Did someone say Lobster?

So after what felt like the most hellacious week, I can finally say hello to a fabulous weekend ahead of me. One of my best friends in the world, Elissa, is celebrating her birthday in Key West for Lobsterfest. Although I've never been, I hear it is just tent after tent on Duvall full of delicious lobster-esqe meals. Yummy in my tummy!!!

Besides the lobster, I absolutely love Key West. I love the laid back vibe, the ability to walk the streets with rum runner in hand and being able to spend 24/7 in shorts and flip flops. Yes, please!

And if all of those reasons weren't great enough, I also get to spend a weekend with some of the most amazing people in my life (awwww).

So I wish you all an amazing weekend and I will hopefully be back on Monday with some photos and stories to share!

Back in Black!

I'm back!!!!
We had a great time in Virginia, even though I'm pretty sure we spent the majority of our trip traveling in some way either by car or plane. The wedding was absolutely spectacular and very romantic. Congratulations to Mel and Bill!



Ever since arriving back, I've been catching up on my online life (very tiring) of blogs, facebook and gmail. Upon beginning my music updates, I stumbled upon this little enticing tidbit on Blamo, my favorite Smashing Pumpkins fansite:

To celebrate the band's 20th anniversary, The Smashing Pumpkins will be playing select U.S. cities in August and September of 2008.

No dates or cities have been announced but expect the band to revisit a few specific places that were missed during the last U.S. tour...

Could Miami be one of these mystery tour dates? I certainly hope so. I am still getting over my pain when the festival the Pumpkins were headlining down here in Miami was postponed indefinitely and then canceled altogether. That was not a pretty day in the world of Meli.

I'm still patiently waiting for Corgan and crew to make their way down here again, but dammit Billy, you are pissing me off so lets get to it!

Happy Memorial Weekend!

There's nothing like a 3 day weekend!
Hope you all have an amazing time and please don't do anything I wouldn't. ;)

The hubs and I are flying into Washington, DC tomorrow morning with friends to attend a good friend's wedding in Virginia. Unfortunately, we are leaving on Sunday so we won't be able to do much sightseeing, but it should be a good time with close friends and beautiful scenery.



Congrats to the soon to be Mr. and Mrs.!

Weekend Round Up

This weekend was a packed one!
We went to Dave & Buster's to celebrate Beau's birthday, who is one of our bestest friends.



Then we headed to Blue Martini to celebrate Lindsay & Melanie's college graduations, two girls who have become way more to the hubs and I than coworkers.




We are very lucky to have such amazing people in our lives that we can call our friends, so I want to send a very big hug their way. I hope we are all around for many more milestones. After all, who else would we make fun of? ;)

Murals with Love

I wanted to familiarize my local readers with my dear friend Nadia's glorious business, Murals with Love. She is a professional artist and art educator with over 10 years of experience. The girl knows her art and is beyond talented. After preparing her own beautiful daughter's nursery, she realized how much she really loved the art of murals.

She is now providing her services to other proud moms and dads that want something special for the new members of their family or just want to give their children's rooms a facelift! So mosey on over to her blog to check out her work, I promise you will not be disappointed!