Living Abroad - Café Con Monica

Five on Friday!

January 10, 2014

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So its 34° outside right now…it literally might as well be summer in Chicago. I was born & raised here and still the weather never ceases to amaze me. Monday it was -15 with a -40 windchill and today 34°. Crazy.

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Yesterday I was looking at photos from my time in China and I realized how much I actually miss it. I miss my coworkers and my students so much that it makes me quite sad sometimes. It being my first time away from Chicago and my family & friends for a whole year without coming home made it so hard to really appreciate the amazing things I was experiencing all the time.

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This girl needs a night out! I have not been out with my girls & bestie G without The Boy in 2 months. I have never been one of those girls that does everything with her boyfriend and somehow that is exactly what has happened. Do you ever just need a night out with just friends(no SO)???

I need high heels, a cute dress and some drinks!!

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This weekend I plan to get my blogging shizz in order. I am going to make a plan and stick to it! Ok…I am going to really really try to make that happen!

I have an idea of the kinds of posts I want for certain days and link ups that I enjoy participating in and it would really help if I didn’t leave every post up to the morning of.

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It is effing Friday!!! Woooooo!

I don’t have a 5th thing to share because I posted exactly what was on my mind every day this week so….Instead I share a song that I am loving this week:

I may have mentioned before I am a big Eric Church fan 🙂

Ooh Monday….

July 8, 2013

First I want to send a big welcome to all the new followers! I may be a bit slow but I plan to check out all your blogs!

This past weekend was a bit sad as the semester ends this Friday so we had a night out with the foreigners before everyone goes there own way. So sad that GCGirl and Saffer are leaving me!! I didn’t cry but we had a great meal, lots of laughs and yummy wine!

Sunday I ran errands and started ~~making a giant mess~~ clearing my apartment up to prep for summer camp.

I was having a rough hair day…well actually I really didn’t want to comb my hair that day so it was a day old and I was trying to figure out how to make it work. Anyway I will seriously miss these girls!

It was a great night though a bit sad saying bye to these great people I have met this year.

How was your weekend??

Cupping!

July 4, 2013

I’ve wanted to try cupping for a while now and figured I would do it in China but next thing you know you have been here 11 months and you still haven’t done it. I finally convinced the girls we should try the place nearest to us which has blind people giving massages and they have other things like cupping as well…

*side note: we got to the place expecting to mime out that we wanted massages and cupping only to find the guy at the front desk was blind and didn’t speak any English. Pretty damn funny.

Anyway. All this working out we have been doing has us all kind of beat up and so we decided to try this. I’ve read good things about how it helps rid your body of built up toxins and Saffer just wanted to try it out to see how it felt. I was terrified watching them do hers!

Here are some pics in case you aren’t sure what the heck I am even talking about:

What our backs looked like after!

We were both a bit sore in some spots for a day or two. For me it was the tops of my shoulders and the darkest spot on my left side(middle of my back) that were problem areas and they were very sore for a couple days but after that they started to feel so much better.

This is 5 days later! They are fading pretty quickly

I’d like to do it again soon but the marks are not really so great for summer time weather. So I might wait until it cools down again.

Have you tried this before?

What were your results?

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