An Outstanding and Obsucure Valentine's Weekend.

Happy Belated Valentine's Day, sweets!

My new obsession...silky, colorful, little jackets.  Perfect for spring and really anything. Dressed up and impressed this LBD quite nicely, dontcha think?

Dress, H&M; Jacket, F21; Tights, Hue; Shoes, Stewart Weitzman; Earrings, UrbanOutfitters; Clutch, Accessorize.

Obscure

- Saying my name over the phone.  Seriously, no one ever understands what I am saying.  They say, "Tara?," "Kayla?," and my favorite one that happened this Friday night, "Gaylor."  I am totally serious.  Maybe next time I think of ordering take-out or simply just calling to inquire about something, I'll be Katie or Sarah or Christie.  Those are easy, right?  Gaylor.  I can't get over how hysterical that is.  

- The millions of bags that i seem to carry in and out of my car every day.  My book bag, purse, gym bag, lunch bag, old grocery bag with junk in it.  Woah, I feel claustrophobic even thinking about it.

- The aggressiveness I accumulate on the road.  I promise I am not that way in everyday life, but if you try to do something stupid on the road we are on...you may get a mouthful (I won't cuss, don't worry...that is too much for me).  "Arg, use your blinker dumb dumb! Choose a lane why dontcha! Ughhhhh!"

...I'm afraid I am revealing myself too much to you today...

- So you're going out for a special occasion.  You get in your dress, you do up your hair, you spritz a little perfume, you smooth some lip gloss on.  The door bell rings and that special someone walks into your place.  You are still upstairs putting your finishing touches on.  You walk down the stairs.  The special someone says, "You look amazing," "you are beautiful," "wow." You are incredibly embarrassed and throw your coat on without acknowledging those lovely compliments.  "Please don't look at me," you think......OK people, is this just me?  Who else hates this part of the night?  Do you feel like it's your senior prom too?  OK, phew.

Outstanding

- Venti 5 shot Americano with cream.  My perfect morning wake-up.

- Valentine's day dresses.  Love my LBD.

- This clutch that I totally won on Twitter.  Check out who gifted me with this lovely bag.

- The 40 to 50 degree weather we are going to experience this week.  I am giddy with thinking I can wear just a blazer and scarf and tights with open toed platforms.  Amaze!

-Christopher Wilocki photography.  He and I did a shoot this weekend and it was of course amazing!  Check him out!

The good, the bad and the adorable.

Woah.  It's been like forever.  Well, 4 days.

I have had one of those weeks where everything I do is 10 times more difficult than it has to be or normally is.  Like going to the gas station and having to change pumps twice because it is so darn cold the machines are frozen...3rd times a charm, I guess?  And like when you're driving to class and you hit a train and the line at Starbucks is to the door and then you get behind a bus (the kind that stops at every kid's house...how do you get that hook up anyway?  What happened to bus stops?) and then there is an "accident" on the highway so there is traffic because everyone is stopping to look at what really is just a flat tire and thus you are late to class.  Yup, those are 2 examples of the things I ran into this week.  Sheesh.  OK, I am done!  Thank goodness tomorrow is Friday!

Now here are some really good things from the week:

- That tomorrow is Friday (redundant, but seriously I am sooo thankful)

- A gym day with the boy who looks oh so good working out.  Hott.

- Clean sheets, pillow cases, blankets, and duvets.  I think I even slept through the night because of this laundry magic.

- That I discovered Burberry Children.  I want my future munchkins in these clothes.  They won't be because a solo sippy cup was $60 dollars, but a girl can dream!

Can I have him? Please?

Obscure and Outstanding things from my week

Things have actually been fairly normal recently...I'm very surprised.

Obscure

- That I have an automatic urge to sing whenever I enter into a bathroom of any kind.  Public.  Private.  Port-a-potty.  Doesn't matter...I feel like belting it.

- This waitress at the restaurant I was at this weekend.  It was seriously the most awkward interaction I have ever experienced (It was in Madison, WI.  Packer fans.  Could be a good explanation).  And I am not being dramatic!  She whispered and smiled awkwardly and it was all just very strange.  This is the worst description, sorry...

- The dog I am watching this week.  I have never seen a dog beg the way she does.  I usually can't resist begging dogs...the eyes, the drool, the head on your knee...it just kills me.  But her, this dog?  She can't stop moving when she is begging and she keeps making strange noises, "here!  here!  here is piece of chicken, just stop it and go away!"  Ugh, that's why they always come to me...

Outstanding

- Dinner Saturday night.  The local Japanese steak house fed us oh so well.  Dinner and entertainment and sushi.  Mmmm. Mmm.

-  My swirly straw.

- That I get a house all to myself for 5 days.  House sitting and dog sitting have so many perks.
- Musicals.  Saw one this week and I felt like I was a junior in highschool again.  "Mamma mia..."
- My new Kiehl's face products.  My skin feels softer and cleaner and sun protected.  The lady at the store was so pleased to hear I wanted my lotion with spf.
- That there is a high likely hood of being stranded indoors for a day this week.  I am going to be very very strategic as to where I end up.  I will also show up there with good food, games, movies, and wine and hot tea to keep warm.  Yay Chicago blizzard of 2011!!!

Obscure and Outstanding!

Wasn't it just Monday last week?  Yes, yes it was.  But here we are!  And with another list of my most obscure and outstanding things from the past few days.  It is good do some laughing (at least I am laughing) to start the week off.

Obscure:

--  Being slightly too competitive while playing Candyland...I want the Princess Frostine card!
--  "Pineapple tongue"...the way your tongue feels after you've eaten too much pineapple.  Like the way mine feels now.  Ouch. It's bruised.
--  As I drive around town, I always think of the streets that I would like to live on one day.  What's in a name?  A lot is in a name (lol).
--  I have been in nursing school for a while now and I think I got amnesia over Christmas break.  I keep forgetting I am in school and need to do things. Ah!
--  Bridal Plasty.  I...I don't even have words.  I'd say watch and you will understand, but don't.  It's these girls fighting for plastic surgeries for their wedding days, and when elimination comes the host says, "I'm sorry, 'girl who needs more self confidence,' your wedding will go on, but it won't be perfect."  WHAT?!?  Seeeeeriously.
--  Saying "be safe out there!"...I said it to a man this morning and it was incredibly awkward.  I don't know why.

(at work.  last monday)

Outstanding:

--  Lou Malnati's.  Chicago deep dish is by far the greatest, but last night I nearly had a love affair with it.
--  That this is my last week at Starbucks.  Bittersweet for sure.
--  Little kids clinging to you like monkeys.  Toes digging into your back and everything.  Little monkeys.
--  Greek yogurt.  It's like healthy ice cream!!!
--  Italics.  They do sooo much for me.
--  Bright red tomato nail polish.  It always is fitting.

I hope you are all having an outstanding Monday!  

Obscure and Outstanding

I like Mondays as much as the next person (I know I know...it's tuesday...just hold your horses) and so today I was trying to be as positive as I could be (seeing as it is only the third of this new year and I want to start it all off right).  So I had this brilliant idea...actually this girl did, and I think I may just have to copy.  Today my mind kept thinking about good things that were happening, but those good things kept being accompanied by two or more awkward and obscure and funny things that were happening.  So I decided to do a list.  A weekly list.  Probably Mondays, but if my Mondays are ever as they were yesterday it may just have to wait.  So here I am, Tuesday, putting up my Monday list.  Here we go!

Obscure

--  My progressively worsening crowd phobia.

-- The fact that I keep putting more and more pieces of gum in my mouth when I am hungry and there is no food in sight.  2 1/2 pieces did the trick today before lunch.

--  The fact that I am now beginning an addiction to pawning and picking types of shows.

--  That on NYE, my dress ripped (I am still not over this), and when I went to return it yesterday, seeing as it was clearly a construction flaw, the store clerk lady gave me rolley eyes like I was asking her to give me the money out of her personal wallet.  

--  Having a silly face contest with a four year old and getting caught by several adult strangers.

--  Then later teaching that same four year old how to speak in a british accent so later she could impress her parents by calling them "mummy" and "datty."  I actually don't know how impressed they'll be.

--  A closet full of clothes and nothing to wear today.

--  The creepy old man in a little black sweat suit with his hood up buying sci-fy movies behind me in line at Target.

Outstanding

--  Target.  You agree, I know you do.

--  That The Bachelor started last night.  I hate that I am so intrigued.

--  A parking spot so close to the door of the store and the fact that I didn't even have to fight for it.

--  The big jar of almonds and dried blueberries that I have stashed in my room...there may also be chocolate.  A girl's gotta eat! 

--  That I have a friend who sticks by my side in the most painful of circumstances...(ahem, you know who you are...)

--  Trident Layers...who would have thought it was so delicious?  Thanks, dad, for always stuffing my stocking with good gum and mints.

--  My dad.  He is outstanding.

--  The fact that I didn't get to post this last night because I was so wonderfully interrupted by a friend's phone call.  We talked for an hour and nine minutes.  It was lovely.

So...I think this could work.  It made me happy.  

See you tomorrow!

p.s. I went to the gym today.  Woo!  I better go back there soon or else that was the most expensive day at the gym ever.  ever.