Weekly Wins // #22

Weekly Wins is a series where I touch on my “wins” from the week in the categories of love, buy, do, eat, give, read, tech, watch and wear. It’s 100% my favorite post to write. Enjoy! 

Fun week! Let’s talk wins right away!!

LOVE: 
Summer! It’s glorious but hottttttt. I am not taking the warm days for granted though, that’s for sure! The fact that we can leave our building and in 5 seconds be at the park is amazing or even just taking walks outside is one of mine and Brody’s favorite things to do. Also, ice cream. Eating lots of ice cream is more than acceptable this time of year. Winter don’t come back!!!!

 

My one goal for this weekend was to eat ice cream at cone!! ????✔️ #iadorewhatieat

A photo posted by Dana Ivy (@danaivy) on Jul 9, 2016 at 4:59pm PDT

BUY:
If you follow me on Instagram, you know that we bought the Amazon Fire TV on Amazon Prime Day for a little over 30% off. Woohoo for deals! Funny though, the Fire TV is NOT actually a TV at all; it’s a device that you plug into your TV via an HDMI cable that gives you all the apps you’d ever want… like Amazon Prime Video {which does not come on an Apple TV if you’re comparing}, Hulu, Netflix, and so much more! Can’t wait to use it! Shop it HERE. And also, if missed: read my post from Monday about 9 reasons why being an Amazon Prime member is worth it!! I almost titled it 9 things you don’t know about your Amazon Prime membership… because most people who are already members don’t know all the incredible benefits!! And if you do want to join, find out how to get it for free by reading the post here. 

DO:
Watch the Bachelorette with friends at a bar! I’ve decided this is the best way to do it. Some of my bachelorette-obsessed teacher friends and I went to a pizza restaurant/bar on Monday night where they play the show on all the big screens! For those of you who live in Chicago, we went to Ranalli’s in Lincoln Park and they have Bachelor/Bachelorette viewings every Monday night that the show is on air. It was so fun to go there and see roses and rose petals on all the tables! Plus, it was a treat to watch with friends, eat pizza, and have a drink! Andddd just an FYI: they had DELICIOUS gluten-free pizza!! 

EAT:
RPM Italian at home in my jammies for din! Isaiah and I don’t normally order out at fancy restaurants on a random weekday but we randomly decided to order dinner from RPM Italian {which, by the way is my most favorite restaurant of ALL TIME} on Wednesday night via Postmates and it was freaking amaaaaaaaaaaaaaazing. Let’s see, we got gluten free Bolognese pasta, their avocado brussel sprout salad, grilled octopus, charred corn, halibut, and Mama DePandi’s famous meatballs {which I can’t eat because they aren’t gfree but Isaiah loves them}. Umm, are you judging?!?! I will tell you this… while it was all INSANELY delish, we have enough food left over for an army. And when I say army I mean we have enough food left over for at least two more nights of the week for both of us and for Brody! SO WORTH IT. –> Just a side note, Postmates is pretty much the best service ever. You can order from ANYWHERE and they will buy you ANYTHING!!!!! Want free delivery {up to $10} on your first order? Click HERE or use my referral code: cycw7. You’re welcome! 

GIVE: 
Goodbye kisses to our friends Maayan and Jeffrey. They moved to suburbia this week and while we are SO HAPPY for them that they bought a real house with a real backyard and a front porch all to themselves {woohoo!!!}, Brody and I already miss them in the neighborhood! Like, a lot. We saw them and hung out with them almost every day so there is definitely going to be a real void in our world. BUT we also know just because they left us doesn’t mean it’s goodbye forever! We’ll see each other all the time still, just now we’ll simply have to make advance plans to do so. This photo was taken on our last morning walk to Starbucks together. Tears.

READ: 
I’m heading to LA next week for my friend’s wedding and in honor of the trip, I thought it would be fun to read about the time I went to LA and met Lisa Vanderpump, only the very best housewife ever! So I actually talked about it for a hot second in Wednesday’s post that was all about 25 Things You Don’t Know About Me but if you blinked, you might have missed it! I read it back too and it is SO FUNNY. Take a look at the post HERE to see how LVP and I became total besties {in my mind at least!}.

TECH: 
For all you 80’s babies like me, did you hear the news?!?! Nintendo is releasing a miniature NES with 30 built-in games! I die! I was uuuuber into {and really good at} Super Mario Bros., Donkey Kong, and The Legend of Zelda growing up. These 3 games are in fact 3 of the 30 already loaded onto the new device coming out on November 11th for $59.99. SO EXCITING aka I need this. Read more about it here. 

WATCH:
Mistresses! This week’s episode was SO GOOD. So many story lines to comment on but my favorite is the one with Joss’s soon-to-be sister-in-law dating her ex-fiance. Stranger things have definitely happened on this show but WHOA. Didn’t see that one coming. And I loved the character of Brian so I’m glad he’s kinda, sorta, back in the picture :) 

WEAR:
These chambray drawstring shorts {sorry for the wrinkles!!} that I got from The Gap years ago! I’ve seriously been wearing them all week! They are really comfortable and just easy. I love. Luckily for you, years later, The Gap is still carrying them in their stores because they are that big of a hit with everyone! Shop them online HERE. And OMG they are $24.99 right now down from $44.95!! Go get em! 

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PS Who’s been shopping the Nordy’s early access sale?! Stay tuned because I have an UHMAZINGGGG round-up of the cutest fall clothes coming to you on MONDAY!

It’s the weekend! Anything special on the agenda?
I’d love to know in the comments section of this post!