Posts Tagged ‘friends’

25 OR 15?

Tuesday, May 7th, 2013

In case you didn’t see enough pictures of Alex and I yesterday, I’m here to show you some more today.  Only seeing her once every few months typically means a picture overload is going to happen. Believe it or not we did do a few other things besides take peekaboo pictures while she was here.

We went to RPM and stuffed our faces.

We also of course ate some Rick Bayless, and by some, I mean a lot.

We did a little shopping and took pictures.  In case you couldn’t tell, Alex is about 2 feet tall and I’m approximately 8 feet tall so trying on 8 inch heels was fun for us. Even with ridiculous heels on, the girl couldn’t match my gigantic self.

We did manage to take a few nice pictures while we were walking along Navy Pier.

My mother loves when we take pictures like these.

And by love, I mean hate which is partially the reason why we only take horrible pictures.

We love my mother, so so much and because we do, we did make an effort to take one nice picture for her.

Literally just that one.

It’s comforting to have a friend that you’ve been friends with for pretty much your entire life because you find that some things just never change despite how old you get.  Ten years later, I’m still wearing chucks on a daily basis and Alex is still wearing cutie patootie girlie shoes.

That’s all the nonsense I have for now!

Tell me something about you that hasn’t changed as you’ve grown older!

Question For Ya {9}…

Wednesday, April 3rd, 2013

I like Sex and the City sure, but I wouldn’t say I love it.  I’ve watched some episodes but have never been interested in watching the entire series.

My group of friends here in Chicago could not be more different than the characters on Sex and the City. That’s not to say Linds and I didn’t spend an hour yesterday debating who would be who on the show.  I think it was so difficult for us to assign friends to the roles because none of us are remotely like the people on the show. I mean we go out to buy squash, not martinis.

But that got me thinking, what is it about girls and figuring out what character we are on Sex and the City?  I’ve had so many conversations about this with different groups of friends but yet I’m not even that big of a fan-but I like to know which character I am and which ones my friends are. What is it about this show that women (even those of us not really interested in it) are so drawn to?

Is it the fact that we all want to have that group of girlfriends we can turn to and want people to know we have that group? Is that really our go-to group of women we look to assign our roles to? But when I think about it, what other group of women are there for us to chose from? Golden Girls, is a bit too, well old for me,  I don’t know much about Charlie’s Angel’s, I guess we could count Friends but that’s more of a group including men too. Which means we’re left with Sex and the City-except I’m not like any of the characters and neither are my friends.

So we spent entirely too long debating this and for what reason? I have no clue but I’m guessing you’ve done this too.

So my question for you this week: which character on Sex and the City are you?

After much debate, this is what we came up with:

In other groups of friends however, I highly doubt I would be Samantha which is also interesting to think that  your character probably changes based on the friends your considering in the foursome.

{Note: After we decided who was who, I realized I had mistaken Charlotte for Miranda for the entire hour which meant we had to go back again and re-do the entire thing over. I’m still not sure I know who is who…}

 

I Like My Abs Soft

Tuesday, April 2nd, 2013

As you know by now, I don’t really post personal crap-it’s not my style and believe it or not, I’m a very private person. I open up to very few people about personal issues because I prefer to keep things lite and funny. But once in a while, when I’m feeling fancy I’ll write something personal.  Well, today I’m feeling fancy.

If you don’t already subscribe to my beautiful friend Kim’s blog, do yourself a favor and do it now. Her posts lately have been so brilliant, I find myself randomly reflecting on them at various parts of the day.  Kim recently wrote a post about getting that 6-pack of abs everyone is always dyyyyyying to get.  Her post  really resonated with me and I’ve been thinking about it non-stop since she posted it:

“Caring that much about how I look, is just NOT worth it. I don’t want to think about it that much. And I don’t want to be so strict with my diet, either.  I am going to be making soft abs in my kitchen, and I don’t care. “

Seriously. It’s just not worth it. I’ve spent hours (as I’m sure you have too) reading articles on how to tone your abs, legs, butt, blah blah blah.  I work on my abs probably more than what’s normal and I take core sculpt classes that specifically target my abs- so yes, my abs are strong, very strong. But do I have a 6 pack? Not even close.

Do you know what I would have to get that 6 pack? Constantly worry about the amount of protein I’m getting, cut out wine, bread, potatoes, pasta and pretty much anything else gluten-y/starchy…. do you know me…?

……basically do the exact opposite of everything I’m doing now. Could I do that? Absolutely. Do I want to do that?  Hell no. It sounds awful. Why would I want to waste all my time thinking about what my body looks like when I can spend my time enjoying my life and the food I eat? So as Kim said, It’s simply not worth it. I love life too much to waste my time ruining it for some visible abs.

So I’ll never have a six-pack- who cares. Honestly, who would see it anyway other than me? It’s not like I walk around with belly shirts on or in my bikini all day.  What would be the point of me doing all that crap to get a six-pack if I’m the only one admiring it in my bathroom mirror? And even if I did go around in belly shirts with a six-pack, would the purpose be so other women envy my body?  That just doesn’t seem right either.

Now I’m off to polish off a baguette and finish a bottle of wine. (I’m not joking (I’m writing this in the evening for those of you wondering if I’m drinking at 6 AM.)) And then admire my soft abs in my bathroom mirror. I prefer em soft anyway, it’s a sign that I’m happy and enjoying my life. The only six-pack I’m concerned about getting right now is that Sam Adams waiting for me in my fridge.

Soft abs for the win! Thoughts?

That’s all the nonsense I have for now!

Ps. Happy birthday to my fancy-pants brother! I’m sure he loves nothing more than being at the bottom of a post about appreciating your body.

 

An Almost Spring Weekend!

Monday, April 1st, 2013

I had such a lovely weekend and I hope you did too! The weather here in Chicago actually made me feel like spring might be near! It was perfectly sunny and in the 50′s.  Naturally I spent pretty much the entire weekend outside.

Saturday morning I met up with Katie and Em for a nice run on the lakeshore path. The weather is totes perfect and it was so nice running with my peeps and soaking up the sun. After being cramped inside for the past few months, it felt amazing to get out and actually enjoy the weather.

How beautiful does that concrete look?

I think I ran a total of around 4 miles?  I ran about 1.5 miles to meet them and then we ran about 2.5 together. Whatever, I don’t know nor do I care.  Being professional bloggers, we had to stop at the bean mid-run for some tourist pictures:

Please note in the first picture how dirty Emily looks.  Disgusting little thing she is.

After spending entirely too long talking selfies in the bean, we completed our run at Eggy’s for some post-run refueling.  Lots of coffee and egg white omelettes were stuffed into our faces.  And bread of course.

We giggled like little school girls over nonsense,  had more coffee and took more pictures.  We missed our little buttercup Linds but don’t worry, I used my amazing photo-shop skills to paste her into the pic:

Kinda weird she showed up to breakfast with a conehead on but whatever, I love her just the way she is.

Being so close to Mariano’s we had to go and browse around the grocery store.  If you haven’t picked up on it by now, I love grocery stores and love spending lots of time in them-luckily so do my friends.

A run, breakfast and grocery shopping later, I finally went home to spend the rest of the weekend wandering around the city with PartyDog.  I can’t get enough of this beautiful weather and have missed spending hours walking around the city so much!

So that was my weekend in a nutshell-now tell me about yours!

That’s all the nonsense I have for now!