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Amelia

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The Number One Rule

The number one rule about running an event is that you should have good footwear, because you will be running all over the place and most likely on your feet for an ungodly amount of time. By complete...
Posted by on Sun, 01 Jun 2008 00:08:00 GMT

Palmer Square

I think that is officially what our new hood is called. It's been almost a week since crazy moving weekend, and the new place is pretty sweet. I've been showering (every day!) and run several loads of...
Posted by on Fri, 09 May 2008 18:56:00 GMT

How did this happen?!

It's not like we have a very big apartment, and it only has one small storage closet. By some evil stroke of the UNIVERSE our little 2 bdrm unit has cleverly disguised what amounts to be, I'm sure, on...
Posted by on Mon, 28 Apr 2008 20:36:00 GMT

Target Practice

I took the day off for my birthday this year and treated myself to a big shopping trip at Target. Target is pretty fancy these days, you know. Anyway, I came home with a couple bags full of t-shirts a...
Posted by on Thu, 10 Apr 2008 06:14:00 GMT

The Gym

It sounds like my stepdad is in the clear, and I have a really good feeling we’ll find a house this week. Many trips to the gym this week are helping me see straight, emotionally. It’s goi...
Posted by on Thu, 20 Mar 2008 06:08:00 GMT

Update

After a lot of careful thought we decided that keeping Penny was not the best decision, for her or for us. With very busy lives at work and outside of work it became pretty obvious that we were not go...
Posted by on Mon, 17 Mar 2008 05:56:00 GMT

Complications

Life has gotten really complicated for me, really fast. First: I rescued a Puppy, Penny. Penny was a doggie from the hood who I met in a local police station as she was on her way to the pound. Most o...
Posted by on Fri, 14 Mar 2008 05:45:00 GMT

Total Eclipse of the Filet

Wow. The lunar eclipse right now is stunning. It is an absolute perfect ending to what turned out to be a pretty awesome Wednesday. First, I drove to work today. Felt pretty guilty about it, but I mad...
Posted by on Wed, 20 Feb 2008 19:16:00 GMT

Found?

This morning we got up bright and early (10am, sheesh) to go condo hunting with our real estate agent, Lori. I wasn't expecting much since today we were looking at foreclosure homes. The first place w...
Posted by on Sat, 09 Feb 2008 11:47:00 GMT

Desperately Seeking Dry Sidewalks

I know that I'm like a broken record every time that it snows, and our sewers fail to accommodate all the slush and slurp and mush and giant puddles of ice water. Chicago is like one big disgusting gr...
Posted by on Sun, 03 Feb 2008 09:34:00 GMT