The Girls

Sometimes the women in my life drive me absolutely insane.

Sometimes we cry at dumb things.

We always laugh at dumb things.

A lot of them are stuck with me forever because they know too much.

I have seen them through break-ups, make-ups, engagements, pregnancies, proms, college, breakdowns and breakthroughs.

 (Dear friends, there are a lot of you I lack pictures with. Let's work on that.)

This weekend I was at Chili's with Tom.

There was a table full of females being loud and raucous and chit-chatting away.

I had to explain to Tom that that's how it goes when girls get together.

For some reason, all girls in a group, no matter who they are, all kind of behave the same.

If they're among friends.

Fast-talking, martini-drinking, gossip-heavy fun ensues.

And boys just don't understand it.

It is, indeed, just like it is in the movies.

I have been on a lot of friend dates this week, and I think it is SO important to our well-being to make sure that happens.

Movies (including "Silver Linings Playbook," Loved it!), yoga, grocery shopping, coffee, whatever it may be.

It's really quite rejuvenating, in a way that hanging out with boys just isn't. (Sorry, guys!)
It's not worse, just different.
We get each other. And our stereotypical quest for chocolate.

Since the semester kicks off tomorrow, I know things are about to get absolutely nuts.

But I am looking forward to reconnecting with all the ladies I have missed over break.

And, frankly, a lot of them I won't get to see nearly as often after this semester.

So I plan to take up as much of their time as I'm allowed while I still have them so close.

Midsummer Snapshots

So this week in lovely Peoria, temperatures will skyrocket to a cozy 100 degrees.

I am definitely more cut out for somewhere like Halloweentown, where it's sweater and cider weather all day, every day.

Anyway. My roommate Jess came back to visit this weekend, and we had such a good time! But the weekend went by way too fast. My mom's been out for the past couple days, too, so it's been a fun week!

Tom and I went to the Farmer's Market on Saturday...

...And ate berries and muffins on the riverfront!

Then Jess and I visited our baby chickens, who are no longer babies (they're the reddish ones in the back.)

My turkey friend.

Caitlyn, Jess and I went downtown for a girls' night

Club soda and lime, yum.

Summer bucket list item #25: Eat at Lou's Diner. Check!

I have been looking forward to this upcoming weekend for a long time and I am so, SO glad it's almost here. Tom and I head north to my hometown tomorrow after work for a wedding, a family party and some sightseeing. And we get to escape the heat (kind of) for a few days. 

Happy Wednesday! Or I guess I could just say "Decent Wednesday!" Wednesday is the most depressing day of the week, studies show. I kind of think Tuesdays are worse, but whatever. Science says Wednesdays are the low point. But I digress.