Summer? That you?

Welcome to May....

- It may be summer



MKE Riverwalk

warm enough for a grill out

- Ben may have cancelled our gym membership for a  9 day stint before realizing that is exactly what I wanted and re-instating forced gym-going back into my life



- Paris & Nicole may have emptied a full container of catnip all over the living room floor and rolled around in it until we found them twitching like little drug addicts

paris

nicole

- We may be living in this here apartment just until the end of August, and then headed lordy knows where. Stay in Milwaukee? Head south towards Deerfield, IL? Seriously, let's just go West already and live in Vegas for a year?



- I may be finishing a glass of wine and a cup of coffee right now. The wine was going to skunk any minute now. And I make a conscience effort to refrain from wasteful habits, and to have variety in my life.





undercover kitty

- Paris has really started to ramp up her under covers exploration missions. She may or may not get squished one of these times.









- Since it's warm out, Ben and I have been taking a lot of walks around downtown, and we may have searched out patio dining the last two nights. Sunday afternoon = Rock Bottom Brewery and Monday night = Belair Cantina




 - Thursday nights are ladies' night at Oak. I may have attended.



Brooke being a rockstar

delivering spirits

 














- Since we live right on the river and I have a self-diagnosed addiction to just how cute ducks happen to be, I may be stockpiling old bread and rolls to feed to those adorable little quacks. Old bread now outnumbers new bread in our household, which seems like an amazing notion, but lame geese outnumber adorable ducks on the river. And I am not about to go and feed those winged devils.



- And finally, FAKE PROM 2013 was a splendid and magical night under the stars. But more on that later. Maybe.



xoxo, b

 

if you seek britani

In a land before this blog, there was another blog. It was a starter blog. It was Britani's very own blog. It was named after a Britney Spears song. It was: If you seek Britani.

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I cleaned out our storage locker the other day. It was intense and terrifying and at the very end, strangely beautiful. It also surfaced a few issues with my husband's hoarding obsession. We have 5+ boxes of Maris Gras beads. I do not know what genius idea he has for them, but I'm thinking baby shower gifts. Baby's first beads. I'm going to get ahead of that trend.

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It's almost time to move again, and since we are working on becoming competent adults, the search for a new place has already commenced. Lease is up June 30th. Start the timer. Last year, we found a place 1 week before moving. Actually.... we found the place, visited the place (separately because stupid work hours), signed the lease and moved within 1 week. Ridiculous.



xoxo, b

summer in the city

AND WE ARE BACK DOWNTOWN!!!!! :)

we rented a U-Haul truck the last Thursday in June and loaded up all our junk..... surprise!   Heat advisory the whole dang time..... instant sweat as soon as you walked outside. Thank goodness Ben decided to do some grocery shopping and found 80 bottles of Gatorade for like ten bucks.....thanks to the fam(s) for helping us move!! xoxox

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Anywho....

I adore being back downtown!

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Tonight... I did some more unpacking and re-arranging and blah blah blah living out of boxes sortta sucks. We've been working on it for a week plus now... but when you literally have to touch EVERYTHING in your living establishment, wrap it in newspaper, stick it in a box, move the box and unpack said box.......uuuugh. buzz kill.

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Friday I go to the cardiologist.... I'm a little scared.......

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And then this weekend we are going to a 21+ campground. Ben found a place in the Dells with 3 bars, a pool or two, and 30 live bands this weekend. I'm pretty pumped to bust out our new tent and get my tan on, and general camping awesomeness....CAMPING IS SO MUCH FUN!!!!!!


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I had off of work today..... so I was trying to sleep in, when I suddenly became aware of a faint, frantic scratching  noise...... Turns out Ben opened up the dresser to get out his socks or underwear or whatnot and then shut all the drawers before leaving for work.... WELL......... there was a little black kitty hanging out behind the dresser just being awesome....when she got trapped like a Chilean coal miner.   I woke up to a furry black arm waving like the Confederate flag. I don't know whether it was Paris or Nicole, but someone was very, very upset after spending a solid hour in a sock drawer.

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xoxo, b

cleaning with vodka

Today I am packing, and cleaning with vodka.

Directions: I have a little spray bottle of Fleishman's vodka, and all I do is prance around the apartment spraying furniture, appliances, my mouth, rugs, curtains, laundry....

But seriously, not my mouth. It's Fleishman's for pete's sake.

Anywho, after a little dabbling of Internet research, I have come to the conclusion that this is a fan-freaking-tastic idea. I like to ad lib, so I think it's better to mix your cleaning alcohols. For example: Cheap vodka in spray bottle. Glass of wine in hand. Brilliant.

I shot Ben a text earlier today telling him of my vodka adventures, and he immediately called. He came to the conclusion that there was now too much vodka in the air, making me mental.

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I love sun shine & summer time. & country music, of course.

hey pretty girl

xoxo, b

jaywalking deer

Tonight, I almost hit a deer on the way home. I screamed cuss words at that little *&#^er, because I doubt it had any sort of auto insurance... which means that I would have to deal with that on my own. Not cool.

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A little while ago, Ben and I went to visit Brianna at Bar Louie in Bayshore. Long story short(er), I did some bad dancing behind a couple of guys who Bri was taking an order from... then plopped my goofy buns down right next to them since the place was so packed. I then started talking stupid about tator tots and cheap beer for a solid ten minutes before I realized what the gents next to me were talking about....... Pitching. Baseball. Brewers. Shiiiiiiiiit, Brit.  Sure enough, I was sitting next to Loe and Parra, a couple of Milwaukee Brewers pitchers. I think Ben wanted to slap me upside the head.... I know I did.

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Our lease is up the end of the month..... less than two weeks. I checked out some apartments downtown on the Riverwalk today. They were cute. I'd like to live downtown again, and so would Benjamin. 

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The air conditioner has been acting a fool for the last couple of days... which is fantastic because it has been humid and in the mid-90's those days. Booooooo. Paris & Nicole are losing their furry little minds. They yell at us all the time, and I've caught them sprawling out on the bathroom floor to keep cool. Poor furballs.

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As a side note, I have become a cat drug dealer. I actually grew catnip. And it works, because I gave it to my kitties and I gave it to another kitty and all the kitties got cat drugged crazy. Mhmmm... just a general public service announcement.

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xoxo, b