walk like an egyptian

Last night we went to the Fox for a special lecture by the famous archaeologist Zahi Hawass. If you ever watch National Geographic specials or pretty much anything on ancient Egypt you'll recognize him. And yes, going to a history lecture on a Thursday night probably qualifies us as either old, boring, or dorks - or maybe all three! but it was really very interesting. Dr. Hawassi talked about and showed pictures of his work finding, excavating, and preserving sites like King Tut's tomb and the Valley of the Golden Mummy! This all goes along with the big King Tut exhibit that is in Atlanta until May. I'm hoping to go soon as I've heard that it's amazing and a really well-done exhibit.

Hope everyone has a delightful weekend!

one 2009 resolution down....

One of my resolutions for this year was to eat better, ie more vegetables and fruit, less sugar. After reading The Omnivore's Dilemma I became really interested in how organic and/or local produce impacts the environment and our bodies. I'll skip the boring and probably convoluted thought process I had about this but the end result is that I decided to join a CSA, which stands for Community Supported Agriculture. You basically buy a "share" of a local farm at the beginning of the season and then share in the output from the farm all season long. I just got a welcome email from the farm today and I can't wait until April when we start picking up our produce!

a new dog obsession.....

I'm loving The Daily Wag - Martha Stewart's latest blog written by her two French bulldogs Francesca and Sharkey. Frenchies are distantly related to Pugs - they both fall into that stout, snorty dog category ;)

an amazing weekend in store...

After having 2 inches of snow on the first day of March, spring has now arrived in Atlanta. It's supposed to be in the mid to upper 70's all weekend - I can't wait! Just today while I was running errands at lunch, I noticed tons more trees and plants starting to bloom.

No big plans this weekend really. We're having our friends C & A over for dinner tonight to celebrate their recent engagement! Other than that, I plan to spend as much time as possible outside. Probably a run, some biking around the city, walking Jackson and maybe spending some time at the park. Oh and with the arrival of "typical" grilling weather, I'm betting that my dear husband will cook 3 dinners this weekend on the infamous Egg ;) I tease him endlessly about his egg obsession but really I love it. We're making salmon for dinner tonight and cooking on the grill = less clean up for me and no fishy smell in the house!

Hope everyone has a wonderful weekend full of flowers, sunshine, and the promise of Spring!

Is this the cutest dog in Atlanta?

We'll soon find out since I just entered him in Atlanta magazine's Cutest Pet contest. There are tons of adorable dogs already entered, including a few pugs. But Jackson is definitely the cutest - not that I'm biased or anything ;)

TGIF

Even though this week was a short one (due to the President's Day holiday on Monday), it has felt really long. It's been a weird week too.

Monday, on our day off, Cary and I went to the gym then showered up and went to West Egg for brunch. It was absolutely delicious and I can't believe we've waited so long to try it. Breakfast food is my favorite so it was a nice treat. Then we were planning to take Jackson to the park since it was a semi-nice day.

Before we could get to that, we had some unwelcome excitement on our street. I glanced out the window and noticed that it was really smoky outside and then I saw our neighbor outside with her two adorable little boys. I panicked and ran outside to hear and see fire trucks racing down our street. A house across the street from ours and about 3 houses down was on fire. Not just a little either - we're talking flames shooting 20 feet above the roof. It took more than 3 hours for the firefighters to put it out. It was a truly terrifying event. Luckily, there was no one home and I later learned that the guy who lived there was on his way out of town so he had his dog with him. That's pretty much the only thing that made me feel a tiny bit better. It's very unsettling though to drive past the house and see basically nothing but bricks. We didn't even know the guy but my heart goes out for him. How terrible it must feel to see your entire home destroyed.

Now that I'm done being depressing...

We also had a visitor this week - Cary's twin brother who was in town for 2 days. We had a great time showing him around Atlanta. Cary grilled on the Big Green Egg (which he's obsessed with) and we just enjoyed hanging out.

So now it's finally Friday. I don't have much going on at work today so I'm planning to catch up on some things, organize myself a bit and look forward to Friday Jazz at the High Museum. Hope everyone has a fantastic weekend!

Spring!

For someone like me who hates the cold, dark days of winter, the past few days have been absolute heaven. It's been near 70 degrees since the beginning of the weekend and I'm loving it! Unfortunately the crazy temperature switch has given me a nasty sore throat, which I'm trying to cure by practically drowning myself with water.
Sunday we went for a long bike ride around our neighborhood, through Midtown and then to Piedmont Park. I'll just say that I'm not the only one really looking forward to spring. The park was packed and it was so wonderful to see so many people and dogs out enjoying the weather. Let's hope that the groundhog was wrong about six more weeks of winter!