Life

After today I will be working remotely.  I am so looking forward to it.  Not only because I think I can be more productive without the daily distractions – people stopping by my desk to chat on and off throughout the day, etc.  I tell Hannah all the time that I love my job when I get to do what I want to do -ha!...

Bavette's in River North Chicago is an amazing restaurant. Awesome food, awsome service, $$$$, worth it, make reservations in advance!

Last week I reached out to one of my friends that I used to work with at The Chopping Block.  She hadn’t posted anything on Instagram for months.  Turns out she has a new job at a place called World of Whirlpool.  It’s literally 5 blocks from my office and I never even heard of it! Before I even walked in I thought “did Hannah...

My friend Mary Beth is in my cooking club and she lives about 10 minutes from me.  She came back to WW on Saturday and it was so good to see her.  With our friend Jeana there, it was like old home week. Later that afternoon, Mary Beth texted me “wanna wake up at the ass crack with us and go see the groundhog look...

Hello!  I’ve missed you.  I can’t believe it’s been well over two weeks since I’ve done a proper post. Well, one reason was that my old laptop wasn’t working right.  I couldn’t log onto the internet, pictures wouldn’t post, etc.  I got a new laptop when I was with my brother and I am not sure why I was dragging my feet for so long...

I can’t believe last night was our last Cooking Club for 2019!    Courtney is the best hostess – I wish I had half the talent she does when it comes to entertaining.  How cute are our place settings?! How to Start a Cooking Club My friend Courtney brought together seven other women in various stages of their life who all have one thing in...

Hey guys!  I realized lately that I’ve just been going through the motions with this blog.  I am in the process of hiring someone to make it more user friendly, and am going to be changing the programming just a bit. I’ve blogged Monday through Friday nearly every week for ELEVEN YEARS.  I know, I can hardly believe it myself. I started this blog as...

Happy Halloween! I hope you have a great Halloween 🎃. My shirt was the shirt my husband wore when we got married. ❤️ I forgot to plug in my lap so this post will be short and sweet, like me 🤩 Very proud that I haven’t had one piece of Halloween candy at all! I’ll be back with my recap of the Great Steak Out...

I’m so excited I can hardly stand it – can’t talk about why I’m going yet but stay turned!! Talking a blog break – see you Monday! P.S. – always a good idea to get Frontera for breakfast

Um, here’s a tip from me to you.  If you want to use your laptop, you have to charge it.  I know!  News to me!  I got on the train yesterday, opened my laptop and had 2% battery which lasted all of one minute. Monday my friend Morgan and I had plans to see Samin Nosrat at the Harris Theater.  If you haven’t seen her...