Café Con Monica

Throwback Thursdays!!

This has quickly become one of my fave Thursday link-ups! 

I am almost positive this was in 2010, I joined a bunch of my girlfriends for a long weekend trip to Jamaica came home to Chicago for a few days and then left to Toronto for another long weekend. It was a great time but I do remember it taking me quite a while to recover! Crazy things were happening on both of those trips but they were definitely worth the money and recovery 🙂

Toronto….
Forgive the ring…It was 3 years ago!! 

Jamaica! 
And just because this song randomly popped into my head! 
love Offspring! 
Link up so I can check out your Throwback Thursday post 🙂 

My Weekend!

Guess what!?! I will be heading to the airport tonight for a late night flight to the Philippines! Wooo hooo for me! But thats not what this post is about…though you should be jealous. Its about how I actually left my apartment for more than food and work this weekend! Yay!!!

Friday night I just worked and relaxed!
Saturday I relaxed most of the day, did one of my part time jobs and then met up with two of my girl coworkers and saw Oz.

If you haven’t seen it, you should! It’s really cute. It made me want to see Wicked all over again, which is funny since I’ve seen it 3 times already. 
Also…just a note here but they completely ruined Mila Kunis for me. Girl crush gone…..
then we headed to join our English department director out at a new wine bar in Shunde for drinks. It was a great time, we sat around with a bunch of older Chinese businessmen who didn’t speak any English and smoked cigars but sang along to Adele songs. 
English Department director 

our half of the table 

My coworkers! Saffer & GCgirl! 
Sunday I spent cleaning my apartment and watching Modern Family. I am now in love with that show and in the 2nd season so don’t tell me anything that happens! Then I joined up with some coworkers and other English teachers in town for a duck dinner. Soooooooooo delicious!!! 
Its not much but seeing that I have been very strict with myself watching everything I eat and avoiding alcohol for the last 6 weeks it was nice to enjoy both without stressing too much 🙂 
I ended my Sunday night skyping with my family and then Sniferella. 
I told my family about how I am considering resigning for another semester and I was shocked to find my sister crying. She just burst into tears!!! I didn’t have a clue what to do, just kept reassuring them that I wasn’t positive I was signing anything yet. Yikes!!! 
on another positive note…I had a good hair weekend…it just happened to work for me so I had to take a selfie!! 

How was your weekend???

30 before 30: Update!

Its Monday again…ooye! I didn’t do anything exciting this weekend, being  very strict with clean eating and working part time on the weekends I am pretty much dead to the world by Friday and can’t be assed to do a damn thing.

Its starting to get HOT here and I am not sure I like it. Its like a very humid, disgusting soup bowl hot. Haha hopefully that explains it well.

So since I have no amazing weekend photos to show you I decided it was time to update my 30 before 30. Its time I get to work on some more of them but still I have made some progress! I also might be making some changes to the list soon, things have changed a bit since I wrote it 🙂

30 Before 30


1. Teach Abroad for at least 6 months In my 9th month! 
2. Take one trip to a foreign country alone **Technically did but will do a solo trip to be clear instead of just moving!  
3. Finish my Bachelors
4. Get Engaged(double points if married)  **CHANGING THIS
5. Learn a completely new language or two **trying to learn Mandarin 
6. Run a half marathon
7. Buy a completely new wardrobe(get rid of it all and start all over) 
8. Pay off all my debts
9. Go Skydiving
10. Meet some of the many bloggers I come across
11. Take strip dance/pole dance classes *got this done with Snifferella before I left! It was an awesome time! 
12. Cook a whole 3-4 course meal for friends/family *Made my first whole Thanksgiving dinner for friends here in China (I do hope to do this again at home) 
13. Buy myself something ridiculously expensive and not feel guilty about it 
14. Do a mission trip 
15. Take Salsa and/or ballroom dancing lessons
16. Live in my own place for at least 6 months(ALL ALONE) Been living alone for 7 months now! It has its sucky moments but I like no one witnessing my dance parties
17. Start and complete a scrapbook
18. Reunite with some old elementary/high school friends 
19. Take a road trip
20. Take my parents out and pay for it
21. Spend more time with my brother and nephew 
22. Volunteer for Habitat for Humanity 
23. Go to Seattle
24. Get fit, to a place where I am happy with my body(and keep it up) **a work in progress! 
25. Have a whole spa day  **Took a whole day in Thailand when I was living there to get a mani/pedi, a few massages and a lay on the beach. PERFECT! 
26. Learn how to sew/use a machine well enough to make a dress
27. Get a gun license and own my own gun
28. Learn how to play the piano
29. Read the bible everyday for a year 
30. Forgive and Forget **also a work in progress! 
Well…I’ve crossed out 5 of 30 and I still have 2 years to go. I think I might be on the right track. Although a part of me wants to change #4 since I realized I don’t really care if that happens by 30. 

Might change it to: 
(*4) Visit more places in the US 

I have been traveling around Asia like crazy and after meeting lots of foreigners who would love to go to the US I realized there is a lot I have yet to see in my own country. 

Do you have anything you want to do by a certain age?? 

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