Catie Hits STL

TGIF, dudes & dudettes!

No, seriously!

Caaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaatie is here!!!!!

I took an extended lunch break to trek over into STL to pick her up from the airport. It was a grueling 2 hours before I left early for the day and we made our way back to Belleville.

We did a quick stop at the mall and back to my house to get ready for some dinner and other miscellaneous adventure; Ali and Rob both made their way to the house and the lot of us piled into Rob's truck. Houlihan's it was, and a great decision at that. Deeeelicious, as always.

With bellies full, we were ready for some music and jigginess.

hi, you (:

A few of the folks from Rob's company were over at Silvercreek Saloon, so we headed that way and made a night of it. Not a bad time (: !

my two favorite gingers

double ♥

Oh gosh. I love 'em.

It's gonna be a great weekend, kids.

xo | cmd

Throwback Thursday Pt 2: Nalom Art!

I have a couple of friends who I'm certain will one day be famous. Haha. Seriously. 

Okay.. so maybe some of them are currently just becoming professionals at embracing that whole starving artist thing, but eh. I do believe this one's got some talent for sure! 

I found an entire album of his art that I'd saved... I'm sharing this with the class (:

by nalom

catie | by nalom 

dren & cegg.. aka corin & catie | by nalom 

matt.. aka "ladd" | by nalom

nalom | by nalom

james | by nalom

corin | by nalom

I still admire how much those portraits really do resemble their models... if not exactly, then pretty daggone close. Haha. Well, except for mine, but then again I don't seem to think anything looks like me even if it's a photograph. Go fig. Haha. 

Sure brought back some great memories for me... Hope you enjoyed! ;) 

xo | cmd

Beanies: An Addiction

red!

I have a problem.
A beanie problem.
I'm obsessed......

Just wait til I get the yellow one I ordered.
This is my new thing..
Oh, brother.

xo | cmd 

Amen, Winston.

There are a few days recently during which I've let myself become distracted by that forceful and persistent rumor mill thing. A friend of mine sent this to me today; it was a quick and easy reminder that there really are two sides, but that not everyone cares to see it that.

I have no interest, really, in engaging in the battle of the believe-my-story-or-else, but what I do have to say about the most recent slew of slander that's been trying to unfold into my life is this:

Sorry. I should care, and I should probably fight back to set records where they realistically ought to be, but the fact of the matter is, this is indeed the first REAL time I've stood up for what it is in which I believe, and I'm not sorry for not backing down this time.

Meh...
Let's just enjoy the week, yeah? :)

xo | cmd

Fun With Jay & Ali

These two...... 

green party with these two crazies....

Work was work, as it usually is. Ali's dad was out of town today. To avoid a case of unavoidable boredom, she invited both Jay and I over for dinner. We both obliged and wound up hanging out there for a few hours: eating, discussing the latest Spengler calendar [it's quite entertaining...... in a weird, fairly awkward way], and just hanging out being awesome like we are. We even took a little trip into the basement of Ali's new house [which used to be a grocery store!]. All in all, I love these two!

And that's how you do Monday..... (:

xo | cmd

Galatians 5:22-23

Among a few other things, one of the verses that kept crossing my mind today was the Fruit of the Spirit passage from Galatians. I'm not sure exactly why that seems to be sticking with me today, but hey, that's a God thing and I'm in no position at all to dispute.

Instead, I opted to see how other folks have translated this awesome principle passage into something physically beautiful. I thought since there are nine fruits, I would find nine different interpretations. You can all thank Tumblr for this one. (:

for the analyst... 

for the teacher...

for the sweet tooth ;) ...

for the t-shirt collector

for the muralist...

for the jeweler

for the health nuts...

for the kiddos...

for the nature lover.... 

As an added bonus, I found one that I liked just for because it's crafty.. and I am that way sometimes, too :) 

Love you, friends. 

xo | cmd

Random Outing....

Rob tried bubble tea today. Haha. I don't know whether or not he actually liked it, but I had a great time and I definitely can't complain. We thought to take a trip over to St. Louis and wound up at St. Louis Bubble Tea, right in the midst of what was apparently a campus-wide ice sculpture festival.

I did find some cool sculptures...

abbey road! beatles ice sculpture | st. louis

Rob and I were definitely on Zumiez mode today; I realized that when we walked out of two different aisles in one of the campus shops and looked like brand reps from the Z. Haha.


zumiez addicts......

We'd burned most of the daylight out of the day and still hadn't made it back down towards Belleville. We decided to stop by Alton and found ourselves at Fast Eddie's for a few hours. We ran into some new people and made ourselves quite comfortable chatting it up with some random folks until we found some sunglasses on the floor [love that...]. Yeah, Rob still has them in his car.

rvca, a rum runner & some floor shades. call it a good night (:

One of the things I so appreciate about Rob is that he's about as spontaneous as I am, and when the agenda consists of a blank slate, it comes in handy. We had no plans one second, and the next we were off on our way to Collinsville to catch an appearance of Aaron Kamm & the One Drops. I totally dig barefoot guitarists, so this was a perfect way to round out the evening.


aaron kamm & the one drops | johnny's sidebar - collinsville

Ahhhh, hello weekend (:

xo | cmd