New Furniture!

Good news! We now have all the basic pieces of furniture! This past week our dining chairs arrived, and we purchased our coffee table from CB2 (thanks Mom!). Below is our dining table, complete with fake Eames chairs.

And here's a picture of our living room with our new coffee table. There's Seth hard at work on the left.

The weekends seem to be flying by. Before I can even catch my breath, it's Monday. On Friday night we attended a Daily Show event, where a producer from the show, a correspondent - Al Madrigal - and a contributor - John Hodgman - all performed stand-up. As Georgia Tech faculty, I got a discount on tickets, so the show was really cheap. And hilarious! Well, Hodgman was hilarious. The producer was fine, and Al Madrigal was kind of a big disappointment. But overall, the show was very entertaining, and one of the first events we've attended since moving to Atlanta. Saturday I cut my hair - just a much needed trim, nothing drastic - and Seth worked on his animation project while I took a 3 hour nap. Did I mention I was tired? Today we ran a few errands and saw Looper, which was great. So good. I would recommend it to anyone. Seriously, go see it now. Tonight the Galaxy play the Rapids, so my night is booked. Then back to work tomorrow!

Another post that talks about the weather

I really didn't want to be that person who has a blog where all they talk about is the weather and food. But I am going to be that person, and I think there's a reason that people do this - because that's the stuff you remember when you sit down to write at the end of the day. Also, my mood and general outlook is surprisingly highly influenced by both my temperature and happiness about what I've eaten.

So, I spoke too soon when I said that I thought Atlanta was cooling down. This weekend was quite toasty - especially Saturday. Sunday was a little cooler because it was really overcast (the forecast for tomorrow is thunderstorms - it's never just rain here, always thunderstorms), which in turn meant it was also more humid. But, the weather channel shows temperatures dropping below 70 next week and then staying there until the end of the month. 70 sounds pretty good to me, so here's hoping that the good folks over at the Weather Channel, which is headquartered here in Atlanta!, are doing their due diligence.

This weekend I made cobbler, and it was soooooooooo delicious. I think most things are delicious, especially when butter sugar flour crumbles are baked on top, but Seth is usually a harder sell on food. But he ate a ton of the cobbler, which is how I know he likes something. If he doesn't like what I've cooked, or what he's cooked, he won't say so, he will just only eat one bite. The cobbler was apple, blackberry, and walnuts. Yum yum yum. It's all gone, so you know I liked it. Next weekend I'm going to try out this recipe for peanut butter and honey cupcakes. Cupcakes are good because I can take the leftovers into work. I'm still new, and I'm not above bribing my co-workers to like me.

Saturday was spent watching the Galaxy game (We have a Roku now, and I paid for the MLS channel. They let us access an archive of most games, so when the Galaxy play at 11:00 pm Eastern time, I don't have to stay up - I can just watch in the morning) and running errands. And making and eating cobbler. Today we went bowling in the morning, then bought frames for our art.

 It looks a little bleak from this angle and in this light, but this bowling alley is so freaking cute. We drove by it a few weekends ago, and I have been wanting to go since then.

 Here's me kicking butt. I bowled like a 125 on the last game. I was pretty excited about it.

 Seth did pretty well too. You may notice that there is no one else in the bowling alley. Needless to say, Sunday mornings in Atlanta aren't a super popular time to go bowling. All the better for us!

Here's one of our prints hung proudly on the wall. Also this is the amazing sparkly pumpkin I bought at Target!

 Here's a peak into our living room, and you can see some more art stuffs on the wall.

You cannot buy liquor at grocery stores in Atlanta

Today we learned that Georgia is one of those states that has strange rules about where and when you can buy alcohol. I was really excited to try and make this caramel apple martini (http://www.abeautifulmess.com/2012/09/caramel-apple-martini.html), but our Kroger only sells wine and beer. Well, all grocery stores only sell beer and wine. So we found a liquor store, but it was a little creepy, and it didn't have the weird flavors of schnapps that the drink required. So now I'm drinking a plain old gin and tonic. Still pretty good.

This past week was pretty fantastic. The weather seems to have finally turned, and instead of highs in the mid-90's, we usually have highs in the low-80's. It is sooo pleasant to be outside these days. Maybe we'll go hiking this weekend!

Here are some photos from Georgia Tech, taken on my way into work. The sky was just too pretty to not photograph. That's super cheesy, but after living in a city known for its smog for nine years, skies like this are noteworthy. I'm not sure what that tower is, but it looks nice in the picture.

The building in this picture (below) is Clough Commons, which is attached to the Library, which is where I work. Look at those clouds!

You can tell this was early morning (like 7:45) because there are no students anywhere. The walkway in the picture above is the Tech walkway (everything at Georgia Tech is named "Tech" + a description of what the thing is, so there's a "Tech Parkway," "Tech Square," and "Tech Park"), and it's usually pretty lively and crowded.

Anyways, things are great over here, and we're looking forward to the weekend!

One Month

Tomorrow morning will mark the one month anniversary since moving to Atlanta. We left LA on August 4th, after packing everything in the moving truck and our cars, and spent five days on the road before arriving at our new home. Seth made a lovely movie about the drive - he filmed whatever was in front of him on the hour, every hour that we were in our cars... And we were in our cars a lot, so there's a lot of great stuff to see.

Unfortunately, the route we took to drive from LA to Atlanta was not a particularly scenic one. When we were driving, in our climate controlled cars,  I would look around at the wide open spaces, and wonder why more people didn't live there. And then we would get out of cars, or I would look at the temperature gauge on my car, and suddenly it would made perfect sense.

Despite the lack of hills, plant/animal life, or civilization, parts of the drive were quite beautiful.

And after braving the torrential downpour that swept across Alabama and Georgia on the 9th (you can see some of the rain in Seth's movie), we pulled up to our building, soooo grateful to have finished the cross country trek. We didn't have our furniture - we slept on an air mattress for two weeks - but we did have this view from our deck!