grateful: week 17

inspired by my reading of the happiness project by gretchen rubin, i am instituting monday "gratitude" posts (read here for more detail), where i will list "3 things i'm grateful for" from the previous week.

the 3 things i'm grateful for this week are: 

1) i survived friday the 13th!  and i admit this is going to sound completely crazy, but the 13th is actually not my bad luck day, it's monday the 23rd (10 days after a friday the 13th!).  i have informally documented monday the 23rds since 6th grade.  and i'm telling you: they are terrible, horrible, no good, very bad days.

2) i made it through week 2 of my self-imposed august clothes shopping hiatus.  still doing alright, although have been told of many great sales at my favorite stores, which is so not helpful, people!  

3) little j was in town this weekend and we had got in lots of quality time, which included:

wine (obviously)

sushi and a girls' sleepover at our friend c's

watching the chicago air and water show from a rooftop party, 

dinners (and dessert!) out 

and sunday afternoon spent exploring wicker park (and its yummy drinks!)

here's to another grateful week.

xo. di.