I can't believe Christmas is next week, that is insane! I will be attempting to finish most to all of my Christmas shopping this evening after work. It's gonna be a big haul and you might as well call me Santa Claus!

Last weekend was fun. Friday we had our Creative & Publishing holiday end of year outing at Pinstripes in South Barrington. Talk ( Read more... )

Yup, totally slacked on the updates this week, but i've been super busy at work. Let's see, last weekend was pretty good... Friday Jon and I stopped at M.T. Barrels on our way home to grab a beer and some Nachos. Nate & Tori met up with us for some drinks for a little bit since they were on their way to Nate's work Christmas party. It was nice to ( Read more... )

So the holiday was very long and I as very happy about that!! Last weekend (the weekend before Thanksgiving), Saturday Lora, Shannon and their friend Jessica and I went to the Village Vitner to do a little wine tasting. It was a lot of fun! Afterwards, we went to goodwill to get some ugly sweaters for the Fugly sweater party coming up and boy, did ( Read more... )

So, I haven't updated until now because it's been a busy week at work, so sue me! Anyways, last Friday Jon and I went out with our neighbors Lora & Adam to dinner at a place in Algonquin called Bankok Thai & Sushi. It was really nice inside for being a strip mall restaurant, but the music was oddly placed. They were playing cannon in D and other ( Read more... )

So last weekend was pretty chill. Friday night Jon and I stayed in and ordered Chinese food. It was a perfect night to just relax and be with each other. We postponed our Thai food date to another time for good reason ( Read more... )

So, the halloween season has come to a close and man, it was a fun one! Probably the best halloween so far!!! Last Thursday we had our work Halloween bash and wow, was it incredible! I had heard that the AAD takes halloween seriously, but I didn't believe it until I saw it. Our team dressed up as the AAD Days off (i.e., sick day, half day, new ( Read more... )

My gosh have I been busy lately!! Last week was a whirlwind of things to do!! Last Tuesday I went shopping for all the food and supplies for the halloween party. Wednesday I went with my coworkers to the Unisource paper show at the Chicago Hilton. It was a lot of fun, we got a ton of free samples and some food and wine, definately nice!! Then, ( Read more... )

So last week was quite eventful to say the least!!

Tuesday night I went out with Lora and Shannon to the Fire Bar in Crystal Lake for some good ole karaoke! That was a lot of fun... I love having fun neighbors that like to go out.

Thursday, Jon and I went to Goebberts Pumpkin patch after work and picked out our pumpkins for carving. We also ( Read more... )

I live for the weekends, the opportunity to break out of the monotonous weekday routine. Especially in the fall, there's so much to do with so little time to do it in ( Read more... )

This past weekend was the kick-off to our fall festivities and the glorious month of October. October is such a wonderful, bittersweet month. The beautiful colors of the trees, the cool weather... it's all so fantastic... however, we all know that leads to the inevitable... winter. Oh well, until that happens, we're going to enjoy Fall while it' ( Read more... )