I'm Sorry, Please Don't Hate Me

Hello to anyone who follows my posts!

I am so sorry for not updating you all in forever. My last couple weeks, yes it has been some time, have been super chaotic and busy. Things just keep popping up for me and then once I'm done I just crash and go to bed. 

School has been crazy with papers, projects, and trying to stay on time with everything. I feel like time just slips through my fingers now a days. I have also been having a lot of events going on with Alpha Gamma Phi. We have had several service events, meetings, parties, and let's not forget about homecoming weekend. Besides those two things I have been working a lot! I love to go to work because I love to make money so that I can go and enjoy doing things with my friends and sisters.

But any-who let me give you a quick run down of what has been happening in my life lately. 

Hope College had fall break at the beginning of the month and I went to stay the long weekend at my boyfriends in Chicago. We had so much fun that weekend doing new things and visiting old places.  We ate SO much food, saw a ton of great art, visited an amazing zoo, and I even got to take a class at the Joffery Ballet.

After that I came back to school and went right back to hitting the ground running. I had many meetings for random things and trying to figure out housing for next year, yikes so far away but so close! This weekend was homecoming at Hope and so that came with many events that I had to participate in for the sorority. It was all fun and games but boy am I glad it's over... I'm exhausted.

Oh and let's not forget I turned 21 this past Monday! I did not do anything that I normally don't do on a Monday. Except my dad did take me out to eat that evening to one of our favorite delis in Grand Rapids. That day though I did feel older. It's weird being 21, it just feels different.

So there's a quick recap of what I have been doing. I will try to update you all on a more regular basis. I would love to update you all everyday but I'm just starting out with this whole blogging thing and trying to figure out what to do. If you have any simple helpful tips feel free to let me know! I will try to squeeze in some time in the next couple of days to queue up a few posts to give you more details about what you've missed. I feel like that is a solid first step to getting this blogging thing down.

Well that is it and I will just leave you with that. Sorry this post wasn't more exciting.

Thanks for all of your patience and support.

Love you.

XOXO

ZMH

Is It Still Monday?

Holy cow today has felt like three days. I did a lot but also nothing. Do you know what I'm talking about?

I think it felt like the day was so long because I didn't sleep very well last night so I was pretty tired, boo. So the plan is to go to bed early tonight. Or at least to be sitting in bed relaxing before midnight. 

Today I got up early for some daddy/daughter time. I met up with my dad downtown at one our favorite breakfast places, The Windmill. We sat and chatted and just enjoyed some great food. Afterwards he dropped me off for my first class of the day and I hit the ground running.

I went to class like normal and talked for a bit to my middle school crush for a bit. This guy I liked ALOT in middle school, he was like my first crush. To be honest the inner middle school me still gets giddy when I see him. So silly. Anyway, afterward I had lunch with some of my sorority sisters and we caught up and just enjoyed each others company. 

Off to my next class! Man was that class long and boring. Now I like the material but going to class is just like taking a million sleeping pills, snooze! But afterwards I came back to the apartment and did some homework and hung out. 

I had a dinner date this evening with two of my sorority sisters. We went out and got sushi at this great new sushi place downtown. It was so great to just let loose and have fun with them! We ate so much food and laughed a lot. 

Overall it may have been a crazy busy day but it was so wonderful.
Today made me remember how great of a life I have and that I need to remember to cherish everything.

XOXO

ZMH

Day Trip and My Dad

So on Tuesday I had a lovely daddy/daughter day with my dad. We decided a couple weeks ago we both wanted to do a day trip to Chicago together before I left for camp for the summer. We sat and planned what day would be best and what we wanted to do, that was decided by wanting to just eat the whole time!

Well the days started to slip away fast and on Tuesday we decided to go! We got up super early and drove down to Michigan City to catch the commuter train. The commuter train is always fun, fast, and much cheaper then the Amtrak. Don't get me wrong, I love Amtrak but if I'm doing a day trip I'd rather catch the train in MC and have a longer day in Chicago.

We got into Chicago about 10:30ish and started towards the loop. I showed my dad where R's dorm was and showed him a few of the stores and cafes we liked to go to down there. From there we trekked over to the Magnificent Mile. Dad and I both wanted to go to Eataly for lunch. Dad had not been there before and I had only ever wandered through and grabbed a treat from the Nutella bar. 

We were seated right away upstairs, we lucked out and got in before the big rush just after 11am. We were seated in a window seat and were able to peer down at the cars going by and the people wandering about down below. All the workers were friendly and nice and made our experience even greater. Dad and I took a long time trying to decide what we wanted because it all looked so good! I picked a pasta dish finally and he picked out a pizza. As soon as the plates were placed on the table dad and I started splitting things up and chowed down. Holy moly was it delish! If you have a chance to eat at Eataly I highly recommend it, it was fantastic! 

The pizza we got had mozzarella, a type of prosciutto, and basil pesto sauce!

The pasta was el dente with a type of parmesan on it as well as some oil and black pepper.

My dad and I share a big love of cheese, we were drooling over all of the cheeses.

Needless to say our first thing in Chicago was a big hit! We were so happy and stuffed after lunch that we had enough energy to continue our day! From Eataly we wondered in and out of countless stores on the Magnificent Mile. We had fun ooh-ing and ah-ing at all of the pretty things we wanted yet could not afford. Half-way through our day we took a pit stop at Sprinkles and picked up a few cupcakes for the week and then kept window shopping.

Around 4pm we were both starting to hit a wall so we headed back towards Millennium Park and took an early dinner at Hot Wok Cool Sushi, one of my all time favorite places to eat in the city. We chowed down and took a break from the rain. Afterwards we decided we saw everything we wanted to and head back to the train station. There we took a table at Starbucks and people watched until our train came.

Overall it was a wonderful daddy/daughter date. I will miss my dad so much this summer but I am glad we were both able to take one last full day off together to just have some fun.

Today is Father's day and sadly my dad had to go into work for most of the day but I hope my present for him makes him super happy and hopefully we will be able to go grab some food tonight, let's be honest it will probably be IHOP. My dad is the best guy in the world and he is so strong. I have always been a daddy's girl and I couldn't be any luckier to have him as my dad. After my mom passing about about 5 years ago he has been very strong and hard working to keep me happy and to keep our family going. Without his constant support and big hugs I don't think I would have accomplished as much as I have these last couple of years.

Thank you dad for being the best! <3

XOXO

ZMH