I have a (town)home to call my own. It's in Streamwood. I live by forest preserves. I have almost no cell service. I just had internet set up today. I am doing a lot of cleaning. I have been off of work since Saturday. I have to go back on Friday. There is a lot more work that needs to be done, including painting and new carpeting. I have ( Read more... )

I just got back from Florida, it sure is nice in places that are 70 degrees warmer... well, at least when the differnce is zero to 70. I probably would have a hard time going from 70 to 140 ( Read more... )

I was on the blue line yesterday, and at the Damen stop a very hipster girl got on fashionably attired in matching green hat, jacket, and pants. A minute after the train was on it's way to Division, a woman hurled at the far end of the car. The girl in green shrieked "Oh my g-d." and in a surprise move ran to the emergency button n my end of the ( Read more... )

Haven't walked too much recently, and since the sun wa shining and the wind was blowing, I thought I'd make the most of my afternoon. Went to Navy Pier for the first time since March, I love the smell of cinnamon roasted cashews. Got some sun, and a blender. Yep, Bailey's gave me a blender, i don't really know why. Anyway, saddled with this ( Read more... )

That's pretty much all I do these days... work. And I've got three more months of it. This week I'm actually going to earn overtime from my second job. That's sick. Anyway, just saying hi to everyone cause if I don't work with you, then I won't see you.

I was amped to go for jury duty today. The last few times I've been called I had to cancel for one reason or another, but today was my chance. I didn't get much sleep, but that wasn't going to affect me. I get in at 9:30, we watch some videos and at 11:00 they call three panels: not mine. I fell asleep. at 11:30 they called three more panels: ( Read more... )

Every nite I check to see what the weather will be like tomorrow. For this entire week "tomorrow" was the high point and then it was supposed to drop back into the fifties. But every day, the next day just kept being warmer and warmer. Is this the global warming people talk about? The weather experts keep hoping that it will start getting ( Read more... )

Mother nature likes me. I was bummed that I didn't get Sox tickets for opening day for the first time in a few years. I was more bummed that I was at work and wouldn't even get to watch opening day for the first time in even more years. But then came the rain, the lightning, and the tornado watch. And three hours after the fourth inning was ( Read more... )

I am a member of BMG, the music club. It's real easy to decline the monthly selection, everything is done online now. But they charged me for a 3 doors down cd in December which I never ordered, and they never sent it to me even if I did order it. Without a cd to just return I had no clue how to get my money back. The online customer service ( Read more... )

How much money would I have now if I hadn't spent so much buying up CDs when I was younger and books now that I'm older? Probably not that much because the excess would probably have been spent on ways to dumb myself down. Anyway, my problem is that I can't stop buying books. I get bored walking home from downtown, so I stop in book shops to ( Read more... )