February 2011
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love for all seasons.
yet another hot chocolate run.
oh, how this place makes my heart melt. when you can have this kind of food and bump smooth mixes of the pharcyde or erykah badu, you know you’ve got a keeper.
1. crispy pork belly with roasted local pears and kabuka squash, frisee, pumpernickel croutons, german mustard vinaigrette and cider gastrique. 2. house-ground heartland beef, organic bacon and...
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blizzard of 2011? chicago expected to get 16 to 24...
brace yourselves, guys. this week’s snow storm may just make history. not like we aren’t used to winter wonderlands, but this expected “wintry battle zone” could be one for the record books that would be as devastating as the bears losing to the packers.
click here for more info.
the 10 worst snowstorms in chicago history, according to the NWS: 1. 23.0 inches jan...
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“the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to...”
– jack kerouac / (source: alittlechocolate) (via littlelaur)
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haiku for 01/27/11.
breathe, hold, release it swig collateral damage silence, a kill zone.
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away frm u - oberhofer.
i almost love this cover...
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“buy clothes that you’ll wear on a tuesday afternoon, not a saturday night — few...”
– lucky magazine, december 2010. for those of us looking to save $$$ in 2011.
(via kitchencouture : plight-of-the-educated-woman : melissawrites)
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how not to pick up a girl @ the bar.
ask for numbers nearby the bathroom, right after leaving the bathroom. file under #cmonson and #thedarnestthingshappenwheni’mwithmycousins.
this post brought to you because of skeevy boy @ U-JAM.
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this is how i feel right now - onra & quetzal.
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hate is safer than love.
me: there's gotta be some crazy monologue or something
amor: mmm okay TED
me: you know i'm so ted mosby
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running to stand still.
feeling as tangled as the cable car wires in SF. taken back from the trip in oct.
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syllables - eminem feat. jay-z, dr. dre, stat quo,...
every time they fight i always rethink love and relationships.
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-1-16) →
The Stylistics (135)
John Coltrane (127)
Lauryn Hill (89)
TOKiMONSTA (58)
Tortured Soul (45)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
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the difference between the cold in other places &...
the cold other places
the cold in chicago
well i’ll have one hell of a time going from 80 to -25° (with windchill) within one day.
definitely unprepared for coming home! will be lacking the winter essentials so i may have to run for my life until i’m inside a warm & toasty vehicle.
(via rosannale) (source: ohitsjustin)
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jurassic park theme (1000% slower) by birdfeeder.
“the three-minute theme to ‘jurassic park’ becomes an hour-long ambient symphony when slowed down eighteen times.” pretty fucking incredible.
(via tgarrison)
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why does sean kingston's “take you there” even...
yes fellas, that’s how courting works. we can go to the slums, you can introduce me to dem little kids with guns @ only 15… and i will fall madly in love with you. sweet you want to protect me and all, but really, why take me there to begin with?
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if i had a dollar
for every time i’ve had a dream of either getting into a car accident or my teeth falling out, i’d have some serious mulah to throw down on a new purse or something.
just saying.
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if i had a dollar
for every time i’ve had a dream of either getting into a car accident or my teeth falling out, i’d have some serious mulah to throw down on a new purse or something.
just saying.
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peligro de extinción (stop the clock) -...
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menswear fall 2011: alexander mcqueen.
my future husband genuinely admires mcqueen but often finds it just a tad too extraordinary for his generally classic taste.
i tend to feel the same way so we gush about how sarah burton continues to effortlessly channel mcqueen’s genius over tea and biscuits.
the suits in the collection are swoon worthy.
(via hautelikecouture)
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the last three months.
☑ quit job for the unstable/unknown.
☑ go to another city (i.e. NYC) and fail.
☑ have a serious heart-to-heart with my mom, who i’m not even used to having heart-to-hearts with, and ball like a 2-year-old.
☑ vacation where the temperature isn’t 10 below zero.
☑ contemplate hiding there for forever.
☑ watch savings & checking account go bye bye.
☑ adapt an abnormal sleeping...
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charlie parker, i adore you.
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maps to chicago (remix) - sufjan stevens vs. the...
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hey kiddos, some advice for life:
wear deodorant. jeez louise, it ain’t difficult.
</rant>
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gaining one's definition: i've been mentally...
even way before quitting the old job. yes, i wonder how differently life would’ve turned out had i decided to suck it up, my life in the new city. heck, i even wonder how different things would’ve been had i not decided to take this huge sabbatical.
there’s also a million things i would’ve done different during my college years, both in my professional and personal life, but...
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gaining one's definition: i've been mentally...
even way before quitting the old job. yes, i wonder how differently life would’ve turned out had i decided to suck it up, my life in the new city. heck, i even wonder how different things would’ve been had i not decided to take this huge sabbatical.
there’s also a million things i would’ve done different during my college years, both in my professional and personal life, but...
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hey kiddos, some advice for life:
wear deodorant. jeez louise, it ain’t difficult.
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