Facebook Chef

Before college, I ate home cooked meals for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Then, came freshman year where all I consumed was dining hall food and sophomore year where dinner was catered to my sorority house. So, it was not until this year when I moved into a house with a few friends where I was forced to learn to cook.  Thankfully, I used to stand side by side with my mom as she prepped our meals, so I had some what of an idea what to do.  But, after a month straight of grilled or baked chicken with a sweet potato and brussels sprouts or asparagus, I needed some new recipes.  I had always seen those "Tasty" videos on Facebook of people posting to their friends walls "Let's make this!!" So, I decided to try it out.

A semester later, I can proudly say that I pull almost all my dinner recipes from Facebook.  They are always so quick, easy, and so so good. Most of the time I don't even have to go searching for a recipe,
I will be scrolling through my timeline and one will pop up that I will bookmark for dinner the next week!

My favorite page has to be the "Tasty" one. My roommates and I get dip party ideas and desert ideas from there all the time.  And, although our creations never turn out as aesthetically pleasing as the videos show, they still taste amazing.

Pups for Post

As I sit here writing my blog post, I have two tiny creatures laying in my lap.  Originally they belonged to the Athens Area Humane Society, but after being their foster mom for two weeks, I couldn't give the loving pups back.

My roommates and I discovered the Athens Humane Society foster program via social media.  We noticed a group of friends always had the most adorable puppies and posted them on their social media tagging the humane society. So, naturally we called because we wanted some puppy love.  One of my roommates had been wanting to adopt a puppy for awhile, so we figured this would be a great way to see if we could handle it.


We have fostered puppies four times and every time it gets harder and hared to return them. I wish we could keep them all. But, it is such a great feeling knowing that we raise them for a month and start to train them, so that they are well adjusted to humans and are more likely to get adopted.  Every puppy we have fostered has not had to spend more than a day in the shelter, because they were adopted right out of our hands - all thanks to social media! We post hundreds of photos of our cute little babes, and people melt wanting one.

Finally, our forth time fostering, we settled and are in love with our two pups - Axel & Rose.  We
hope to continue to foster as they grow older, allowing them to grow up being friendly with other dogs and also accustoming the new puppies to be around other dogs.

If you would like to foster puppies or are interested in adopting from the Humane Society, visit their Facebook or Instagram to see the cutest creatures you could imagine! @athenshumanesociety