Life

Um, someone (me) forgot to plug in her laptop last night.  Doh! So I have 3% battery, probably just enough to post this.  It’s going to be a great weekend though!  I am staying downtown at my beloved Kimpton Hotel and going to Chicago Gourmet – can’t wait – just hoping the weather isn’t bad the whole weekend – fingers crossed! Happy Friday – make...

Yesterday at work was a shit show.  It didn’t help that my blood sugar was low because I wish I were joking that I really wanted to say F YOU and walk right out.  Cooler heads prevailed.  I’ve declared it already that today is going to be a great day, so it will be. 😀 The hightlight of my day was taking my co-worker out...

I can’t believe we are staring our FIFTH year of Cooking Club!   A lot has changed in five years.  That first August cooking club, I was a widow for just ten months,  Courtney our host has moved twice, gotten divorced, is now happily married and having baby #3!  Mary Beth has adopted baby #4 and has brought three new borns to Cooking Club.  But through...

My friend Morgan and I bought tickets weeks ago for the Eataly September Fest which was held on Friday night.  For $70 it was an you could eat and drink – swoon!  It was my FOURTH night out in a row, but I had 28 points going into Friday night.  My strategy was two things: take a picture of everything I ate and track later,...

Oh hello!  Sorry for being MIA – I was having technical difficulties and my brother is super busy, but I am up and running.  I am working on making my site more user friendly, so in the process I think I messed something up – oops! So this post was my Wednesday recap – I talked about having FIVE eating events this week, and how...

My house is pretty much company ready most of the time.  Maybe a couple cookbooks on the dining room table, a couple dog toys on the floor, but nothing that a minute of pick up can fix. The only problem area for me was my bedroom.  It just became a place to put shit that had no place really, and I would just take off...

If I’ve said it once, I’ve said it a dozen times – if you have the opportunity to meet your internet friends in real life, I highly recommend it.  Once you form an online friendship (and I still don’t agree with my late husband that you guys aren’t my friends if we haven’t met yet!) once you do meet, it’s like meeting someone you went...

I had the best day Saturday.  I first met Justin (check out his blog here) (check out his Instagram here) (check out his YouTube here).  I first met him about 8 weeks ago at a brunch with my fellow friend Jake and another woman Heidi – we all just hit it off – we met for brunch at 11 and left at 3 when they...

Yesterday I got to leave work early because I got to go to Naf Naf Grill and learn how they make their chicken shawarma – so fun!  I also got to see my bestie Erica and my Chicago boyfriend Dan (aka Erica’s husband). 😀 What I am so impressed with at Naf Naf is that everything, and I mean everything is made in house –...

My friend Jeana was downtown for a conference on Monday night and wanted to know if I wanted to get together for dinner – yes please!  I didn’t eat like an asshole over the weekend, so I still had 11 points for my day plus 27 weeklies – nice! The Smith just opened in River North about a month ago – it’s been on my...