What Good Friends Do

I am a very lucky girl. With a whole group of good girlfriends. They’re all awesome. And very important to me.

So to make sure I keep all my awesome friends, I realized that being a good friend to them means lots of things.

It means you’re there when they’re sad. You’re there when they’re happy. You tell them when they have something in their teeth. You always have a bottle of wine prepped for a visit. You have a chocolate recipe or two ready for when they’re hormonal. You tell them when they look too skanky. You tell them when to show more skin. You don’t forget their birthday. You don’t forget the name(s) of their ex/current lovers (no matter if you love or hate every single one of them).

The list goes on…

Like I said, being a good friend means a lot of things.

This morning was no different. Mon had to get her car worked on and asked what I was doing and if I wanted to hang out in Lake Zurich for the morning.

Sure, no problem. What time? I’d love to.

8:00 in the morning.

What?

We’ll do breakfast or something.

You had me at breakfast.

So I picked Mon up at the car repair shop and off we went to explore Lake Zurich, Illinois. I looked on Yelp.com and ran across this gem:No. Not the adult entertainment store. The cute little cafe next to it.

But that’s convenient, am I right?

When an old man opened the door for us, he made a joke about it. “So, getting some pancakes and eggs before lingerie shopping this morning?”

Insert awkward laughter here.

The Eggshells Cafe is super tiny, but super cute. Mon and I felt right at home squeezing ourselves into a corner amongst all the senior citizens who had clearly been up and at em’ for hours.

It has seriously been MONTHS since I’ve had a pancake Saturday, so I didn’t even bother looking at all the omelet choices they had (I know- who am I these days?). Still undecided, I looked over the specials.

Oh hot damn. This is my jam.

It said “bacon waffle”. I didn’t know what that meant, but I wanted it. Not only did I get three slices of bacon on top, there was also bits of it mixed INTO the waffle.

This is key. I’ve had bacon pancakes before, but never have I ever had them where the bacon to pancake ratio was so perfect.

Perfect I tell ya.

Another thing I liked? They came around with samples of stuff.A sample of garlic bread for the lunch specials? Don’t mind if I do…

They were also amazing at keeping my coffee cup topped off.My heart was skipping beats by the end of breakfast. Not sure if it was the coffee or the bacon. Doesn’t matter. Wellllll worth is.

Mon insisted on paying for breakfast since I came to entertain her. We fought like old women about this. But to avoid a scene, I gave up. Someone owes her another homecooked meal. Which I would have done anyways. She doesn’t do the kitchen thing much. And while I’m still her neighbor, it should probably be me that makes sure she has a few more balanced dinners.

It’s what good friends do.

Now I have to go shred with Jillian Michaels to burn off some bacon while the caffeine is still kicking me into gear. And then get prepped to meet up with my good friend again to spend the rest of the day at the winery. Weeee!

Have a good one, kids!

Mid-June Update!

So much is happening… but it still seems like all work, no play!  Well…. almost.

Annie’s Birthday was Sunday.  We celebrated the good ol’ Amy way with an unnecessarily extravagant cookie cake after her dance recitals!  Good thing I was able to hit the trail a few times this weekend and get quite the workout after moving a few carloads of things.  God knows I gained about five pounds by just baking the silly thing.  Who’s idea was it to make a double layered cookie cake anyways?  Geez…

The roomie and I saw The Hangover last week at a $5 showing in Lake Zurich.  It was easily one of the best movies I had seen  in theaters in a long time.  I am now recruiting people to be a member of my currently one-girl wolfpack…  ha ha.

Best Movie Ever!

Back to work… back to work.  My boss is gone this week on a cruise (“I’m on a boat!”).  That leaves Jaime and I to hold down the office and take care of all the agents while he is gone.  Stressful…  Next week I have a random day off in the middle of the week.  I’m calling it my mental health day as to recover from his being gone and prepare for Jaime’s vacation the week after.

It’s also nice to have that day off because I have now begun the process of moving… again.  Yes, I  picked up my keys today and now am officially a member of both the Village of Palatine and Arlington Heights.  I feel like a baller because I have two places right now.  ‘Holla.

Yet I do not feel like a baller because I realized that the process of moving and all the expenses that go along with it may cancel out any hope I had of traveling to Philidelphia/Boston/New England with Laura to see my friend Jessi.  Laura had a fantastic vacation in Hawaii, so she may also be canceling out the idea.  Damn.

I did, however, rediscover my love of browsing craigslist.  The roomie and I quickly got rid of the ugly (but extremely comfy) couch we acquired when we first moved in.  I also scored a glass coffee table that I had been eyeing at Ikea.  It was on clearance at Ikea for $70.  I got it for $30.  Loves it…

Someone at work came down with the swine flu.  They’re better now (it’s just the flu, people!), but it did turn into an HR disaster within the company and building management.  Apparently there was no protocol for swine flu (like there really needed to be one in the first place) and this caused disorder for two days.  Again, another reason why work has been quite stressful.

I’m in preparation for Miss Annie’s big wedding that is less than a month away.  I’m quite anxious to see what the bill will be for the work I’m getting done on the bridesmaid dress.  All the girls in the wedding have whatever style of dress they liked (in sailor blue, of course) and have been given the freedom to do what they like with it.  I’m keeping mine pretty simple- but I had some overall “shrinking”of the dress to get done.  I cringed at every little “snip” the seamstress made because I know from past experience (I’m currently in the process of transforming into Katherine Heigl’s character in 27 Dresses) what this costs.  Yikes!  At least I’ll be stylin’!