A Theme song of sorts

It works for me on so many levels. I am pavement girl after all!

Chasing Pavements

Return of the Beer Flight

My friends are awesome. Seriously. Major kudos to Amber for having us over for Pot Roast night. She has proved that adding a little bacon makes everything better. Kudos go out to Kristen for bringing the beer so we could continue the tradition of beer flights with pot roast. This week's offerings were:
Anchor Steam
Tire Byte Golden Ale
Top Dog Doggie Style Classic Pale Ale
Smithwicks
Hop Hound Amber Wheat

Leinie's Berrywiess

It always strikes me funny - I forget that Leinenkugals isn't local here. They haven't heard of it! It is the beer of my college years, what can I say. Brings me back to pitchers on Saturday nights at Murphy's. Good times, both then and now! I look foward to my next oppertunity to celebrate at Murphys (next weekend perhaps?) as well as the next flight of beer!

Iron Chef: Guinness

I am an Iron Chef Success! The event was supper club. The theme was Guinness in honor of our good friend St. Patrick and the whole Irish thing.

The menu:
Guinness Cheese and Crackers
Corned beef and Veggies in GUiness Sauce
Guinness and Oat Bread
Irish Trifecta Cupcakes

It was amazing. Seriously. The corned beef was coated in brown sugar and then Guinness was poured over it. It was seriously good - ranked up there wtih desert bacon.

Trifecta Cupcakes: Guinness and chocolate cupcakes with a Jameson's enhanced chocolate ganache filling and Baily's frosting and green sprinkles.

Everyone had a great time and the weather cooperated so we had room for folks to hang out on the patio. Peeps, I'm trying to be a better hostess - my house is so perfect for entertaining, we must have more oppertunities to socialize chez sarah.

Tigers all around!

I must have gone to a really good psychic this year. Right now i'm still sitting pretty with my bracket.

It doesn't hurt that I have no regional loyalty. I just watched Mizzou bust 3/4 of the brackets in our office tourney. Yay Mizzou. Who ever thought they would hear me say that one?

36 in a 35...

I love this ad. It makes me smile.

Hoosier Visitors

A couple of weeks ago I had the pleasure of getting some visitors from up north. My cousin Abby and my biological non-niece Nora came down to spend part of their sping break somewhere warm. I can't say I blame them, South Bend was getting 8 inches of snow while we were basking in balmy 75-80 degree spring weather. This was the first time either Abby or Nora had stepped foot into the deep southern state of MS. They had an enjoyable trip down on the Amtrak, and we had fun times together.

I picked them up on Saturday afternoon, and we took a trip to Lorelei Books. HOw cool is it that Nora's face lit up and she got totally excited when we said bookstore!!! She isn't the product of two Literary People by chance, huh?

Sunday we made a day of it - first heading to the Park at Catfish row, a fun new park down near the Mississipi River. Seriously, parks weren't this nice when we were little!

No trip to Vickburg is complete without stopping by the Military Park!

Nora was particularly fond of my children, her last word the night of her first night here was Daisy. I think Daisy and Ma-sen listened to her better than to me!

We were very sad to see them go, although I think the Jersey Girls were pretty tired out! Until next time, it was a great trip!!

Bracketology

For some reason some of my coworkers are suprised that I know about bracketology. Go Figure.

Peeps - I'm from the Big 10. We are a basketball school, we only pretend to be a football school. Anybody remember the Flying Illini? Actually, I don't. I'm too young. But I do remember the Smilin' Illini.