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Old Navy – Wholey Moley Sale – 30% off

Wholey Moley indeed! I’m a woman – I love to shop — Especially when there are sales! Starting this Thursday 6/24 through Sunday 6/29, everything at Old Navy is 30% off (online and in-store). Shopping anyone?

Congratulation’s Robert “Bob” Guercio

One of the many things people look forward to as they get older is their retirement. Although we all wish we wouldn’t work the long, hard, hours for many many years! There are some people who love what they do and are lucky enough to be able to do it for a VERY long time!

Bobby’s dad was lucky enough to have an entire block party to honor his 36 years of service to Chicago Public Schools and 17 years as principal at Alexander Graham Bell Elementary. There were brats, burgers, chips, popcorn, games and even a special beer labeled in his behalf! He’s contributed so much that he has his own street name (Robert “Bob” Guercio Way) as well as a special day in Chicago – June 12 is offically “Bob Guercio Day” in the State of Illinois. How awesome is that? Wouldn’t it be fantastic to retire and leave your job with a bang?

Chicago Blackhawks Take Home the Stanley Cup 2010

I could NOT be happier to be a Chicagoan today! After 49 years, the Blackhawks bring home the Stanley cup! It’s going to be one crazy day…week…and weekend in the windy city! Thank you Kane for making the winning goal! If anyone’s going to be in the city, check out the Chicago Blackhawks Parade! Starting on Michigan Avenue – then up to East Wacker!

Now Playing – The Fratellis – Chelsea Dagger – “Duh-da-da-da-duh-da-da-duh-da-da…”

“If You’re Going to Eat That, Have This Kind”

I occasionally like to read the Health & Fitness articles on MSN. They seem to have some interesting and informative articles. At the same time, they have some ridiculous ones. I forgot which one’s specifically, but i remember reading an article a couple years ago and thinking “WHAT?! That’s not right.”

Anyhoos, that’s besides the point! Haha, as much as i love to stuff my face with all kinds of food, I’m still pretty conscious on what I take in. This article on MSN.COM made me not feel guilty for craving Haagen Daz ice cream and Starbucks coffee!

Click › If You’re Going to Eat That, Have This Kind

Reading articles like this always helps me determine how much  food and what type of food I’m eating! Needless to say, I’ve been doing a pretty good job! On top of that, I do work out on a regular basis. not as much as I want, but definitely not being the lazy ass I am!  I know a lot of people feel like it’s just so hard to lose weight, they don’t have time to work out, blah blah blah. And you know what? It’s totally fine! Whenever I decide to have cheese fries, I don’t beat myself up. Because if I do, i’ll just eat more crap. I just say ‘Hey, next time, i’ll have some salad and then walk it out.’ Enough preaching:

• Drink lots of water – barely drink any pop. I’ll have a diet coke if I have mcdonalds on occassion
• Lots of fiber + potassium! Bananas & Spinach! potassium balances out the sodium intake. fiber makes you..you know… and that’s never a bad thing!
• Eat salads before every meal @ a restaurant (with low fat ranch or their house vinaigrette)
• I eat pizza! but i skip the cheese, sausage, bacon and pepperoni. (My poor Bobby) – I go for a Spinach/Tomato on thin crust!
• I eat McDonalds – usually a chicken sandwich (which i scrape the mayo out of), a small UNSALTED value fries, and a value side salad.
  If you ask for unsalted fries, you get them FRESH! because McDonalds automatically puts salt once the fries come out of the oil!
• I eat black bean burgers and turkey burgers on wheat buns. (Hahaha buns…) – especially @ Chili’s – cuz i get fries! If you haven’t tried it, it’s def. worth it
• I try to sweat everyday – doesn’t matter what activity is. SWEAT IT OUT! i even dance in my basement by myself. Remember the saying “Dance like nobody’s watching”? Do just that!
• I laugh. a lot! It’s easy cuz Bobby is pretty damn funny. Work those ab muscles!
• When I work out, i don’t work out for 1 hour. I do about 20-30 min. not even everyday!
• I always eat breakfast
• Snack on carrots and fruit
• Alcoholic drinks? any lite beer or  vodka tonic – or just straight vodka + 2 lemon wedges. Thanks to Chelsea Hander for letting all us know that there is no sugar in Belvedere vodka. In moderation!

Not sure if this will help you, but this is my routine when it comes to being more “health” conscious!

Rockit Burger Fest!

Ok, so i know i should be putting this on my foodBlog, but i’ve gotta show some love on my reg. daily blog too! A co-worker of mine graciously shared a site that his friend owns/manages – believe it or not..it’s a chicago food site! woo!

Chicago Food Whores – Chicago Food & Restaurant Reviews

I’m already 2 days behind!

Busy!

Aahhhhh! Lots of stuff going on! It’s been crazy busy at work and especially out of work.  I’ll keep you guys posted soon! My apologies for not keeping up! Pictures, stories, and updates coming soon!

*Gasp! Heroes Cancelled

To my dismay, one of my all-time favorite shows is cancelled. Unfortunately, we did see this coming. It didn’t do all THAT great after season 3…It got a bit dull. I still enjoyed it – but i think in the back of my mind I knew..”oh boy..this could be it.”

I love Hayden Panettiere, but her character seemed to be trying too hard to be a hard-ass. And honestly, I’m not quite sure about the whole “I-Like-Girls” direction she was going in. I always thought Mrs. Petrelli was a little bit of an annoyance. My all-time favorite would’ve had to been Sylar. Not only was he sexy, but he was a bad-ass.

Read more on Heroes by clicking here.

It’s too bad Heroes had to come to an end after only 4 seasons. -(Is it sad to say that The Hills is already on Season 6?!) -  No more Tuesday night shows…Well, except for American Idol and the new season of SYTYCD! ohhh America does have talent!

Shoes & Summer

Chicago’s warm weather is SLOWLY creeping up! When it does I, like every other girl out there, want to be fashionably ready for it. Its been forever since I’ve own a fantastic pair of wedged heels or sandals. Being a short Filipino, I can only admire shoes that will give me an extra 2″ to my  natural height. Bobby and I have ANOTHER planned trip to Texas — but this time it’s with my cousin and her husband + two kids. We’re suuuper excited about it! We’ll be renting out a house in Galveston. The beach, the heat, margaritas…Who wouldn’t want to go on this vacation?!

So, me and Lynette have planned on doing some bathing suit shopping (for her) and shoe shopping (for me). I’ve found a couple options from zappos.com – What do YOU think? Probably rocking these with  some long dresses, some shorts, summery ouftits. I felt that maybe the beige and tan colored sandals worked best because I can wear them with almost anything! I’m hoping that these will be comfortable and worth it. It really stinks that I can’t try these on prior to purchase!

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Thank you “Man in the Blue Jacket”

I’m writing this because I wanted to send a thank you out to the man in the blue jacket. No, i don’t know his name but he’s someone that I always noticed on my train commute on the way to work. He’s always very polite. Letting people walk before him so they can squeeze in and make it out of the crowded train. I’ll admit, many commutes on the Metra (especially coming from Harvard) are super anxious to get out of that train–so anxious they can be rude. But, this man is one patient man.

It may not be a big deal to some; and maybe if it were someone else I would’ve thought differently. Now, I ALWAYS sleep on the train. It’s 1.5 hours of commuting one way – I’m too lazy to read. (how sad, i know) So what do i do? Put on my headphones and take a nap! Which is a good 90% of what people do on the Metra too.

Without an alarm clock, I always wake up exactly @ Clybourn (which is the stop before the Ogilvie Trainstation). My usual routine: put my contacts on, make sure I got my monthly, pop in some gum (you know, cuz you get stinky breath sometimes!)

But, of all days, I slept ALL the way the station. AND to the point where people were walking past me. Suddenly, I feel a tap on my shoulder. I wake up almost freaking out. Haha – and sad to say, i didn’t have my contacts in, so it was hard for me to even SEE who woke me up. Then, i saw the “man in the blue jacket.” I politely said “Thank you” (i wanted to yell ‘omg, thank you so much. i’m a dumbass’) and he replies with a “You’re welcome.”

It was such a small, yet nice gesture. I can guarantee, there would NOT have been anyone on that train that would’ve done something nice like that. If only the world can have enough “men in a blue jacket.”

Chicago Weather 2010

As much as I love Chicago, i do hate its weather inconsistency! It’s great to have all 4 seasons here – however, it’d be nice if the snow is over, it’d be over! There should never be a day or two with 60-70 degree sunny weather and then a 20 degree drop!

Can’t complain – it’s sunny and almost 60 degrees today Let’s hope the temperature keeps rising!