Olde tyme drinks. (Taken with Instagram at Manifesto)
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Olde tyme drinks. (Taken with Instagram at Manifesto)

Oh hello second [major] new house purchase.  (Part 1: the table)
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Oh hello second [major] new house purchase. 

(Part 1: the table)

Beautiful flowers from my amazing boyfriend. Feeling exceptionally loved today.
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Beautiful flowers from my amazing boyfriend. Feeling exceptionally loved today.

This weekend:
  • Drinks on the plaza with my best lady friend in which I drank a bunch of champagne and she got asked out on a date. I’m a decent wingwoman. 
  • Massive ugly cry in response to the Grey’s Anatomy season finale. I still have not recovered. 
  • Brian bought a new aquarium and it’s not hideous (hooray!). Also I think I finally convinced him that we need a seahorse. 
  • Dinner at Pot Pie, drinks at Bluestem, shenanigans at the Cigar Box, cab ride home.
  • An intense craving for peel and eat shrimp, corn on the cob and potato salad PLUS a Moscow Mule resulted in trips to three different grocery stores and the realization that ginger beer isn’t actually beer.

Weekend = success. 

(25 days until we are homeowners… )

I had a dream last night that I got an invite to your wedding with Brian… The invite was gorgeous and butterflies flew out of it upon opening it… and then it had the Friday Night Lights ”clear eyes, full hearts” saying across the front.

An email from Mama Jess

Greatest email ever or greatest email ever?

Summer on a plate.
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Summer on a plate.

Q:I JUST WANT TO BE LIKE YOOOOOOUUUUUU! So I took photos. PLEASE COME TO CHICAGO AND EAT WITH MEEEE!

irishmexi

I want nothing more than to visit you and shop our way through Chicago and drink delicious beverages and eat all the crab rangoon and talk about our feeeeeeeelings. 

Miss you, lady. :(

My high school senior pic. Dug out my yearbook earlier tonight. Oh sweet wrinkle-free and carefree days…
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My high school senior pic. Dug out my yearbook earlier tonight. Oh sweet wrinkle-free and carefree days…

It’s totally normal to decide you need to have a signature summer cocktail, right? RIGHT? Ok, good.  Say hello to the blackberry-mint margarita. It’s just as amazing as it sounds.  Ingredients: A handful of blackberries (10-ish)8-10 mint leavesIce3 oz. good tequila blanco (that’s two shots for ya)1-2 limes, juicedAgave nectar to tasteClub soda In a cocktail shaker, muddle the blackberries. Add the mint, ice, lime juice, and agave nectar. Shake well. Pour over ice and top off with club soda. Stir. Garnish with additional berries if your little heart desires.  Find a good porch or patio. Sip. Enjoy. Serves 2. Or yourself twice.
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It’s totally normal to decide you need to have a signature summer cocktail, right?

RIGHT?

Ok, good. 

Say hello to the blackberry-mint margarita. It’s just as amazing as it sounds. 

Ingredients:

A handful of blackberries (10-ish)
8-10 mint leaves
Ice
3 oz. good tequila blanco (that’s two shots for ya)
1-2 limes, juiced
Agave nectar to taste
Club soda

In a cocktail shaker, muddle the blackberries. Add the mint, ice, lime juice, and agave nectar. Shake well. Pour over ice and top off with club soda. Stir. Garnish with additional berries if your little heart desires. 

Find a good porch or patio.

Sip.

Enjoy.

Serves 2. Or yourself twice.

Sometimes you just need to pour yourself a tall glass of bourbon, run a hot bubble bath and let it go.

Just let it go.