Life

Last night a few people from my firm and two lucky winners of my giveaway, attended the Culinary Care Gala at the Chicago History Museum.  Um, I feel kind of bad because before this event, I didn’t even know this museum existed. 🙁 There were so many people in attendance that we didn’t even get to all the food venues, but I ate plenty!  Sadly...

I always bring my food to work each day.  Except for Friday’s or special lunches.  Working in the city, you could easily spend $20-$30 a day if you ate breakfast, lunch, coffee out each day.  Crazy! I got on the train and quickly realized – I forgot my lunch.  It was either on the kitchen counter, or in my car.  When I returned from work,...

My brother and I talk about the “switch” all the time.  The switch is on when you are actively working towards your weight loss goals, or just think about what you should do, and well, do nothing with the switch firmly in the off position. I’ve been listening to Rachel Hollis’ podcast – the whole last 90 days.  It started because she realized that instead...

Today my Dad would have been 81 years old – but he died at age 59 – a month before his 60th birthday. What’s weird is that I am 51 years old now, and that picture of my Dad on the beach – Mom, Jenn and Charlie – help me out – but my guess is he was 55? I see this picture every year...

What a fun weekend!  I’ve never been to Chicago Gourmet before and I am kicking myself that I didn’t go sooner.   It was even better that on my first time, I got to attend with a media pass – how cool is that?! It was basically an all you can eat and drink event.  Luckily the food lines were pretty long, but the alcohol lines...

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...