Breakfast

I adore breakfast foods. All of them. I really can't think of something I don't like. And I don't just love it in the morning...I could eat eggs or pancakes or bacon ANY time of day. Mmm I'm hungry just thinking about it!

I was so excited to find this list of 50 wonderful, delicious and unique breakfast places across the US this morning. I definitely want to mark the two in Atlanta off my list sometime soon, and hopefully get to try at least one in California on my upcoming trip. Yay!

Bon Appetit!

Yay, I won a blog award!

Hooray, I'm the proud recipient of my very first blog award courtesy of Lexi at Sapphyre.... I'm so happy to have readers who enjoy my blog (because of course, I love reading theirs). Thanks, Lex!

So, here are the rules:

1.)When you have received this award you must thank the person that awarded you this in the new post.

2.) Name the 10 things that make you happy

3.) Pass this award onto 10 other bloggers and inform the winners

What makes me happy:

1. Sunny warm weather in the South (finally!)

2. My best friends

3. My sweet boyfriend

4. Chocolate candy

5. Vacations (to California...less than 2 weeks!)

6. Pets

7. Shopping for new clothes and pretty things

8. Wake Forest/ACC basketball

9. Beaches

10. Bojangles!

and I'm awarding this to:

1. Sunshine and Peonies

2. Vintage Sincerity

3. The Love You Take is Equal to the Love You Make

4. The Laws

5. The Newlywed Diaries

6. Julie in CA

7. A Cup of Jo

8. At Home with the Pooles

9. Curiouser and Curiouser

10. A Change Would Do You Good

Best and Worst of Oscar Fashion!

The Best:

Gorgeous Penelope Cruz. The red is stunning on her!

Cameron Diaz had quite possibly my favorite dress of the night...sparkly, but not too over the top!

I love all things Rachael McAdams, and this pretty dress is like a watercolor painting.


Very pretty and understated blue/gray on Elizabeth Banks.

Big winner of the night, Sandra Bullock, looking like an Oscar herself. SO thrilled that she won!

The Worst:

It pains me to write something bad about my hero SJP, but this gown did nothing for me. It's even Chanel and still looks like a yellow satin potato sack!

Love the color a lot, but not crazy about the, umm, top of the dress. Dior could have done much better by Charlize.

all photos from US Weekly

Spring has sprung

Ok, maybe not technically, but as far as I'm concerned, March=springtime. I added a few touches to my apartment to reflect the season:

Pretty fresh flowers from Target in my new blue vase (consignment shop find).

A couple of new throw pillows from World Market..love the colors.

Photo update, as promised!

Trip to Wake with Sarina!

Beautiful quad.

With John at the top of Stone Mountain!

Gorgeous skyline view from the top of Stone Mountain.

Pretty snowy trees.

John and I at the Thrashers game.

Spicy chicken sandwich coming to Chick-fil-a

Read the (terribly written) article here. I'm so excited to try this! I've always liked Chick-fil-a, but frankly its a little bland. I'm glad they'll be adding some flavor to the chicken. I know it won't hold a candle to Bojangles, but hopefully it'll be my new standard order!

Also looking forward to some warm weather--maybe 70 degrees--by the weekend! Thank goodness for that...I definitely can't take anymore snow like we had yet again yesterday.

Home again (finally)!

I'm finally back in Atlanta after a week long trip to Florida, followed by a lovely long weekend in NC. Here's a short recap of life lately with a couple of photos. More to come soon, I promise!

I barely made my flight connection to Raleigh on Friday afternoon (and my bags did not). Thank goodness I ran through the airport and got on the plane with 5 minutes to spare! Sarina picked me up at the airport in beautiful Raleigh, and we headed to Winston!

Highlights of Winston-Salem include:
-4 course dinner at Village Tavern for $25!
-BBQ sandwiches at Little Richard's
-Hanging out on campus and ransacking the Deacon Shop for new merchandise
-Going to the Joel for the first time since senior year (even if we did lose. badly.)
-Mindless driving around Winston, and wishing that we could move there
-The Jewel Box!

Sarina dropped me off on Sunday and I stayed with my parents until yesterday afternoon, when I flew back here. I hate that I only had 1 day to spend at home, but at least I'll get to see my parents again in 3 weeks for California vacations--you heard right! In less than 3 weeks, I'll be on my way to San Francisco. I. Can't. Wait.

Enjoy a couple of photos from last Sunday. The weather was perfection (sunny, clear, and 70 degrees), so John and I climbed to the top of Stone Mountain! Yes, you read that correctly too. We had a great time, and the city views were incredible. If any of you non-Atlanta friends come to visit while the weather is good, I'll take you there! And of course we finished off our day of excersize with a large Hawaiian pizza from Mellow Mushroom...typical.

The whole skyline view

And the pizza :)