The Burb Life

My life has been pure craziness these last two weeks. I officially moved to my new apartment. I was there for about 48 hours and haven't been back. I'm living the suburban life for a week and, let me tell you, I am not a suburban girl. It is way to creepy quiet and my fear of being attacked by a masked man is always heightened when I am sleeping in the burbs! I am literally picturing the man from "The Strangers" right now and I am starting to scare myself in my well lit cubicle. If you haven't seen that movie...don't. I can promise you that is some of the best advice you will ever hear.

In case you were wondering, I do not like scary movies.

I tend to be able to only spend a weekend in the suburbs before I get that city itch. It seems that errands always take twice as long, everything is farther away, and people are more rude. For example, while driving to the train station today, my mom attempted to drive straight after stopping at 4 ways stop as the car coming the opposite direction started turning. Naturally, my mom stopped and let him go, ya know, to avoid an accident. You would have thought that my mom got out of her car and punched his (which I have seen happen) with his reaction. He literally threw up his arms in disgust and was mouthing "ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!" at us and driving super slowly to make sure we saw his anger and he could hold up traffic. People, we let him go first! It might have been the biggest overreaction I have ever seen.

People in the suburbs need to get out more.

Maybe it is because I spent a year too long living in the suburbs or maybe it's because my home is in the city but, for whatever the reason, I feel out of my element. Needless to say, I can't wait to get back downtown.

This song has been keeping me moving this week. I know, dramatic.

I hope everyone is having a good week.

Love, love, love

Bridge

Moving Weekend

Happy Friday! I will be spending most of my weekend moving and getting settled into my new place. Oh and it decided to go back into the 90s today for the big move. Lucky me. I hope you all have a wonderful weekend and soak up the last days of summer. 

Can't stop listening to this.

Love, love, love

Bridge

College Bound Brother

My little brother Brendan left for college today! My whole family is excited and sad about the whole thing. We are all proud of him and know that he will do great things at Marquette but, he is every one's favorite, so we all get teary eyed at the thought of him going to school.

Brendan was the last of us 5 kids and the most pleasant of surprises. Wink,Wink....nudge,nudge.
Watching him grow up has been amazing and I could not be more excited for what he is going to accomplish over the next 4 years.

 I am really pushing a study abroad semester in Australia so I can come visit but I guess a European country would be okay too. Whatever.

Congrats Brendino!

Love, love, love

Bridge

Tuesday Funk

We have been having the most beautiful weather in chi-city lately. I think someone was reading my blog and decided the heat needed to end. Amen.

Not sweating on the way to work makes the day a million times better. Literally.

Fall is in the air.

In other news I woke up at 5am today and starting making a mental list of all the things I needed to do this week before moving. I never went back to bed. Moving really blows. Honestly though I could not be more excited to get settled in my new place. I hung out there for a large part of the weekend and I am really looking forward to making a new home for myself. I even joined a gym down the street from my new apartment. Big steps people, big steps.

Love, love, love

Bridge

Weekend Highlights

I spent most of my weekend checking out my new digs and drinking way too much wine.

 I did pull it together on Sunday to celebrate Audrey Flo's baptism. 

What a nug. 

It was a very special morning followed by pizza and bellinis. What better way to celebrate a baptism! 

After all the celebrating was over and I was headed out the door my grandma looks right at me and goes..."So you still haven't found anyone huh?" 

Ohh Milly...

Happy Monday! 

Love, love, love

Bridge

Happy Friday!

TGIF! It could not come any sooner, am I right?! I am going to be exploring my new neighborhood this weekend and enjoying the gorgeous weather. I am hoping to find myself a new gym in order to stop my rapid weight gain. I would love to act like I don't know how this is happening but I had two ice cream bars on Wednesday. I know, I know, I need to make some lifestyle changes. Whatever.

In other news my sister got her professional wedding pictures back and we have been having a lot of fun going through them! When it comes to pictures I have a really hard time looking good. I would say 9 out of 10 times my eyes are closed.
Proof.

Ohh and also this lovely picture that I managed to completely ruin.

Also, just in case you were starting to doubt my sideburns. Here she is in all her glory.

Luckily she was hair sprayed so she is sticking straight out for this glamor shot.

Of course there was also some really lovely shots from the wedding as well but those aren't nearly as fun to share. I hope you all have a fabulous weekend!

Love, love, love

Bridge

Trying a Twist

I normally hate wearing my hair up due to the fact that my sideburns look absurd. However, lets be real, with these luscious locks its hard to actually take the time and style them down everyday. Not to mention I get strong emotional feelings for cool pony tails or braids. Every once in awhile I try to pull them off. Today is one of those days. I found this style on one of my favorite blogs and decided to give it a whirl. Pun intended.



Sorry about the iPhone pic. I instragrammed it to look cooler. It definitely didn't work.



I think it looks fairly decent! Plus it rained today and this was the perfect hairdo to get a little misty without it going to the sh**s.

What do you all think?

Love, love, love

Bridge



Tuesday Funk

It actually smelled like Fall today. I literally almost skipped to the el in my sweater....SWEATER! I was even able to wear my hair down today and man does it look good! Considering I love the changing of the seasons I am really looking forward to the sweater weather, boot wearing, jean jacket temperatures.

I have to officially start packing this weekend and I am actually looking forward to it. Living in an empty apartment this past month has not exactly been a blast. Even though moving is such a pain in the rump I am excited to be changing it up for this year. Hopefully this move will bring on some unexpected changes in my life. 

Start fresh.

Love, love, love

Bridge

Weekend+Wedding Highlights

I hope everyone had a wonderful weekend and took full advantage of the cooler temperatures. I was home with the family for most of the weekend as my parents hosted my younger brother's graduation party. The party was a big success for a couple reasons. First we I was able to stay outside the whole time with curled hair and I didn't have to casually pat my forehead with a handkerchief. Second, my brother Brendan was able to see most of his friends and family before he heads off to Marquette in a week. I can't believe he is old enough to go to college...tear.

Audrey wore her Marquette gear for Brenny!

We ended the party with a quick Taco Bell run at 1:30am followed by a very lazy Sunday filled with Harry Potter.

This weekend we were also able to get the highlight video that my incredibly talented cousin made for Mk and Kirk's wedding. It made all of us cry and I am so glad we have something to watch and remember that wonderful day. 

KQ- You truly have an incredible eye and an amazing gift. Thank you so much for creating this for my family!

Watch in HD. Enjoy!

Love, love, love

Bridge

Girls Night Out

I have never been to a sex show. Last night I accidentally went to a pg13 version of one with my sisters, cousin, Mom and Aunts.That's right people. My Mom, who we like to call Babs, stumbled across these tickets on Groupon called "Girls Night Out" and immediately thought that it would be fun to have a girls night out and go! I don't want to throw her under the bus too much because it was a cute idea for us all the meet downtown and get some drinks and hang out just the girls! Little did we all know what we were getting into...

The show was about 3 best friends who lost there other friend in moped accident when they were younger. The girl who died was the narrator of the show and was dressed as an angel which means she wore  an all white jeans and a jean jacket that had tiny rhinestones all over it. She did have angel wings though, ya know, just in case we got confused.  The weird thing is she literally looked identical to one of my good friends Mom! (Natalie-is this what your mom does on the side?) 

Anyways the show was about the other three friends who ended up helping to raise the dead friends baby, Candy Rose, who she had when she was 16. The play involved learning about the multiple affairs they had, talking about their "mu**s", and a blow-up man doll that someone pretended to have sex with. This all happened while occasionally breaking out into some women power songs including "I will survive", "I need a hero" and "Its' raining men." I am not making any of this up.

The best part was that while Nora, MK (my sisters), Annie (my cousin) and I all felt uncomfortable our moms and aunts were LOVING it! Babs was dying laughing. At one point my Aunt Nanc kept saying the word "mu**" over and over again while slapping her leg. All around us women were dancing! Some had boas around their necks as the did a little shimmy. I honestly don't even think I am giving this enough justice.  It was something out of a twilight zone. 

 All in all lots of laughs were had.  

I hope you all have a wonderful weekend!

Love, love, love

Bridge

Proposal Dreams

I realize that when a girl talks about getting proposed to and she doesn't have a boyfriend she seems crazy. I also know that all girls, regardless if they have a boyfriend or not, think about it. I guess were all nuts. Some girls I know have their wedding proposals planned down to every single detail. I, on the other hand, see little clips or pictures and then just sorta melt inside. After all, I was a Romantic on the enneagram. 

Via

Come on...I bet you all have a single tear coming down your cheek right now. 

Love, love, love

Bridge

Tuesday Funk

I just wanted to share this. I mean WTF?

Bye George Street!

Meggy officially moved from chi-city and is headed to NYC! Even though I cried the whole way to work this morning I could not be more excited for her and her new adventure. I know she is going to do amazing things! We were able to send Meggy off in the most appropriate fashion, with a good old fashion Sunday Funday. It wasn't just a party for Meggy but also as a final shindig for the George Street trio. I had the most wonderful year living with Lisa and Meggy. They were the two best roommates and the two best friends. I am sad to be moving on but I know the next year is going to bring great things for all of us. GEORGE STREET 4 LYFE! (That's the block we live on). 

Always laughing. 

Love you girls! I could not have asked for a more amazing year living with both of you! 

Love, love, love

Bridge

A Love Story

I stumbled across this from one of my favorite blogs today. I thought it was definitely something to share with everyone. This shed a little light on earlier post of dealing with decisions about grad school. What a true love story. I hope everyone spends some time this weekend with people they care about.

Love, love, love
Bridge

Overwhelmed

Lately I  have started the process of looking at grad schools and deciding where I want to apply. It has been a bit overwhelming to say the least. So much of it depends on how you score on the GRE, where you want to live and, most importantly, money. The thought of taking on $40,000 in debt makes me want to cry a little. 

What if I cant find a job that pays enough to start paying off these loans?

 What if I cant handle working and going to school and end up having a mental break down?

What if I decide I don't want to do this half way through the program?

I know I need to keep going and get the ball rolling but sometimes I wish someone would just do it for me while I took a nap.

Lordy.

In the meantime I will focus on keeping my goal of eating Greek yogurt everyday and enjoying living in one of the greatest cities in the world.

I hope everyone has an amazing weekend!

Love, love, love

Bridge



My Favorite TV Show...Ever

Remember how good the show LOST was?! If you don't remember you seriously need to plan on making that part of your winter plans. All seasons our watch instantly on Netflix, so there is no excuse.  I watched the pilot episode today and I literally got butterflies in my stomach when the song started playing and the white letters floated across the screen.

My family was big LOST fans. Big. All of us. My mom had a really hard time keeping up with the show and it was during the second season that she declared..."wait there was a plane crash!?" Gotta love her. I was the last one to get on the LOST board and didn't  get into the show until the writers strike. In some ways I was lucky because I spent my entire winter of sophomore year catching up on 4 seasons. Let just say I spent a lot of nights eating pizza and drinking wine alone in my room. It was awesome. 

Man do I love that show. Kate was definitely one of my girls. You gotta give her props for keeping that bikini line in check while on that island. Priorities, check. I was so team Sawyer, FYI. Jack was too emotional. 

What I always liked about the show was that there was a strong presence of faith. There was always a feeling of hope and the idea of there being a bigger picture. I know that I am stretching this a little with the show being filled with polar bear attacks, smoke monsters, a number of people referred to as "the others." However, the message seamed to stay the same. There is always a purpose and a plan that you just have to believe in. When things get rough and you start to lose your faith you can always take comfort in the fact that most of won't deal with being stuck on a time shifting, war fighting, boar infested island.

"I'll see ya in another life brotha."

Love, love, love
Bridge