Vanna - GA

I went with my bf to Savannah, GA this weekend and we had a great time. The weather was VERY hot and very muggy, but despite that we were enjoying ourselves. Overall it would have been a great weekend except for 2 things:
1. We got a BS parking ticket on Tybee Island. We put 3 hours worth of coins into the meter and came back literally 3 hours later to a ticket on the window. Its like the meter maid stood there and just waited for the meter to run out so he could write us a ticket. It was such a bummer to end up paying $18 to park 3 hours. BTW, the beach at Tybee seemed kind of redneck when we were there, so I wasn't impressed.
2. When we got back to Atlanta our power was out. It went off around 6 pm so at first we weren't worried. We called the power company and they expected it to be fixed by 9 pm. We noticed that literally everyone else in the neighborhood had power back except for our cul-de-sac. I called the power company again and they thought they had fixed the problem. Thank goodness I called back. On top of this, we had turned the air conditioning off in the house so it was 95 degrees inside! It was cooler to sit outside than it was inside. So what do you do at 9:30 at night in the pitch black 95 degree heat? Not a whole hell of a lot. It made the evening go by VERY VERY slowly. The power finally turned back on at 11 pm and a big thank you to the nice GA Power technician who came out to fix the blown fuse.

Favorite ATL Restaurants

Here are some of my favorite restaurants in the greater Metro Atlanta area (in case you're ever in town)
Not in any particular order:
Tacqueria del Sol
Horseradish Grill
Doc Chey's
Pappasito's
Vortex
Carrabba's
Flying Biscuit (breakfast)
Chow Baby
Cheesecake Factory
Maggiano's

Blog Title

Why is my blog called "Basically Nonsense"? My new pet peeve is when people using the word "basically" as an opening in conversation. For example:
A: "Why is the sky blue?"
B: "Well, basically, its because . . . "

When is it appropriate to use the word basically? I don't even know! I feel like its so over-used it's lost its meaning.

There isn't really a reason for the word "nonsense" in the title. I guess I used it because I figured a lot of these postings would be about nothing. Or at least nothing that matters to anyone but me.

My Top 10 List (July)

Here are the top 10 things I'm loving right now. This is a list of anything and everything (books, movies, food, books, etc)
Not necessarily in any order:
1. Tomato Zucchini soup from Harry's
2. My new moleskine notebook
3. Wedding Crashers
4. My puppy
5. Painting (as in painting the inside of my house)
6. Books by Gregory Macquire (such as Wicked)
7. My library card
8. Gwen Stefani's "Cool"
9. Sugar Free Popsicles
10. Picasa (picture viewing/editing program by google)