Chapel Hill Shopping

While in Chapel Hill, of course I found some shopping! If you remember from 2 weekends ago, I went to South Point mall (which was amazing) and last night, I made my way to Tanger Outlets!

This outlet mall has almost every store you could imagine for an outlet mall.. and if you're in the area, I highly recommend you check it out. Here are a few stores that got me excited:

• Banana Republic
• Coach
• J. Crew
• Tommy
• DKNY
• BCBG
• Kay's
• Guess
• Michael Kors
• Nine West
• Vineyard Vines
• Ralph Lauren
• Nike
• Loft

It's a very cute little area with tons of great deals and a food court, too!

Thanks to J.Crew's awesome deals, I got this little navy striped cardi for $20!

Healthy Fast Food?

I have discovered the solution to America's obesity. YOU'RE WELCOME, AMERICA.

Welcome to Evo's. Healthy AND tasty fast food. Sound too good to be true? It. Is. Real.

 If you're wondering what's different about Evo's from every other fast food joint, well, I'll tell ya. First of all, they have a more natural approach to burgers... no frozen all beef patties, people! And no added hormones or antibiotics in their beef. Also, their fries are BAKED. That's right, baked! And they taste just as good as McDonald's. Bible.

Another cool thing about Evo's is their ketchup karma station. They have different flavored ketchup... IS YOUR MIND BLOWN? Mine was. They have Mesquite Magic (basically bbq flavored), Cayenne Firewall (spicy ketchup... Gregg would love this!), Garlic Gravity (garlic flavored!)... The Garlic one was my favorite!!! Try it before you judge :)

Cute little bags.

They have Evos in NC, GA & FL. When I see these restaurants more than McDonald's, I will be one happy broad.

Thanks Evos for helping me out when I was craving fries and a burger! And thanks for also putting all of your nutritional information online... you rock :)

Intro to Vegan Food

Tonight I tried something new. A coworker wanted to go to dinner [yay, a dinner partner!] and she's vegan. I don't know if you all remember my vow to be a vegetarian a few months back, but I quit that. I'm back on meat. But not last night! I ventured out and tried the Persian Vegan restaurant Sage....

Nice little set up when you walk in!

Tofu & Veggie Kabob - So great!!! Could have done without the Tofu... and in fact, I did. Tossed those suckers off and had a veggie kabob.

My date Erin had this... I can't remember what it's called but it was awesome. She let me sneak a bite.

Close up of my rice and kabob... mmm :)

Vegan Chocolate Cake... not even close to being as good as regular chocolate cake but I will give them credit. They have to replace the milk, eggs, etc! Good job, Sage.

All in all, my vegan experience was good but I miss the meat. Bring on the meat :)

Nice Little Saturday

At little Bed, Bath & Beyond.. maybe Home Depot?

Okay jokes, but it actually was a nice little weekend. Wish I could have been at my friend Amber's baby shower but I heard that baby Hudson got lots of goodies!

I ran some errands on Saturday and made my way out to the South Point mall. I got a late start and all of a sudden it was 3:30 and I was starving. I stopped at Rock Fish Grille and as you can see from this picture, it was an amaaaazing salad. I am definitely going back for more.

Then I decided to see a movie! I absolutely love going to the movies, and while I'd prefer to be accompanied by other, I can do either :)

I saw Crazy Stupid Love and I loved it! I must have been having a weird day though because I cried almost all the way through the movie. It's not a particularly sad movie but some of it just struck a chord with me. I definitely recommend it and I have a new love for Ryan Gosling (swoon) and I adore Emma Stone!

Next I went to Urban Outfitters and LOOK who has a book... BOO!!! 

I took a stroll and ended up in Anthropologie... ohh if only I could afford anything in that store. These are some of the things I'm daydreaming about from there:

I could actually probably afford most of these items but I went over my budget by then :)

This was the main area of South Point.. and they even had a band out there!

Ole Katie B has me hooked on Penfold's! I tried this bottle and it was okay... doesn't really hold a candle to Penfold's Bin 2. 

Made my way home to make a semi healthy dinner of BBQ chicken breast and broccoli. Mmm :) hope you all had a great weekend!

Random Friday Night is an Understatement

Last night was the epitome of random. I knew I wanted to go to a nice dinner, have a glass of wine and unwind a bit. I chose a restaurant that I found on the 10 Best list for Chapel Hill. And boy, were they right about it being one of the best.

The cute little walkway up to La Res

Started with a glass of Pinot Noir...

 ... and had the most amazing scallops. Seriously, heaven.

And an orange mojito for dessert!

The plan for the night was to have dinner, go to my hotel and finish Harry Potter. Well, I got to the hotel and I had a semi-buzz from my two drinks and I decided to get out. If you know me at all, you know I LOVE karaoke! So, I googled "karaoke in Chapel Hill" and found a few spots, but from the options given, only one of them actually had karaoke. I got in my car and made my way there!

When I pulled up to this bar, there were like 20 biker guys out front. I seriously thought about leaving but something in me made me fearless! I walked in, ordered a beer, and within 5 minutes... I was on the list! I sang one of my favorite Karaoke songs and the crowd went WILD! It was such an amazing experience.

[this is not me singing - this is one of my competitors who hated me]

AND, to top it all off, I discovered that it was a competition and that last night was one of the nights where they pick two finalists. One finalist was picked from the crowd and the other from the bar... andddd.... I WAS ONE OF THEM!!! The bartenders picked me and they called me a wild card! They said it was totally unexpected and that I came out of the blue! I probably won't even make it to the final competition (where the prize is a trip to Vegas p.s.) but it was just so exciting to win something! I've never done anything like this and I've never won anything for singing so it was amazing. Wish I had some friends there but I was texting with my girls and my dad throughout some of it and I felt you there :) It seems silly, but last night was so inspiring. I can do anything... whether I'm alone or not. Also, life is too short to care what people think. Nobody is staring at you if you're eating alone or in a bar alone or in a movie alone. And if they are, well, f em ;)

Hopefully, I'll eventually be updating this with the results of the final competition! Stay tuned :)

Shopping Emergency!

If you can't keep track of where I am, don't feel bad... I am literally all over the place. If you're reading this, then I'll let you know I'm in Chapel Hill, NC for the next few weeks. Although, Katie Little's wedding is this weekend so I'm leaving Thursday afternoon for Destin, FLORIDA!!! Luckily, that's where the bf lives so I'm getting the best of both worlds at this wedding!

Okay but down to business. I packed all kinds of stuff but couldn't decide what to wear for Katie's actual wedding so I'm banking on finding a dress... TOMORROW!

I will say, I found a very cute boutique online, with the CUTEST little name... let's hope it delivers in person! Fingers crossed :)

Wish me luck and stay tuned for what I find!