The Saturday Short..

Greetings friends! 

The Boo and I are out and about early today. Had a waffle or two at a 'new' place in midtown.. The morning is loving us with its sunrays and joy. The kind of morning where you ride with all the windows down and can't believe life is so good.

We're off to a festival now, which I'm sure will be filled with smiling crowds,  laughter,  and mysterious crafts that I will be tempted to buy.  I love a good festival, don't you? I have such good memories in my childhood of going to them.

What are you doing today?

Ciao!

Girl's Night & Food Adventure #31

Greetings!

Are you as ready for Friday as I am? I totally live for the weekend. Last Friday, me and my friend Stacie D had a Girl's Night at Atlantic Station. You got everything you need down there from Ikea, to clothing stores, restaurants, grocery stores, and of course the movie theater!

The night consisted of some shopping, dinner at Chick-a-Biddy (weird name I know) and going to see Single Mom's Club. Total chick flick, right? Are you like me and you try to take photos of everything? :) I mean... you have to celebrate the occasion with pictures, right? Right!!

(Stacie D)

Per usual in Atlanta, (which to this day I do NOT understand) the family at the next table was staring at us. You know how you will be minding your own business and then all of a sudden you can just feel someone looking at you? Yeah.. that happened. The funny thing about people that stare is, they never bother to speak and when you catch them staring, they just keep on staring!!! Whaaaa? Why?

I love it when you're having a silly moment and then some stranger comes up and participates in the fun. One of the servers there at Chick-a-Biddy skipped over to us and said, 'Hey! Are you trying to take a picture?' I was totally trying to take a picture. I said yes of course. Then he says, 'You looked like you were trying to do something funny so just do the same thing.' He proceeds to take his own picture with my phone and then snaps a picture of us. Here are the results. :)

Stacie D and I both got chicken and waffles. I've never had the combo before, but I liked it. It's a definite repeat performance. I've been to Gladys & Ron's before, but didn't get the chicken and waffles.. I guess I'll have to try that next!

Until the next adventure....

Ciao!

Food Adventure #29

Greetings…

 

Saturday was a beautiful sunny day and perfect for my first Food Adventure for the year! I was really craving some Mexican Food, so The Boo and I traveled downtown for what so far seems to be the best Mexican place in Atlanta. It’s not often that you will find well-seasoned authentic Mexican, but this place does.

Welcome to Las Margarita’s!

 

I tried to take more inside pictures, but the host that sat us came up a little too quickly for me to covertly snap any more than two pictures and as you can see, one is fuzzy! I’ve been here two other times to be exact. Don’t even ask me what I got before, because I haven’t the foggiest! J However this time I got the chicken quesadilla supremo.

 

 

Whenever I go to a new Mexican (or Tex-Mex) spot I always try the quesadilla. I mean… you can’t really mess that up can you? This one didn’t come with any cheese on it, which I thought that was weird. I was like, ‘Am I missing something here?’ I figured why not try something different and I proceeded to eat it though, because it was good. I’m not a true fan of guacamole, but the stuff they served was awesome so I pretty much killed it.

 

Have you had any really good Mexican or food in general lately? Pretty soon I’m going to start a breakfast quest, because well….. I love breakfast! I’m not talking about the typical IHop, Denny’s or (in the case of the south) Waffle House. I’m talking real on purpose breakfast spots that serve it all day because breakfast is the awesomest meal EVER and Granny and nem are in the back sprinkling magical delicious secret ingredients in the food kind of places! So until the next adventure…

Ciao!

A.  Sparkle

Suited & Booted

Greetings all!

Can I just say that I'm glad this work day is over and now I can concentrate on the job after my job. In other words play in my yarn. :) I'm so excited about the new project that I'm starting. I'm making a baby blanket by request in white, red, silver and turquoise. I wasn't sure how these colors would work together, but I've decided that I like them. You can tell me what you think as well!

 It doesn't need to be done until December, so I'm glad I have enough time so that I can really plot everything out. Also I think that I'll go ahead and add the boarders around the individual granny squares instead of having to do it all later. Doing boarders AND whip stitching just seems like too much of a daunting task. I'm sure The Boo would find me either passed out in the corner somewhere from exhaustion with the crochet hook dangling from my hand or I'll be sitting on the couch rocking back and forth mumbling to myself because I've finally gone insane from repeating too much of the same thing! lol!

So in other news, in my last post, I showed you the newest scarf I had completed that had lots of bright colors and tassels. Well, me and The Boo went to the park over the weekend and I felt like it was gonna be a great time to take pictures with this particular scarf. The weather was beautiful, sunny skies and nice breezes, we had an awesome lunch consisting of cheesesteaks and chips and then we wandered off to the park. Took some great pictures, walked around and then we were off to take in a movie. It was rounding out to be quite a perfect day. When we got back to the car there was a lovely note and surprise waiting on us. There was a nice yellow BOOT on my tire and the note said to call to have it removed! Also in fine print it said that if the boot was tampered with then it was a $450 fine!!!

I was quite amused myself because in all of my years of parking where I wasn't supposed to I've never been booted or towed. Looks like it was my turn. So in my mind this is what was going on, 'OMG!!! I've really done it now! How long is this gonna take?!?! Will it be hours? Will me and The Boo be temporarily homeless out here in the hot sun while people stare at us and my booted car.....!!!??!' So yes, I had a mini freak out moment. I called the number and the dude didn't say hello. All he said was 'I'll be right there.' and then hung up. So like 2 min later he magically appeared out of thin air and explained that him and his supervisor saw us leave the parking lot. Apparently your not supposed to and they have tiny tiny signs stating as such. I think The Boo wanted to smash Mr. I Booted Your Car in the face and he could tell, because he was looking awfully shy and scared. I felt sorry for the guy. I'm sure plenty of people have yelled and cursed the poor guy out when they were in the wrong and he was just doing his job. So he explained that the fine was $75 and whipped out his Square-ish looking device and ran the credit card to take away my hard earned ducketts. All I could do was laugh after it was all said and done. So yeah that was my weekend adventure! Here is a preview of the what's to be posted on Etsy soon.

So kiddies, did you have a weekend adventure or adventure period? Let me know!

~PEACE~

A. Sparkle