when i run, i'm strong. i have endurance and i can go for miles. when i run, i'm focused, i'm happy, and it's okay to be listening to my headphones and not talking to other people. when i run, i'm the caitlin who has the self discipline to get out on the road even after a long, trying day at work and work hard and sweat.
i love to run because it makes me who i really am. it strips away all of the armour i put on during the day to shield myself.
and then six weeks until it's time to rage!
=)
68 days until i move to manhattan.
=)
-i bought a nike+ and it's changed my life. just run!
-only 2 weeks of class left, then finals...then i'm a college graduate.
-80 days until i move to new york.
-it's supposed to start getting gorgeous within the next two weeks. i'm pretty psyched about it.
-i can't decide if i should get a hair cut or not!
-it's mom's day tomorrow at dg. i'm excited, it's going to be super fun.
-i have picked out my graduation dress. yay.
-i've been talking to gpp a lot lately and it's really making me happy. can't wait to be reunited.
-that's it. life's pretty legit.
( 25 Random Facts About me )
- Music:this is the way we live - baby boy.
her hands are all twisted
she's pointing at me
i was damned by light coming over as
she spoke with a voice that disrupted the sky
she said hold on love, don't be ashamed
i will wrap you in my arms and you know you'll be safe
let me sign
you're who's gotten into me
you did this thing to me
i used to be so bad....
but you, you make me better
you give me pleasure
must be what's best for me
you make me sweeter
you give me fever
i'm a believer.

Go Cubs Go!!!!!
we got lucky
baby we've been blessed
couldn't ask for more, wouldn't settle for less
if this is as good as it gets....that's good.
it's good to be us....
=)
summer is almost over, bbs. that's a sad story! it's almost time to trade the bikinis in for the books..... but no doubt, their senior year promises to be hotter than ever before.....
mark and i spent the entire day today, constantly refreshing the u.s. open blog, and waiting with baited breath to see how the playoff round of the tournament would play out. and i was sitting in my cube, hitting refresh a million and a half times, tense, thinking....if i'm tense, imagine what it must be like to be them! and like...tiger's ability to hold under pressure is so impressive. and it made me think back to my own days of sports pressure, pitching for softball....winning state chamionships, etc. and i secretly....miss that competetive drive. when i was on...i was unbeatable. sticking with golf has a lot to do with my competetive drive, but its a different kind of competetiveness. it's more against myself. it's more like...don't let yourself beat yourself. usually...on the golf course, no matter who you are with....the only person who can beat you...is you.
so that's that. my weekend was pretty good. golfed, father's day, etc. shopped a little too. had dinner with lyndsay late last night. i love her, what would i do without her....seriously? we just can't wait to get our Hermes bracelets...best friendship bracelets EVER. work has been going well. i really like doing the product availability meetings!!!! they are TRES gorgeous. and i had an interesting like...back and forth email situation today. loves it.
my thighs/hamstrings are SOOO inexplicibly sore. i have no idea what i did to them! maybe it was the lunges i thought would be a great idea when i went for a run on saturday night.....but i do lunges on a regular basis. why is today different? who the hells know. overs it. went to the paper source this afternoon to get gift-wrapping accessories.....it actually was really fun! i sometimes tend to lack in the creativity department...like wrapping gifts and things, but i'm VERY pleased with this gift i just wrapped! all right, another boring night in the northern suburbs....work tomorrow and a haircut afterwards.
- Music:les femmes - yelle
life is good for c & l...a weekend of martinis, bikinis, boating, and bronzing..... it may be lonely at the top, but i have a feeling those two keep each other company.
- Music:katy perry
Live for those moments where you feel your life lift up and take off.....
Yves Saint Laurent passed away.
"Over the years, i have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it."
RIP, genius.
- Mood:
sore
well...live from the northern suburbs! i started my job at abbott and i think i like it so far. it's.... slow right now. i haven't really gotten my actual assignment yet, so we'll see. i like the guys in my group though! they're fabulous.
last sunday, L and R came to visit me! we played in highland park, had a tres chic lunchers at Cosi, and then shopped around. i got la mer lip balm!!!! omg it's heavenly. a long weekend at home this weekend, and then mooore work. OH but then the SATC party next saturday with steph, sonia, katy, and other randoms. should be good! the movie and then a small bar crawl.
everything else is good! everything else is like...where it should be.
you know i love you......
- Location:the north side
- Music:grey's anatomy finale
-i'm dunzo with my junior year, you know you love it.
-i have a little sunburn on my chest.... it's not really sunburn, more like...slightly red, tender skin. i don't get legit sunburns.
-i start work next monday which is hawt.
-i miss lyndsay and we're going to get a really ugly fish next semester for our room and name him "creep."
-i may or may not be kicking ass in golf right now? i think it's luck but that's fine too.
-gorgeous weather...gotta love that.
-my "going away" party is saturday...i'm not going very far, just the north side, but still...an excuse for a party in my name!!!!
-it's not a bfd, but i maybe really want to do phil mickelson. it's totally fine though.
-i bought a really gorgeous racerback tank top yesterday! it's more skin than my usual racerbacks....which is why i love it....!
the end =)
- Location:it's good to be queen ;-)
like, truly happy. smile randomly, laugh to myself, totally in love with the best people in my life and totally in love with myself, happy.
and it's gorgeous.
recap!
Saturday
6:30 flight....getting up at 2:30 a.m., not hot.
the TRES FAUX bitch on the plane...but it's fine.
arriving at the bellagio...welcome home!
the really gorgeous boy at barney's with perfect skin and glossy lips.
the hour long sephora session.
lunchers at cheesecake factory and that WOW-esque display in the center of the forum shops.
time for check-in! the bell boy was gorgeous.
down to the pool...maybe a hurricane at the bellagio pool...seriously.
upstairs for a little nappers. tres chic.
shower, quick din-din, back up to the room to get tres chic.
WORKING IT through the via bellagio shops.
"let's play a game called...how many bitches can i get to want it." maybe around 50.
drinks at shadow, the bartender maybe remembered me from christmas time...hahahaha.
met roddy on the bridge..off to The Bank at the Bellagio.
STATUS IS EVERYTHING.
front of the line privilages...that guy i cut off was REALLY mad.
up the escalator..welcome to bank, bitches!
champagne, shots, and 3 hours of dancing at bank....it's BALLER.
maybe dancing with a hot black man, it's fine.
THE MAGNUM.
last song of our night..GIMME MORE.. perfection.
turned in at 3 a.m. we were up for 27 hours, it's fine.
Sunday
brunch at paris! TRES FUCKING CHIC.
shopping at the planet hollywood mall.
the REALLY awk father-son gymnastics routine.
getting gelato and all being really creeped by it...... :-D}=
footlocker with tito!!!!
"just run all of the shoes by the girls, they're making the decisions anyways." good call roddy.
me tying roddy's shoes.
OH I LIKE THESE PUMAS! MY THIGHS LOOK TRES GORGEOUS RIGHT NOW.
where's sean? OH! buying those inserts!
bringing the boys back to our room to play.
we went to the pool, they napped.
naked photosessions and the pool waitress that couldn't add.
upstairs to rinse off and get dressed.
noodles!
"do you want some rice because here it commmesssss."
maybe a tres chic c & L photosession at the table.
roddy, sean, and their tea.
off shopping...TRES FAUX THEORY.
me, having a tres faux attack.
"look honey, look at that tres faux prada outfit." "OMG THAT IS TRES FAUX."
changing into better outfits to walk roddy to his poker tournament.
"those two?" "which two?" "THOSE TWO." "OH YES." and then getting chased down by The Bank bouncers to get VIP cards to get in...
Pure...umm..the HUGE gorgeous black bouncer, and VEGAS VINNNCCEEEEE. great pictures.
back to Bank...REALLY random guy getting us in with him on his little VIP list.
champagne and then England, who didn't know what a sorority is.
free shots and down to the dance floor.
MAJOR CREEPER ON THE DANCE FLOOR.
back up to england..hahahaha. back down to dance. we were tres tired.
Monday
mcdonalds..gorgeous.
chloe, michael kors, barneys, the fashion show mall, the wynn, all around tres chic.
met the boys back at caesars for some diet coke.
decided on dinner...CIRCO!
"i assume you know the dress code?" "oh you mean..i can't wear my bikini to dinner?"
maybe changed into my romper, we all played on the bed.
sean falling off the bed in slow motion.
me...posing....STANDARD.
"these inserts are fucking great!" - sean.
me and roddy wrestling..sean.."I KNEW THIS WOULD HAPPEN!" as he takes his shirt off.
sending the boys back on their way to get showered on dressed.
we got ready...maybe took some creeper pictures.
met them downstairs, they both looks FABULOUS.
L and i looked seriously great.
AMAZING table with a fountain show view.
riesling, sharing all of our meals with each other.
"this water tastes like caitlin." HAHAHAHAHAHA.
RODDY CHOKING AND ME HAVING A MAJOR LAUGHING FIT OVER IT.
gambled a little, turned it in for the night.
Tuesday
lots of fun at the caesar's food court!
helping sean buy kremi a necklace....sean was really into anthropologie.
staging a major distraction for lynsday so roddy could buy her the longchamp bag like mine.
went into harry winston and i def. fell in love with that ring when i tried it on.
tres chic little sit outside on the fountains.
daquiris outside and relaxing before we had to all leave.
the boys left, lyndsay and i sat at a tres chic little table in a window of the courtyard and planned my wedding.
off to the airport and home!!!!!
it was seriously a really hysterical trip. we laughed the WHOLE TIME. it was gorgeous. i'll have pictures soon. we had a great fucking time. i love my bitches!!!!!!!
- Location:home!
- Mood:a little tired but into it.
- Music:lil' kim...
-life needs a little scandal sometimes.
-be who you are and say what you will, those who mind don't matter and thos who matter don't mind.
-hold onto your friends with everything you've got.
-sometimes, i think screaming as loud as you can in your car helps.
-true love isn't in the grand gestures, it's in the inbetween moments, the smallest of things.
-take risks, no matter how huge. have no regrets.
-a bad day can be easily brightened with a really great text from a friend =)
-inside jokes seriously make friendship worth it.
-find whatever it is that you're passionate about and get after it..
-don't listen to the rules...make your own up as you go along.
-life really is supposed to be messy sometimes.
-morning sun is beautiful and energizing, even when it's cold out.
-speak your mind and trust yourself.
-confidence makes you sexy no matter what, it's the best accessory.
-it's okay to not be sure.
-being perfect is really boring.
-take the time to get to know a lot of different people, they will enrich your life.
-only do what works for you...not for someone else.
-a real love loves you as you are and wouldn't have you any other way.
-find good things in your life, and keep them.
- Mood:
sleepy - Music:wax poetic - n.y.c.
there is this really tragic kid in my religion class. he has blue hair and wears REALLY tragic trench coats and fingerless gloves. he is a tranny mess. yesterday, he was talking to the kid next to me about umm...OH the "no child left behind" act and going on and on and on and ew. and then he started talking about how college is so boring because it's just like high school. he drank and did drugs in high school, and now he drinks and does drugs in college, except he doesn't have to worry about his mom catching him. i was like......EW. and then he proceeded to ask me what my major was and i was liek "...industrial engineering." and he was liek "oh i'm philosophy and polisci." and i was liek "oh...okay." and then he told me he thought about engineering but didn't want to work so hard. and i was like "oh well....i'd like to take easy classes too but i want a job when i graduate." and he was liek "yeah i'm getting two degrees that don't really mean anything." and i was liek "yeah i'm getting one that i can do a lot of things with." and YES I'M AWARE I WAS BEING A BITCH. but he just kind of looked at me weird and i was liek "okay, we're done talking now. you can turn around." i was just REALLY OVER THAT KID.
okay ew i'm over this. movies with mark tonight. seXXXy-ness on saturday morning. lots of studying alllll weekend. you know you love it.
she's a maneater, make you work hard, make you spend hard