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On Paintballing…

October 23, 2013

Somehow The Boy convinced me to try paintballing with him…so we got a group together and headed out to middle of damn nowhere also know as Badlandz to run around the forest and shoot each other for fun. 

It actually turned out to be a great time and I am excited to go again. I do have some welts and I got shot in the thumb in my last game…I pretty much gave  up on life for about 5 minutes until I regained feeling in my thumb. So here are some photos to share….

The Girls in the group! 

My little brother & Cousin making a strategy before we went in 

The Boy & I….

In action 🙂 
The whole group…this map was called Normandy..and it was evil 

Have you been paintballing?? Love it or Hate it? 
If your in Chicago we are going again in 3 weeks! 


Filed in: Other, Social • by Monica •

On dates…

October 17, 2013

Since I am living in the burbs with my parents I really only get to see The Boy on weekends and an occasional late weekday if I hang out to avoid traffic. So we have been trying to make the most of our time together.

We get up and workout together, we cook, try new things. I made a meetup group for Couples looking to make friends with other couples.(So if you are in Chicago and use Meetup join us!) and since we have been going to events with that group.

Anyway….a couple weekends ago we had an impromptu date night. We went out to my fave Indian place-Delhi Darbar. It’s one of those smallish places that is not fancy at all but the food is delicious! We had planned to see a movie but were both so full we wanted to do something that would keep us moving so we drove out to the Skokie Sports Park  and just enjoyed it all. The weather was pretty nice around 70.

Yummy food porn: 

We learned that when at the batting cages even when I go to the slow pitch baseball cage I am still barely able to hit a ball and I whine because my hands hurt. 

See that form right there!
 We learned that when at the driving range it takes me at least 3 swings before I actually  hit the ball….

We also learned that The Boy can’t stay off the phone, I cheat and I am a horrible mini golfer(a couple spots actually took me 10 tries)

Trying to do new things has been fun…this Sunday were are going Paintballing in a big group and I am terrified excited. 
What do you like to do for your dates?? 


Filed in: Other, Social • by Monica •

Fall Swap!

October 15, 2013

I love blog swaps! Who doesn’t love getting something in the mail? Plus I always get to find a new blog to follow and get to know someone just a little bit more! 

So I joined the Falling into Fall Swap and was paired up with Mandy @ Mandy’s Money. I got to chat with her a bit by email and she said her favorite part of Fall was Halloween….ahhh of course this made me think she was awesome! I also saw she went apple picking recently which makes me super jealous because I am dying to go so I can bake all kinds of goodies! ooh just go check out her blog I am sure you will become a follower as well! 


Now my reveal! 

I loved this! I am a fan of owl things and they just work great for fall! My car air freshener was starting to die out so this worked perfectly. Also, as much as I hate to admit it I really needed something to smell up my room because unpacking has left my room smelling a little old and stale!! 

Thanks again to Mandy for the great stuff!! 

Filed in: Link Up • by Monica •

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