All in a day's work!

Spent the afternoon networking here, overlooking this. What a fabulous view and great atmosphere. If only I had these seats during a Durham Bulls game. It was wonderful to meet with world renowned doctors and professors from Duke University over my famously favorite grape vodka cocktails! These incredible figures are getting involved with grassroot business endeavors in the area and have truly the most amazing stories.

One anesthesiologist single-handedly supports a village in Uganda and by directly buying their crafts from them and then re-selling them at a local boutique he owns on Main St. What I love about this boutique is that wedged in between a national bank and Gap and sees far more traffic than both from local supporters.

My company is looking to help them from several business standpoints and thankfully as the District Manager in the area, I am their point of contact. Very inspiring day full of empowerment and connections!

A Southern Speciality

Sippycups's stepmother used to make this for beach week in the summer and I became obsessed. Now, it is my staple at the NCSU tailgates and everyone thinks I am chef connoisseur! and I must admit, my cooking abilities have started to expland and impress even the most skeptic critic. EASIER THAN EASY, healthy, and delicious.

Red Neck Caviar!
2 cans black eyed peas, drained shopping list

2 cans shoe peg corn, drained shopping list

2 cans Ro-Tel tomatoes, drained shopping list

2 lg bell peppers, chopped shopping list

1 can black beans, drained shopping list

12 sm. green onions, chopped shopping list

3 ripe tomatoes, chopped shopping list

1 tsp garlic powder shopping list

1 tsp garlic salt shopping list

1 tsp parsley flakes shopping list

16 oz bottle Zesty Italian dressing shopping list

Mix peas, beans, corn, tomatoes, bell peppers, onions and tomatoes with garlic salt, garlic powder, parsley flakes and Italian dressing.


Refrigerate at least 12 hours before serving. Serve with Frito or Tostitos Scoops.

Oyster Roasts and Champagne Toasts!

The sheer fabulousness of being a young twenty-something is enough to make you want to revel in everyday life, but the joys of new experiences and huge turning points really make for the cherry on top.

I am so absorbed with celebrating the career moves, engagements, weddings, and recent home purchases of friends very near and dear to my heart. Being a bridal consultant throughout college and having a very brief stint at Southern Weddings Magazine, thank God I get to channel all my energy towards helping Lindsay plan her ohsobeautifultodiefor wedding in May! Coral and beaches and beers, OH MY!

And now, finally, that I am not living off pennies and parents... Im outta here on the weekends as much as possible... except when I am cheering on the Wolfpack (and courtesy of my sweet boyfriend, I am forced to "cheer" for the Northern Colorado Bears [where his brother coaches] and Broncos football, too!) In October alone we will host friends and family for the NCSU/Virginia Tech game, go camping, head to Denver, visit the new homes of friends in Roanoke, and rent a cabin in the NC Mountains! woop woop.

So many of my friends are in great places in life and while I miss everyone so much, I admire that we are all in different places doing different things. I love us.  But, I will admit, I am seriouslyyyyyyy ready for Caroline and Eva to get back from New Zealand. Come home already!!! 

I am living in the absolute LAST place I ever thought I would be after college... smack dab IN my college town. But with a FABULOUS job that I totally love with a company I admire, I'll be the first to say I am more lucky to be where I am... and with this view!

etsy

HOW in the world can anyone chose which buyer/shop/whatever to even LOOK at... much less actually buy. Too many to choose... any help?

What a relief!

FABULOUS! I am just thrilled to have the blog back up... even if for no other reason than [much needed] free therapy for myself.

Spending my days in Durham, NC, the home of the Dookies, proves to be a daily source of entertainment and a bit of culture shock to this Wilmington, NC native. I will say, however, that Durham's organic and candid backdrop mixed with it's unique people make for a great setting to my corporate america job. I get to mix things up a bit and I really mean it when I say never.a.dull.moment.

For example, today I ate lunch at a place that sold fried chicken and waffles -- and ONLY fried chicken and waffles. I mean it... nothing else. Don't judge, I have to let the client decide where we eat. Was I the only one there with long wavy, blonde hair? no. Was I the only one there clad in J.Crew? not even. Was I the only one there on a business lunch? also a no. This is the Durham norm, my friends... CHICKEN AND WAFFLES.

Alas, the times comes to cook dinner for the only stable thing in my life: my sweet boyfriend. And needless to say, we will be having anything that doesn't involve chicken OR waffles.

It's up.

After putting this off for several months I finally have zero excuses for not sharing my daily adventures with friends and total cyber strangers alike. For those of you that know me, you cannot be entirely shocked that I would want to start a [second] blog to rant, rave and everything in between.

I tell ya' though... beware. I wont hold anything back-- Not that any of you would expect for me to.

The blog is still under a bit of construction but for those of you reading this, I wanted you to have the link in order to enjoy (and read about) the convivial amusement that fills my life.

More to come very, very soon.

Cheers my friends.