in case you needed another reason to think i am crazy

Now I told myself that I wasn't going to post anything until after I finished the Bayleigh tribute, but it has been in draft form since 5/20 and is still no where near to being finished. So I am going to address some other business whilst I stumble through the stages of grief.

A)Meghan McBlogger and her highly amusing and wonderfully off color blog have infiltrated my life like no written piece of work has since Harry Potter. If you know me but at all, you KNOW that this is a very, very bold statement. You can find her @ http://www.2birds1blog.com/ (please note that "off color" is an understatement, don't say I didn't warn you!). Most of my lunch breaks I can be found right here at this very desk eating my lunch and laughing, OUT LOUD, at her daily post. Sometimes when that is not enough, I back track to earlier posts. When I am not reading the blog I have been working on listing the reasons Meghan McBlogger and I would either be or not be friends (don't worry, it's coming!). Not weird enough? Ok. Confession. So when I am in the middle of reading Harry Potter (which I almost always am, WHOLE other issue) my inner monologue runs in J.K. Rowling's narrative style, English accent and all. So due to this recent obsession I now have a Meghan McBlogger commentary running amok in my head. I catch myself exclaiming-to myself- things like "uhhh Blokay!" and "Welp!" and even as I am re-reading through this crazy person confession I see the influence is coming through. The italicizing, the use of the phrase "bold statement"-I am creeping myself out. BUT I am still going to post my running list of reasons we could be friends/and reasons we probably would not be.

Reasons Meghan McBlogger and I would be friends- a working list:
(please note that I visited this blog to do some fact checking and just continued to read...I am now at home finishing this)

1) Moules Frites

2) AbFab

3) Crafting
4) Nickelback hatred

The list is actually longer, but I will have to add to it as it comes back to me. Right now I am battling a gnarly migraine. OK! On to reasons we may not get along so well. This isn't so much a list as two working theories. They are as follows:

1) Knowing myself, and knowing a wee bit of Ms. McBlogger, an endless battle of banter and clever one liners could break out. This would definitely be obnoxious, not just to those around, but-most importantly- to ourselves. There is also the second, and nearly as alarming, possibility that we would totally geek out about crafting. Have you ever been in a group of people when two people share a geeky interest and talk about it endlessly? Maybe runners?

2) City Loyalty. Capital C, Capital L. This is what Liz Lemon would call a deal breaker. Now we all know Meg Mc hearts DC. I've also read about Boston and NYC and some Euro references. I have yet to stumble across a plug for Chicago, and this irks me because Chicago is the best city. Hold the phone. I have to do a quick fact check before I get too deep into this, read 2b1b, and find out that in fact Ms. McBlogger has been to Chicago and thinks that it is simply splendid...Eh, blerg. Fact checking did not go well. She went for the weather. So obvious. Deal breaker, and that's all I'm going to say.

Item B) SPEAKING OF CHICAGO. Did you know the Blackhawks won the Stanley Cup? You did! Do you work on the corner of Michigan and Wacker? You don't?? HA HA, cause I do and it is awesome. I saw that beast with my own two eyes. Da duhduh dat duhduh DAT!!

C) My to do list for June has only one thing on it...well it has a lot of things but this is the only one amusing enough to share: Hang out by the harbor and make friends with boat owners. Accept all invitations to go boating.

I can't remember any of the other items on my agenda due to this heinous migraine so I'll end this post here.

(9.02.10,  You know I am re-reading the reasons Meg Mc and I might not be friends, and I may have been unfair - I'll just have to blame the migraine. What if she never has been to Chicago? What a jerk. AND if a banter battle breaks - what do I care? I'm having a good time, and it tends to chase all the squares away. So I guess I've learned not to blog whislt compromised...)

The Best of April

Here is some of the best things we've done so far:



Bought a bathroom waste basket
While decorating the bathroom, I decided an elemental feature (beside green glass coordinates, thank you target) would be a copper trashcan. Not such a tall order. Or so I thought. The search for this trash can spanned no less than a month. Such a standard was set that we could not, WE WOULD NOT, settle. (In case you have never set unattainable standards for your bathroom waste basket, and therefore have never lived without one, believe you me, it is a huge inconvenience.) This all climaxed, as these stories often do, with an eBay purchase. So I now have a lovely vintage (dutch I'm told) copper bucket with lid to toss my trash in.


Weird Chicago Tour
For the purpose of acquiring tidbits about Chicago that can later be relayed with thinly veiled smugness to unsuspecting friends and family members, we took a night tour of Chicago. Topics covered included: tragedies, serial killers, the world's fair of 1893, gangsters and other criminals, ghosts and the buildings they haunt. As a rule I abhor large group tours, I find them invasive to the experience. However, this is definately the exception to the rule, and this is why. A) The groups are small- they have to be because you ride around on a converted short bus. B) They are under the cover of darkness. C) They show you and talk about things that are not right in front of you; I mean there is not sign post saying "Hey- here is the sight of the St. Valentine's Day Massacre! Did you know that SEVEN people were shot here execution style?" So I would recommend this to a friend, or to an enemy who doesn't care for morbidity. And rest assured you will never catch me on a segway.
*if you would like to hear more weird facts about Chicago just administer the password "I hear the Merchandise Mart is haunted" to Joe.


Cubs game
Baseball games, yet another activity I was previously not fan of (Man, I am a real dud!). Yet in this case I'm a full convert. It was a little chilly and the Cubs lost but we had a blast! I even drank budweiser (although if you can drink water you can drink budweiser-but I won't discourse on this just here)!
Prior to the ballgame I would claim that I was a Cubs fan because I didn't want to be mistakenly associated with the Sox (as if), but now I'm legit! Let's go Cubbies!!


Blinds make good neighbors
Up until last Saturday we did not have blinds in our living room and the "curtain" in our bed room was an obnoxiously color fleece blanket (I know). I would say the blinds were more for our neighbors than us, because lack of them certainly didn't stop me from dancing Risky Business style to Hall and Oates. So, neighbors, you may thank us by coming out of you apartments and being our friends!!

Here is what May looks like
-Open House Party! May 15th from 1pm on. If you're around stop in!
-Finally finishing the dining room table ensemble (The chairs are done and gorgeous (Thanks Dad!), table is almost there, and we still have to order the bench.)
-Workouts in the park
-Make friends
-Bike to work
-etc

apt 16

Unless you haven't talked to me in the last month (which is entirely possible) you'll know that apt 16 is my new dwelling in the lovely Lincoln Park. It is pictured here prior to moving in.

So let me tell you a bit about my new digs. It is in an old apartment brown brick apartment building on the "third" floor (actually the 4th). Wood floors, crown molding, radiators. They updated the bathroom and put in new floors and refinished the old tub- so it is old but clean (phew). There it is to the right (in case you need help recognizing a bathroom).

The kitchen needs some work (why are radiators so hard to clean behind!), but I can't help but love it because it is a kitchen-the very thing I've always wanted. Happy sigh.

The live-in and I are still settling in, but we are jumping into our project list and are as giddy as a couple of kids. This week is painting, refinishing the dining room table, and getting Internet (and unpacking the rest of my clothes-yipe). Domestic bliss smells like paint and dryer sheets!!