Café Con Monica

Five on Friday!

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Going out to Cafe Ba Ba Reba tonight with some of the girls for Tapas & Sangria….wooo!!! Thats me…I woo and I don’t even care how it looks. 
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I have parent teacher conferences tomorrow and since we had Monday/Tuesday off this week for severe weather our day of this coming Monday has been cancelled…not cool man…not cool! 
{3} 
The Super Bowl is coming! Haha as if you all didn’t already know that…but let me share why I am excited…I have a cute little sweets recipe I want to try. So basically I only want to go to a party so I can make them. 
**this is not them…because I do not have a steady enough hand to do that shit**
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I never win giveaways!! Never…so sad! But that doesn’t matter right now because for my blogiversary I am having a giveaway! So stay tuned, should be going up mid-week! 
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I recently started keeping in better touch with an old friend and it really does feel great. I think we kind of fell off for a while because of distance and our lives just going in different directions but it has been so nice to chat and catch up and just be friends again. 
What is your Five this Friday?? 
I hope you all have a wonderful weekend!!! 

Humpday Confessions!

Its about time I link up for this!

Sooo I must confess….
– I am counting down hours until Friday this week. I am not sure why…could be that I have a 3 day weekend?? Either way…needs to get here NOW! 
– As much I like what I do…working with 11 other women is awful! Seriously…it was so much easier working with guys. 

– I haven’t combed my hair for work more than once in the last two weeks…which definitely breaks any ideas I had of looking better for work…

-I may need to do a spring cleaning of blogs because I have a ton I follow on bloglovin(new & old) and most of them were because of a giveaway but I really just enjoy the usual lifestyle blogs that talk about all kinds of things not just fashion or makeup…or mommy stuff….I don’t have kids and its way too much work to put effort into my everyday clothes.

– I get most of my new workout material from Instagram or blogs…and I don’t care because that shit kicks my ass most of the time!

Because shit like that is inspiring!! 

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
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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! 
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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??

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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!! 

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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. 

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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?? 



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