{Southern Sweet Tea Tuesday}

I love me some sweet tea. Growing up, from the second the weather started hinting warmth until almost Thanksgiving, there would constantly be a jug of my mom's southern sweet tea in the icebox. But, since I no longer live with her, I had to figure out how to make it myself. Casey from The Aslan's Auspicious Albany Adventure also asked me how to make it, so this one's for you, Casey!

I remember my mom always boiling a pot of water on the stove, but since the coffee pot was not in use for coffee, I figured why not make it a "tea" pot!

I start off by putting five tea bags into the coffee pot itself. I tried putting them in where the filter goes before, but it just doesn't work that well. Fill the coffee pot water reserve to about the 10 line.

Follow that by filling up your container with sugar. I put in about a half-inch deep amount of sugar (I don't measure, I just eyeball it). I also put a little sugar in my Contigo so I could just pour some tea right in there. I make extra so I don't have to take it from the pitcher I just made.

I also use another pitcher just to fill up the coffee pot with water.

After the first pot is done brewing, I pour that into my Contigo (and what's left from that) into the big pitcher with the sugar. I leave the tea bags in the coffee pot and three more to what's already in there. Fill up my water line to about ten/eleven, brew, pour.

Add two more tea bags to the pot, add more water, brew, pour. If you still need more tea to fill up your pitcher, just brew over all the used tea bags and let sit for a few minutes after it's done brewing.

Close up your pitcher (I have one with a sealing lid), turn upside down, and shake until there is no sugar on the bottom. And voila! Southern Sweet Tea, a la Heather!

{March Madness}

Well, look at that, March is upon us!

Things to remember to do in March:

• Get a Shamrock Shake from McDonald's
• Beware the Ides of March.
• On the Ides of March (March 15th, for those of you who don't know what that is), get a Caesar salad and stab it 23 times before eating.

And that's about it. I like to think I'm funny.

{Little Letters}

So, good news.
I saw a dog today. (Name that movie.)
But really. Today I'm doing a linked up post to Emmy from The Freckled Fox called "Little Letters." I actually first saw it on Casey's blog, The Aslan's Auspicious Albany Adventure. I love this idea, so I might make it a thing! So without further ado, here are my little letters.

Dear doctor's office: I'm so not excited to be visiting you again this week. Sigh. Let's hope you bring me good news, because that's what I want right now, kay? Kay. Dear blog: Oh my great golly gosh, my little bb, you have grown! Nearing the two-month mark of your birth, you already have over a 1,000 pageviews, 15 followers, and 21 posts! With more to come, obviously! Your button has been swapped with multiple bloggers, and you're about to endeavor on to bigger things. I'm so proud of you. Dear Passionfruit: I hope this ad sponsoring thing works out between us. I've never done this before, and I hope some people bite.
Dear sweet tea: Please don't stop being delicious, I love you.

Dear Spring: Please come already, I'm tired of my fingers getting stiff at the keyboard because I'm so cold! But please, keep the allergies.

Dear March: Wow, you're here already? Where did February go? It seems like just yesterday, we were gearing up for Valentine's Day!

Dear Birthday:  All I ask is that you be a good one this year, okay? No nasty surprises or anything, okay? I want super awesome fun time, so no rain or cold. A perfect spring day isn't too much to ask for, right?

Dear followers: I LOVE YOU SO MUCH! Thanks for coming around and continuing to read my blog. You're just the bee knees, guys ;)

{I Won A} Liebster Award!

Liebster Award

Wendy at Love Hylton honored me with a nomination for the Liebster award. How awesome is that?! It is an honor when other bloggers notice you; this is a super huge blog world! The award must go to blogs with less than 200 followers and is a way to help blogs get new followers (which is something I totally need help with).

So, here the are rules as follows:

1. Each blogger should post 11 random facts about themselves.

2. Answer the questions the tagger has set for you, then create 11 new questions for the bloggers you pass the award to.

3. Choose 11 new bloggers (with less than 200 followers) to pass the award to and link them in your post.

4. Go to their page and tell them about the award.

5. No tag backs.

11 random facts about me:

1. I really like to talk.
2. I love to listen to music, all the time.
3. I sing showtunes, a lot. Bill has put a ban on them when he's around, hahah.
4. I'm kind of addicted to Solitare and Bejewled. (Seriously. I'm playing Bejeweled right now...)
5. I really like to take pictures.
6. I met the Plain White T's once.
7. I am an internet junkie.
8. I like to write (obviously).
9. Mason jars are my absolute favourite things ever.
10. I spell a lot of words the British way (colour, favourite, honour, etc.)
11. I love American History.

And, now, here are the answers to the questions from Wendy at Love Hylton.

1. What is your number one goal for this year? 
Right now, my main goal is to blog. Blog, blog, blog, and BLOG. I've put a lot of steam into this little baby, and I want to see myself do it for a whole year. That's my big goal. That, and to find a job I really like.

2. What is your most favorite hobby (other than blogging)?
Reading, or making stuff. I like to paint and scrapbook, as well.

3. What is your favorite dessert recipe?
I really like these chocolate and peanut butter chip cookies we have in the house right now that Bill made for me.

4. What accomplishment are you most proud of?
Successfully cooking a dinner that my boyfriend's entire family loved, and winning Most Imporved in Algebra III at graduation my senior year.

5. What life lesson do you find yourself having to learn over and over again?

6. If you had an extra hour in the day what would you do?
I would probably write more, honestly. Not just blog stuff, or creatively, but my recipes. I tell myself every day that I'll get it done, but I don't. That, and read more. I need to seriously dedicate more time to reading.

7. What is your favorite accessory in your wardrobe?
Hmm, I don't think I really have one. I desperately need a new wardrobe, hahah. I wear the same thing like, every day, it seems.

8. What music is in your CD player? 
Wow, I don't even have a CD player anymore... And I don't think there's anything in the car CD player. But when/if I get a car anytime soon and it doesn't have an AUX port for my iPod, you best believe that I'll be burning mix CDs all the time, hahah!

9. What is your favorite scent when purchasing a new candle, what are you most drawn to?
Sweet scents, or fall scents. I love me some Pumpkin Spice!

10. When did you start blogging and why?

I've been blogging on and off for the past four or five years, but just recently became srs~ about it, you know?

Here are the blogs I am passing the award to:

Amanda at {Rhyme & Ribbons}
Paulina at {Discovering Simply Me}

Ami at {a champagne dream}
Thyme at {In My Own Sweet Thyme}
Jesika at {Somewhere That's Green: Reasons Why I Love My Husband}
Katie at {The Hessian Prince}

Unfortunately, most of the blogs I follow are already over 200 followers...by, like, a lot. So I could only nominate six people~

But here are the questions I'd like y'all to answer!

1. What is one of your favourite quotes?
2. Who is your favourite author?

3. Do you have a good beauty tip?

4. Do you have a favourite quote or saying?

5. What is your guilty pleasure?

6. When did you start blogging and why?

7. What is one movie that you could watch over and over again and never get tired of?

8. If you could be any fictional character, who would you be?

9. What is your favourite joke? 

10. What is a goal that you are working to achieve right now?

11. What do you miss most about your childhood?