Ahh, faux-friday at last. I'm leaving ATL tonight at 7:30 for a lovely weekend in the arctic tundra of North Carolina (the high tomorrow at home is 27...the HIGH!). I'm hoping I'll survive, but I'm really unsure about it. This is another one of those times when I wish there was a full body Ugg boot (that didn't make you look like a 300lb. Eskimo...not possible, I know).

Things to look forward to: lunch with Erin, my haircut, and dinner with Be on Friday, seeing Sara at some point and hopefully seeing Bride Wars, family time on Saturday, finally finishing Twilight on the plane, and getting ready for my first business trip next week!

That being said, the blog will be taking a little vacay as usual. And since I'll be out of the office all next week, I'll update whenever I get a chance. Happy weekend!

Hello Raleighwood

I'm getting excited about going home tomorrow night. It
hasn't been that long since I was there for Christmas, but I'm looking forward to going home for some normal, non-holiday time. I want to eat my favorite Mexican food and some of my Granny's delicious cooking. Hopefully i'll get to see a few friends and enjoy sleeping in my bed.

Last weekend I drove out to Marietta to go to Bojangles (25 min drive and totally worth it, plus I got to see this fabulous "big chicken"...apparently a highlight of the town). While I was in the car, I realized that I really missed driving around towns like that. In North Carolina, there is plenty of rural land around me. Its normal to see deer in the yard and farm land on the way to my grandparents house. And on Saturday it dawned on me that I don't get that here. Not that Marietta is rural by any means, but the fact that there was grass beside the road, and a big Walmart shopping center near the Bojangles, really reminded me of home. So this weekend, I'm especially looking forward to seeing my big yard and no paved sidewalks everywhere.

Simple pleasures

One of my favorite things to eat in the cafeteria in my building is the gumbo. It is the perfect amount of spicy and its delicious. So, currently I'm in a food coma after eating plenty of gumbo for lunch. This makes me happy. Another thing that makes me happy: all the new yoga and pilates workouts I discovered on my on-demand cable. Now if I don't want to trek outside of my apartment to the gym tonight, I know I have lots of interesting videos I can do! Plus, maybe I won't pull anything out of socket next time I go to yoga. Always a plus.

A few other good things about this week: I'm going home on Thursday night!!; another awesomely bad episode of The Secret Life of the American Teenager; my Sex and the City dvd set is coming in the mail tomorrow; my online order from Sephora is coming today with all my exciting free samples of random beauty goods; sunny weather, even if its super cold--I was getting pretty tired of the gray gloom that didn't want to leave.

Go Deacs!

Happy Monday! I stayed up much later than usual last night to watch the Wake v. UNC game--so classic. I am SO happy that Wake beat the Tarheels.

Last night while I was watching I couldn't help but remember this exact same weekend my freshman year, when all of my friends and I camped out at the coliseum before the Carolina game and checked in all night long for great seats. Granted, we put the seat down in my jeep and watched dvds on our laptops all night, so we weren't exactly roughing it. I am proud to say that's the closest I've ever been to camping:) Its a sweet memory that I hadn't thought of in a long time, and it makes me really nostalgic for that time in my life. And I miss all my Wake Forest friends even more--even those I didn't keep up with much after freshman year. We had such great times together, and its a little bit of a shame to know that we'll never get to camp out at the Joel together again.

Best of the Golden Globes

Here are my absolute favorites from the red carpet last night:

Eva Longoria. I'm not usually that crazy about her dresses, but she really sizzles in this one. I think the color is gorgeous and the mermaid cut looks fantastic on her.

Anne Hathaway. Not only am I a little bit obsessed with many of her movies (ie. The Princess Diaries 1&2, The Devil Wears Prada, and others), but I think she always looks stunning. I love evening dresses in navy. If I was going to the prom this year, you better believe that this is the exact dress I'd be copying. Go Anne!

I heart Amy Adams, especially since I saw Enchanted again over the weekend. Plus, I think she did a really good job in spicing up the usual black evening gown. I like that she is doing more of a ball gown with a pattern. She looks gorgeous!

Worst of the Golden Globes

Ahh, finally some excellent fashion to dish about. It seemed like everyone came out in full force on the red carpet last night...except for these people. These are my picks for the 3 fashion losers of the night.
Renee, honestly, what have you done to your hair? And the skirt of the dress is fine, but the nude corset top and sheer blouse make her look kind of like an alien. Just bad all together.

Angelina Jolie never really looks bad, but her dresses are always so boring. I like the fact that she's wearing something other than black, but this dress doesn't do anything for me.

Cameron Diaz in Chanel haute couture. I like the color, although its a little pepto bismal in pictures. But the weird gathering on the side just is not good. I think it could have been beautiful with a big ball gown skirt and the one shoulder at the top.

Ahhh, three day weekend

Yesterday was my flex day off from work, so I did a few very important things including the gym, grocery shopping, cooking my first "real meal" in my apartment (marinated pork chop and veggies), and I went to TJ Maxx which was amazing. Not only did I find a Marc Jacobs jacket from Bergdorf's marked down from $1,700 to $180 (and also tiny), but I bought a new pair of sevens, a Michael Kors top, 2 new throw pillows for my couch (yay) and a big collage picture frame all for $150. New favorite store.

Today I'm planning on finding my bojangles fix (double yay) and cleaning my apartment top to bottom, and i've already been to the gym! Go me.

Otherwise it's sort of a boring errand-filled weekend. I watched Havana Nights last night and might stay in tonight too. Tomorrow night Claire and I are going out to a big Wake alumni party to watch the Wake v. UNC game. Should be fun. Happy Saturday!