Café Con Monica

Five on Friday!

Its Friday!!! Wooo hooo! 
I figured I would share 5 things I plan to do this weekend….
{1}
Go Ice Skating in Millennium Park with a bunch of other couples from our Meetup Group! 
Of course, it is going to be damn cold all weekend…of course. 
{2} 
Watch last night’s episode of Scandal. Really hoping to do that today…drives me nuts when I am more than a day behind it! 
{3}
See Catching Fire! 
I am sad I didn’t see the midnight show but I have to be up 5 am on the daily…just couldn’t do it to myself and then I will re-read the book like I always do right after I see a movie! 



{4}
Celebrate my good friend Summer’s birthday at Opart Thai House! 
I haven’t had much time with her since I got back but I am excited to have dinner with all the girls and just celebrate! 
birthday girl in the middle! 


{5}
Paintball! 
I am now worried because it is going to be a high of 25! Yikes but it is the last chance to go this year before the snow so I will suck  it up and get shot at! 
Also..side note ladies but paintball is actually a great exercise! I burned 1200 calories last time! I turned my watch off whenever we were sitting between games but in total we got a full 2 hours 20 mins of play and that burned tons! 


What do you have planned for this weekend??


Five on Friday!

What a week! I am so glad its Friday! 
So since I have not one special thing to discuss with ya’ll I will list 5
{1} 
One of my the parents brought me a Pie Pumpkin so I will be attempting to make Chocolate Chip Pumpkin Bread at some point this weekend…if it fails then good old pumpkin pie it is! 


If you happen to know any other recipes that use real pumpkin let me know so I can try them! 
{2} 
I signed up for a Belly Dancing class. I am sure I’ve mentioned before one of my very close friends Bellydancer is well…a belly dancer. She is still in Thailand right now so I thought it would be fun to take a class and show her my moves when she got back but I loved the first class and decided to sign up for a 7 week session at Arabesque Chicago!
Since I joined the class I decided to add some really cute things from Etsy to my Xmas wishlist! 

Ya know…just in case you are feeling generous! 
have you ever taken a class??

{3}
I joined a gift exchange on Fat Mum Slim’s blog  and I am super excited. I was paired up with someone in Australia and I have to stalk her on social media and Elfster to figure out just what to get her. Its all very elaborate with a Facebook Group and everything. I love getting things in the mail, so if you like to send mail of any kind feel free to send something my way!! 

{4}
Two more 5k’s coming up I have to sign up for! Thanksgiving Day Turkey Trot and Santa Hustle! 
Because who doesn’t love a good themed 5k? If your in Chicago and want to run the Santa Hustle join me! I’m really really really hoping it doesn’t snow! It did my first year. 

{5}
I am excited for the weekend to finally be here! Three day weekend!!
After reading about Vimbly on Stephanie @ Not Entirely Perfect’s blog I checked out the options and signed The Boy & I up for the brewery tour…turns out the place is actually walking distance to his house! So I put it in our Couples meetup as an event and it was a big hit so we are going tomorrow with 5 other couples. 
I can’t think of a better way to spend my Saturday Afternoon! 
What is your Five on Friday?? 



On Thirsty Thursday!

I didn’t get to see the CMA’s last night….I have boycotted watching live television since I got home. Ain’t nobody got time for 3 minutes of commercials every 5 minutes. Nope and Nope. So I will be avoiding anyone’s blog who has CMA anything on it…

I have been tossing around the idea of The Boy & I throwing a themed NYE party since we know he can’t take the days off to travel like I wanted. So since it is Thirsty Thursday…here are some of the drink ideas I might be using! 

BTW if you are in Chicago and looking for a fun themed party to go to for NYE let me know 🙂 



I’m back and forth between a couple themes but I am excited to see how it all works out!
 Have you thrown a themed party before?? Any ideas/recommendations???

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