Are you watching ABC's Happy Endings? If not, you should check it out.
Any who... last night's episode had a reference to hipsters. Oh hipsters... you are odd, snobby, ironically fashionable and you are fun to watch. Nashville had their fair share of hipsters, East Nashville to be exact. But this show cracked me up because they had the hipsters defined to a tee. I just wonder if they found it as humorous as I did.
But, in honesty, hipsters, I have love for you. Even if your desire is to be unique and not care about your appearance, but you all dress the same and you do strive to be trendy. Cheers!
A month and a half ago Zac and I put an offer on a house. (You don't remember that: here is something to remind you.) After several agonizing weeks dealing with lenders and what not we finally closed!
Sadly, it will be over a week before we will be living there because we have to wait on the movers. But we did take Cotton there to introduce him to his new home. He loves the place, he has tons of room to run around inside.
I'll keep you posted as we move in and settle in the new place.
Here is an interesting article on our new neighborhood: NY Times
Zac and I have had an amazing week this week. I started my job and I am so optimistic about my future there at AE.
Thursday night we went to a KT Tunstall solo show in a convert music hall that was formally a church, you can imange the acoustics there were amazing. Her solo show consisted of her, her guitar or piano, and a loop machine. I am a huge fan of KT's music and she is so fun and witty everytime I see her in concert. You should remember her from her hit in 2006ish with Black Horse and Cherry Tree, but since then she has mainly stayed on the independent music scene. Here is a clip of that song from the show.
Saturday was a rainy spring day, so we ventured out to the suburbs to price shop IKEA furniture and to find some home decoration inspiration. We were able to leave with only purchasing a coke. However I was very temped to buy a small lamp and a plan for my work desk. That evening the weather cleared up, so we walked to neighborhood Mexican restaurant for some "happy food and margaritas."
Sunday we took a bike tour of the city between our new home and our new work. Spring is definitely blowing in, and I literally mean "blowing in." It was quite a windy day! But the sun was out and everything is starting to bloom. It am so exciting and I can't wait to move in and settle in here!
On the Hot Metal Bridge with the city in the background
Over my shoulder is the AE Corporate office, notice the huge metal eagle on the side of the building.
I hope everyone has had a wonderful weekend. I did, in-fact I have had a nice long weekend. A 44 day weekend to be exact. But that is coming to a close because tomorrow I start my new job. (More on that later!)
But I would rather reminisce on the fun I had this past weekend. Here are some shots from mine and Zac's day at the Pittsburgh Pirates ball game.
The view of the field and the city from our seats.
With in 10 months and 4 days my brother, sister and I were all wed.
I know, I know, my poor parents.
This past weekend my sister married the love of her life, David. It was at our home church and the reception was held at a nearby park. The weather was warm and beautiful. The dogwood trees and azaleas were in full bloom and thankfully for the spring showers earlier that week the pollen was washed away (Yea! no need for Zyrtec).
I was Morgan's Matron of Honor (yeish, that makes me sound old). Jeremy and Abbi were a groomsman and a bridesmaid and Zac was an usher.
Here are some favorite videos from the wedding. ~ There are several more videos on YouTube. Click here for all of the videos that I have uploaded.~
The morning of the wedding we had a Bridal Breakfast at the the Maid of Honor's lake house. So we arrived by boat.
Morgan's friends all helped to make a scrapbook of fun time they had with Morgan. Judith Anne wrote an awesome rap on her page. I love it!
David isn't a huge fan of cake, so they decided to serve Banana Pudding instead. As you can see, David is a fan of pudding!
My 3rd cousin Lucian is such a ham! He gets out on the dance floor and puts on a show at every wedding. David thought that he could hang with him, but I think Lucian has him beat.
Happy wishes to the newly-wed couple! We love you both.
This past week I have been at my parents home in Andalusia Alabama and since then I have been living the hard life.
- I've been shopping with my sister.
- Hanging out with my family.
- I have traveled to Auburn for a day to spend time with Jeremy and Abbi and Morgan.
- I had to go to the beach for the day and I got a sunburn!
- I've spent time with my grandmothers and I have been visiting with a few friends.
Okay, if you have not caught on to my sarcasm yet then please note that I am joking here. My life is far from hard. This coming Saturday is my sister's wedding so I have decided to take advantage of my non-employment time and spend a few weeks with my family and help with the wedding. Zac will be flying down for the wedding then on Sunday we will start our drive up to Pittsburgh where I will stay.
Also, I have some great news on the Pittsburgh home front. I have a job! I will be working at American Eagle. It is a good thing too since we now have a mortgage in Pittsburgh. All that we need now is a renter in Nashville and we are set. (If you are interested click here.)
Here are a few pics from this weeks high-lites.
The house. It is so beautiful here, spring is in full bloom now.
Cotton wants to play with Callie, but he doesn't understand that she hates him and wants to scratch his face.
A day in Destin.
We went to Hilltop Meat Co. to eat crawfish with the family and a few friends. Our waitress was informed that it was mine and Morgan's birthday so they brought us a pack of sausage and a teddy bear. The odd thing is that the teddy bear smells like the meat store.
We are not even a quarter of the way into 2011 and already Zac and I have enough changes to last us a few years. So to summarize in 40 words or less: Zac has a new job with American Eagle, which is in Pittsburgh. He has been there since the end of January and I have been in Nashville finishing up at TSC and preparing the house for the rental market.
Which brings me to where we are this week. We bought a new house! Well actually we are under contract for a new house. We decided to live in the city because we wanted the urban experience where you can walk to the store ride your bike to work. (Well, maybe, we will see. I will 1st have to figure out not to have helment hair at the office.)
Now that we have this place we want visitors! We now have space for guest and want our family and friends to come spend some time with in our new city.
