Life

Having my brother and his family in town is always a good time.  We just laugh whenever we get together and it was so good for my soul. This photo below pretty much sums up the weekend – just doing silly stuff and since I stayed at my Mom’s house since Friday night, I didn’t have the normal household weekend chores to distract me.  Wait,...

This will be a short post as I am blogging from my phone. I didn’t want to take my work backpack to the game, so I left my laptop at work and brought a smaller bag to take to the game. Hannah told me that I have to use up the pantry canned goods before I can buy more. She’s such a task master that...

Our weather has been gorgeous.  Well deserved after our seemingly never ending winter.  I didn’t even need a jacket on my walk to work yesterday from the train.  It’s funny because some people are still wearing UGG boots, while others are wearing sundresses. I already knew yesterday was going to be busy because I left so much stuff on my desk on Friday afternoon –...

Table for One. A couple weeks ago I got a middle of the night message from the husband of one of my high school friends – he had to steal his wife’s phone to get contact info for people he knew his wife would want to see for a surprise 50th birthday party. It didn’t start until 8 but I thought I’d have to work...

Like most of you I am sure, one of the first things you do is grab your phone can catch up on your social media.  I have my routine – Chicago Tribune first (I get a “morning edition” sent to my phone), Instagram, Facebook and then TimeHop.  Yesterday this photo popped up – it had been three years ago yesterday that I posted this saying...

I was supposed to have lunch with my sister and one of her friends, but on the way to work I remembered that it was Administrative Assistant Day.  I don’t really know how over the years the word “secretary” became derogatory – I don’t really care what you call me – legal assistant, legal secretary, coffee getter – you pay me from 9-5 I’ll pretty...

Hannah and Jacob love really, really strong coffee.  We ditched our Keurig a while back because it wasn’t unusual for them to drink 5 or more k-cups EACH.  So we went back to using a carafe and it’s been working great.  Jacob and I each fill up a Contigo travel mug, Hannah drinks the remainder of the pot during the day, and they will make...

Chicago Q is back open!  Chicago Q was the location for a blog meet up with a friend! I was so excited that one of my long time blog readers and online friend was coming to Chicago for work.  She told me the dates she would be here and we decided to do dinner last Friday night.  Julianne and I started reading each others blogs...

If I had worn my fitbit the last four days before yesterday, I may have walked 500 steps a day.  If that.  While I am still not 100%, I knew I had to get to work – one day away from work means two days to catch up.  Hannah was my Uber yesterday and she took this picture of me from across the train station. ...

The last sick day I took was in December 2014, and it wasn’t for me, it was Tony.  So it takes a lot for me not to go to work.  I’ve talked about having a nagging cough for a few weeks.  Annoying, but nothing too bad, I figured it would just run its course. But yesterday at work, I went through being freezing, to boiling...