Tag: Chicago

STFU Fridays: Winter

February 21, 2014 by Heather Christena Schmidt

Let’s just cut to the chase right here and now: if you are going to get all defensive and up in arms because I’m about to take all the people whining and griping about winter, and shit, to task – just stop. Stop right now. Go back to your fucking pity party, where you sit on your computer looking for deals to tropical places that you will never take a vacation to during the winter; go back to your bitch […]

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From California

July 3, 2013 by Heather Christena Schmidt

I take it pretty offensively when people refer to me as “from California.” First and foremost, I don’t really like California. It’s nothing personal against anyone that does – I just don’t gel with it. Secondly, though, I’m just not from there. I’m from Chicago. Get over it. Just because I happen to live in California right now doesn’t mean anything. I would get just as annoyed anywhere said besides where I’m actually from. It’s linguistically wrong. But then there […]

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Chicagoland Bloggie Friend Frolic

July 2, 2013 by Heather Christena Schmidt

I’m super duper sorry that I’ve been so minimal on the blog these last few weeks, you guys. It’s just that life got crazy a few days before we left for vacation, and it’s only now calming down as we go into the second week of our month-long stay in the Chicagoland area. So before blathering on in blog posts later this week about all this crazy shiz that’s gone down while here, I wanted to first let everyone know […]

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So I’m On Vacation…

June 27, 2013 by Heather Christena Schmidt

….which means I haven’t had much to say lately. Not because I’ve been on vacation, I just got here yesterday. No, I have had little to say on the ol’ bloggie lately simply because I was getting ready for the trip. Traveling is difficult even on your own. So I’m on vacation. Those of you that have been around for a while know that I’m from Chicago. I live in California now, though (unfortunately), so typically vacations involve the Windy […]

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Fall Makes Me Homesick

November 1, 2012 by Heather Christena Schmidt

Therefore, it needs to end now. I got really into fall at first. I do every year. I got the pumpkins. And the goards and shit. Halloween was a big fucking fiasco of costumes and events and more events and hayrides. I’ve baked tons of pumpkin-flavored things, and will bake more. We’re even hosting a Thanksgiving-themed open house the weekend before Thanksgiving. But it makes me super homesick too. I miss the falling leaves that give the time of year […]

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Vacation Wrap Up: Back to Reality

April 9, 2012 by Heather Christena Schmidt

Of course by “back to reality” I mean that I am a rampant bitch again. Like I said in my blogged vacation reports, I felt super nice again when I went to my sweet, home Chicago for a close-to-three-week vacation. It was wonderful. I saw friends. I visited with family. I ate and ate and ate some more (although I lost three pounds on the trip…). And more than anything, I felt good and happy – two things I do […]

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Porking My Way To My Past

January 20, 2012 by Heather Christena Schmidt

Okay, before you all get your panties in a bunch over the fact that I used the term “porking” in the title of this blog, consider first what I do not mean. For one, if you were thinking I meant I was going to “pork” all kinds of people from my past, that’s obviously not going to happen because I’m married and the husband doesn’t usually look kindly on infidelity. If you are thinking I’m going to be going all […]

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Magic Number 100, or things I want to do before I turn 30

October 12, 2011 by Heather Christena Schmidt

Yippy! This is my 100th blog post! Excitement abound at the Schmidt Ranch, and of course by excitement I mean me (in pajamas) skipping around the house and sipping an extra large bottle of bubbly, Canada Dry ginger ale. For me, faithful blog followers, this is an exciting day. That I have had enough things to bitch and complain about to constitute one hundred entire blog postings is, in itself, something exciting. But it also may not be surprising – […]

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Pizza Face

June 27, 2011 by Heather Christena Schmidt

As has been made quite evident at this point, I can be a bit of a snob on a lot of different things. I’m a snob about the books I read, a snob about the food I eat. I’m a snob about wine. I’m a snob about the groups I associate myself with. More than anything, though, I’m a snob about pizza. …as well I should be. Born in Chicago, in the heart of the land that could be otherwise […]

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