I’m wicked crispy, so bear with me on this post. Also, you’re going to want to wash your hands before you read any farther.
All clean? Then let me hit you with the highs and lows of my thirty hours in Chicago.
Chicago didn’t start out well for me. Upon arrival at the hotel, I opened my luggage to hang up my clothes for my big meeting the following morning.
High: My skirt didn’t need ironing.
Low: My white top was somehow covered in a mysterious yellow fluid. Clearly the baggage claim guys had had some sort of circle jerk into my open suitcase. Awesome.
I checked my watch. I had exactly an hour and a half before I had to leave to set up my dinner event. Fortunately I was only a block away from some quality Chi-town shopping.
I’m just going to skip over the whole work thing with the horrible conference room, the poor setup and forty-five minutes lost in the pursuit of missing boxes. Just know that your favorite Elly was not exactly in a tranquil state of zen. (Read: I was a wild eyed stabbity ball of sleep-deprivation, adrenaline, caffeine, and low impulse control.)
Twenty minutes later, still clutching a box cutter menacingly, I sprinted to the Loehmann’s less than a block away.
High: I managed to find a decent replacement for my defiled shirt in under ten minutes and under $30.
Low: It took over fifteen minutes to check out.
Still, I had just enough time to sprint back to my hotel, slip my new prize on a hanger, smear some concealer atop of the blue pools under my eyes, and smack on another couple layers of mascara before sprinting back to the lobby to pick up the laptop for the evening’s presentation and yell at the banqueting staff about my missing boxes one last time as I hurried out the front door.
Blah, blah, blah lots of work stuff, then a failed attempt at drinks atop theWitt, a sad attempt at sleep, moment of horror when my raccoon-eyed ass realized that the mysterious yellow fluid was actually eye-makeup remover and now I would have to pretend that I always look like Adam Lambert at 7am before a crowd of 175 people, put on my foxy new white shirt, got my conference on *yawn*…and then I was done.
I had an hour or so to kill before meeting my dear Aunt Sharon for lunch, so I decided to stroll through Millennium Park. Before long, the wave of exhaustion hit me. I flopped on the closest available bench, pleased by my good fortune to find one in the shade.
High: I spent forty lovely minutes switching my attention back and forth between the book I was reading and the interesting characters walking by. I checked my watch and thought, “I’ll just sit here five minutes longer and bask in this beautiful weather.”
Low: Four minutes later a bird shit all over my nice new shirt. A myriad of colors and consistencies updated my ensemble. A yolk like substance sat on my collar and ran down my back. More of the yolk cascaded over my right boob punctuated by a hard, dark, worm-like chunk. In my lap, I noticed a mealy pile of weirdness in a tan color. As I leapt up in horror, a chunk of the tan mealy substance plopped onto the leather of my sandal. Awesome. I scraped off the chunks with the business cards in my pocket and wandered towards the restaurant.
After an afternoon of lunching and shopping with Sharebear, we headed back to the rooftop of theWit to meet…
Celebirty Sighting
Ok, so it isn’t exactly a great picture of either of us, but I blame it on the drunken hooch that took the photo. (No, it wasn’t Aunt Sharon. She was still sober. Ba dum CHING!)
High: SubWow leaning over to ask, “Do we need some sort of cover story for your Aunt on how we know each other?” Seriously, that girl is a-frickin-dorable.
High: Hearing my aunt yell the word “G-spot” loud enough to be heard over bad techno music and hipster chatter.
Our conversation weaved it’s way from oil spills, to viagra, to tantric sex, and randomly to Dr. Oz. (Seriously, this is your last chance to wash your hands.) I made some flippant comment about all the ladies in the audience wantonly trying to seduce him as they pranced about the stage in an over-sized lab coat. Aunt Sharon said, “I know why,” and proceeded to tell us all about this episode.
High: Three grown women sitting on a rooftop bar fingering the roofs of their mouths between sips of cocktails and giggling inappropriately.
So all in all it sounds like a good time.
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I’m pretty sure the bird was laughing.
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“High: Three grown women sitting on a rooftop bar fingering the roofs of their mouths between sips of cocktails and giggling inappropriately.”
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sure that enough was good reason to forget all the bird shit and yellow liquid situation
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Sometimes you just have to take one for the team.
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absolutely!!!
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Bug,
Like always, reading your blog requires a full body hazmat gear, complete with a breathing apparatus and chanting “luke I am your father.” Having said, that I am having cramps and dry heaves and I don’t really know what my point is but I am feeling really dirty.
Virginia.
P.S Dr. Oz needs some major manscaping on his upper arms.
.-= Virginia´s last blog ..Playing the horizontal shuffle with plastic toys for joy!! Yipekaye mofo’s =-.
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I’m going to drink a bottle of wine and try reading that again.
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I think the universe was trying to tell you to go topless.
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Subwow was rather interested in my bras…
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no way! that’s too awesome that you met subwow! love how you stuck her avatar mask on her face. just so she knows i am giong to see that face of hers in august and i can’t wait!
so sorry about your defiled shirts. how does that happen twice on one trip! but at least we got these supercalifragilistic words from the ordeal:
“More of the yolk cascaded over my right boob punctuated by a hard, dark, worm-like chunk. In my lap, I noticed a mealy pile of weirdness in a tan color.”
brilliant!
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Made you crave a mushroom omelet, didn’t it?
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Yay Lohman’s! Boo bird-shit! Yay celeb sighting! Boo I haven’t palpated my G-spot yet!
.-= The Sweetest´s last blog ..Oh, Please Not That One AGAIN =-.
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No time like the present…
Also, I think we should really use the word palpate more often. Twenty points to you, muffin.
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YAY! More Bloggers converging! quite jealous that you were in chicago… WITH SUBWOW! Now I feel like I need to meet you at the airport when you get back.
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Fingers crossed for next week!
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Bloggers meet in real life? That’s crazy! (I’m jealous.)
And I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been pooped on. I’m pretty sure I do not have a target tattooed on me, but it’s getting hard to keep track of all the ink in my skin. Urban legend has it that bird poop is good luck. And by urban legend, I mean I just made that up.
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Nope – now that it’s on the Interwebz, it’s gospel truth. A bird shitting on you is good luck. It’s official.
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That’s the best picture of me so far since my wedding pictures showed me whiter than my white husband!!! Did we get too busy talking about vagina that you failed to tell me the bird poop story? I CANNOT BELIEVE I HAVE TO READ ABOUT IT ON YOUR BLOG!!!
Seriously? Aunt Sharon, if you are reading this, please adopt me. Actually, I have a feeling I may have to take a number after the other ladies watch the ROOF FINGERING vid.
p.s. I am so vain: I am so relieved the tip of the v lined up with my cleavage in the picture.
.-= subWOW´s last blog ..Be cool like me. Wear Threadless. =-.
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Your boobs really were quite impressive. All kinds of symmetrical and EVERYTHING!
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By the way, not to make y’all jealous or anything, Elly is even more adorable in real life if it’s even possible. I don’t know why I didn’t notice the dimples until yesterday, in person. I have a thing for dimples. I need to put my tongue in them in NYC. And she DOES say vagina A LOT.
.-= subWOW´s last blog ..Be cool like me. Wear Threadless. =-.
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I guess I don’t see how this was a “failed” attempt at drinks? Seemed pretty successful to me.
.-= Bridget Callahan´s last blog ..Hey, More Piano! (I’m out. Have a nice weekend!) =-.
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Do you think Circle Jerks are an urban myth? I’d kind of like to see that. Then again, kinda not. Ever. Except maybe once.
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I’m kind of slow today — I didn’t realize that your anonymous celebrity was SubWow until I read the comments and got clued in. I was going to say “Yowza, she has nice gazongas!” but now I can’t because she’s not anonymous any more and I feel self-conscious.
.-= Debra She Who Seeks´s last blog ..Love Those Weiners! =-.
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A bird craps on me most days… I wish I had something else to say but I am in hangover hell. White wine?
.-= Eternally Distracted´s last blog ..You wanna be in my gang? =-.
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Look how hot you both are!!!! Nice rack SubWOW and Elly you are adorable even in bird shit!
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SubWOW’s boobs really bring out my eyes.
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Elly is stunning and subWOW has incredible breasts! Also, I will try really hard to get pix of subWOW sticking her tongue in Elly’s dimples, promise!!
BTW, birdshit, yellow ooze (what the hell kind of makeup remover are you using that is yellow??????) and one of your family members all combined in a post with the meetup with subWOW is almost too much for my first night back. I have on my overwhelmed vagina-face.
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I have on my I’m-so-glad-you’re-back-cause-I-missed-you-terribly-and-just-want-to-hug-you vagina face.
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Wow! SubWow is even more gorgeous than I thought.
Okay. It’s the boobies…
They’ve put me in trance.
Can’t wait to meet you guys. Bring your boobies. And vaginas.
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Well I had planned on leaving them at home…
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Now I’m going to have to get my boobs done before August. Damn you and your impressive rack Subwow!
Anyway, that bird shit and bodily fluid episode your supply of shirts endured can usually be taken care of by a high powered hose and some industrial disinfectant.
Don’t ask me how I know that.
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