three week highlights.

Obviously, I'm terrible at keeping up with this...SORRY!  These past three weeks have felt a hundred days long (in a good way) and I already can't remember some of the places I've been/things I've done/people I've met. I can't even attempt to recap.
Some of my favorite moments:
- Some of my Nashville- "Pancake Pantry" running friends were in town so I met up with them for brunch* at Hot Chocolate (which was delicious) followed by catching up at the hotel and shopping at Bloomingdale's. 
*I've learned that you can easily spend your paycheck "brunching"...gonna to have to watch that.

- We had our first official "Roommate Dinner" at Elate.  For those that don't know, I live with four great ladies which sounds like a lot but they are awesome, the apartment is huge and everyone's schedule is so crazy and different, there are a lot of times when no one is home at all.

After Elate we grabbed drinks/dessert at the Gauge. Just walking from one location to another can be really difficult with the wind. I'm glad I have such energetic roommates because if I were here alone, I would stay in every night, tucked into bed with tons of blankets watching Mad Men (which is what I do every night when they aren't home).

- First day(s) of work: after five years somewhere else, it's really hard to start over from scratch somewhere else. There is so much verbiage in this industry that it sometimes sounds like people are speaking a different language. Otherwise, I do love getting up and getting to work downtown in the Sear's Willis Tower and even commuting (again, I'd love it more if it weren't so freaking cold). 

- I ran into a friend from Nashville that I didn't know moved to Chicago...outside of the elevator in the Sear's Tower!  I have no idea how to articulate how crazy the odds are that I would run into someone I know from Nashville, in the Sear's Tower at the exact moment he was entering/I was exiting an elevator.

There's a thousand more things that have happened and, again, I'll try to be better at recording them in the present tense.