Café Con Monica

Adventures & Link ups!

So I have spent a ridiculous amount of time on Draw Something lately so I thought I would come up with a fun post for it. My photo editing skills are awful so bare with me…

Here are some of my favorites from the past week or so! See if you can guess what they are before you look below!! 
Only one of these people is a blogger friend but to keep it fair I linked this photo back to her blog! 

1. Peacock…and yes that is a picture of what you think it is
2.  Scotland(why it took me forever to figure that out?!) 
3. Lamp (I just loved how she drew all the other stuff in the living room too!) 
4. Facebook(she couldn’t guess it!) 

My drawing skills are even worse than my photo editing skills so you can imagine how much fun it is for me to play this game! 

In other news……
1. The weather has been AMAZEBALLS in Chicago…we had records temps for 4 days!!! I love warm weather, the hotter the better so I have been very very happy! 
2. Have I told you all how much I love A? Well she saw I wanted these on my blog and bought me two! They are soooooo yummy!!! 
3. Linking up for Nail Files!! Opi Animalistic! I love it, the glitter was just a glittery polish that was around! 
4. Got my Birchbox this month and I am excited to try all the good stuff in it! 

The Nail Files


I’m going out with all my favorite girls tonight for dinner & drinks! I can not wait sooooo excited to get us all together!! 

I hope everyone has a wonderful weekend!!! 





Monday rambles

Let me tell you…I have so much on my mind right now I could very well have my head explode any minute. I tried writing in my journal yesterday thinking it would help to get it all on paper and that didn’t even help. I talked it over with my mom, sister and the bestie G and still…still my brain is consumed!! 
I didn’t do much this weekend as I am still recovering and am not allowed to drink just yet. Friday night I met up with G to get wings even though I know damn well I am not supposed to eat anything spicy at all. I paid for it later and there was nothing I could do but sit and moan about it. Saturday was spent enjoying the weather, spring cleaning/move cleaning and doing tons of laundry. Sunday I went to my parents and hung out.
Sooo here is what is on my mind…
-I miss The Boy. not like a I am lonely and need a boyfriend miss. BUT a I seriously miss having this guy in my life and what the F am I going to do without him? If you have been a follower since last year you may recall the post that changed it all. I went through some very seriously emotional situations all at once and to be honest I don’t think I really came out of that funk until about January which is also when I decided I was moving out of Chicago and making some changes. Anyway, I stuck my ass out there and tried the dating game, I even had a mishap with a fool that caused me nothing but drama. Through all that I kept talking to him, not being able to really let him go even though everyone said I wasn’t being fair to him. Now I am stuck realizing that I was so convinced the grass was greener and that he wasn’t the one for me that I made a huge decision to end our relationship and I think I was wrong. I am moving out of Chicago in 2 months and 4 days. WHY did it take this long to realize all this and WTF do I do now?! 
So yea..you can see how that might make your head hurt right? 
Well….There is also the fact that I originally planned on leaving Chicago to go abroad and teach English. Last year I got certified and then I realized that my options were kind of limited because I don’t have a degree yet(I’m in school still) but there are still great places I can like China. Unfortunately there are some outside factors that hold me in the US for the time being and that is what led me to choose Florida. My friend Bellydancer who also got certified with me is going to Thailand in May to teach for a year. I am so excited for her but soo sooo sooo green with envy at the same time. After talking to my mom a  bit I am really really thinking that maybe I don’t have to let the circumstances keep me in the US and I should really start looking at China as a very real option. 
Some of my options are to pick up and go to Spain and try to find a job(its easier once your there), to go to Florida for the summer while I start the process of applying to go teach in China, staying in Chicago and trying to figure out what the F I want to do or just going to Orlando as planned and figuring it all out from there. 
My head hurts…..here are some happy pictures from my weekend to make up for this long ass post! 
The brackets I guessed at 
My arsenal…yuck! 
My brother 🙂 
The nephew-Look how big he is! 
making smores by the fire last night 🙂 

Thanks so much for reading this…I know it is a bit heavy for a Monday post but I carried that in my head all weekend and can use any advice 🙂 

Some thoughts…

I have some things on my mind and stuff I just want to share…

-Sometimes keeping up with blogging can be hard. I’ve had this blog for a little over a year now and a few months ago I decided I wanted to really put more time and effort into it. Sometimes I feel like its a popularity contest and that I might have lost sight of the reason I started blogging to begin with. I do love having new followers, knowing that people are reading what I am sharing.Somewhere along the line I started stressing about posting things that might offend people, changing my writing style to be a little less snarky so that I don’t offend anyone. I don’t love fashion, I hate combing my hair, I would much rather spend $100 on a night out with the girls then buy clothes or get my hair/nails done. I honestly will never be a fitness blogger, I hate working out and only do just enough to keep me from ending up ginormous. I feel like I need to start writing for me and stop stressing so much about making my blog fit into a mold that gets a ton of visitors.

-Dating sucks. I don’t have a clue what I thought it was supposed to be like when I had a boyfriend and wished to be single. NO CLUE. I may single for a very long time simply because most of the men I meet annoy me. I don’t have tons of extra time on my hands and no its not ok to get pissy if I have to cancel a date because I am being rushed to the hospital. I mean really, that is ridiculous. I like my time, I hate having to feel rushed or like I didn’t leave enough time to get my homework done or enough “me” time in the week. So its not being an ass if I decide that I can not meet you for a drink tomorrow just because you asked me at 9pm tonight. With that being said….

-I hung out with The Boy over the weekend. We went to the movies and to dinner. I had the same medical issues while we were dating so he is pretty aware of how it works and how I am feeling. He has been so sweet and offered to help me out. I don’t know how it came to be that almost six months later we are able to hang out but it was great. I wish he was the person he is now when we were dating. Does that make sense? I guess everyone evolves but really I wonder where that person was when I was his girlfriend.

-This move business has me stressed. I am starting to freak out. It’s coming up fast and I am starting to be terrified. What if I move and hate it? What if I end up signing up for more than I can handle? Who the hell am I going to hang out with?! I know its supposed to be exciting but now that it is getting closer I am starting to wonder how different this life will be from Chicago besides the weather and the fact that my friends and family will be 1,200 miles away. I’m going to be doing the same kind of work I don’t really like, I will now have more bills as I need to get a car and will probably live alone. I don’t know…I guess it just makes me wonder if I should have held out for the things to work out so I could go to China and teach instead.

how I have been feeling lately….

So that is what is on my mind today….what is going on with you?! 

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