I’ll Be Alright If It Was Just ‘Til St. Patrick’s Day

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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I Was Just Thinking, Merely Thinking

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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The World’s a Roller Coaster, and I’m Not Strapped In

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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Deep Beneath the Cover of Another Perfect Wonder Where It’s So White as Snow

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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Forget About Your House of Cards, and I’ll Do Mine

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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Songs for Polar Bears

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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And You Can Hide Quiet as a Mouse, but They’ll Find You Out

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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