Today's Working Girl

"The Amazing Adventures of Working Girl"

 

For any of those out there who question their work every now and again should read this book! It is witty, funny, and provides great advice. 

"Working Girl" is the narrator of the book and has had 59 jobs over 40 years in 22 different cities and 4 countries. Her jobs have ranged anywhere from a ditch digger, to an artist, to a model. 

The book gives a lot of good tips that anyone can apply to their work situation, to eventually get to and find their place in the workforce. The advice is sometimes obvious stuff that you might not realize can help your career like, "It's the stuff you don't do that you regret the most". 

For myself I know that I will use this book for future reference when I am looking for a job. I could already relate to some of the situations from my previous jobs. 

This book gives me hope for the future to trust what my instincts tell me and try something new that will bring me to my dream job. Maybe I will work in Paris or the Vineyards of California or who knows. All I know is that I will figure out my way in life and so will you!

Attempted Detox

"My attempt of detoxing"

Well this entry is kind of embarrassing for me to write about. Basically my sister and I have been talking about doing some kind of detox cleanse since summer began.

We looked at a bunch of different ones that we had seen on Pinterest and finally decided that the Dr. Oz 3-day cleanse was the one for us. This is what the cleanse required.

Looks simple enough, right?? That's exactly what I thought! I'm going to Northern Michigan later this week and I thought now was a perfect time to start the detox, to be beach bod ready!

The one thing that I didn't count on is that I would get sick from the detox. I got up this morning and drank the breakfast smoothie and thought, man this is going to be an easy 3-days!! I was so psyched and already felt healthier.

Fast forward to the lunch smoothie. While preparing this drink, I suddenly realized that it contained celery and cucumbers. Why was this a problem you ask? Well for one these are my two most despised vegetables ever. I can't explain why I hate both of these vegetables so much, other than I just do! 

Now I tried to be a good sport about it and figured there were other things in the drink that would offset the taste of the celery and cucumbers. Man was I wrong!

The first taste wasn't so bad and then my gag reflex kicked in. I tried to suck it down fast, but that was the dumbest thing I could have ever done; resulted in me having to choke back vomit. ICK!!

I felt like such a wimp, my sister on the other hand was enjoying her's like it was a tropical drink!! I didn't even finish half of it before I announced that I couldn't do this. I was so disappointed in myself, but then again drinking that lunch meal was torture!!

My sister (the good sport that she is) agreed that this detox wasn't going to work and we drove to get something substantial to eat. 

Morale of this story is that I need to find a better way to detox. Maybe one that avoids anything with celery or cucumbers?! Have any suggestions, please let me know!!

Until I find something that doesn't make me gag, I will just have to make friends with the toxins in my body. 

Happy Fourth of July

Happy Fourth of July!

By now everyone is over their Fourth of July hangovers, I assume and back to their daily lives.

But isn't the Fourth of July great? It is seriously one of my favorite holidays. Getting the day off work, hanging out by a pool/lake, barbecuing, parties, boozing, and fireworks. What's not to love?!

This year I spent the day laying out in my backyard reading with my sister. Then we made white chocolate covered strawberries with blue sprinkles to show our red, white, and blue pride.

Then we headed downtown to our friends apartment for a Fourth of July party/BBQ. It was a great night filled with fireworks and good friends.

The Fourth of July is one of those holiday's when you really appreciate what it means to be an American. Everyone comes together to celebrate our heritage, no matter what. So with that being said

Happy Be-lated Fourth!

Moving Out

Moving Out


So a week ago I moved out of my apartment in Lincoln Park to move back home to Park Ridge. Since I will be studying abroad in a few months, I was not going to be renewing my apartment lease and living with my other roommates again. Well to be honest, it also had to do with bad feelings towards one of the roommates as well, but nobody wants to hear about that story. 

Moving out itself was a pain in the butt. I lived on the top floor of an old three building apartment (no elevators) and going up and down all my stairs was not very fun. But, the moving out was actually a lot more organized than I thought it was going to be. 

I decided to use all of my luggage/extra store bags in place of boxes; kind of killing two birds with one stone there. I also used a handy trick I found on Pinterest, of leaving clothes on hangers and putting them in a garabage bag so you don't have to take everything off the hangers and re-organize later. This made things so much easier and this link has a ton of other great ideas, http://www.buzzfeed.com/peggy/brilliant-moving-tips.



Once everything was packed up and moved back to my bedroom in Park Ridge, my room looked like a tornado hit. I seriously wasn't sure my clothes would even fit back into my closet (luckily the did)! I knew I wouldn't be able to sleep in my room if it was a mess, so I spent a couple of hours organizing and it wasn't so bad. 

Now that I am officially moved back to suburbia, I need a new hobby! Maybe one that involves being outside, like tennis? I don't know but I'll think of something soon.