Double Spelling FAIL alert

Quote:  "Take care that you never spell a word wrong. Always before you write a word, consider how it is spelled, and, if you do not remember, turn to a dictionary.' - Thomas Jefferson to his daughter

Double Spelling FAIL alert

Ok so I am WELL AWARE that my last name is tricky. To me it's not though and if you really look at it it isn't that hard. BUT to most people it is terrifying for them to try to pronounce or spell.

I (along with my siblings) get the question -almost daily- "How long did it take you to learn to spell your last name when you were in kindergarten?".

To which we've had numerous answers over the years:

• "I don't know."
• "I can't remember."
• "I guess not long because it doesn't stand out as some momentous achievement in my memory."
• "Approx 16 hours straight." (lie but it made them shut up)

and the best one yet...

• "I don't know. How long did it take you to learn to spell Dumbass?"

The last answer isn't really very nice but it gets some great reactions.

Anyway... it doesn't really hurt our feelings or even make us blink twice when we see our last name spelled. I mean its long so we can't totally fault the speller.

EXCEPT FOR TODAY-

Today I saw one of the greatest name fails I've ever seen in regards to our name.

Phillip Lutzinkirchen

I mean come on.. this was on national television for the SEC Media Days. It's kind of a big deal and it's kinda viewed by LOTS of people. The best part about this was that it was a double name FAIL. Both his first and last name were spelled wrong. I mean all you had to do was go online and look up the correct spelling. Philip Lutzenkirchen. This wasn't an instance where you should just "guess" or "sound-it-out". Whoever had the job of putting the players names on the screen definately dropped the ball today.

I laughed out loud.

I'm not saying I'm the world's greatest speller but when I know alot of people are going to see my writing I try to make sure I look up any words/names I'm unsure of.

**Please don't scan my blog for spelling errors from now on since I just said that. I type really fast and don't spell check on this blog. AND because that would be lame guys. ha jk

Smell ya later.

Re-cizzap

Quote:  "A man cannot walk out of his own story." -Rango


This post is going to be a recap of my exciting/thrilling/oh-so-fabulous life as of late. Side note- its not any of those things. My life is pretty standard and I like it that way!

Friday night it was my mom's bday and my roommates bday. So Friday night we all went out for dinner and drinks at Taco Mac to celebrate my roomies bday. (I didn't blow off my mom we just planned to celebrate it at the lake later in the weekend). We got all dressed up to go to a mexican restaurant and then out to some bars but after a few beers at our apartment it was 9pm and we decided we'd rather just walk to Taco Mac. So 7 of us walked the few blocks to the Taco Mac. You can't go wrong with Taco Mac... it's always a good fun place for a group. It didn't let us down either. We laughed so hard and had such a good time. We walked home at like 11:30pm and decided not  go out to the bars and I was quite alright with that!

Saturday we went to my boyfriend's parents house for lunch. His mom and step-dad are moving to Boston and we had to go to say goodbye to his step-dad who has to move a month before his mom leaves. It was a nice afternoon. We ate fried chicken, salad, potato salad and bing cherries. Then we just sat around and watched Antique Roadshow and talked. It was a really relaxing time and we laughed alot. It's always nice to spend time with his family...especially since they are moving soon and we will hardly see them anymore. I really want to get to know them as much as possible in this next month before they leave.

Saturday afternoon-Sunday...Straight from Taylor's parents house I drove to my lakehouse to meet my parents and my sister. My mom's cousins drove in from Chicago to spend a week at the lake for vacation. I didn't really know this part of my family very well so it was really nice to get to know them over the next 2 days. They are wonderful and it's a blessing I was able to spend time with them becasue who knows when I'll see them again! We had good food as always and the weather was wonderful.

Monday night (last night) Taylor and I had Date Night. We went to Sal Grosso which is a Brazilian Steakhouse. It.was.so.DELICIOUS. I had been there once when I was 18-my dad took me for my 18th bday. Taylor had never been so I was super excited to take him becasue like most guys he loves meat and loves ALOT of food. The last time I went I ate so much delicious meat that I ended up puking at the end of the night (involuntarily...don't get any weird ideas). GROSS I know. But there is so much to try I just wanted to test it all and then I was beyond the "thanksgiving" type feeling of being full. It was not fun (ask my friend Kelley). So this time I was more careful and we took our time. We had wine and sat there for like 2 hours eating and laughing. It's nice to have a couple hours to just recharge and be with him because he's a nice fellow and I like his face.

Sorry to anyone who was looking for an exicing post. My life is not too exciting and if this made you bored then I'd recommend you don't follow my blog because I'm a dull little creature ha.

Smell ya later.

To cut or not to cut..

Quote:  "Gentlemen perfer blondes...but gentlemen marry brunettes." -Anita Loos


To cut or not to cut..

Lately I have just wanted to shave my head. My hair is at that awkward length where I either need to cut it or grow it out. I need to make a decision ASAP though because my limp stick straight locks are making me crazy. Its so hot outside that I wouldn't mind not having hair for the next 2 months (lets hope that doesnt happen for real though).

In other news.. 4th of July was nice at the lake. The weekend was overrun by 17 year olds. They had fun and I'm glad my little sister was able to bring them all up there because they all seemed to have a blast. It made me feel bad for anyone who encountered my friends and I at 17 though. Man are they giggly and loud at that age. I had a few friends up too and my entire family was there which was AWESOME. We had a great time.

All weekend we wore patriotic colored bandanas.. we looked super cool. 

 Wish I was back on the boat now instead of stuck in a grey cubicle. Oh well.


This wasn't a very good post but I guess my fingers didn't really have the creative juices flowing while they were typing today. Sorry if you've read this far expecting something good... you aren't getting it. ha

Smell ya later.

you scream, I scream, we all scream FOR...

Quote:  " I doubt whether the world holds for any one a more soul-stirring surprise than the first adventure with ice-cream." -Heywood Broun 


ICE CREAM
Since moving into a new apartment I've had an itch to start cooking more. I have a whole folder on my computer full of delicious looking recipes I'd like to try my hand at. The problem with me and cooking is that I get impatient easily. I also always think it's ok to "guesstimate", leave out items, substitute items, etc. So basically I struggle at following recipes. WHICH can be a PROBLEM. ***Especially when baking -don't even get me started on baking...you definately have to follow directions there and I never do. Baking is like an exact science and I am a terrible scientist apparently. Anyway- back to cooking. I can't wait to start cooking and making dinners.

So in the cooking mindset I decided to get myself a homemade ice cream maker (oh brother). I saw it on Craigslist for $20 so I figured "Hey, for 20 bucks why not take a stab at it?". My neighbor always makes us homemade ice cream and it is suuuuuper delicious. The ice cream maker I got can make soft serve and then you can freeze the soft serve if you want regular harder ice cream. The one I got is pictured below:



So I met the guy at a QT parking lot (could be sketchier it could have been a shell station jk) and gave him $20 and took home this little beauty.

You have to freeze the canister for 24 hours so I put it straight in the freezer and waited a day. After work yesterday I came home to start making some ice cream. You have to prepare the ingredients before hand by cooking them on the stove (because of the egg) and then cooling them in the freezer for an hour. I, of course, didn't follow the directions exactly because I was short about a cup of light cream. I figured it'd be ok... like usual.

After I poured the mixture in the machine and let it do it's thang I tested the ice cream. It was pretty good but not quite perfect. It tasted a little off (kinda more egg-y). I think this was because I didn't use enough cream. But all in all my first try wasn't half bad and it was definately EDIBLE which was a surprise to me.

Next up I'm going to steer away from simple vanilla and make coffee flavored I think. AND I'm going to make sure I have the exact ingredients!

I'm sure after this long post about basically nothing your mouths are watering and you want an ice cream cone. I'd suggest going to Chik-Fil-A and getting an Ice Dream Cone. They are AWESOME.

Smell ya later.

Finally home

Quote: "Enjoy your life without comparing it to others."- Condobcet

Ok, so since the last post I have been "homeless". I mentioned that my new apartment smelled like crotchy mary-jane and that the apartment complex said they'd fix it within a day. WELL...they lied. They didn't fix it and we had to break our lease with them. We moved out 24 hours after we moved all our stuff in. So for like a week and a half I had all my stuff shoved in my parents garage. I had no place to sleep, very little to wear, and it was STRESSFULLLLLL. We have been fighting with the old apartment complex all week too because they charged us rent and we want all our money back since we never even lived there.

Now to the positive part of my tale-

We put an application in immediately to an apartment complex in the same area that we  really liked. They approved us and we were able to move in 5 days later. SO as of this past Monday night I have been sleeping in my new apartment. It's still a little cluttered because we all literally dumped our stuff in as fast as possible. My room is taking shape and although its a tiny little thing (I pay the least amount of rent...woo) I think it's great. I'll try to post pictures sometime soon-ish hopefully.

After all the stress of moving in, moving out, and then moving in again within a week and a half I'm super happy to start getting settled. It's been an unpleasant situation but it turned itself around and I think we'll be really happy. I'd like to give mad props to my family, friends, and most especially my boyfriend for getting their butts into gear and helping me frantically move out when I needed to within 24 hours. They are lifesavers!! Taylor especially because he's the only one who was able to help me re-move in to the new place. He's a trooper and I'm super super lucky. It's also nice that he's handy (imagine dating bob the builder) because he's had to install a fan/light for me. ( I was going to post pictures of him doing this but the blog won't let me.. sad).

So all in all everything worked out ok and I now live in Atlanta. Maybe my life will be like an episode of Sex and the City. PSH yea right... I'm definately not down for that much PDA with strangers- No offense Carrie Bradshaw. I also think martinis are absolutely disgusting -I'd rather have a cold beer- so I guess instead my new life can be like an episode of Cheers? HA

Ok- hope you have a wonderful day.

Smell ya later you little bloggies.

Smell yeah it's moving day

Quote: "The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise.  It is not that we seize them, but they seize us." - Ashley Montagu



SOOOOO yesterday was our Move-in day! I had baby truck (borrowed from Taylor) all loaded up with furniture and ready to go at work. My dad was going to meet me at the new pad with another truck full of furniture. At 4:30pm I headed downtown from work with baby truck to meet the Leasing Agent to sign our Move-in inspection form and get our keys.

We were super exicted to get there and be able to start moving in.

BUT there was a problem....

When we walked into our apartment to do our Move-In Inspection tour an overwhelming smell hit us. MARIJUANA. Apparently the previous tenants liked to light one up in the living room. It was a skunky smell and it was quite strong. To make matters worse the back of the apartment-where our rooms are- smelled like, what I described (as kindly as I could to the leasing agent) as "crotchy". It smelled like straight up old dirty crotch. It was NASTTTTTY.

The leasing agent was very apologetic but we insisted that the smell be taken care of before we moved our clothes, bedding, etc in because the smell would definately absorb into our stuff. I don't know about you but I'd prefer to not have my clothes smell like a "blazed crotch". They said they would take care of it ASAP today.

SO- fingers crossed that they fix the issue because my roommates and I all planned on finishing moving in Friday. We all are taking time off of work tomorrow to move and it would be terrible if they we can't finish moving all because of some crotchy herbs.

Wish us luck!

Smell ya later (this seems fitting for this post).

Lutzenkirchen Braves Extravaganza

Quote: "In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future."
-Alex Haley


June 1st was my brothers 20th bday and we were lucky enough to have a friend give us 8 tickets to the Braves game that night. SO we decided to all go to dinner and the Braves game in Atlanta to celebrate my brother's bday. He drove up from Auburn to meet us and we all loaded into the mexi van to head to Atlanta.

Let me share a little about the mexi van with you... The Driver's seat is broken and leans to the side and backwards so the driver can't even sit straight. The back of the van no longer has AC-only the front. SO it was 98 degrees and we had 7 people shoved into the van. Taylor and my dad sat up front and had the air blasing so that a little coolness could reach all of us who were dying in the sauna (backseat). The air was freezing them and it still didn't even cool us 5 in the back down in the least. IT. WAS. MISERABLE.

BUT we made it and all slid (literally slid because we were so wet from sweat) out of the backseat. Then Will , Taylor, and my whole family walked to a little dive BBQ place right outside the stadium for dinner.

We got buckets of beer (for the 21+) and BBQ to share. It wasn't anything special but it sure hit the spot.

The Coors Lite promotional girls came over and saw we were drinking Coors Buckets so they gave us some promotional gear- which my father took full advantage of... good thing his arm sweat was taken care of for the rest of the night.

Then we headed into the game and it was still 98+ degrees outside. We were so sticky and sweaty but it was still fun to all be together! Philip was tired from workouts that morning so he fell asleep for like 3 innings -happy bday to you.

Then we took some pictures of all the kids with the ATL skyline in the back of us before piling back into the hottest sauna of a van ever.

When we left it was just then cooling down -it was a brisk 92 degrees. The same situation occurred on the way home... Taylor and Dad were nippin' hardcore because of the air and the rest of us were overheating in the back. Gotta love that peice of crap van though... saved us parking $ and gas $ because we could all right (uncomfortably) together!

One of my favorite picures of the night is the sweaty gem...

It was no CUBS game but it sure was a good time with the greatest people ever.

Smell ya later.