Why I Do Not Go To Walmart

Apparently this guy (crotchety looking, huh?) slapped some woman's child in Walmart outside Atlanta. Please read the story- its horrifying, yet absolutely hilarious.

http://www.ajc.com/news/gwinnett/man-slaps-strangers-crying-129235.html?imw=Y

My Hood

So Friday evening I started out on a little run (part of football season preparation rest and rejuvenation weekend). However, I immediately turned around and strolled (hobbled) home. Thanks for never going away shin splints! You're awesome!

However, I was antsy and needed to move, so I brought my camera, and accomplished two of my favorite things- listening to a book on my ipod, and looking at houses. There is an especially cute section of my neighborhood consisting of cottages (most with rope swings hanging from a tree, naturally). Ahhh, Americana.

I really like whitewashed brick. You see this look all the time in Peachtree Hills, Garden Hills, and Buckhead in Atlanta, but it's not common in my hometown.

Love the rambling, added-on feel of this cottage, especially the side with the front porch. I can't live without a front and back porch.

Check out with arched wooden front door with the ivy- very English country village, no?

I heart these Adirondack chairs in red. Sigh.


Although I prefer a porch opposed to a stoop, this remodeled cottage looks light, bright and airy. I want those huge transom windows.

Hey Puppy! Woof!

This brick Federal is not my style, but I love the color they have painted the brick in combination with the black front door and grey shutters.

And finally my favorite- a true fairy tale cottage.

The Hansel and Gretel look is diametrically different from what I will build eventually, but I have always been drawn to them.

So cosy! I want to sit in a window nook and drink tea and read my book! Actually I want to do that everywhere, but this little house is especially conducive to such activity.

New York (part 2)

So continuing on the theme of Hubs' 30th birthday and why I am the best wife ever. . .

Yankees-Red Sox game Saturday afternoon at 1:00. He really is going to be kissing the ground I walk on after this one.

Then for Saturday night I am thinking Strip House. Has anyone ever been there? It was recommended to me as a guy's place. Hubs hates trendy or pretentious. If you've been there let me know!

We'll probably go out afterwards with some friends (if not in a food coma). If still hungry, I will definitely have to stop by Gray's Papaya. I interned in NYC one summer, and lived on the corner of West 8th and 6th Avenue. Since my internship was non-paid, I ate a lot of hot dogs. Not the most nutritious summer perhaps. . .

As for Sunday, I suppose we will do some sight seeing. Any ideas? I was thinking the usual- Central Park, Chinatown, etc. We have all day. Our flight does not leave until 9 PM, meaning we don't get back til midnight Sunday night. I will be a paragon of good cheer on Monday I'm sure. Hmmph.