February Photo a Day: Bathroom edition

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Once again, I’m playing catch-up with this photo challenge. Lucky for you (or not), both photos I’m posting today take place in my bathroom!

Yesterday’s photo: Inside your bathroom cabinet

Ok fine, this is not my bathroom cabinet.  I thought I would spare you because my bathroom cabinet is gross. And it’s not the stuff in it that’s gross, it the actual cabinet. I think it’s from around 1972. Let’s just say that with this apartment, we’re paying for the location (which is great!).

Today’s photo: Green

Bathroom towels! Pretty self-explanatory.

Your attention please

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This is important.

Does anyone know of a grocery store in the Chicagoland area (or within driving distance) that currently sells Bagel-fuls???

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As I have mentioned before, my mother has an unhealthy obsession with this particular brand of frozen breakfast food that has become increasingly hard to find in local grocery stores. Recently, the situation has become dire, as she has depleted her stockpile and scoured countless frozen food aisles in the Western suburbs to no avail.

Are they discontinued? Apparently not, since she continues to receive coupons for them in the mail. Salt. In. Wound.

Before she resigns herself to a Bagel-ful-less existence, she has asked to me appeal to my blog readers with the hopes that at least one of you has recently spotted them somewhere, anywhere in Northern Illinois (she may even be willing to drive across state lines). I figured I could do this much for her, since she has done a *few* things for me throughout the course of my life.

So, if you’ve recently had a Bagel-fuls sighting, for the love of God, please comment below! And give the woman a reason to wake up in the morning.

Thank you!

Please excuse me while I slip into a food coma

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I’d like to thank Chicago Restaurant Week and Sable for this amazing lunchtime experience today. Three courses for $22 – can’t beat it!

Pictured: Sable’s dark chocolate souffle cake with peanut butter sauce and salted caramel ice cream. Oh yes – it was just as good as it looks.

February Photo a Day: Where you work

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This is a view of the agency where I work from inside my office.

One of the perks of working at an ad agency is that people roll in pretty much whenever they want in the morning. The place was still a ghost town at 10 am.

Check out these other ad agency perks. Jealous? :)

P.S. This was actually supposed to be yesterday’s photo. Today’s photo is “my shoes,” but since we’re supposed to get rain/snow today, I wore my Hunter boots, which I’ve already proudly displayed for you here and here. Wouldn’t want you to get sick of them!

Birthday loot

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Since birthdays often don’t often involve the gathering of friends and family like Christmas or Thanksgiving (because who has time for that??), the best thing about them is the presents. And the Facebook messages are nice too.

Yesterday, I turned 30. (Insert sands of time in an hour glass metaphor here.) I celebrated with Will last night, and boy did I clean up!

Will was smart enough to stop by my favorite store and got me some Jonathan Adler bottle stoppers and a cool “wine breather” that decants wine – instantly!

Both gifts were very thoughtful because I have been known to enjoy a glass of wine every day now and then. Also, I was just complaining a few weeks ago that we didn’t have any good bottle stoppers (look at Will taking mental notes!), and I like to “decant” my wine before drinking it (basically I just pour it in a glass and let it sit for awhile) because two-buck Chuck from Trader Joe’s actually does taste better that way.

We continued the celebration of my awesome life by drinking sparkling wine (natch) and going out to dinner at Riccardo Trattoria, which was delicious (just ask Gwyneth)!

I even tried curling my hair for the occasion and was marginally successful.

All in all, a great 30th birthday! Thanks to everyone who made me feel special!

Brace yourself

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The Cutest Dog in the World just… got… CUTER!

I’ve been wanting to get my handsome little man a bow tie for a long time now. My sister gave me this one for my birthday (tomorrow marks 30 years of me being alive), and it’s pretty much the best thing ever.

Gatsby absolutely hates it but it’s not his birthday, now is it?