Spring Break in Clearwater, Pt II.

Back from the weekend and sick YET AGAIN. I'm getting so tired of this dust allergy. It always seems to cause some real big sick problem at the most inconvenient times. I may legitimately consider getting allergy shots for it... and I HATE shots! Does anyone else do regular allergy shots that you think help a lot?

Anyways, it's been like 30-40 degrees here and in Chicago all weekend, so let's get back to reliving Florida.

Travelodge neighbor from Wisconsin out at one of the bars.

On the crazy little golf cart shuttle.

Matching OPI Cajun Shrimp nail polish :-)

Yes, we actually brought our own green food coloring.

Out for St. Patrick's day.

Sunset Beach Nap!

A very whipped boyfriend?



Happy hour at our favorite spot (Frenchy's) with the IU crew.

Some sign on the way home through Georgia. I don't know if it was big enough. We also never found out what this "$1.00" bag of fruit was. Really disappointed with THAT one!

Spring Break in Clearwater, Pt I.

"WELCOME TO THE SOUTH, YA'ALL!"

Posing for a picture opp while struggling with the janky cart through the class act known as the Travelodge. I should clarify that it was actually probably classier than I expected to be. We really didn't set off on Spring Break expecting the Ritz, and we got the good ol' trashy college spring break we'd always dreamed of.

Tall boys when we got in town. We weren't about to waste a second. You're not 21 forever, ya know!

Getting ready for THE BEACH!

Shots of Red Stag and American Honey right when we got to the beach.

Oh, this is also the time we were so excited to just get right on down to the beach that we forgot to bring any kind of towel whatsoever... so we just snagged some of those beach chairs that apparently you are supposed to rent.

Creeping around behind the bar with Chad the bartender.
"MY FAVORITE GUY COUSIN'S NAME IS CHAD TOO!"

Just... hanging out on the bar.

Guy who plays guitar at the bar walks up and proceeds to hit on us shamelessly all night while buying us a couple of drinks. You buy us drinks, we'll entertain you for a little while. End of night rolls around and as we're closing out the bar...

Bartender: "Do you ladies want this on one tab?"
Kelly: "Yeah, HIS."

And that's how we got our first night of something like $40 of drinks, FO FREE.

No alcohol? Oops... Thank goodness for party cups!

These pictures are all pretty much from the first 24 hours of being there. I'll have to figure out some way to break the others up in a few separate posts. I think I managed to get one decent set of pictures that could be an outfit post, and the others will probably be structured something like this.

We didn't get nearly as many pictures as one would have expected, mainly due to Kelly dropping her camera the first night and me just being too preoccupied having in depth drunken SPORTS CONVERSATIONS (Yeah, I know NOTHING about any kind of sport with the exception of being able to trash talk the Cubs and maybe bullshit my way through a little hockey and baseball) with all sorts of random folks, particularly those who were willing to buy me drinks in the meantime. The week was really ridiculous.

Picture Post- Spring Break Brunch with Steven

Over Spring Break my best friend Steven and I made brunch complete with Mimosas and French Bread French Toast (Recipe here, at Wonderland Kitchen. Given recipe uses Challah bread but French Bread works just the same!). SO delicious!!!

(And I finally have my camera back, obviously)


(Squinty eyes! It was so bright!)

Hello Hello! (And some Home Sweet Chicago)

So I'm gone for practically a week, and I come back to three more followers! Welcome, newcomers!!! I've also gotten so behind on everything I want to post, since I was in Chicago from Sunday to yesterday (Wednesday) and now I'm back at HOME home in Southern Indiana... but hopefully in the next few days I can get myself caught up here. My apologies if posts get a little picture cluttered!!!

So I'll try not to get ahead of myself, and start with Chicago. I went to visit my dad's apartment (He works/lives there during the week) and my days were mostly spent reading/working out/sleeping in/cocktailing, which was completely relaxing and ok with me.

I got to go to Gibson's Steakhouse sunday night... one of the best restaurants EVER. I wore this floral print tie front shirt I bought forever ago and never could really figure out what to pair it with, and my usual high waisted black eyelet skirt. I really need to go get another high waisted skirt- this poor guy is way overworn.


Monday I cooked and then we went to see Alice in Wonderland (Again!). I wore the Alice headband bow again, but tried it out with a shirt that is a little more summery. And yes, in the one picture, I'm wearing shorts, it just happens that the way the shirt falls in this pose you can't see them. Not trying to whore it up for the whole internet to see!




Tuesday we went to this great Mexican/South American restaurant called Carnivale. The decorating scheme inside was crazy, and really fun, and the food was SO GOOD. The service was a little lacking, but it was still a good night. However, before dinner, I did manage to drag my dad to Forever 21... actually a Forever XXI, aka HUGE. We were in a hurry so I was trying to be fast, but I still bought 2 shirts and a dress that will likely make an appearance soon.

Next up... ST. PATRICK'S DAY! Nothing too crazy for that, but I will have a picture of one of the Forever shirts I bought, and a few other pictures from going out, so it's worthy enough of its own post. See ya soon ;-) And thanks again to the new followers who have joined us!!!

Happy Spring Break!

...To those of you who are just starting, or will be on break soon. For those of you who are almost done with your break, I hope it was a good one!

So far mine has mostly consisted of Spring Cleaning and Pilates. Last night I did go out to a cabin near Bloomington where my dad and some of his friends from high school are staying for a "Boys Weekend". Some of the other daughters who live here went out and they cooked us dinner (Jambalaya) which was DELICIOUS!... And free, which is always nice on a college budget.

(A picture of Maui from last years' Spring Break)

Tomorrow I'm heading back to Chicago with my dad to stay for a few days, then home to Southern Indiana on Wednesday for the rest of the week. Nothing too exciting, but it's just nice to have a break at all!

My "Spring Break 2010" playlist follows this theme. I guess I kind of made it with these slightly warm but rainy days we've been having in mind. I love making playlists for pretty much any break/event, so I thought I'd share this one with you. Some of the songs weren't on Playlist.com (Norah Jones' Chasing Pirates, for example) but this was most of them!

Sorry that the size of the blog kind of messed with the player/the ability to do things on it... if you click "Pop Out Player" it should bring up a more easily navigated version.