the blonde aquarius

12.30.2010

Parlor Market

I am finally off work for a few days! YES! I can’t tell you though, how much I love my place of employment and co-workers. I have grown to love them all so much that the thought of not working there one day makes me pretty sad. But, we won’t go there now.

What has the elusive Blonde Aquarius been up to, you might be asking? (although more than likely not).

Aside from working my hiney off, My best friend, Eric, has been in town since Monday! After work we’ve enjoyed hanging out and fellowshipping with friends. We went to see The Fighter and it was awesome. I highly recommend it.

But the real highlight of the week was eating at one of downtown Jackson’s newest, hippest restaurants, Parlor Market!

Lydia, Eric, and I had the pleasure of dining there yesterday for lunch.

The atmosphere is amazing. I kinda never wanted to leave.

The food is rock-star good.
Deviled Eggs for Appetizers

Most Amazing Burger....EVER!

Desserts were out of this world!

And the service was wonderful.

The host ended up being a buddy of mine, Sweet Julian.

and our server was an old college friend!

I highly recommend you get downtown and check it out! I can't wait for the next meal there.

I hope that you enjoy these last 2 days of 2010. It's been an interesting year for sure. I'll post tomorrow about my New Years Intentions and plans.
Until then, Happy Last Thursday of The Year!!!

12.25.2010

Christmas Day

This year Christmas was a little different. Not bad different. And not good different. Just different. We didn’t do any of our annual traditions. For the past 23 years, we’ve spent Christmas day with our dear friends, the Maranto family. Claire (the eldest of the Maranto clan) welcomed a beautiful baby boy into the world just a few weeks ago and so, of course, the family went to visit the new baby! I can’t wait to meet Nathan. He’s such a cutie! This year was the first year that it’s just been our family eating around the table on Christmas day. Wendy (Brian’s girlfriend) joined us and we were so thankful for her presence. Wendy is truly a blessing.

And as usual, Irwin took center stage. I just love that little boy to pieces.

we always have a real, live Christmas tree. We've never, in my 28 years, ever had a fake tree.

Our mantle with our stockings;)

Brian

Caroline in her pimp pineapple sunglasses

My mom brought these back from Hawaii. I don’t think she had any idea what they were. We all got a big laugh out of them;) The Marijuana sunglasses were a hit!

Santa brought me a beautiful ring!

And my sister gave me this cool Owl necklace

and this cool book

The most fun was watching Irwin "open" his gifts

Irwin has a beautiful mother!

We love to read to our baby

My mom was pretty excited about her Drew Brees book!

My sweet parents have been married 31 years!

My mom cooked us an amazing dinner!

but it's a tradition that i make the sweet potato casserole

we all ate at the "big" table this year

and Winn loves to eat as well

Holly (our outside dog for over 12 years)

me and my babies (Irwin and Mr. Buckley)

As you can see, I am blessed.

I hope your Christmas day was wonderful.

Merry Christmas!

12.22.2010

Day Off

Finally. A day off.

Although I LOVE my work place and all my co-workers immensely, I am SO happy about my day off. For the past 5 days I have done nothing but work, come home and sleep, and go back to work. Which is probably what normal people do everyday, 365 days of the year. But not I. I’ve been only working part time while going to school and now that I’m out of school for the semester, I’ve been working a lot. Which is good because I feel like working increases my productivity, makes me a contributing member of society, and is just good for me all the way around. BUT, I am very excited about my day off.

This is what I plan on doing today:

lazing on the couch