House guests - Anyone who knows me knows I'm not particularly big on sharing my space. So having four people from Alabama stay in my unairconditioned apartment for three of the hottest days of this summer isn't always my most ideal scenario. However, my house guests were sweet to my animals, a ton of fun to hang out with, and made my birthday even better. Thanks for sharing your friends with me, Heather.
Color - Saturday morning started bright and early at the Color Me Rad 5k at Soldier Field. It was hot and sticky and Carolyn and I walked about half of the race but the energy was good and getting plastered in random colors was tons of fun.
Birthday shenanigans - Holy crap, was there a lot going on over my birthday weekend. A large amount of this was eating and drinking. Friday night, we hit up Hopleaf (wood-grilled octopus and virtue cider) and Bar on Buena (burgers and g&ts). Saturday, we had brunch at Eleven City Diner (waffles, bacon, bloody marys, coffee, and mimosas), met up at Galway Arms for dinner with a lot of wonderful friends (fish & chips, magners, and chocolate creme brulee), and finished up the night listening to great music at Kingston Mines (lots of Angry Orchard). Sunday, I slept and got through some homework while my house guests ran out for some touristy goodness and then we took a party of 10 to Quartino where I'm pretty sure we ordered over half of the menu, got through four litres of wine, there was a penis-shaped dessert complete with candles for me, nearly every other dessert on the menu, cappuccino, limoncello, grapefruit-cello, and lots of groaning over how full and happy we all were. Truly a perfect birthday weekend.
Good gift givers - We'll start with Daniel who pays way too much attention to everything I say and showed up on Saturday with the super amazing Global chef knife I've had my eyes on for months. As a nice compliment, my cousin and house guests got me a Whole Foods gift card. I am so looking forward to buying a ton of fabulous ingredients and cutting them all up with my new samurai sword this weekend.
Baby visits - It's been nearly a month since I've made it down to see my sweet Ivy and last night finally worked out. I got to participate in bath time, dinner time, read tons of books, play with her dollies, and curl up next to her and Sarah while she drifted off to dreamland. I always feel so incredibly at ease when I leave there.
One week - In one week, I will finally be done with classes. The summer quarter has sped by and I am beyond ready to have some time off to enjoy some quality time with Daniel, lose some of the birthday weight, and get back to the archery range. Life, I've missed you. Homework, you can eff off for a couple of months.
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