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Happy St. Patrick’s Day all!  Yes, I know that the real holiday is Tuesday, but if your city is anything like mine, this was the weekend for the celebratin’ aka all-day drinking, and a ton of fun.  And this year, as an added treat, the worst cab ride ever.  Keep in mind, this is coming [...]

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Oh, so much to say, so little time.  First of all, the contest winner.  After throwing participants’ names into a Starbucks mug–coffee keeps me balanced–I’m happy to announce the winner is…Marissa!  I’ll send along your prize just as soon as I get it from Nilsa.  Um, cause I left it in her car…long story.
In other [...]

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About 12 years ago, I stopped eating red meat.  If it bleeds when you cook it or resembles blood in anyway, I don’t want to eat it (which is also why I don’t like to eat beets–they look like blood and taste terrible, gag).  For a while I stopped eating poultry.  And so, when it [...]

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Who’s sick of winter? 
You can’t see it, but my hand is up in the air.  Well, not really.  I mean, come on.  But what’s real is this.  On Friday night into Saturday until about 5:00 it came down here in Chicago.  Our forecasted two to four inches turned out to be more like eight.  Can I just say, [...]

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So yeah, I took down my ranty post about my apartment.  People with Bloglines or Google Reader can probably still see it.  But even with the update I put on the end, it didn’t seem right to keep it there. 
Anyway, this morning there was a sign on the door to my building saying roaches had [...]

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There is this thing in the city of Chicago–and I’m sure in other cities of snowy climes–where certain street are designated as snow routes.  So if it snows a certain amount, you can’t park on them, lest you get towed. My understanding is that this is for the snow plows to get through and/or emergency [...]

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I’m interrupting my own hiatus to bring you this one-of-a-kind story.  You see, this weekend I killed a mouse.  With a brick. 
But let’s back up, shall we?  To Friday morning.  Very early Friday morning.  3:45 or so. I’m all cozy in my nice flannel sheets and velvet duvet cover, which came in handy as the [...]

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Fallified

This weekend, I officially made my apartment ready for fall.  It started, well to be truthful it started Saturday when I went to Target and saw a really nice throw and decided to treat myself to it.  So I did.  Then Sunday morning I woke up (for the third time: 4:00 to do a report, [...]

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