SEMI FINALS!!!

TODAY. WAS. THE. DAY!!!!

omgaaaah.. 

and this one. 

I spent the entire day amped up over the game, and even though Becky and I didn't make it to Montreal today, I'm fortunate to have a viewing area big enough at home to [kinda] compensate for not seeing the ladies in person on the field.

Anyway,

#solo

#harris

#morgan

#krieger

#leroux

Ob.SESSED. 

It'd been raining for the greater part of the late afternoon/early evening, so when I turned into my neighborhood, I wasn't surprised to see it a bit tousled from the storm. Small bits of trees and branches were down and fresh leaves and twigs were strewn across all the lawns. My backyard has a particularly larger ticket item sitting on my shed [which appears at first glance to remain unharmed], that we will have to deal with on a night other than World Cup Semifinals:

well that's.. just.. very nice, storm. thanks. :/ 

The storm not only took its toll on my backyard, but it knocked out the already so-reliable Time Warner Cable, leaving me with a pesky, stubborn and overall aggravating sight of the white screen telling me it's more or less thinking about thinking about letting us watch anything. It's a hit or miss every.single. game with TWC, so I wasn't surprised when we had to rally together and determine our contingency plan. 

That plan was set for Goodfellas, but that was dashed as soon as I arrived to find Tim & his family standing in line by the front door, without an open table in sight. We quickly weighed our options, and took a chance on running across the street to Latitudes. GOOD. DECISION. We snagged a table for 10, and before long there were 10 of us craning our necks in the direction of the big screen, where kickoff happened just as we were being seated. 

There are few sporting events on planet earth that will ever elicit the type of emotional response comparable to that of soccer. It's safe to say really that there are no other events that could do so. I've never traditionally considered myself a feminist, but our USWNT is a collection of the most talented, charismatic and patriotic athletes out there - after tonight's game, heck yeah I'm proud to be a woman, an American, an athelete/a soccer player and a supporter of these ladies paving their own way to World Cup victory.

No, it wasn't Abby's 2012 goal against Brazil, but it was an absolutely beautiful sight nonetheless to see our team challenge Germany and come out on top. 

I snagged this from ussoccer_wnt's IG, which sums up the night in what words just can't... 

#lloyd #ohara

I. Love. This. Team. Love It. 

Congratulations, USWNT! Here's to ONE. MORE. GAME against the winner of tomorrow's matchup. Just a few more days.. YOU CAN DO IT! 

And to this group [minus 2], thanks for hanging out and hanging in there together! I couldn't have hand-selected a better group to roll with on a night like this! :) 

@ latitudes

U-S-A! U-S-A! 

Let's go get it, ladies!

xo | cmd

Grown-Up Calamity Days? Nope. :/

Guess who got all dressed up today, and then had nowhere to go?

rub it in.. just ruuuub it in, kiddo.. haha

It was a cold one today. When it's this cold, the kiddos don't go to school. I'm know I'm not the only one who remembers this happening in my childhood just about ... NEVER.

Guess who got to spend a large part of her afternoon traipsing through the remnants of this beautiful weather? [Although said she didn't actually mind it.... ]

i love my job! ♥  

With the snow overflowing out of my wheel wells [& just about everywhere else in the city], I voted for a change of pace for the evening; instead of bundling up, I went a few layers lighter for a quick circuit at the gym with Rob beforewe decided on dinner. The snow had set in heavy by the time we wrapped up at the gym, so at the last minute it was decided that we'd stop somewhere on the way home:

nom nom nom

Phew.
It's still snowing! I imagine this will be fun in the morning, so I'm calling it a night for now.. Be SAFE out there, blogbots!!

xo | cmd

Human Crayons at Lattitudes

Yep, that's right.

I was more than ready to hit the road after work today, mainly because I made the decision to skip lunch and get more work done instead [idiot....], and was therefore a bit on the hungry side.

are we done yet?

Rob and I decided to stop by Lattitudes, the little spot just down the road from us. He snagged a burger and I made a meal of the hummus.

nom nom nom!

Oh, and human crayons. Crayola-clad people jogging up and down the sidewalk in front of the place.

run boys, run!

This folks, is the type of random antic I usually see when I'm alone, and stand next to no chance of being believed by anyone else. Haha.

.. Which reminds me, I need to go running.

I'm out! ;)

xo | cmd

Kalyn's Birthday Bash

One of my best friends celebrated another awesome year young today, and that of course meant a celebration!

First, I will forever owe tribute to Kalyn's 25th birthday, when this iconic photo was taken. I'm still amazed at how many people on Pinterest have added us to their collection of want-to-do's for 80's themed parties. Love love love.

25th birthday ;)

Fast forward 3 years later to a much calmer version of a birthday celebration:

happy birthday, 2014! ♥ you, best.

^ Ok, so maybe I shouldn't say 'calmer' on all levels; I'll just suffice to say that our wardrobe tonight was a bit more on the tame side. We're still a rowdy bunch.. no mistaking that ;)

Tonight proved to be one of those nights more consumed with quality time than quality photography, so excuse the lack of gallery material here.. I snagged a couple good shots, and some that would've been good had the flash been in use. That's what we get for trading the D90 for a cell phone.. haha. Anyway... 

i took my best friend to my other best friend's party ;)

And then Becky showed up, and it all went downhill from there ;) 

just kidding. it was awesome!

I told ya'll around SuperBowl time that whenever I get together with this particular set of friends, it seems that there is an inevitable stage of working out that ensues at some point in the evening. It's weird, since most normal people get more uncoordinated as they drink; we on the otherhand, want to exercise. Go figure. Superbowl brought out the pyramids and group planks; tonight brought out stacked piggybacking, which doesn't sound that hard until you're trying to create a human totem pole...

ta-da!

^ Attempt #4032742084. This was as close as we were getting before we blew out Becky's knees from having to support us. Haha. Thankfully we had spotters, as you can see there. And that poof on my head is in fact not my hair, but the plant in the background. I was photobombed by a ficus. Meh.

us. to a T.

I thought it'd be all kinds of cuteish if Rob and I took a picture together. I need to remember in instances like this that it will take at least six to seven shots before that happens. Here we included a wet willie and my show of disdain afterwards. I'm pretty sure he got my eardrum with that one.

But we DID get one that I would probably call "normal," if that actually does exist with him and me.

love. this. man.

Yeah. (:

So... to my best friend.. I LOVE YOU MAMA! HAAAAPPY BIR--- well, I'll let this speak for itself ;)

yeahhhhh!!!!

Boom (:

.. Til tomorrow!

xo | cmd