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Recognize that song lyric?
Sisqo's Thong Song just came on my iPod. I many fond memories of shaking my tail feathers to that song at every single college dance a decade ago. I am ashamed to admit I still know every word and sang them out loud while I booty danced around the bedroom.
Sad but true, folks. Sad but true.
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Saturday, August 29, 2009
Saturday, August 15, 2009
Nostalgia
It's silly and kind of pathetic to admit but six years post-college, I still get a little nostalgic every fall as the kiddies move into dorms, twitter about class schedules, who's rooming with whom and who broke up or made up over the summer. It's worse than ever this year, as my baby sister embarks on her freshman year at a big ol' Southern university not too far from my own alma mater. I was so sad not to be there for move-in day but I made up for it by
Of course, being the sappy girl that I am, I dragged out all my college scrapbooks and fondly relived those four years
If you need me, I'll be the couch with a glass of wine and a pile of scrapbooks, making a list for my baby sis.
Saturday, July 25, 2009
Six Word Saturday - Vacation Edition
Six Word Saturday is the blog carnival hosted every Saturday (clever, right?) by Show My Face. I could write volumes about our ten glorious days in the South, but I have neither the time nor the patience for that. Plus, I like you too much to put you through all that. You're welcome. So here's our vacation - six word Saturday style.
Only at Quaker Steak & Lube
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Nate - Ready for his first triathlon
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Lovely bride. Handsome groom. Best wishes!
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Pretty pals pose poutily with pockets.
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Rookie's not sure about new addition.
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Nate gets in a little 'practice'.
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This is art? Who'd buy this?
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Apparently, these guys. Really, boys? Seriously?
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Good times were had by all.
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Nate got more than he expected.
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The Fearsome Foursome - Miss you guys!
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Tuesday, July 7, 2009
Tuesdays at the Table
The second weekend of our vacation next week will be spent celebrating the wedding of a college friend in the town where we all went to school. We are, of course, super stoked to spend a few days with our college pals. The boys been calling non-stop the last two days, planning and plotting their no-doubt appropriately adult juvenile activities. The part I'm maybe not so stoked about - we're staying in the college dorm where the boys spent their senior year. As in bringing our own linens, sleeping in twin beds and showering in the nastiness that is a boys' college dorm room. I could barely stand to use the bathroom in there five years ago. I shudder to consider the state of the showers and what has likely gone on there in days past. Note to self: Pack rain boots for showering.
Sleeping arrangements aside, I am still super psyched. So in honor of our upcoming adventure, I'm going to share a favorite recipe from those hallowed halls. My friend Tre introduced us to this tastiness fall semester of freshman year. I am pretty sure five of my freshman fifteen came from this bean dip. For four years the bean dip was Tre's signature dish. She would share the love, but never the recipe. Then the last week of senior year - TADA! A sweet card and the recipe for all her girls! Now that's friendship.
So when we moved on the grad school, I made the bean dip my signature dish. 1. It's easy. 2. It has less than 10 ingredients. My kind of dish, right? Pretty soon, I wasn't allowed to make anything but Tre's Bean Dip for tailgating. In fact, I think I would have been turned away at the door if I'd ever dared to bring something else! Six years and two states later, I still take this to practically every tailgate, cookout and Euchre party.
Ingredients:
2 cans pre-seasoned black beans
1 small jar of cumin
1 16 ounce jar of sour cream
1 packet taco seasoning
2 jars salsa (Mix mild and medium or medium and hot)
1 large package of Mexican style cheese
Tortillas for dipping
Instructions:
1. Drain black beans and pour into 13x9 pan.
2. Sprinkle 2 tbsp cumin on beans and stir until beans are coated. Spread beans across bottom of pan.
3. In a separate bowl, mix taco seasoning and sour cream. Layer on top of beans.
4. Layer salsa on top of sour cream.
5. Sprinkle on as much cheese as desired. (I use the whole darn package!)
6. Chill in fridge for one hour OR heat in oven at 350.
7. Serve with tortilla chips for dipping.
8. Say a little thank you to God that Tre shared this recipe once upon a time.
Sleeping arrangements aside, I am still super psyched. So in honor of our upcoming adventure, I'm going to share a favorite recipe from those hallowed halls. My friend Tre introduced us to this tastiness fall semester of freshman year. I am pretty sure five of my freshman fifteen came from this bean dip. For four years the bean dip was Tre's signature dish. She would share the love, but never the recipe. Then the last week of senior year - TADA! A sweet card and the recipe for all her girls! Now that's friendship.
So when we moved on the grad school, I made the bean dip my signature dish. 1. It's easy. 2. It has less than 10 ingredients. My kind of dish, right? Pretty soon, I wasn't allowed to make anything but Tre's Bean Dip for tailgating. In fact, I think I would have been turned away at the door if I'd ever dared to bring something else! Six years and two states later, I still take this to practically every tailgate, cookout and Euchre party.
Tre's Bean Dip
Ingredients:
2 cans pre-seasoned black beans
1 small jar of cumin
1 16 ounce jar of sour cream
1 packet taco seasoning
2 jars salsa (Mix mild and medium or medium and hot)
1 large package of Mexican style cheese
Tortillas for dipping
Instructions:
1. Drain black beans and pour into 13x9 pan.
2. Sprinkle 2 tbsp cumin on beans and stir until beans are coated. Spread beans across bottom of pan.
3. In a separate bowl, mix taco seasoning and sour cream. Layer on top of beans.
4. Layer salsa on top of sour cream.
5. Sprinkle on as much cheese as desired. (I use the whole darn package!)
6. Chill in fridge for one hour OR heat in oven at 350.
7. Serve with tortilla chips for dipping.
8. Say a little thank you to God that Tre shared this recipe once upon a time.
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
The (Short) Story of Us
The lovely Cole from All the Small Stuff has bestowed upon me the Honest Scrap Award. Thanks, girl!
I must list 10 honest things about myself. But I talk about myself a lot here already, so in honor of the ninth anniversary of our first date (!), I am going to let you in on 10 honest things about my love and I.
1. No, I am not that girl. You know, the one who remembers and celebrates every.single.tiny anniversary. (We've been together 9 years. We barely celebrate the actual anniversary. ) It's more like I have a lot of time on my hands and was looking through old scrapbooks while I was organizing. Made me a little nostalgic.
2. We met at an assembly on my first day at college. I vividly recall every detail of that day. He'd been there two weeks already which might explain why he has absolutely no memory of meeting me that day.
3. We had a class together that first semester but I didn't start crushing on him until around Thanksgiving. He broke my heart when he came back from Christmas break with a girlfriend.
4. While he was dating said girlfriend and I was secretly pining away for him, he tried to set me up with his best friend. This did not go over well.
5. I basically begged him to go on our first date. He asked me to the Spring Fling at 2:00am the morning of the dance. Desperate much? (For the record, I had never behaved that way over a boy in my life.)
6. I managed to fall asleep in the car on the way home from the much longed for first date. He kissed me goodnight anyway.
7. The proposal two years later involved another school dance, a Secret Society, poison ivy, a midnight walk in the winter woods and 2,000 twinkling Christmas lights.
8. We took our vows very seriously. Especially that little 'in sickness or health' bit. Nate got sick at the wedding reception and I got food poisoning on the honeymoon. Love me, love my stomach ailments.
9. Nate has a habit of bestowing nicknames on his nearest and dearest. I got mine second semester of college. Nine years later, it still gives me a little thrill to hear him say it.
10. I love to watch Nate play soccer. I spent many Saturday afternoons cheering him on in college and watching him play now always brings back good memories. It doesn't hurt that he looks damn sexy in soccer shorts. I swoon.
I must list 10 honest things about myself. But I talk about myself a lot here already, so in honor of the ninth anniversary of our first date (!), I am going to let you in on 10 honest things about my love and I.1. No, I am not that girl. You know, the one who remembers and celebrates every.single.tiny anniversary. (We've been together 9 years. We barely celebrate the actual anniversary. ) It's more like I have a lot of time on my hands and was looking through old scrapbooks while I was organizing. Made me a little nostalgic.
2. We met at an assembly on my first day at college. I vividly recall every detail of that day. He'd been there two weeks already which might explain why he has absolutely no memory of meeting me that day.
3. We had a class together that first semester but I didn't start crushing on him until around Thanksgiving. He broke my heart when he came back from Christmas break with a girlfriend.
4. While he was dating said girlfriend and I was secretly pining away for him, he tried to set me up with his best friend. This did not go over well.
5. I basically begged him to go on our first date. He asked me to the Spring Fling at 2:00am the morning of the dance. Desperate much? (For the record, I had never behaved that way over a boy in my life.)
6. I managed to fall asleep in the car on the way home from the much longed for first date. He kissed me goodnight anyway.
7. The proposal two years later involved another school dance, a Secret Society, poison ivy, a midnight walk in the winter woods and 2,000 twinkling Christmas lights.
8. We took our vows very seriously. Especially that little 'in sickness or health' bit. Nate got sick at the wedding reception and I got food poisoning on the honeymoon. Love me, love my stomach ailments.
9. Nate has a habit of bestowing nicknames on his nearest and dearest. I got mine second semester of college. Nine years later, it still gives me a little thrill to hear him say it.
10. I love to watch Nate play soccer. I spent many Saturday afternoons cheering him on in college and watching him play now always brings back good memories. It doesn't hurt that he looks damn sexy in soccer shorts. I swoon.
Thursday, January 29, 2009
Feta makes anything betta'
I have been tagged half a dozen times in Facebook with this '25 Things about Me' thing, so since you are all clearly dying to know more about yours truly, here you go.
1. I put feta cheese on just about anything - hamburgers, spaghetti, Lean Cuisines. It is my firm belief that feta makes anything better.
2. I quit piano lessons after two years. I begged and whined until my parents let me use that money towards extra dance lessons. Yeah, I haven't danced in 15 years and I regret my choice every time I hear someone play the piano. My (future) children will all play instruments and they will thank me when they are older.
3. I hate manicures. I am too Type A to walk around with chips in my nails but I am too lazy to keep them looking nice.
4. I think green Skittles are the best flavor.
5. I always order the exact same drink at Starbucks. The few times I have ventured into other drinks, I have been bitterly disappointed. My motto is 'go with what you know'.
6. I am a Southern gal, who absolutely hates iced tea and grits.
7. I met my husband on the first day of college. I am fairly certain that he doesn't even remember meeting me that day.
8. I overuse the words 'seriously' and 'whatever'.
9. I am dreading the big 3-0. I am still two months away from turning 28.
10. I talk to my dogs like they are human. (I am home all day, every day by myself. You would do it too.)
11. If I could do anything in the world, I would design wrapping paper, tissue paper, ribbons and other gift-wrap items.
12. I hope to become a mother this year.
13. I love cupcake frosting. The best kind is white icing you get at a mass retailer bakery like Wal-mart or Kroger. Food City in Knoxville, TN has the best frosting I have ever tasted. I will gladly trade you the cake part of my cupcake for the frosting part of yours.
14. My middle name is Ryan, my grandmother's maiden name.
15. I had a hideous bowl cut from 1st to 3rd grade. My mother has a thing for bowl cuts. (She did it to three of us! Only Emily survived the mortification of the bowl cut, because Katie and I were old enough to 'save' her from mom! You're welcome, Emily.)
16. I can only read one book at a time. Props to people who have multiple books going on at once.
17. I am more aware of my facial expressions since I noticed lines in my forehead recently. (See also #9).
18. I think Taylor Swift makes an awesome CD but you couldn't pay me to go to her concert. I have never heard a live performance from her that wasn't slightly off key.
19. When I was a kid I wanted to be a lawyer or a fashion buyer.
20. It drives me crazy when people mispronounce 'preferably'.
21. I don't really have a favorite color. It changes all the time.
22. I sometimes wish I was a redhead.
23. I fell asleep on our first date. (And he still asked me out again!)
24. I have vague dreams of becoming a runner but zero self-discipline to make it happen. It sounds like a good idea, in theory...
25. I wish I lived closer to my family.
Now it's your turn to tell useverything we never wanted to know a little bit more about you!
1. I put feta cheese on just about anything - hamburgers, spaghetti, Lean Cuisines. It is my firm belief that feta makes anything better.
2. I quit piano lessons after two years. I begged and whined until my parents let me use that money towards extra dance lessons. Yeah, I haven't danced in 15 years and I regret my choice every time I hear someone play the piano. My (future) children will all play instruments and they will thank me when they are older.
3. I hate manicures. I am too Type A to walk around with chips in my nails but I am too lazy to keep them looking nice.
4. I think green Skittles are the best flavor.
5. I always order the exact same drink at Starbucks. The few times I have ventured into other drinks, I have been bitterly disappointed. My motto is 'go with what you know'.
6. I am a Southern gal, who absolutely hates iced tea and grits.
7. I met my husband on the first day of college. I am fairly certain that he doesn't even remember meeting me that day.
8. I overuse the words 'seriously' and 'whatever'.
9. I am dreading the big 3-0. I am still two months away from turning 28.
10. I talk to my dogs like they are human. (I am home all day, every day by myself. You would do it too.)
11. If I could do anything in the world, I would design wrapping paper, tissue paper, ribbons and other gift-wrap items.
12. I hope to become a mother this year.
13. I love cupcake frosting. The best kind is white icing you get at a mass retailer bakery like Wal-mart or Kroger. Food City in Knoxville, TN has the best frosting I have ever tasted. I will gladly trade you the cake part of my cupcake for the frosting part of yours.
14. My middle name is Ryan, my grandmother's maiden name.
15. I had a hideous bowl cut from 1st to 3rd grade. My mother has a thing for bowl cuts. (She did it to three of us! Only Emily survived the mortification of the bowl cut, because Katie and I were old enough to 'save' her from mom! You're welcome, Emily.)
16. I can only read one book at a time. Props to people who have multiple books going on at once.
17. I am more aware of my facial expressions since I noticed lines in my forehead recently. (See also #9).
18. I think Taylor Swift makes an awesome CD but you couldn't pay me to go to her concert. I have never heard a live performance from her that wasn't slightly off key.
19. When I was a kid I wanted to be a lawyer or a fashion buyer.
20. It drives me crazy when people mispronounce 'preferably'.
21. I don't really have a favorite color. It changes all the time.
22. I sometimes wish I was a redhead.
23. I fell asleep on our first date. (And he still asked me out again!)
24. I have vague dreams of becoming a runner but zero self-discipline to make it happen. It sounds like a good idea, in theory...
25. I wish I lived closer to my family.
Now it's your turn to tell us
Sunday, August 17, 2008
The Way We Were
Along with the vacation pics, Shelton and Liz sent a few pics from our college days. It's hard to believe that it's been five years since we graduated. The pics made me a little nostalgic for our college days.
This was Bond Night in November of senior year. We all dressed up as James Bond characters and went to see the latest Bond movie on opening weekend.
'Bond' and his Bond Girls.
This was the night after Nate and I got engaged. We went out with nearly every one of our friends that night and we couldn't tell a soul that we were engaged because my candlelight wasn't until the following night. It was one of the longest nights of my life!
The boys as various Bond characters.
Nate and Shelton enjoy their martinis shaken, not stirred.
Hope you Erskine kids enjoy the walk down memory lane! I think the whole Bond weekend was one of my favorite weekends ever. What was your favorite Erskine memory?
This was Bond Night in November of senior year. We all dressed up as James Bond characters and went to see the latest Bond movie on opening weekend.
'Bond' and his Bond Girls.
This was the night after Nate and I got engaged. We went out with nearly every one of our friends that night and we couldn't tell a soul that we were engaged because my candlelight wasn't until the following night. It was one of the longest nights of my life!
The boys as various Bond characters.
Nate and Shelton enjoy their martinis shaken, not stirred.
Hope you Erskine kids enjoy the walk down memory lane! I think the whole Bond weekend was one of my favorite weekends ever. What was your favorite Erskine memory?
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