Donut Burgers and Fancy Coke Floats

Life is way to short to not let others think you are a weirdo. It's OK. You are strange. It happens. So get over yourself and eat a donut burger and drink a coke float from your grandmother's china. It's what we did.

Meet The Donut Burger. No, this is not a Paula Deen creation (although it could be).I am not going to lie, it sounded disgusting and I went along to humor Richard. It's actually....pretty. darn. tasty. I'm not a donut person to begin with, but this donut is really good, sweet and warm. The donut serves as the bun...but it gets better. Inside The Donut Burger you will find a sunny-side up egg, bacon, cheese and cooked to perfection meat. Fries on the side dipped in ketchup are the perfect match...who would have thought? The restaurant is cozy with brick exposed walls, a super friendly staff and you order from a wax menu by circling your own choices - built as you choose.

The Burger Bistro in the Upper East Side is going on our list of favs!

Every Southern girl knows that getting married means you receive china. It's just what we do in the South. My mom passed down my grandmother's china to me when Richard and I got married. Well, in theory, she was actually holding onto it for us until we moved into a house. You know...what you do in Texas. So when we sold pretty much everything we owned to move into a 450 square foot apartment across the United States, one would assume the china was not a priority. That "one" would be Richard...and boy was he wrong. I felt like I had to take something with me to keep our Southern roots. My mom carefully wrapped up a few pieces of china for us to pile in the mini-van for our two day trip. Can you believe it actually survived the trip? Now I'm not traditional in how you actually use the china. We've had plenty of fine dinning take-out pizza nights. One of my favorites has been "fancy" coke floats! I'm sure the Queen of England would faint... cheers!

Living the "crazy life" made me think of Point of Grace. I love Point of Grace. In sixth grade, my best friend and I sang "Circle of Friends" at a theater competition...but I freaked out halfway through the song and walked off the stage. My Broadway debut, killed in 6th grade. That's OK, I am tone deaf after all.

If we lived every day like this song, wouldn't that be great?

Wake up to the sunlight with your windows open

Don't hold in your anger or leave things unspoken
Wear your red dress use your good dishes
Make a big mess and make lots of wishes
Have what you want, but want what you have
And don't spend you life looking back
Turn up the music Turn it up Loud
Take a few chances Let it all out
Because you won't regret it

Looking back from where you have been
Because it's not who you knew and it's not what you did

It's how you Live
So go to the ballgames and go to the ballet

And go see your folks more than just on the holidays
Kiss all your children Dance with your wife
Tell your husband you love him every night
Don't run from the truth cause you can't get away

Oh no

Just face it and you'll be ok

Turn up the music Turn it up Loud
Take a few chances Let it all out
Because you won't regret it

Looking back from where you have been
Because it's not who you knew and it's not what you did
It's how you Live
Where ever you are and wherever you've been
Now is a time to begin
So give to the needy and Pray for the grieving
Even when you don't think that you can
Cause all that you do is bound to come back to you
So think of your fellow man

And make peace with God and Make peace with yourself

Oh yeah
Cause in the end there's nobody else

Turn up the music Turn it up Loud

Take a few chances Let it all out
Because you won't regret it

Looking back from where you have been
Because it's not who you knew and it's not what you did

It's how you Live

Because it's not who you knew and it's not what you did

It's how you Live