brklyn:

We don’t own appropriate cold weather apparel so mostly we try to make do with what we have. This usually ends up making everyone look like they were dressing up for tacky day. I just saw someone with a bucket hat that was made for fishing with a scarf wrapped around the top of it. Guess he doesn’t own a toboggan.

Brilliant.

Tomorrow night I am heading home for the week! It’ll be a week of cooking, relaxing, movie watching and gluttony. I’m pretty stoked.

Atlanta bound for the weekend to wish my mom & sister happy birthday!

This was sent to me in an email, so I apologize in advance for any grammatical errors/spelling mistakes. Also, I didn’t fact check this to make sure all the claims are true. I just found it interesting and thought I would share it.

Georgia is the largest state east of the Mississippi River.

Coca Cola is ours, and unless you’ve had one in a six-and-a-half ounce bottle, with a slight crust of ice on top, you missed a real treat.

Try pouring about half a pack of salted peanuts into one sometime.

If it weren’t for a Georgian - Crawford Long of Jefferson – all surgery would hurt like hell.

Georgians, native or adopted, say “ma’am and sir” and call their mothers “mama” and their fathers ‘daddy”.

They know that y’all is perfectly good English and never means just one person.

“Fixin to” is perfectly acceptable, too.

 And if y’all don’t like the way we talk, Delta (which is also ours) is ready when you are.

Long before the Olympics brought the world’s greatest athletes to Atlanta, we gave the world Ty Cobb, Jackie Robinson, Walt Frazier, Luke Appling, Johnny Mize, Fran Tarkenton, Bobby Jones, Wyomia Tyus, and Herschel Walker.

 If you don’t know who these people are, you ought to find out before you go to bed tonight.

 The greatest tournament in golf will still be played in Augusta every April, and on autumn Saturdays,

 Every Fall the Red-and-Black faithful will gather in Athens for a prayer meeting between the hedges.

 Georgia Tech. fans gather in Atlanta for Buzz to carry out the sting.

 The Stone Mountain carving is a lot bigger than the one on Mt. Rushmore and the people etched into the side of Stone Mountain deserve the honor.

 Milledgeville is the best small town in the USA and Georgia Military College is one of the top military colleges in the USA.

 In 1864 Sherman burned parts of Atlanta and Georgia on his March to the sea.

 We’re called the ” Peach State “ because ours are the sweetest. We do produce the most peanuts, pecans, and poultry.

 The best barbecue in the world is from our Georgia pits.

 Elvis wasn’t ours, but Otis Redding, James Brown, the Allman Brothers, Johnny Mercer, Joe South, Ray Charles, Bill Anderson, Brenda Lee, Trisha Yearwood and Alan Jackson are ours.

 So are Sidney Lanier, Joel Chandler Harris, Margaret Mitchell and Alice Walker.

 And I still miss Lewis Grizzard every day.

 Julia Roberts may be Georgia’s prettiest movie star, and Holly Hunter may well be the most talented. Dakota Fanning may one day surpass them both.

FDR adopted us.  His “Little White House” in Warm Springs, Ga. is exactly as it was the day he died there, near the end of World War II. Roosevelt’s New Deal put Georgians to work and turned an entire generation of her people into the best employers/employee’s in this great land.

 Georgia once had three governors at the same time.

 ”Gone With the Wind” belongs to us.

 Not only is it by one of our own and is about Georgia, but it’s also one of the greatest novels of all time.

And lastly, Georgia ain’t exactly heaven – but it will do until I get there.