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That Seems Totally Unnecessary. 

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Watch: This guy built Thor’s hammer IRL, that only he can lift.

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I’ve really been enjoying my time in Chicago and was not so seriously thinking about what it would take to actually live here (with my job I can live anywhere). Then I remembered two things 1. cost of living and 2. winter.

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Hey hotels, don’t have a sign that says Ice and Vending IF YOU DON’T HAVE A VENDING MACHINE. Now I have to put on a bra and go down 16 floors to the lobby

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On my way back from lunch I got stopped by two kids (I would say college aged) who work with the Human Rights Campaign. They talked me into making a monthly donation and we got to chatting. I mentioned that my client was in the building across the street and one of them said that's where his uncle works. Turned out I was in a meeting with his uncle that morning.

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This has been a day. I walked to my client's office on Jackson Street thinking I was going to get there early but when I got there the front desk person said that my client isn't at that address (which isn't what Google told me the night before). I Googled the address and it said they were on Wacker (again, not what Google had told me every other time) so I hopped in an Uber and was only 10 minutes late. I get to the building and guess what? That's their old address. I called the office and it turns out they are on Jackson but two buildings down from where I originally went so I hop on another Uber and am almost 30 minutes late. So I'm all flustered and walk into the conference room making my apologies. There are about 15 people in there and out of the seven guys, five are good looking, three of them are really good looking and one of them is ridiculously good looking. And of course he's sitting closest to where I'm standing. Usually when I'm presenting I try to make eye contact with everyone but I just couldn't with him unless he was asking me a question. When we break for lunch I check out the status of my makeup since I get oily super easily. My face is so shiny you could almost see my reflection. In a panic I do something I know not to do, I apply more powder before blotting. Now my face is a cakey mess. Afterwards I go to dinner and they seat me at the bar (which is fine) but they seat me at the last seat right next to the water station and where the servers give their drink orders. So while I'm trying to eat I'm feeling super awkward. And there were only two other people at the bar and they were like six seats away from me. Now I'm at the Willis Tower waiting to go to the sky deck. I bought the ticket forgetting that The Bachelorette is on tonight as of i cam watch it on Hulu tomorrow.

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A texted me to come hang out tonight since I haven’t seen him and B since the 4th. I said that I have an early flight tomorrow and a Sunday flight next week and that I won’t be able to see them for two weeks.

It’s rare that we get an engagement where we have to fly out on a Sunday and to have to do it two weeks in a row is even more rare. It’s going to be a long and exhausting week.

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I’ve been trying to do only carry-ons when I travel and the biggest struggle has been with liquids. I’m pretty lazy about it, but when I do my skin car regimen properly it’s pretty extensive so I’ve been using little travel pots and containers.

I went to refill my containers for tomorrow and I saw that something had leaked all over the place. I didn’t close one of the pots tightly enough and I lost about $30 worth of my Drunk Elephant Vitamin C serum.

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Both my Sephora and Scentbird packages are in Charlotte. Why aren’t they being delivered until Monday and Thursday??? Now they’re going to be sitting on my front door until I get back from Chicago Friday night.

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I’m flying to Chicago for work tomorrow and will be there all week. I don’t know how much I’ll be able to see on days where I’m with my client; my feet still hurt from D.C. this week (I wore brand new shoes that hadn’t been broken in) and I have to take my laptop to my client’s office so if I want to see anything afterwards I have to go back to my hotel first.

Sunday:

Fly into O’Hare and take the blue line to the hotel to store my bags.

Take green/pink line to the Art Institute of Chicago 

Walk around Millennium Park

Dinner at Shaw’s Oyster Bar

Boat tour at 6:30

Monday:

Early dinner and Willis Tower??? (we’ll see how I feel)

Tuesday:

Riverwalk & History Walking Tour at 7:00

Wednesday:

Fireworks cruise at 8:30

Thursday:

Walking ghost tour

The only thing I’m not really sure of is where to eat. I really wanted to go to Frontera but they’re booked solid.

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Simone Biles is a national treasure. She has a right to party and do whatever she wants. 

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My two experiences in D.C.

May: This is awesome! The transit system is so easy and it’s great to be able to walk everywhere!

July: I’m melting. This is the fucking worse.

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This meeting should have started three minutes ago and half the people, including our supervisor, haven’t joined the conference call. I woke up from a nap to attend this shit (which most likely will run late) and I haven’t even eaten yet.

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I have no food and only one bottle of water. There’s a Harris Teeter next door but that would involve me getting off the bed, putting my shoes back on, the they physical act of walking.

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I just got to my hotel room after leaving my house at 5:30 this morning. I’ve hit almost 12,000 steps according to my Fitbit which doesn’t included the more than 1,000 that it wiped out when it synced this morning.

I landed in DC and stowed by bags at Union Station while I did some sightseeing.

Unfortunately, I was unable to get tickets to the Museum of African American History. I was on the website at 6:30 am and kept refreshing my screen but there weren’t any tickets available.

American Museum of American History - I wish I has skipped this. I always loved history in school but not so much the wars/battles. Probably the biggest exhibition was on the wars the U.S. has participated in, which was pretty much a big ole snooze for me. I went through the First Ladies and Presidents exhibits and then peaced out.

American Museum of Natural History - If Dante were alive today, the American Museum of Natural History during peak hours in the summer while the Boy Scouts National Jamboree was going on would definitely be a circle of hell. Screaming, pushing children with their screaming, pushing parents nearly drove me to the brink. And I overheard one evolution denying parent in the dinosaur exhibition (wonder if her head exploded when she was the exhibition on evolution). 

Holocaust Museum - Huge, annoying crowds, but it was so worth it. There are no words to describe how incredible this museum is. 

I had planned to hop on the DC Circulator and tour the monuments but I must have been high when I made that plan. My feet were killing me by then and the rental time on my baggage check was almost up. 

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Look at baby Kate Winslet!

@ https://www.instagram.com/p/BV0i-sClo4E/

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reblog if you think ‘Wonder Woman Crosses No Man’s Land’ is the most iconic standalone superhero scene in all of 21st century superhero films so far