Chocolate Party with Ali

Three things that will bring more women together than a Magic Mike showing:

Chocolate
Chocolate...
& Chocolate.

Those are not the same thing, if you're thinking in terms of different types of chocolate. Haha. Tonight was just that, as Ali and I made an appearance at a chocolate party at her church. It was part of the women's ministry, and nobody was complaining at all.

one of four.... chocolate-laden tables...

It was basically heaven in a church gymnasium.... well, until the end of the night when we'd all been stuffed to the gills with chocolate cookies, brownies, dipped fruit, oreos, nachos, puddings and candy. I never thought I'd ever hear myself claim chocolate overload, but hey... there's a first for everything.

.... And I'm home now...
.... and I just might be awake for the next 3729081 hours off the caffeine high.

.... Or I might crash in like 2 hours. We'll see.

Always a good time, either way.
Love my dear friends!!

xo | cmd

Throwback Thursday : Wyclef Jean

Once upon a time, I had the worst job in the history of every job I've ever had. 

Well, I guess I should give it a little credit where it's due; it was because of that job that I met Kim, Catie, Berg and a slew of other people I otherwise wouldn't know and wouldn't have the chance to adore in the same twisted fashion that they adore me. Haha. 

Anyway, I found a shot from waaaaay back when I still worked at the horrible job, and was reminded that although I found myself on nearly a daily basis wondering why I bothered listening to that small voice that kept saying, "Corin, don't punch anyone and don't walk out for good....": there occasionally was a cool person or two we got to meet. 

I said all that to say this: Here's one of those fleeting moments: 

circa 2007

^ RIGHT??! 

I told you this was a throwback. 

.... And yes, that's Wyclef. 

I have a few other random studio moments, events and remotes that I've found recently, too, that still make me laugh just thinking about how we were "requested" [aka kindly mandated] to attend most of those for one reason or another. 

Go figure. Anyway, like I said, this day here just happened to be one of those times a few of us stumbled on the studio when it happened to be Wyclef in there. If I ever find the old video of him playing some random guitar for us, I'll post that, too. Haha. 

Happy TBT!

xo | cmd

Girly Things Like EYELASHES

Every once in a while, I do girly things, like put on a dress... and makeup... and possibly even lash extensions. 

Hahaha. I saw these today and out of a stretch of boredom decided to attach them to my face. Don't worry, they didn't last long, but I can kinda see why some girls are into this. If you're okay with the maintenance aspect of wearing these suckers on a regular basis, I actually give you credit, because I lack the time, patience and feminine inclination to keep them on for even 12 hours. Yeeeeks. 

lashtastic. or something. 

Whatevs. I'm decently confident in my ability to clean up when need be; I don't know that I really care that  much if my eyelashes don't make it into the room before I do. Haha. It was however, an interesting 40 minutes of my life I'll never have back.. haha. I just tried to give this entry labels to accentuate the rarity of it all and realized that of the four tags I used, "girl" is the only one that's ever been used in this blog before today. *Sigh. I'm way behind on the girl game. 

Oh well. The lashes are already gone. That was short-lived. 

This is what happens when you live primarily alone and you're left to your own devices for a full evening ;) haha. 

Happy Hump Day, blogbots! 

xo | cmd 

Soft Kitty : Tribute to The BBT

I love The Big Bang Theory. If you've not yet seen a couple episodes of this show, I would recommend it iin your downtime (:

One of my [&probably every BBT fan out there] favorite clips from the show is the Soft Kitty song.... if for some reason you've never seen it, or have a million times and wanna see it just once more, well...... here :


Also, I came across this today and that's one of the other things I thought was pretty funny... 

peeeeeeeerfect. [minus the weird face down there?]

Hahaha...
Ohhh... I love some Sheldon Cooper... don't you?

Penny...Penny.... Penny.....

xo | cmd

Happy Birthday, MOM!

My mom's birthday is today.
My mom is one of the most amazing women I have EVER met.


I love you.

I wouldn't know where to start this year in wishing you what you truly deserve on your birthday. I have been through so much over the past few months and when I thought the world was shutting down on me, you were there. I didn't believe you were at times, but you prove me wrong again and again.

There aren't words to tell a truly amazing mother just how much she really means to you.

Happy birthday, mom. I love you!

xo | cmd

Hello, Flu.

It's here.
Flu season. + Me. + Sydni. = A few of my most unfavorite things.


that's me.

 ................. *sigh.

xo | cmd

[Backdated] Birthday Wishes!

I love birthdays! (:

Despite my hesitation from not feeling well yesterday, I woke up in amiable condition this morning and decided to tackle cleaning the bulk of my house. Go figure. Sydni even helped, in spite of her feeling just as crummy as I was just hours earlier. Hmm. That out of the way, I opted for a nap, warding off any oncoming creep of whatever bug I thought I was fighting yesterday.

Ali came over this afternoon bearing gifts, haha. She ordered this little guy for me, and I love love love it.

thank you, friend!!

I decided I did feel well enough for birthday festivities. Ali volunteered to watch Sydni for the evening, so I entrusted her wellbeing to Sydni [yes, I phrased that right], and we headed out to St. Louis to the Broadway Oyster Bar to rendezvous with Rob's friends and celebrate Kyle's birthday. We stopped at Kyle's and picked up both him and his sister, and made our way through the rain to St. Louis.


broadway oyster bar

B.O.B. = Delicious.

From there it was off to Kramden's for some more celebrating, before our final stop out at Jacobsmeyers. HAPPY BIRTHDAY, KYLE! (:


♥ celebrating kyle's birthday

Ali is pretty much awesome for hanging with the monster tonight, and I was pleasantly relieved when we got back and found that Ali had in fact avoided Sydni's wrangling and was not tied and stuffed into any closets ;)


ali & monster ;)

I'll tell ya what..... I have some truly incredible people in my life...♥  Real talk.

xo | cmd