Social - Café Con Monica

Five on Friday….

October 25, 2013

So I always see these fashion posts pop up…and I seriously can barely dress myself every day let alone put together some masterpiece outfit to compete with the other girls that get up hours earlier to get pretty. I get up at 5 am right now…imagine if I actually combed my hair and put makeup on before work!?! HA! never.

So I thought it would be fun to list 5 trends that I can never pull off….

{1}

Awesome hair styles…You know why?! Because I have curly hair..not wavy…actual curly hair. So yea. I can’t do cool shit like that to my do.

{2}

Printed pants or leggings.Besides the obvious fact that I do not have thin thighs there is the fact that I am short. One can be helped the other can not. Short/chunky thighs DO NOT look cute in printed pants or leggings.

{3}

Pointy Nails. This is one of those I am sure I could pull off but won’t. They are gross. That is all.

{4}

Ridiculous shoes. I mean seriously…who besides an expert stripper can walk in anything over 3″ without doing that weird shuffles so you don’t fall? Not me. That’s who.

{5}

A T-shirt. This pretty much encompasses any DIY type outfit. For 1 I can’t possibly get my ass not to hang out the back of a t-shirt dress & 2. I am just not creative enough for that nonsense.

Do you have trouble with any of these? What are some trends you just can’t work with??

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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!

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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.