Day Four: A Stranger

A stranger for that night, at least.  This is Rocco Scarfazzi.  He's dreamy, but has a pretty horrible Italian accent.  And may or may not be a murderer.

 Day Five: 10AM

This one is pretty self explanatory.  10AM is a pretty boring hour for me.

Day Six: Dinner

Steak with drunken mushrooms and roasted blue cheese potatoes.  Hell to the yes. 

Day Seven: Button

Cutest button nose on the planet!  (I didn't come up with that one on my own.  In fact, I spent all day looking for a random button to photograph and thought about asking strangers, but it sounded creepy in my head.  Luckily someone came to the rescue with this idea, and probably saved me from the sex offender registry.  Thanks!)

Day Eight: Sun

This was a tough one since the sun isn't always cooperative during Chicago winter.  This is the view from my office window.  We call this area "The Killing Fields."  Really scenic, lovely stuff.

Day Three: Hands

Matt has the flu, so we're staying in tonight and watching old West Wing episodes.  When we first started dating, we spent weeks watching every episode of West Wing, one by one, so it holds a special place in my heart.  I racked my brain trying to think of a way to incorporate it into the wedding, until I realized that the entire reception is really just one big walk and talk anyway.  Done!  Wedding checklist, be damned!

Day Two: Words

I finished this book at work today.  I know everyone loves it.  But, if The Secret and The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People got together and had too much to drink and produced a fictional love-child, I think this would be it.  (In full disclosure, I've never read either of those books.  And probably never will).  Not my favorite read.  But most of my other "words" today were in the form of me yelling on the phone.  And try as I may, I couldn't figure out how to get a picture of that.  At least not one where I didn't have a double chin.

I'M BACK! And armed with my crummy phone camera!

I recently decided that I needed a little motivation to start blogging regularly again (although maybe I'm fooling myself to think I ever blogged regularly).  Then I saw this:

 It's a Photo A Day challenge.  And I'm all over it.

And so, without further ado, I present to you:

Day One: Your View Today

Damn.  That is a lackluster start.  To be fair, I'm the one who told my boss that we needed more storage.  So she bought us three of these giant filing cabinets.  And then filled our tiny office with them.  Be careful what you wish for, folks.

Ladies, if you love your man, show him you the fliest.

Five years ago today I made one of the best decisions ever.  I told Matt that I would no longer make-out with him unless we were Officially Boyfriend-Girlfriend.

Lucky for me, he was ok with that.  Happy anniversary, babe!

And in honor of this day, I present you with this video that I love (even though I totally think she pretended to give birth this week).  FACT:  I saw Beyoncé open a concert for Boyz II Men long before she was cool.

I can't get enough of parents being mean to their kids!

In case you forgot what I look like in my extended absence...

...I present you with...our engagement pictures!  Oh, man.  Standing in an abandoned parking lot in a dress when it's freezing cold and making out is something you only do for engagement pictures. 

I promise to be back soon.  With pictures of my first successful craft.  Ever.