Life

My friend Mary Beth is in my cooking club and she lives about 10 minutes from me.  She came back to WW on Saturday and it was so good to see her.  With our friend Jeana there, it was like old home week. Later that afternoon, Mary Beth texted me “wanna wake up at the ass crack with us and go see the groundhog look...

Hello!  I’ve missed you.  I can’t believe it’s been well over two weeks since I’ve done a proper post. Well, one reason was that my old laptop wasn’t working right.  I couldn’t log onto the internet, pictures wouldn’t post, etc.  I got a new laptop when I was with my brother and I am not sure why I was dragging my feet for so long...

I can’t believe last night was our last Cooking Club for 2019!    Courtney is the best hostess – I wish I had half the talent she does when it comes to entertaining.  How cute are our place settings?! How to Start a Cooking Club My friend Courtney brought together seven other women in various stages of their life who all have one thing in...

Hey guys!  I realized lately that I’ve just been going through the motions with this blog.  I am in the process of hiring someone to make it more user friendly, and am going to be changing the programming just a bit. I’ve blogged Monday through Friday nearly every week for ELEVEN YEARS.  I know, I can hardly believe it myself. I started this blog as...

Happy Halloween! I hope you have a great Halloween 🎃. My shirt was the shirt my husband wore when we got married. ❤️ I forgot to plug in my lap so this post will be short and sweet, like me 🤩 Very proud that I haven’t had one piece of Halloween candy at all! I’ll be back with my recap of the Great Steak Out...

I’m so excited I can hardly stand it – can’t talk about why I’m going yet but stay turned!! Talking a blog break – see you Monday! P.S. – always a good idea to get Frontera for breakfast

Um, here’s a tip from me to you.  If you want to use your laptop, you have to charge it.  I know!  News to me!  I got on the train yesterday, opened my laptop and had 2% battery which lasted all of one minute. Monday my friend Morgan and I had plans to see Samin Nosrat at the Harris Theater.  If you haven’t seen her...

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...