the moment you have all been waiting for…my return to the blogosphere.
it will take me some time to catch up on my blogging and my commenting, so forgive me if you get comments from me that are beyond outdated. sincere apologies. my reader says 1000+ and i marked about 287 from the chicagoist “as read” and that statistic did not budge, so you know it may take awhile to catch up. i also am in the midst of thanksgiving planning, which is not only fun, but taking up a lot of time, energy and thoughts. so please forgive me for my slowness.
i can’t possibly give you a complete blow by blow of my vacation, but i will share a few pictures. if you want to see more check out my flickr. for now, heres a taste of that is great in Puerto Vallarta…. hope everyone is well 
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i have a lot of things i should be doing or in fact, i should have already done. and here i am, sitting on my couch wrapped in a blanket, in a food coma from a great breakfast, waiting until the last minute to get ready for work and blogging instead. (hopefully the boss man calls to cut me this evening.) i leave for mexico the day after tomorrow and just about the only thing i have done to prepare for the trip is locate my passport and accumulate a list of requests from the busboy staff at work including spicy tequila, mexican cigarette and specialty candy. i am way behind and show no signs of catching up. this procrastination wouldn’t be so bad if i weren’t scheduled to work a double tomorrow and leave for the airport at 3 am. eek!
instead of being productive i have decided to mull over asking past-professors for letters of recommendations and ponder the best way to write a grad school entrance essay. mind you, i have not yet actually started to write either. after the laziest day of my life, i am still unmotivated to get up and do something. yesterday, the roommate and i spent the entire day on the couch. this is no exaggeration, because we literally left only for food, bathroom breaks and to release the hound. it was rough, but 100% deserved. why is it that lazy days do not curb your need for a break, but only cause you to be lazier? if this is how i am after just ONE day of laziness, what is it going to be like after a weeks worth?
to make you feel better, i will be dragging my GRE study materials to Mexico. just because studying will be done poolside, does not make it more fun. if you want to read something i have ACTUALLY accomplished check out BodeLou Bakes. i wrote a semi-review on last week’s dining experience and started my journaling of the Friends Thanksgiving.
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: vacation, food, the publican, letters, roommate, weather
all i have tonite is letters. i know its been a while and this may lack substance, but my google reader is at 560 and i have no time to blog serious things. HERE GOES! (more…)
the weekend was spent working and then in milwaukee on sunday visiting the fam. i had a really great chat with my aunt about my “future,” the boyfriend, the GRE etc. it was nice to talk to someone who is actually supportive. it makes a huge difference.
i also spent the weekend experimenting with my hair. i have mentioned it before, but i cannot nearly stress enough that i have mountains of hair. like think sarah jessica parker meets diana ross. okay maybe not diana ross but you get the idea. this makes doing my hair more than just a morning ritual, but a morning and afternoon chore.not to mention my hair tends to have a natural…how do you say it, frizz? so anything i can do to get it to appear tamed and still beautiful or i mean showing a hint of beauty, i jump at the experiement. and book about three hours out of my schedule for the trial.
this weekend i came up with this:
it took about an hr and a half, but that did not include wash and drying. and the picture does not quite do the quantity of hair justice, as it is pulled up in a ponytail in the picture. some of you may be terribly unimpressed and thats fine. to me it was a successful attempt at keeping my natural curl defined and frizz free. relatively speaking i will be adding this into my hair repertoire but will have to work out the kinks, speed up the process.
this week should be realtively busy at work, which will of course keep my bank account happy, pre-mexico trip. Thats right, i leave a week from wednesday. i have compiled a list of things to do… and it is JUST starting to hit me that i will be poolside soon enough!
hope everyone had a good weekend
warning: this may be long….
its the end of my work day (5 pm is usually just the beginning) and i just got off the phone with mom. we talked careers, a topic i normally try to avoid discussing with her. (more…)
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: fasion, wish list, kitchen things, etsy, shop
after a long day of GRE studying, resume sending and reading i settled in to rest my brain with some of the best free looks a girl can hope for. the Anthropologie, Williams Sonoma, JCrew and Sur La Table Catalogs. i was in a little piece of heaven, if only for a few moments. This of course sparked the need to online window shop. these are things at the top of my wish list, well, because we all know times are rough and Bodelou can’t be affordin’ a new pair of shoes at the tune of $138. even though they are at the tip top of my list. le sigh.
when you’re fifteen and you’re a girl, these days taylor swift is the bee’s knees and the concert to see.
when you’re twenty-five and the tickets are free it doesn’t sound like a bad idea. maybe these things should be rethought. (more…)
this may be political. okay it is, but not as biased as you may think…read on: (more…)
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: beauty, blogging, fashion, kitty, media, publishing, radio, search results, TMI
I told you So A few weeks ago on my weekly update i shared a little blurb from glamour magazine about a “real” woman displayed within the pages. how refreshing, right? yesterday i was listening to NPR, a new favorite of mine, and they were doing a story on a German Magazine called Brigitta, that has banned super skinny models from its pages, in effort to make a change in the way women idealize their own bodies. this afternoon i saw a little blurb on the wordpress homepage. it reminded me to tell you all about this story. Here’s the NPR link After the broadcaster read the story, they interviewed the magazine editor and also the owner of the largest German Modeling Agnecy. I wish I could find the audio for you to hear, (maybe look for it on ITUNES?) but what was disgusting was listening to the Model Agency owner talk about the need for women to see something glamorous, which she went on to insinuate that “real women” could not be glamorous. ugh. this is the mentality that drives the industry that people unrightly, but do depend on for the roots of their self-image.
Cat Got Your…photo? I’ve linked to Katie’s photo blog before, so her greatness may be nothing new to you, but check this out. i’m not even a cat lover and i couldn’t help but fall in love with her little kitty, Moo. here’s a sneak peak. go check out the rest! it will cheer you up on this stinky weather day. (is your weather stinky like it is here?)
More Media Outrage After i shed a few tears for gourmet magazine and the state of the publishing world (should i be rethinking my grad school decisions?) i read about this little place called Eater on a favorite blog of mine, seriouseats. Apparently, this place is offering up cash money for bloggers to close down their food blogs. why would they pay to close down other blogs? because they feel the media is too full of static noise revolving around food. too many blogs spouting off their opinions on the latest food craze, restaurants and any sort of reality food show. Eater is a food blog bully. and as an owner of a small, meager, FLEDGING foodblog, i find this to be a ridiculous proposal. insulting even.
Cocktails- While I will admit that I love to shop, my funds are such that i cannot always do this as often as i like. i would also say that once i decide i like a new look, piece of clothing or accessory, i snatch up quite a few of that particular item whenever i see one. currently, it is jackets and belts. last summer it was cocktail rings. (more fun than belts, right?) what better way to jazz up a night out than a cocktail, sans alcohol. check out some of jennifer’s finds! they are perfect for just about any night out. a girl can dream right?
TMI There’s a blogging trend around the blogosphere that I have not yet decided to take part in (i can barely get my posts in as it is) that requires the participants to share with the world a little “TOO much info.” a favorite blogger of mine, spleeness, takes part every week and today her post hit home. we all comment on the strange ways in which people find our blogs via the great little info that google analytics or wordpress stats provide for us. (today the top search for my blog was turkey porn…who the hell searches for TURKEY PORN?) but anyway, if you thought your results were awkward, check out hers. you may feel a little better about the weirdos that end up at your blog. (sorry spleeness, at least there are a handful of us who visit who aren’t worried about how to crystalize human urine)
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: being a foodie, idols, magazines, publishing, writing
my mother is an amazing cook. the kind of cook i want to impress. as a child i remember watching her sift through binders of bon apetite and gourmet magazines that she had archived since her early days as a budding foodie. (apparently being a foodie runs in the family) to this day she still keeps this organized library of food porn on display in her den. sure maybe cookbooks and cooking magazines belong in the kitchen, but what if you are inspired while busy with TV or writing in your journal or reading a non-cooking book? for that reason, it is good to have these things handy. (more…)
