Chicago - Café Con Monica

Ooh the funnies!

August 28, 2012

So while visiting with my friend Bellydancer we got to see a lot of Youtube videos because she is a big fan of random cat videos. So I wanted to share some with you!

I’m sure you have seen the “Shit girls say” videos but there is one from Chicago that is sooo straight on and I love it!

Now some people say it isn’t completely accurate but this one is pretty spot on too…

(He was off on the fact that we say “Jewels” not “jewel”)

Incase you haven’t heard this song yet, listen and it will be stuck in your head! Its hilarious and taking over the world!

Does your city have a “shit ______ say” video???

Don’t you just love the song?!

Happy Tuesday!!!

A Wednesday….

July 25, 2012

Maybe you had to leave in order to really miss a place; maybe you had to travel to figure out how beloved your starting point was.” ― Jodi Picoult, Handle With Care

This week the homesick feeling finally hit me. Its hard to explain it, its more than just missing Chicago since I have been trying to move out there for as long as I can remember. Its missing my family, friends and The Boy like so much it makes my heart hurt a little everytime I think of them. I love Thailand, don’t get me wrong and I have a feeling I will love China just as much once I am there but its the fact that there is no immediate end date. You know when you go on vacation or away for a short time and you get to enjoy yourself immensely because you know the time is limited and you have to make the most of it. Here the time is not limited. A year or more is a long time. When I leave for China I am signing an 11 month contract. That means that on top of the 3 months I will have been in Thailand I will add another 11 months. That makes me happy and very sad at the same time. I am sure it will only get harder the longer I am away and when I have to miss holidays and birthdays I will probably cry but I know that I am going to keep having some insanely amazing experiences to look back at too.

This past weekend my parents ran the Rock & Roll Chicago half marathon and I wasn’t there…I am ALWAYS there as many of my previous posts have shown. I saw the pictures and immediately cried, on the 4th of July I skyped with my family in all their fourth gear…afterwards I cried. Haha I am kind of a sissy, incase you weren’t sure!

Its hard though…Being in another country doing what you would do at home getting up and going to work everyday and coming home and grading papers and lesson planning. BUT I am 12 hours ahead of Chicago so I can only really talk to friends/family early in the morning or in the evening. Only having about 17 English speaking people in town and 10 of them work with you and the rest are much older and just not interested in making friends. Things take forever to get done because of the language barrier. I have been here over a month we just finally got internet at our house last week.

OOk I think this post turned into a bitch fest…sorry! The whole point of this really was to say how much I miss my family and how I definitely didn’t think it would be as hard as it is!

Hopefully tomorrow will be a happier post…..

Ooh Monday….

April 16, 2012

Hello! Hello! Hello!!
Unfortunately it’s Monday…fortunately I am in a great mood and ready to share with you all! Let’s see what I want to get in here…ooh yes…

You know its a #firstworldproblem when you have too many job offers in a country halfway across the world and you can’t decide which one to take. yes I did just use a hashtag in my post…

I love my family & friends. No seriously I know I say this a lot but I love them. They are being so supportive about this adventure I am planning and I can not wait to share this with them!

I was a bad bloggy girl last week so I have two weekends worth of crappy iphone photos to share with you!

I promise to not drive you guys insane with my prepping for China business though that may be a small lie

I am finally writing my first guest post for Ms. Kristina over at Pretty Rambles and I am very excited about it

I had a fantastical weekend with The Boy and my friends and we may be planning a big ass Prom themed birthday party for Cookie…it should be amazeballs!

Ook so here are some photos from weekend before last…yea I think..maybe! haha

The besties & baby mama

Me & Redhead sporting our nerdy girl looks

Nephew getting ready for the Bunny Rock

The Boy being a spectator!

Me & Mrs.M after the Bunny Rock

Mrs. M & I kept a pretty good pace for the run but we had to keep slowing down for our other family members. Still did pretty good considering she is still in recovery and I hadn’t run in almost 2 months!

This weekend’s love: