Back in September, I spent the first part in Italy, and the rest of the month attending birthday parties. Lol. Once October came around, things had slowed down a bit. I'm glad it did. Sometimes you want to be able to stop and smell the roses. I got a chance to finish a new self-help book, as well as focus on trying to get my apartment ready for the winter (if it ever shows up). It took forever, but I finally found a picture I could hang over my couch in the living room. After countless hours spent surfing the net, I narrowed it down to one. I'm glad how it turned out too. I knew I wanted something abstract. From that point it was just a matter of finding the one I liked to go with my décor. It was an interesting process, because it's so time consuming. I didn't want to settle for any old picture! And that's how it should be! The last thing I wanted to do was to have something hang on my wall for the sake of covering up my wall. It's easy to get "stuck" with things, but you should have some passion behind the madness.
Regardless, the first weekend in October was pretty chilled out. Me and my friends from time to time like to have mass group textes to see how we're doing. Since so many events are happening in everyone's lives, it's a nice way to catch up to one another. Our friend from the bridal shower at the Drake hotel invited us to come over and check out her new apartment. She moved back in the city at the end of the summer and is also in the process of planning a wedding. We drove down to Downer's Grove for a light dinner party. She cooked with one of her presents from the shower: a brand new Williams Sonoma iron skillet! We had a good time catching up. It was nice not to do anything too crazy.
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| I love my birthday scarf! I wore it for the dinner party. |
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| I wore it with my cotton twill moto jacket. The weather was changing around this time. We had light rain/ mist and crisp weather. Wasn't "cold" yet. |
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| One of her bridal shower gifts. She bought some cheese and crackers for appetizers. |
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| Magiano's has a nice spread! |
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Good times hanging out with the ladies!
The following weekend things DID get a little crazy (but that's my life, you know?). The funny thing about those nights, they're unexpected. You can never plan for those, but remember, anything is possible in this city. I saw on Facebook that one of my favorite spots in the city was closing down. Japonais! Definitely one of the best restaurants in Chicago for sushi. But over the years, with it's massive space, was getting harder and harder to fill up. There are always new places opening up in the city. And with Chicago's fickle crowd, you can never tell which ones will bring the patrons back. Japonais was around for over 10 years, which is a huge accomplishment! The fact that it lasted so long is impressive in my eyes. Plus, with it's dock area patio, boats would sail up and park for a quick bite to eat.
I headed down to Public House and met up with some friends who were watching the Cubs game. At this point, there was hope we could make it to the world series. But my friends were done for the evening. That's when I decided to head down to Japonais for their closing party by myself to see who I would run into. Since I use to go there regularly 10 years ago, I figured I'll run into some familiar faces. Did I ever!! I was glad I saw my old friends I use to party with back in the day. We had some good times. We decided to go out and make a night of it since we haven't hungout with one another in sooooooooooo long. We jumped around to Parliament, then ended the night in Cuvee. I had a blast! For a spilt second I felt I traveled back into time. I miss that feeling...
Missed these guys!!
At Japonais for their closing party.
Headed over to Parliament and met up with some more friends...
Getting silly at Cuvée
What a loooooong night!! Peace out!
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