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monogram monday

I hope you all had a wonderful weekend! 
  
One of my best friends got engaged on Friday! 

I couldn’t be happier for the two of them! 
(Plus… both of their initials are JG, which obviously I love, and they will have the prettiest jGj monogram ever. these are clearly important things when selecting a mate.) 
Four of my closest friends will all be getting married along with me next year, and it makes the upcoming year 10x more exciting and more fun with all of the great things going on in their lives. 

Speaking of engagements,
I finished The Engagements and I really loved it.
It’s not a wedding/engagement book.  It’s more about relationships and tells the story of several different couples/families/people throughout different decades and I thought it was a really good read. 

I now am reading What Alice Forgot (also ordered The Husband’s Secret) and it is really great. 
I can’t wait to keep reading it every night before bed.   
Thank God these last two are making up for how horrible The Interestings was.  

I finally have gotten rid of my iPhone 4 that I have been wanting to hurl against a wall for at least 8 months. 

So now that I have a shiny new 5s, please dear Lord don’t let this be the time I shatter my phone. 
 Pleeeeeeeeease. 
So, I am in the market for a new monogrammed iPhone case! 
There are too many options out there I don’t know what to choose!! Ah! So feel free to comment with any sites that have your favorites.  

The one I had for two years had a lip on the side so everytime I dropped it (everyday) it kept the screen from hitting the ground and shattering. 
 Anything with that would be an added bonus 🙂 


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book club, Lifestyle

Mish Mash

I have a mish mash of topics for today to share. 
First of all, a delayed Monogram Monday.  I received an e-mail last week from a reader named Lauren and it made my day! 

 She is a southern transplant that recently moved to Chicago, and she and her friend have an incredible shop called Nico and Lala featuring customizable gifts, stationary, custom invitation, and event branding.  
 monograms in the envelope liner? yes, please! 

Obviously my heart when pitter-patter when I perused all of the amazing things they sell online, not to mention how incredible the custom invitations of theirs could be for upcoming showers and parties! With friends weddings coming up, a new set of stationary would be the perfect gift.
all photos via Nico + Lala

Their blog is also great – it features amazing parties and weddings on a regular basis.  So go check out their items – they are having a 20% off flash sale right now with code FLASH20! 

Next up: Book Club.

The last month or two I have been reading like crazy (well… everyday. For me that is crazy.  I normally stare at the television until my eyes cross.) 
“They” say (you know…. those people everyone always refers to but no one knows who the hell “they” are) using electronics before bed can mess with your head and mess with your sleep schedule, so I have been trying to avoid perusing blogs, instagram, and pinterest before bedtime.  

Instead, I shut off all the electronics by 9 and start reading.  {I feel like such a grown up. Does dumb crap like this make other people feel old? Like…. Making the bed in the morning? Who am I and why do I suddenly care about the damn pillows!?} 

okay sorry…. so the first edition of old lady book club: I try to alternate “chick books” with more mainstream “intellectual” novels so that my fiance and friends don’t judge me too much. 

The same author as Gone Girl (the greatest book ever). I found it creepy and disturbing, but I also was always interested to find out what would happen and how it would end.  A very quick read.  Her other book Dark Places is on the list of ones to read. 


Like most of Sophie Kinsella’s books, it is super cheesy and lighthearted, but sweet and funny too. It’s a quick read, probably because not many brain cells are required, but that makes me like it even more. 


I loved, loved, loved this book.  My future mother-in-law gave this to me and she always gives me the best books.  It takes place in the 40’s and has romance as well as history all mixed into one. Each chapter alternates from the present to eight years prior in the past.  It’s the perfect beach read – and a warning, it’ll leave you wanting to drink gin and tonic and smoke the whole time you read it, because they are doing it constantly. 


This is another one of the NYT Best-Sellers.  It was different than expected….. It tells the story of a few friends over the course of a few years.  It was not as good as I had hoped…. I kind of never understood what the point of the book was? 


In my opinion, do not read this.  Another NYT best-seller, but it was completely opposite of what I was expecting.  The review says it’s about “the impossible, haunting power of love – obsessive love, illicit love, fading love, maternal love.”  Umm…. right up my alley! But no.  Every other word is a curse word (and I don’t mean f-bombs or sh*t, or even the horrid c-word…. it was all kinds of bad language).  Each chapter is a story about losing love, and it was NOT the kind of sappy-crap I was looking for.  It was sad, yes, and I’m sure in a critically-acclaimed-writing-way it was well written, but it was truly filthy. No gracias. 


I love, love, loved The Devil Wears Prada and this did not disappoint either.  Like the first, it is a quick read, but it takes the characters down paths you don’t expect and it perfectly picks up where the last left off. 


This is my current read…. I’m in the beginning of it, but so far I like it.  I love books that span a length of time, past and present, and this is just that – friends from summer camp but in the present day. 

What are you all reading?
What should be next on the list? 
Was this enough rambling to annoy the crap out of you? 


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