Shoes!!

Best shoes ever arrived in the mail last week!

Awesome elephants, designed by a South African artist, and for each pair bought a pair is donated to children in the developing world. http://www.toms.com/

Home

As in, it's good to be back home in Chicago
Or, as in, I spent the week back home in Ohio with my family

It was a lovely visit :) I took some time off work during spring break to see the fam. My niece and nephew are growing so fast, I feel so guilty for not seeing them more often (of course I feel guilty for not seeing the whole family more often)

In honor of being home, and visiting home, and getting tickets  to Ray Lamontagne

Song of the Day

Margot and the Nuclear So and Sos
Quiet as a Mouse

12 Deadliest

Thus far in this series, Australia has the creepiest animals. Damn nature you scary!

I'm having a hard time not checking my work email right now, but I'm forcing myself to not sign on until at least Tuesday. Sigh. Stupid compulsive work ethic. Of course we are in the midst of grant season, so the stress is higher than usual. I was still revising Ethiopia's narrative on Friday, and formatting the budgets, but it's in someone else's hands now, so I need to just let it go.

Speaking of work, I will be traveling again in May. I'll be back in Rwanda for a little over a week, for a training and a meeting. I'm not sure where the training will be taking place, but it should be in a different city this time, so that'll be another adventure.

Time to relax and enjoy my week off.

Happiness Hit Me

Happy Spring Break to me!!!

Another quarter of grad school is done and I have a relaxing week off from school and work. I'll be snuggled up with Remy this weekend and then I'm off to Ohio to visit the fam, including my adorable niece and nephew.

Backbeats Landslide

This has beeen bringing tears to my eyes when I listen to it on my ipod in the morning

Margaritas, Cleaning, and Homework, Oh My!

Yup, my weekends are out of control :)

Friday night I went out with a few of my coworkers for Mexican food. It was a great evening because R and I got to go out with another couple, which we don't do a lot, and we were hanging out with people who do theatre, so that was a fun bonus. I also found out that R got his promotion at work which was a long time in the making! So we had a little celebration for that as well. I think that my body is getting used to eating healthier though, because the food made me sick. I had 1.5 margaritas, chips and salsa, and cheese and bean enchiladas with mole sauce and that had me throwing up at the restaurant. I think it was the enchiladas that did me in. So that wasn't too fun, but I felt fine afterwards, so I think it really was just my body not being happy with all the cheesy fried stuff, as opposed to the food being bad.

Yesterday I worked on our taxes and we did some house work. Smokey is in a shedding phase so there is cat hair everywhere! It's amazing how much better the place looks after a quick sweep and mop. I also put up some pictures from Tanzania in the living room. Yay, I love how homey our place is!

Today I'm doing more cleaning and some homework. We have our final group presentation for grad school on tuesday. I have some final touches to put on the powerpoint presentation and practice my portion. Woo, the quarter is almost over!