uncle Nick

This isn’t new news, but I love that Kathryn sent me this snap recently. Cade seems to think that Ed Sheeran looks like Nick and every time he comes on the TV screen while they have music playing in the background, he starts calling Nick’s name! It’s the cutest thing. We miss him so much, but hopefully we have another trip to Disney in store for the near future!

Athenos Greek and Lebanese Cafe

Greek food is becoming my JAM! We tried a new to us Greek restaurant recently and it was different from what we’re used to. It had a Lebanese aspect to it and the decor was more “date night” than we expected. I don’t know about you, but we’re used to a more relaxed atmosphere in a Greek restaurant. It seemed a little pricier than we expected, but the food was delicious and there was plenty of it!

I got the falafel wrap with hummus and a salad. I was pretty impressed with myself for getting hummus and salad instead of fries. The hummus was great and the wrap was on point. We will definitely be going back there again!

Cauliflower Buffalo Wings

You guys… Can we just hold the phone for a hot minute?! Cauliflower Buffalo Wings… HAVE YOU TRIED THESE YET???!!!! I bought a head of cauliflower not too long ago, but it had been in the fridge for about a week. I had one of those lazy evenings at home and decided I should use up that cauliflower before it went bad. I had been wanting to try Hot for Food’s Cauliflower Buffalo Wings recipe and although it seemed like a handful of steps, I figured – why not?! Turns out, it really wasn’t as difficult as I originally thought and they turned out to be my new favorite party food or midnight snack. I can’t wait to make these for friends.

They were perfectly crispy and had just the right amount of heat. It seemed like I burned them, but they didn’t taste burnt at all. I’m a huge fan now! Also, cauliflower has a lot of nutritious benefits I realized – lots of protein, fiber, and potassium! #winning

Have you gone to your highschool reunion yet? What was it like?
Do you like cauliflower buffalo wings? What’s your favorite recipe to use?

Have a wonderful Wednesday everyone!

June 10, 2015

Seed

Hello there friends! How is your week going so far? Mine has been pretty good, busy, but good! I’ve started walking with a friend on Monday’s & Wednesday’s so Nick and I end up spending our evenings there for the most part. Nick has been working out with her husband almost every day of the week, so it’s pretty convenient! Last night I had a Discover Arbonne event that I went to, I always enjoy going to those because they’re very encouraging and always informative! I’m hoping I’ll find some people to bring with me at some point, but for now it’s just me, myself, and I. I’m so lucky to have found some sweet friends in this business already! I definitely look forward to every Arbonne event I attend.

Me, Noelle, & Lacy at Disney Wine & Dine

I promised that I would recap my super quick, but super worth while trip to New Orleans last week. Now, I’m honestly not a fan of NOLA – it’s gross, smelly, ugly, and just not up my alley, but my wonderful friend Lacy was there for a conference and 3 hours
is much closer than 20 something hours so I knew I had to drive down, even if it was for a quick dinner and a short nap.

I got off work at 3:30pm on Thursday so I could make the 3 hour drive down. We decided it would be best to park my car in the parking garage and to walk or use uber the rest of the night. I was really craving a unique restaurant that was vegan. We don’t have any vegan restaurants in Jackson, but I assumed NOLA had to have something good in that department and boy was I right! I wasn’t really sure what we were getting into, but I found a decent vegan restaurant that was only a mile from her hotel, so we started our walk towards dinner. We had planned to walk back, but as we neared the restaurant, there was a small section that didn’t feel very safe, so we ended up using uber for our trip back to the hotel.

SEED

The area was quaint and as soon as we saw the restaurant, we could feel that this was going to be a wonderful experience! We felt pretty hipster too. It was a completely garden based restaurant and had a lot of southern favorites – fried “chicken” nuggets, gumbo, chili cheese fries and so much more! I absolutely love a good fried tofu nugget, so I was especially excited to see that on the menu!

We both raved about the appetizers. I think I enjoyed the chili cheese fries a little more than Lacy did, while she enjoyed the hummus more than I did, but overall they were both excellent! The chili cheese fries seemed bottomless because we barely made a dent in them!

I could not say enough good things about my chicken fried tofu. The crispiness was absolutely perfect and I chose the agave mustard dipping sauce which was amazing! Lacy ended up not liking her gumbo so much. I thought it was great and ended up eating it for lunch the next day, but I’m in no way a gumbo expert, where as Lacy loved gumbo before she went vegetarian and so she has more room to be critical! I don’t think she thought it was spicy enough or the taste wasn’t on point, but I really couldn’t tell a difference – again, I think it’s because I really don’t have an expectation of what gumbo should taste like.

We ended our meal with a chocolate chip cookie that was divine. I was thoroughly impressed with this restaurant and I told Nick that we would have to go here if we came to New Orleans. He of course said that’s a big IF because we really are not fans of New Orleans, but I know I’ll be down there in July when I fly out for my companies annual meeting – so I may have to indulge at Seed again, whether or not others want to join me!

Later that night, we thought it would be a good idea to walk down to this arts festival, but that was more trouble than it was worth and absolutely smelly and gross the whole way there – again, not a huge fans of New Orleans. We finally made our way back to the room so we could have girl chat and drift to sleep before I had a 5:00 am wake up call to drive back to Jackson for work on Friday.

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