My present....

bubbly!, a photo by jessicatchobot24 on Flickr.

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Today

1.) I rode my bike to work for the first time all summer...

2.)  I am heading back to Bikram (HOT)  Yoga for the first time tonight since my vacation..

3.)  it's 90 degrees today (im already HOT thinking about it).

4.)  I will turn on my AC tonight for the first time this summer when i get home.

5.) I want to wish you a happy OFFICIAL summer today blogger friends!!

tomorrow...i'll post my birthday presents!!  Guess what i got????

(hint- it's on this post  )

i'll show you tomorrow...  ;)
xo

Birthday Weekend!

Side note first......

I just started a new Flickr account, because i started using iphoto more and i can easily add my pictures to iphoto from my camera and put them straight up on Flickr- then straight to my blog. Look at me! I am gettin' real savvy in my old age. 
Except!  I couldn't figure out how to add the pictures in the group without them being VERY small.  Can anyone give me any advice on this?  
I ended up just saving them all to my desk top and uploading one by one....

So......Speakin' of old age... It was my birthday yesterday! yippie! Thanks for all the b-day lovin' on Facebook- awe man, facebook really makes your day on your birthday.. I mean people i haven't talked to in years! Real sweet!

I had a great weekend.  On Friday we grilled out at a friends house- on Saturday i got my bike fixed and rode straight to Target to buy a new birthday dress!  Then i went to Sushi with friends for my birthday!  6 people..... 6 bottles of wine (byob)  that's how we roll. 
Needless to say, that night ended a bit early.. Then sunday brunch with more friends!  Then a bit of day drinkin' and out to dinner with my man. 
I got to blow out more candles... good.  now my wish can come true :)


here are some samples from my weekend- starting Thursday night with a little girls night...  i really need to stop drinkin, huh?  Well... it IS finally SUMMER!!.... i'll stop at another time...

Me and Jess riding a bike after $5.00 pizza night at the bar!

Me, Margo & Mary at Brunch for my B-day actual

B-day dinner on Sat. night- Sushi with friends!

Me, Hayley, Colie, Grant, Nick & Mary

Me, Hayley and Colie in our new dresses

This was thursday night also after pizza girls night... i dont have the energy to put these in order after the Flickr indecent....

Margo, Val, Jess & Hayley

Back at my b-day dinner the ladies!

Mary, Me, Hayley, Colie

and of course.... the WINE...

I'm a year older and a year wiser.. YEP!!  you read that correctly.  I am excited to blog all about my upcoming 32nd year... i hope for some big changes this year...... shhhh....
xoxo

dun, nuh nuh nuh nuh- you say it's your birthday....

dun, nuh nuh nuh nuh It's my birthday too yeah!
I love birthdays and mine is this weekend!!!  Yippie!

Today at work we celebrated, here's a few shots of me.. drinking wine and eating cake..
not pictured.. me eating pizza.  (i MUST go back to yoga or running VERY soon...)  - after my b-day right?? Right.

i thought real long and hard about my birthday wish... then some one made me laugh so my laugh blew out the candle... will my wish still come true?  I need a re-do on my actual birthday, this one didn't count.

Wine and work.... best combination

Me, wine, and cake....  Happy Birthday to me!

Tomorrow night, i am having a Sushi date with my lovely friends then out for drinks in my hood... yipppie!  On Sunday (my actual birthday) i'll be hanging at home, and maybe dinner with andrew (and hopefully a candle to blow out).
It's father's day.. my father lives in texas, Andrew will be at work...if it's nice out perhaps i'll  go for a good long bike ride!  
happy weekend to you all, happy father's day to you and your poppa's!

xo

I'm Reading...

The Help

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Song of the day.....

Here is a song of the day for you to enjoy, while i continue to catch up on all of your blog entries that i missed while i was gallivanting abroad!

Back story on this song is:
My friend Nick made a mix CD for me and my lady friends after our last girls trip (he's real good like that). So this song was on it.. i jammed out to it for a few months without knowing who sang it or what it was called (no names of songs...)  but then... we got a new computer and transferred over my music- but for some reason i couldn't find this song.  Then!  On the plane ride home from Amsterdam before watching 6 hours of Sons of Anarchy... (uh huh)....i was watching Hall Pass (i'm a sucker for a dumb romantic comedy).. anywho- in the closing credits of Hall Pass.... this song played..
we are reunited and it feels so good.  Now i know who sings it (after googling- song played at the closing credits of Hall Pass) - what did we do before the google machine? i am happy to  share it with you, hope you like!

Band: Empire of the sun
Song:  Walking on a dream

i'm home!!

I am back in the Chi-town- so happy to be home and i am even more happy that today is Sunday and i have the day off!!  Phew... that jet laggin' stuff is forreal.

So i had hoped to post a ton of photos on here while i was gone- but the internet connection at our hotels were all a bit iffy.  

So i just posted some photos to my facebook page...check it out!

Here is the coolest one that andrew took on one of his fancy iphone apps. 

that's me on top of the e!!!  i almost ripped my pants crawling up there, but it was totes worth it. 

We had such a wonderful trip and i can't believe it's already over.  Every day we were telling ourselves... Live in the moment..... enjoy every moment... and we did- but the days were so full and still went by so fast!  We had 2 cameras, and 2 iphones.. so we got SO MANY SHOTS.. i think Andrew is going to use his Mobile ME account to make a photo library of ALL of our photos.  

Keep ya'll posted with that website address. 

I am off to Costco, the Jewels and Stanley's market to get some veggies/ food in my fridge and in my life.  

Now... on to summer time in Chicago. 

thanks for followin' my European Vacation...  it was well worth the 4+ years we have been plannin on going.

xoxo