So Alethea’s most recent post linked to this article about pairing books & alcohol. And seeing how I’m doing a beer tasting tomorrow afternoon then we’ll probably come home and read a little more of my current book obsession (the 5th of the Outlander series, The Fiery Cross) I thought this link would be fun to share with the world. Thanks Alethea!
It’s one year ago tonight we were at the rehearsal dinner then we went to Giggling Mackerel on OIB. That was an awesome night ~ hanging out with out of town family and friends.Jason starts a new job tomorrow in the field that he’s been going to school for and we’re so excited! Bad part is that he also has class tomorrow night so I won’t see him at all on our anniversary. 🙁
We made dinner tonight for a little celebration and hope to go out to dinner to celebrate once he gets paid 🙂 My parents were in town this weekend for the NCSU game (I won’t even go there about how horrible both the game & the rain were!). My mom and I shopped some Saturday then went to church and to the farmers market today. We picked up tomatoes and sweet potatoes. The tomato we cut up for sandwiches and also in a dinner salad. We baked the sweet potatoes for dinner and they were awesome! I really don’t know why I’d never been to the farmers market before! Oh and we picked up fresh banana pudding from the restaurant. Oh wow~ it was amazing!
Go Pack! I’m so glad its football season again! This weekend a bunch of my college girls and their significant others came in town for the game & tailgating. We had so much fun! And to make it even better, NCSU WON!! Will add pictures soon of the good times 🙂
Speaking of books, I’ve been on a reading kick and a library kick. I requested the next Outlander book, all the Jodi Picoult books I haven’t read ( I think 4), Cocktails for Three, The Kite Runner (Chi O alum book for Aug), Thousand Splendid Suns (nestie book for Sept), Lipstick Jungle (I want to read before the series returns), oh and The Virgin’s Lover (Phillippa Gregory’s book on Elizabeth). That said, if you don’t see or hear from me for a little while, it’s because I’m buried in books and trying my darnest to read my way out!!!
We’re back home for a week or so. Two weekends ago I went up to VA to hang out with my parents. I crashed a birthday group dinner with like 12 of my mom’s friends. It was a salad food theme which was so yummy. Lots of wine was enjoyed and it was so fun!
We left Friday for a long weekend in OIB. There’s almost nothing better to me than laying on the beach in the late afternoon with a good book and a cold beer. We went out in the intercoastal Sunday after early beach church on my cousin’s boat. It was so great to be on a boat again~ it’d been a while. She’s talking about selling it, but I hope we can go out on it again before she does.
I was able to finish the second Outlander book (Dragonfly in Amber) and started Jodi Picoult’s Harvesting the Heart while we were down there. I checked out Voyager (the third Outlander book) and hope to start it this weekend. I’m hooked!