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Friday, July 24, 2009
Here is the reason why I love blogging and I love going to conferences. While I was working at the Social Luxe party I got to see bloggers Fourth Breakfast and Lady M. We didn't much time to chat but I am hoping to meet up with them on my work travels later! Soooo nice!
Aaron and I just saw Dark Knight which was a strange experience. Last year at about this time we were in Chicago and came back to the hotel to find a movie crew filming a scene for Dark Knight on our hotel street.
We saw the helecopter chase scene with the Joker's tractor trailer. It was weird to see a helecopter flying up and down the street at street light level.
There were a couple of questions in my comments I wanted to
answer. HappyKatie
wondered what I got at Lush.
Well, I got totally sucked in by their newest product, Shower
Jellies. They are slabs of jiggly... well... jello like stuff
that you can freeze, smoosh or cut out with cookie cutters then use as a shower gel. I
got the The
Big Calm... coconut and pineapple scent that is
calming.
The soap in the upper right hand corner is Sandstone
Soap. It actually has sand embedded on one end for
exfoilation. I am always very smooth after a week at the beach so I
have big hopes for this soap.
I also got a Magic
Muscles Massage Bar. It has cinnamon, spice oils
and aduki beans that will help relax sore muscles. Oh and I got a little
tin to put it in.
I also got goodies for friends at home, but I can't remember
what they were. I pretty much based all those purchases on how good
stuff smelled.
Lady S
wanted to know what Amy Sedaris was doing with the wand in the multi
picture I posted.
She was demonstrating how you can use a wand to make guests
think you use magic in the kitchen. You can see it here in the this
video clip. (the video is cropped funny because a certain someone was
holding the camera vertically for the video.... I'm not gonna name
names, but let's just say HE feels a little silly now. I was able to
rotate it with an iMovie plugin I downloaded. )
We went for breakfast at Orange... I have wanted to eat there ever
since Giada went for Giada's
Weekend Getaway.
Aaron got the french toast kabobs and I got Popeye's eggs. The
frushi wasn't ready yet and I was bitterly disapointed.
We went on the OFFICIAL Chicago Architecture Society's boat
tour. The whole time the line "A three hour tourrrrrr" was going
through my head.
Chicago's famous Garrett
Popcorn. The cheese popcorn is good. The caramel popcorn is
good. Combine them together and they are fannn-tastic!
Katie from happykatie.com
caught me taking a picture of a bus stop on the street. She is just
about the nicest person I have ever met. And she directed me to Filenes Basement.
Piglet enjoyed shopping on the Magnificent Mile. Piglet spent
way too much at Lush.
I find myself attracted to this trolley. Must be the name.
Would someone drag me away from this bean?!
Other notes and observations
My hair, albeit short, doesn't do well in humidity
I am going to have some shoulder issues this week after
carring my laptop everywhere this weekend.
When I apologized for how grubby Piglet she said... "Oh that's okay...
he's a dirty toy"
Amy was on a panel with Kristen of Craft Leftovers,
Natalie of coquette.blogs.com
and Crafty
Chica... Kathy Cano Murillo who I was thrilled to meet in
person. I think this was my favorite session of the conference.
Excellent.
Remember those crocheted doll cozies your grandma had on her extra roll
of tp?
This is the upscale version.
These mirrors are evil. I thought... oh I just take a little look see.
Yowza! I do not need to see my pores that close!
They are filming the next Batman movie outside my hotel! Nothing like
hearing gunshots and seeing a helicopter fly down the street at traffic
light level!
I really should have posted this sooner, but I am going to be at
BlogHer in Chicago
this weekend! (look
down at the "C's"... it's me!) I am not exactly speaking, I
am going
to be working at the Taking
Your Blog to the Next Level Lab segment. I
will be there to help anyone that wants to learn how to start their
blog on Blogger.
Sooooo...
#1 Is there anyone out there that plans on going?
#2 What are some of the must visits for Chicago? I have never
been to Chicago before. I know I want to go to Minnies. Minnies
serves itty bitty food. Hee heee!
