OUCH!

Did you guys hear that? 

It was my credit card screaming...screeching... yelling...crying and kicking!

I just bought (charged) my tickets to Dallas for my BFF Holly's Wedding.  

Andrew and I will be in Dallas Wed. 11/2 -  Sunday 11/6.  

Can we be Texas friends?

xo

Saltwater

There are many reason i have fallen in love with blogging.  I just realized another one today.  Fashion..  I have been reading all these blogs of people i do not know- and their outfits.. i WANT!
I love when i am reading one thinking... dang, i wish i knew where they got that dress, and then at the bottom of their fancy photos they tell me!
I love when it's:

Dress: Target
Shoes: Target
and not:
Dress: Mod Cloth (or something fancy i can't afford)

Cause that means i might have a chance of getting them too!  And they aren't my friends so we won't be wearing the same outfit! Score. 

The other day i was reading the blog : Nat The Fat Rat
I do not know her, but i sure do love her style (fashion and writing style).  I have seen a lot of these ladies wearing these shoes called Saltwater Sandals, and i have secretly been searching on line to get them... sold out... not my size, wrong color, baby shoes...  Well Nat... did a whole post on her Saltwater Sandals- and lo and behold i bought those suckers!
..After texting Andrew...  "hey, i wanna buy shoes, i love them so much.. can i? can i? "  You see we always check with each other before making purchases over 50 bucks.  These shoes were only $35.00 But i thought i would check any way- cause we are pinching our penny's this summer- forrealz.
I bought them online on Monday and they are on my feet today!  Wooohooo!

Cute right?  They are super comfy- and i love them.  Side note.. like my toe nails?  Andrew painted them for me... yep! We are on a budget folks, and he's a keeper!
That is all.  :)

GT11

aka, Girls Trip 2011.

Every year (for the past 4 years) 8 of my friends and i rent a house and spend a week drinking, eating, playing games, sleeping, reading, laughing, eating, and taking a much needed break from work and the real world.
This year we went to Genoa City, Wisconsin. No special reason why we chose this town- except that it was an hour and half away and the BEST HOUSE EVER.  I will just show you the rest with a sample of photos. Of course i will add some to facebook and i added them to my Flickr page already- click there to view more.

Here goes....

Our beautiful House

the pool

Jess bar tendin'

Ladies reading by the pool L- R Adair, Mary, Colie, Me, & Hayley

Taco Night!

A few of us made water bottles for the group with a Lord of the Rings Theme- Margo handed them out.

The four of us were hobbits

Racoons in the Drunk Cup (the name of our bar)

Pool Table

It was Colie's birthday a few days before the trip so we threw her a surprise party!

Walk down to the lake- L-R Rachel, Adair, Hayley, Colie, Jess, Mary

We rented a pantoon boat for 4 hours one day. It was amazing L-R Hayley, Mary, Me, Val, Adair, Colie

Me and Jess in the Lake

Margo, me and Jess standing at Bar 11

Margo, Me, Colie and Mary

Back at the pool - Rachel, Me, Hayley and Colie

me and Hayley gettin' serious about flip cup

The hammock- the end to a wonderful week. 

I love my friends and i am so lucky to share this with them.. we laughed, and laughed, and laughed... until next year....

I'm Back

Hey there,

I am back, it's Sunday evening at 8:15pm and i am awaiting my asian food delivery for dinner.  Last night at this time i was playing flip cup (beer drinkin' games with 8 of my lady friends) and jumping in the pool cause i broke a sweat by drinking.

Oh man, we had such a great time.  i love my friends and i feel very lucky to have them all (and you all) in my life.  I am so tired, i must drink water and eat food.. i will get on this picture posting business ASAP.

and i gotta spend a some time catching up on your blogs (and many others of the people i have never met)  Sounds creepy... haha..  tomorrow i go back to reality.  booo.

Next trip.  Mexico in September for Holly's bachelorette party.  She does shit right ya'll.

xoxo

I'm off!

Hey! Sorry i have been M.I.A- but i have been real busy packing and cleaning and shopping for my Annual Girls Trip!  wooooooot! 
Today is my final day of work for the week, and i the time can not go any slower. 
After work, i am leaving to pick up my friend Jess, then going to my house and loading up the car - and off we go to Wisconsin! (most of the ladies will be there already)
I'll have no internet, no computer, prob. a bad phone connection. It'll be lovely.  i'll take lots of pictures.

In the mean time, please send good, positive thoughts that this work day goes by very quickly! i am so anxious to get there and get in a pool! 

But for now i gotta go do work...   Submitting on this today...


THE PLAYBOY CLUB, Episode #101, "The Scarlet Bunny" (Chicago)
Episodic
20th Century Fox / NBC
One Hour
AFTRA

check out the trailer:  I booked a guy in the pilot, super exciting! (not seen here)

Horray for tv shows shooting in Chicago!  Now to book more peeps on it!  gotta go, so the day flies by and i can go relax in a beautiful log house with my lady friends.

xoxox 

Song of the day...

Band: Faces
Song: Ooh La La

I can't get this song out of my head, after spending the morning  (in between working) catchin' up on blogs, one of the blogs i follow posted a video with this song.   I was reading the blog Bluebird Vintage . Do you guys read her?  She is so pretty, and stylish, and her kids are just the cutest!!- Found her through reading other blogs.. don't know her ;) 

Anyway.. .she posted this song on a video she made and i can't stop hummin' it!  I know the song from the movie Rushmore.

Let's watch the trailer shall we?

I love this movie a little too much!   But I hope you enjoy my choice for Song of the Day. 
I'm not gonna lie, i had to google... who sings... "i wish that i knew what i know now, when i was younger"...
haha!  what did we do before the interwebs?  Remember stuff?
overrated.

ps. oh yeah.. it's real hot here today, and thank goodness my landlord fixed my AC. Hooray!! Girl's night tonight... drinkin' wine with my lady friends.. nice little Wednesday. 

xo

Heat Wave

I know you Texas folk are dealing with MUCH worse, but the Midwest ain't used to 90 degrees- consecutive days in a row...... And my AC Broke!!!  hopefully it is getting fixed as i type.. fingers crossed, good thoughts, good vibes sent to Winchester! My poor Chai is sitting in that hot apartment panting i am sure.  poor baby!!  Let's look at her.

Sweet puppy face.  We have like 15 fans going all pointing at her, so hopefully she will be ok for the day.  

So yesterday Andrew had the day off- and that is the day the AC decided to die.  So we went downtown to Millenium Park to see a free show and have a picnic!  It was real nice (and HOT).  We stopped at Subway on the way got a foot long to split, and brought a 6 pack of beer (of course).  It wasn't as crowded as i thought- but such great people watching! 

Took a few iphone photos: (naturally)

view from the grass, love this little girl in her bathing suit!

Moved up to the front to see the band: Blonde Redhead- so good! (and free)

beer/ coozie

gotta get the bean shot!

on our walk home from the train, these guys were jammin out doing some great blue grass.

Sorry for the blur on that last photo- i caught this photo from my phone while crossing the street.. pretty slick, but blurry.  These guys sounded awesome!

Not pictured, our trip to get Frozen Yogurt after getting off the train...Anything to get cool in the Midwest Heatwave.  Let's call it:  Summergeddon... not to be confused with Snowmaggedon aka Snowpocolypse

Nothing but extremes in ole Chi-town.

xo