Back by popular demand!
Okay, so I haven't posted in forever. Mainly because I don't have a computer at home, and I actually work while I'm at my new job (well not so new anymore). Let me try to sum up the last two years quickly for everyone in this handy dandy time line.
1/1/2006-Got a new job! Rekindled with an old flame while visiting him down in Fl for New Year's.
6/6/2006-Received my undergrad from Northwestern University! 8 years in the Making!!
7/6/2007-NIN in concert at the world or whatever it’s called now!!!
7/13/2006-Bachelorette party in Vegas. Kristy and I tear it up! Happy B-day vegas style.
8/12/2006- Randy and Erin get married!
9/1/2006-Dude from Florida moves to Chicago. I decide that this is the real thing and I'm all in.
9/14/2006-Mark and Teka get married!! My oldest friend and the dude from Fl’s best friend. Boyfriend is in wedding. I’m basically by myself the entire wedding. Thank god for beer and dancing because good times were had.
11/4/2006-Amy and Jack get married!! As a bridesmaid, I get to wear a blue horizontal stripe dress. I did not ignore my date.
12/1/2006-My cat moves in with the dude from Florida. (Basically, I'm living there.)
12/23/2007-meet boyfriends family. I heart them!
2/10/2007-Went to Turks Caicos for a week. Boyfriend wouldn't go into the water past his knees because he was afraid of sharks. Pussy. Boyfriend refuses to put on sunscreen and gets sun poisoning. Idiot. And was sick during out Valentine’s Day sunset cruise.
3/1/2007-My four month old niece is hospitalized for three weeks with meningitis. It was touch and go for the first week and a half. I’m in the hospital everyday right after work until 9:00 pm. Boyfriend never came with me to visit, but had no problem going to a party while I was at the hospital visiting my niece. Grrrrr…
4/19/2007-I officially move into boyfriend’s apartment. He didn’t help me pack one box or unpack for that matter. However, he did help me bring a ton of stuff to Salvation Army. I gave away my bed, my oriental rugs, my towels, my sheets, my dishes, my silverware, my furniture, and my TV. Everything.
5/25/2007-Memorial Day weekend trip to Milwaukee to visit the Miller (Lite) Brewery!!! My Mecca! Our entire trip had a beer theme. Good times!
6/1/2007-Boyfriend gets mad and storms out of bar during Mayfest so that he can hang out with his best friend, who we would have seen after my married friends went home to relieve their babysitter. In other words, we needed to finish our beer! I fell like best friend is boyfriend’s number one and I come in second.
7/12/2007-Boyfriend breaks up with my on my b-day over something completely ridiculous. We work things out and everything is fine. (kinda)
8/17/2007-Pat gets married. Trip to Denver for wedding. We swung by the Coors brewery. Good fun weekend in the mountains with the best friend and his wife. I discover I get really bad altitude sickness. Vomiting ensues.
9/14/2007-Wedding in Lake Tahoe. Boyfriend’s college friends. Group trip with college buddies best friend and wife. We stay in cottage with a hot tub and a bunch of people. I flash my boobies at a cop who is reprimanding us for being too loud in the hot tub. We gamble in Reno. I rediscover my extremely bad altitude sickness. Lots of vomiting.
9/27/2007-Move into our new place downtown that we picked out together! Exciting times! Boyfriend goes to happy hour at work night before move and night of move!!! GRRRR! Moving makes Bridget crabby.
10/1/2007-Paid off a loan! WUHOO!! One step closer to being debt free!
10/27/2007-Hang out with friends. Boyfriend drinks a little too much and decides to tell me he hates my curtains, where I hung the pictures, my bookshelves, and storms out leaving me there with his best friend’s wife and my sister.
11/4/2007- Boyfriend leaves for a week long conference. He barely calls me. He’s too busy going out drinking with his new conference buddies.
11/8/2007-Boyfriend comes home from conference. He’s more concerned about meeting up with the best friend than hanging out with me. Best friend is busy playing poker for the night. Best friend’s wife, boyfriend and I start a pub crawl in the new neighborhood. I had a margarita at Lalo’s (the third stop) and it’s lights out for me. Boyfriend gets pissed because he has to take me home and breaks up with me in the restaurant and storms off. He doesn’t come home for the entire weekend.
I’m through with this shit. It’s not worth it. Can I remind you that we just moved?! I’m broke. I already paid rent for the month. Fuck him. I’m not moving out until I’m ready!
11/21/2007-Get a second job at Pottery Barn to get me out of the house, extra cash to furnish an apartment, and 40% discount, bitches!
12/1/2007- Endless search for an apartment. Find an apartment, and I’m supposed to move in on the 8th and the old bag changes her mind!
12/3/2007-Sign a lease for an apartment! It’s a tiny studio in Streeterville, just a couple of blocks from work. It’s totally renovated and super cute. Downside, it’s under construction until December 27th.
12/23/2007-secret revenge on x-boyfriend takes place.
12/27/2007-move into new apartment! I have nothing but books, camping folding chairs, and plastic bins. It’s kind of depressing, but I refuse to let it get to me. TV situation takes place. X-boyfriend shows his true colors. I get a little Jerry Springer on his ass.
1/5/2007- My new Pottery Barn furniture is delivered!
1/10/2007- My new tiny flatscreen TV is delivered! I feel like I have a home.
1/14/2007- My cat kills my inflatable mattress. Sleeping on my new couch is not fun.
1/28/2007-Purchase a new mattress!!!
1/31/2007-New mattress is delivered! My home is complete!!!
Wow! I didn’t realize until I started writing this that U2 said it right, “Love IS blindness.” I think I recognized our issues, but I just so wanted it to work. I was truly in love. Also note, that this is a little biased because it’s based on a lot of the bad things and only a few of the good things. I was truly in love. Oh well. Lessons have been learned.
Single Bridge= lots of entertaining stories.
1/1/2006-Got a new job! Rekindled with an old flame while visiting him down in Fl for New Year's.
6/6/2006-Received my undergrad from Northwestern University! 8 years in the Making!!
7/6/2007-NIN in concert at the world or whatever it’s called now!!!
7/13/2006-Bachelorette party in Vegas. Kristy and I tear it up! Happy B-day vegas style.
8/12/2006- Randy and Erin get married!
9/1/2006-Dude from Florida moves to Chicago. I decide that this is the real thing and I'm all in.
9/14/2006-Mark and Teka get married!! My oldest friend and the dude from Fl’s best friend. Boyfriend is in wedding. I’m basically by myself the entire wedding. Thank god for beer and dancing because good times were had.
11/4/2006-Amy and Jack get married!! As a bridesmaid, I get to wear a blue horizontal stripe dress. I did not ignore my date.
12/1/2006-My cat moves in with the dude from Florida. (Basically, I'm living there.)
12/23/2007-meet boyfriends family. I heart them!
2/10/2007-Went to Turks Caicos for a week. Boyfriend wouldn't go into the water past his knees because he was afraid of sharks. Pussy. Boyfriend refuses to put on sunscreen and gets sun poisoning. Idiot. And was sick during out Valentine’s Day sunset cruise.
3/1/2007-My four month old niece is hospitalized for three weeks with meningitis. It was touch and go for the first week and a half. I’m in the hospital everyday right after work until 9:00 pm. Boyfriend never came with me to visit, but had no problem going to a party while I was at the hospital visiting my niece. Grrrrr…
4/19/2007-I officially move into boyfriend’s apartment. He didn’t help me pack one box or unpack for that matter. However, he did help me bring a ton of stuff to Salvation Army. I gave away my bed, my oriental rugs, my towels, my sheets, my dishes, my silverware, my furniture, and my TV. Everything.
5/25/2007-Memorial Day weekend trip to Milwaukee to visit the Miller (Lite) Brewery!!! My Mecca! Our entire trip had a beer theme. Good times!
6/1/2007-Boyfriend gets mad and storms out of bar during Mayfest so that he can hang out with his best friend, who we would have seen after my married friends went home to relieve their babysitter. In other words, we needed to finish our beer! I fell like best friend is boyfriend’s number one and I come in second.
7/12/2007-Boyfriend breaks up with my on my b-day over something completely ridiculous. We work things out and everything is fine. (kinda)
8/17/2007-Pat gets married. Trip to Denver for wedding. We swung by the Coors brewery. Good fun weekend in the mountains with the best friend and his wife. I discover I get really bad altitude sickness. Vomiting ensues.
9/14/2007-Wedding in Lake Tahoe. Boyfriend’s college friends. Group trip with college buddies best friend and wife. We stay in cottage with a hot tub and a bunch of people. I flash my boobies at a cop who is reprimanding us for being too loud in the hot tub. We gamble in Reno. I rediscover my extremely bad altitude sickness. Lots of vomiting.
9/27/2007-Move into our new place downtown that we picked out together! Exciting times! Boyfriend goes to happy hour at work night before move and night of move!!! GRRRR! Moving makes Bridget crabby.
10/1/2007-Paid off a loan! WUHOO!! One step closer to being debt free!
10/27/2007-Hang out with friends. Boyfriend drinks a little too much and decides to tell me he hates my curtains, where I hung the pictures, my bookshelves, and storms out leaving me there with his best friend’s wife and my sister.
11/4/2007- Boyfriend leaves for a week long conference. He barely calls me. He’s too busy going out drinking with his new conference buddies.
11/8/2007-Boyfriend comes home from conference. He’s more concerned about meeting up with the best friend than hanging out with me. Best friend is busy playing poker for the night. Best friend’s wife, boyfriend and I start a pub crawl in the new neighborhood. I had a margarita at Lalo’s (the third stop) and it’s lights out for me. Boyfriend gets pissed because he has to take me home and breaks up with me in the restaurant and storms off. He doesn’t come home for the entire weekend.
I’m through with this shit. It’s not worth it. Can I remind you that we just moved?! I’m broke. I already paid rent for the month. Fuck him. I’m not moving out until I’m ready!
11/21/2007-Get a second job at Pottery Barn to get me out of the house, extra cash to furnish an apartment, and 40% discount, bitches!
12/1/2007- Endless search for an apartment. Find an apartment, and I’m supposed to move in on the 8th and the old bag changes her mind!
12/3/2007-Sign a lease for an apartment! It’s a tiny studio in Streeterville, just a couple of blocks from work. It’s totally renovated and super cute. Downside, it’s under construction until December 27th.
12/23/2007-secret revenge on x-boyfriend takes place.
12/27/2007-move into new apartment! I have nothing but books, camping folding chairs, and plastic bins. It’s kind of depressing, but I refuse to let it get to me. TV situation takes place. X-boyfriend shows his true colors. I get a little Jerry Springer on his ass.
1/5/2007- My new Pottery Barn furniture is delivered!
1/10/2007- My new tiny flatscreen TV is delivered! I feel like I have a home.
1/14/2007- My cat kills my inflatable mattress. Sleeping on my new couch is not fun.
1/28/2007-Purchase a new mattress!!!
1/31/2007-New mattress is delivered! My home is complete!!!
Wow! I didn’t realize until I started writing this that U2 said it right, “Love IS blindness.” I think I recognized our issues, but I just so wanted it to work. I was truly in love. Also note, that this is a little biased because it’s based on a lot of the bad things and only a few of the good things. I was truly in love. Oh well. Lessons have been learned.
Single Bridge= lots of entertaining stories.