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Rest In Peace

thank you.
Albert Hoffman dies at the age of 102.

Tuesday's snack

FREE CONE DAY

Sorry no time to post, I am busy making loops around our Ben and Jerry's
It's FREE CONE DAY

Monday's snack

Monday again...

Yeah here i sit, so broken hearted.. oh wait a minute, that is something else...
Well this past weekend was one for the books.. book of nothing.. because i did nothing, went no where and it was good.
Widespread Panic was in Raleigh on Friday and Saturday and i had a few friends that were at the shows. Being a two hour time difference, it was great to start watching the set lists coming up on Panic stream starting at like 5:30. My boyfriend and I settled in to the sofa, had the baseball game on the TV (that would be rockies and dodgers) and the panic show set lists coming up on the computer and some texts to my phone and listened to iTunes all evening.. what a great Friday night, until we realized we could do it all again Saturday night. so instead of going to the bar opening that we were going to go to, we watched baseball and listened to some panic.. it was great!!!
Sunday i wake up and start the normal weekend morning, get the paper, let the dogs out, let the dogs in, feed the dogs, refill my water glass and with that my boyfriend asked me if i wanted to go to this AWESOME fish house for their Sunday brunch... See this brunch has crab legs ( and you know I am a sucker for crab legs), shrimp, muscles, salmon, fish and chips, seafood lasagna, waffle station, omelet station, muffins etc.. it is a great display of food.. well it is pretty spendy so the only other time we went was when his folks came to visit and we made them take us there for a Sunday buffet.. so i was flabbergasted when he asked if i wanted to go.. I said HELL to the YEAH...if you are seeing the bribe already, then you are WAY better than me, because it took me about half way though my set of crab legs before i realized it was towards the end of the month, which means we will have stacks of magazines that need to be delivered appearing on our front porch any day now.. So, he got me.. I am officially bribed and have to help with the magazines this week... UGH!!! And this weeks is crazy with other stuff going on, which we hardly ever have going on these days.. But tonight is a reception for the stick art guy that has made some stick art at a local park. The invite says food and drink, so I will be there.. Then tomorrow i think the magazines will be delivered, and then wednesday we have tickets to see ROGER WATERS... yeah, the Pink Floyd dude. He is playing the Pepsi Center and we couldnt pass up this opertunity. It says he will do the entire Dark Side of the Moon.. are you kidding me??? anyway, no delivery then and then i have my softball game on Thursday.. so, maybe we will get it done Tuesday night or Friday night..
well I better go check on snack time, and see what we got.. sometimes , if you don't get there right at 2pm, you lose out on the snack...
Here are some things to read while i am gone.. enjoy...

Today is Chicken Ticklin' Day. Be careful. The chicken may not cooperate. (ok, I did not make that up, but I just gotta say, do wha?????)

Today is National Bulldogs Are Beautiful Day. (Rotweillers are prettier)

Today is Rip Cord Day, marking the first successful parachute jump opening the parachute with a rip cord on this day in 1919 by Leslie Erwin of the U.S. Army Air Corps.

Today is National Blueberry Pie Day. (Hell to the YEAH! count me in on that celebration)

Today is Workers Memorial Day in the U.S. and National Day of Mourning in Canada for workers killed or injured on the job. It's Confederate Memorial Day in Alabama and Mississippi.

1984: "Mama He’s Crazy" by the Judds entered the country music charts. Nurse Naomi had given the tape, made on a $30 Kmart cassette recorder, to a producer’s daughter, who was in the hospital.

1986: Crook & Chase, Lorianne and Charley, debuted on The Nashville Network.

1988: The Baltimore Orioles lost their 21st straight game, a major league record. The Orioles finally won their first game of the season the next day.

1991: The Strippers Hall of Fame opened in Helendale, California. Featured displays included the silver sequined pasties worn by Jennie "The Bazoom Girl" Lee and Jayne Mansfield's pink sofa.

1991: A young man in Prague painted the last Soviet tank in Czechoslovakia pink. He showed police a fake work order from the city government authorizing the job.

1992: The U.S. issued a patent (#5,107,620) to Richard Mahan of Houston for his Electric Tablecloth, a battery-powered table cover designed to discourage insects from landing or walking on the table.

1992: The U.S. issued a patent (#5,109,421) to Douglas Fox of Van Nuys, California, for his Maternity Stereo Belt, a belt with a built-in stereo system to be worn by expectant mothers to entertain and educate unborn children.

1996: The city of Paris re-opened 18,771 trash cans to combat a growing litter problem. The receptacles had been sealed for months as a precaution against the depositing of terrorists bombs.

1999: Twenty-five San Diego State University students, about a third of their class, got an "F" for cheating. Seems they’d found the answers to a quiz and passed them around. The course? Business Ethics.

2000: On his 50th birthday, comedian Jay Leno got a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

2002: The westbound lanes of Interstate 80 west of Green River, Wyoming, were closed for an hour after a semi truck with a trailer full of Hormel chili and another truck collided. Chili cans smashed through the trailer, broke open, and covered the pavement with slippery beans and meat. Quick thinking officials cleaned up the mess with a snowplow.

2005: Police and dozens of volunteers in Duluth, Georgia, searched for Jennifer Wilbanks, a bride-to-be who vanished two days earlier. Wilbanks became known as the "Runaway Bride" after running away on her own to Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Friday's snack

I made it, now excuse me while i go callapse

YEAH, friday is here, and i am EXHAUSTED..
I don't know why, but i feel that i could get in bed and sleep for a few days.. awake looking as fresh as Joan Rivers. That sounds like a great idea.. But no.. I am sure there are other things to do.

This weekend we are not really doing a lot. A friend is coming to town saturday, well he lives in the mountains, so coming to Denver, is like getting to the big city.. but he will be down sometime that day to see a band with us that night at an opening for a new club. Should be good music. Steve Kimock, Melvin Seals, Bobby Vega, John Molo and Jpoan Osborn are all playing together to open this bar... Three nights, but we can only stand to do one. Saturday is it.

Other than that, I don't have really anything planned. It is back in the 50's again after reach 81 the other day, so i can't put the winter clothes away yet, and the summer ones are making their first appearances for the season.. the closet is getting over full to say the least.

OK, I am being lazy again today and will cut this short instead of making you hear all the ramblings that are going on in my head.. It's nothing interesting, believe me..
So here's the stuff you don't already know about today.

Today is National Arbor Day, a day to honor and plant trees since 1872.

Today is National DNA Day, a day for students, teachers and the public can learn more about genetics and genomics. (wonder what Morey Povich thinks about that)

Today is Old-Time Baseball Day. According to some old newspaper articles, baseball was being played as early as this date in 1823 in what is now the Greenwich Village area of New York City. (I love me some baseball)

Today is Flag Day in Swaziland, Liberty Day in Portugal, Sinai Day in Egypt, and Liberation Day in Italy.

Today is Duck Appreciation Day. Go ahead, feed the ducks. (or whatever…some think they are delicious)

The Interstate Mullet Toss begins today in Pensacola, Florida. Fish flingers stand in Alabama and toss mullets into Florida (and I first thought it was a hair throwing competition.. now that would be a sight to see...)

1982: Jane Fonda released her first workout video. (And I would never be the same after seeing my friends mom doing the tape in the living room with her leotard on… I shudder even now thinking about it)

1985: "Big River: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" opened on Broadway. The score was written by country composer Roger Miller.

1988: Sonny Bono was elected mayor of Palm Springs, California. In 1994 he was elected to Congress. He died in a skiing accident in 1997.

1988: Whitney Houston released her second album, "Whitney," which included a duet with her mother Cissy. The solo "Where Do Broken Hearts Go" became Whitney’s seventh #1 single in a row. (and the rest is cocaine history- “Crack is wack”)

1990: Drummer Mitch Mitchell sold the late Jimi Hendricks’ Fender Stratocaster guitar to an undisclosed buyer in London for $338,580. It’s the guitar Jimi used to play the "Star Spangled Banner" at Woodstock.

1991: Britain’s Broadcasting Standards Council proclaimed that the cult TV soap opera Twin Peaks was in bad taste, and that an episode depicting a man being beaten to death went "beyond all acceptable limits." (Wow, what would they say now???)

1999: Troy Cooper of Columbia, South Carolina, said he’d been offered $100-thousand and two Buicks for his 1981 Toyota Corolla, but he wasn’t about to sell it. The car was covered with trinkets: earrings, fishing lures, beads, marbles — 33,000 doodads stuck on with ceramic tile glue. Friends gave him most of the trinkets.

2003: Southwest Airlines fired two pilots for "inappropriate conduct" after they removed all or most of their clothes mid-flight in the cockpit of a Boeing 737. The pilots claimed they spilled coffee on their clothes, but the airline ruled the prank went too far. The US Federal Aviation Administration said though rules forbid behavior that distracts crew members, there was no specific ban on flying naked.

2003: Georgia lawmakers voted to take the Dixie cross from the state's flag.

2004: Cosmetics queen Estee Lauder died in New York at age 97.

Thursday's snack

The day is going to be alright.. Nothing better than an Ice cream sandwich..
enjoy one too..
(smile is firmly in place on face)

Are we there yet???

Holy Cow, i am tirred and could use a nap..
Yesterday i went home and did what i told you all i was going to do. I slipped into my bathing suit, got the hose, the shampoo and a leash. Rounded up my two dogs and everyone got baths.
That was fun. My poor boy dog just looks sad when he gets wet and there is no swimming involved. He sits and hold his head about three inches off the ground and just looks sad. My girlie dog HATED every second of the bath and made sure that i got just as wet as she did...

After baths my by dog and i went for a walk, as i am still reaching my 10,000 steps a day.
We came home to tacos just about ready to be served. Couldn't have timed it better if i timed it. They were delicious.
Just as we were settling in to watch Big brother, my boyfriend check the wall calendar that is in the kichen and I head an "oh Shit". So i ask what? and he says. Kraftwerk is at the Fillmore tonight and I have tickets. It was 7pm. He rushed to the computer to check the start time of the band and it was slated to start at 8. I think we were both dressed in street clothes and out the door in about 10 minutes..(that with letting the dogs out, fixing a drink and making sure we had the tickets, wallets, IDs, etc) So we head down there. It was a good show. These guys were big in the 80s and are from europe. They are electronica, like old school style, so very minimal, but it was good.. Good to get out of the house too.
But boy am i getting old. after getting to bed kinda late, i am really in need of a nap. I will get my 10,0000 steps in, just after a good rest.
So, did you hear that that kid Orlando Brown, was found, and like i said, I am pretty sure it was just for publicity.. That sucks, I would have loved some story about getting nabbed by some street gang and tied up by his toenails and made to watch "That's so Raven" for hours on end. Much better story to me.
Rockies are getting used to giving the game up in the last innings lately. So far was have officially lost the last 4 games by having a crappy bullpen. that sucks..
And speaking of that we are playing the Cubbies again tonight.. boy could we use a win out here..
I am working on a story about these two journalists in Iraq that got kidnapped and then were eventually let go by some lucky circumstances.. what a crazy story, but it is making the day go by much faster. I like when i archive stories that are really interesting. I have to see a lot of Iraq footage that will never make it to mainstream and I can tell you it is NOT pretty. This is a better kind of story because i know it will not end in seeing some person's innards.
UMMMM, not that i made myself hungry, i better go see what is for snack.. Here are some interesting tid-bits to read while i am gone.

Today is Spring Cat Cleaning Day, a day to give your cat a bath. Be careful. (no thanks. Glad I did the dogs yesterday)

Today is National Teach the Children to Save Day.

Today is Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day, a day for children ages 8-12 to go to work with parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles, adult cousins or friends. (or I think it should be called annoy your co-workers day)

Today is National Pigs in a Blanket Day. (Friggen yum!!!!)

Today is the First Day of Summer in Iceland.

Today is Martyrs Day in Armenia.

National Scoop the Poop Week begins today. (Maybe every week should be Scoop the Poop Week.)- I scoop everyday…

1981: The IBM Personal Computer was introduced.

1992: In London Terry Cole balanced 220 cigar boxes on his chin for nine seconds and a new world record.

1992: Singer David Bowie and fashion model Iman were married in a secret ceremony in Switzerland. The wedding wasn’t announced until more than a week later.

1994: Madonna visited the San Antonio Spurs locker room to congratulate David Robinson on his 71-point game. As usual, Robinson was gracious.

2002: Singer Jewel broke her collarbone and a rib when she was thrown from a horse.

2002: A family in York, England, celebrated having their pet rabbit Colin home after spending $1,457 on four operations and brain surgery to save his life. A stray cat attacked nine-month-old Colin and one bite penetrated his skull causing an abscess near his brain. The owners said their 8- and 10-year-old daughters were determined to save Colin. The brain surgery worked.

2003: The U.S. reported North Korea had claimed to have nuclear weapons.

2005: Pope Benedict-16 was formally installed as leader of the Roman Catholic Church in ceremonies at the Vatican

Wednesday's Snack

Wednesday Grab Bag

- OK, first thing i want to catch up on is DID YOU SEE THE 22 INNING GAME??? well i wouldn't expect you to have seen the game, but did you hear about it. What an amazing feat. I can't believe they didn't call it, but now we hold the record for the longest game in the last 15 years. And thanks to my main man, Tulowitzki, he won it for us and let everyone go to bed. Last night's game the commentators were saying there was another team that was complaining of playing because they're plane was late and they didn't get to the hotel until like 2AM. and the guy was like "Rockies aren't going to give any sympathy. they didn't stop playing until 2:30AM the other night and they played an afternoon game the next day.
But we need a MUCH better bullpen to pull this season out. We have been really loosing games because of the relief pitching.. They all suck.

- The Dude from That's So Raven, Orlando Brown, has been missing since tuesday. The thing i read said that he left his managers home to walk to the local 7-11 and has never returned. This day and age, it is sad, but my first reaction is, I am sure it is for publicity, what does he have coming out soon, when is it going to be released.. Today, it isn't enough to put up a poster with a date and time and expect people to know about your event, gig, movie. etc. People have to go to all kinds of lengths to get things noticed. I hope he is OK, and nothing bad had happened fir sure.. Please prove me wrong and come back with some wild tale of LA gangs.

- OK, What priest thinks it's a good idea to strap himself to some balloons and sail off.. I mean really.. What went wrong there??? Did they not check the wind forecast, did they not predict that maybe they should tether him? Follow with a boat, a helicopter. I am just an archivist at a small television station and i can think of this stuff, what the heck went wrong?? And they said that he was really prepared, thermal suit, flotation chair, parachute, satilite phone... When is the time that you don't see land anymore and think, maybe i shouldn't use this phone to call for help.. I really want to know what happened there.. Keeping my ears open for that news.

- 30 days of debauchery update. I had a whiskey drink before bed last night.. that was all i could come up with short of throwing myself down a flight of stairs, but we don't have stairs, so i had to settle with the whiskey.

- And I have noticed that i have not given you the interesting tid-bits about the day lately. I apologize, and to be honest i got lazy. But don't fret, they are back.. Here is what you would have missed about today if i didn't post it.

Today is Baywatch Day. The popular TV series debuted on this date in 1989. The last episode of produced in 2001. Syndicated in 142 countries with an audience of 1.1 billion, it was the most widely viewed TV series in the world.

Today is Administrative Professionals Day. It was once called Secretaries Day.

Today is National Cherry Cheesecake Day. (Friggen YUM)

Electronic Communications Week and National Playground Safety Week begin today.

Today is Children's Day in Turkey and Book Day and Lover's Day in Spain.

Today is National Sovereignty and Children's Day in Turkey.

Today is World Book and Copyright Day, sponsored by the United Nations.

1975: B.J. Thomas scored with the longest song title to hit #1 on Billboard’s pop music chart: "(Hey Won’t You Play) Another Somebody Done Somebody Wrong Song." It stayed #1 for one week.

1985: Coca-Cola announced it was changing the secret flavor formula for Coke. Negative public reaction forced the company to resume selling a version similar to the original.

1989: With the first pick in the NFL draft, the Dallas Cowboys chose UCLA quarterback Troy Aikman.

1989: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar played his last game with the Los Angeles Lakers.

1991: The U.S. issued a patent (#5,008,959) to Edward and Richard Coppage of Centreville, Virginia, for their Bulletproof Dress Shirt, a bulletproof shirt that can be manufactured in various colors and styles to keep a person fashionable and safe.

1997: A replica of playwright William Shakespeare's English birthplace, Stratford-on-Avon, opened 40 miles east of Tokyo, Japan.

2001: Two Canadian youngsters used a blanket to catch a four-year-old boy falling from a fourth-floor window. Police praised nine-year-old Stephanie Boddy and six-year-old Samantha Quinn for their quick reactions. The girls saw Skyler Christou toppling out of a window in Barrie, Ontario, when they were having a picnic. Samantha and Stephanie used their blanket to catch the toddler. He bounced off onto the ground, but the blanket broke the fall and he was not seriously hurt.

2002: President Bush's top White House aide, Karen Hughes, resigned to go home to Texas with her family.

2005: Health officials in Vietnam said they feared the South Asian outbreak of bird flu was likely to spawn a pandemic.

Tuesday Snack

Chicago- Revisisted

Here is a little ditty i found on Youtube.
This is Panic from night two (saturday night- sore throat- etc)
This is Jack, one of my ALL TIME favorite tunes by Panic. It's a little ballad that is BEAUTIFUL and this night is no exception.
Take a listen to this, I believe the audio is from the Chicago radio station that simulcast the show on the air- live.. so the audio is amazing...
Take a listen, it's only 6 minutes of your life.

For you non-panic fans, here are the lyrics so you can read along..
See if you understand the references.. It is mostly about a poker game and the guy has a pretty good hand, from what i can understand.
JACK:
Jack was really a jester
Who held his one good eye on the queen
And there sat the king beside her
He's pointing his sword up and down with every scene
And the wizard's in the corner
Catching peanuts between his teeth
And the dogs lying in the shadow in the archway
There's one good dog sleeping filled with good ol' dog dreams

He slipped next to the wizard
Whispered something deep, to the bottom of his ear
A little joke, the one about the farmer's daughter
How she was stomping on grapes, coming up with blue feet and beer
And he slipped behind the queen
Where the fools go the rich don't mind
Lately the king's (k)nights have turned a little rusty
And his halo - I mean his crown - has gone and slipped around his eyes

The wizard's in the corner
Pulling lizards between his knees
And the dog he been long gone
Gone to pitch for the winning team
Fifty-two, I mean fifty-four bicycles on the wall
Ready to ride, ready to ride until the last of them falls
Jack's been cooking in the kitchen
Whompin' up some biscuits for us all
For us all, For us all
Ready to ride, ready to ride, ride

Monday's Snack

Sorry no pics, but it was scoop your own ice cream and apple pie. Or root beer/ coke floats..

Chicago- Visited

This is the view of our room from the door... There is a desk/business area right in front of the door, then three steps down to the sofa area. The flat screen TV is on a swivel. In this picture it is facing the sofa, but it can also swivel around to the bed area too.







This picture is from the window and the bed area is to the right, you can see the top of my boyfriends head under the TV. and he is sitting in front of the bed.




Here is the bed area.
(and my backpack...these were taken right before we left.)
OK, so Friday we get to Chicago, find the train (el) and head our way to our hotel. We get into the lobby and know right away, this is going to be great. There are Panic fans outside smoking and waiting for pizza (the hotel was right next door to a Gino's East). We get to our room and immediatly freak out because it is sooooo cool. We have NEVER stayed somewhere this nice... EVER... So we had just enough time to oder the pizza, walk to a liquor store, grab some quinessentail Jim Beam and some cokes and head back to the room. We mix a few drinks, watch the local news and feel very strange in an unfamiliar place. After chillin for about 40 minutes, i ran down to get the pizza. I was SHOCKED at how heavy the box was.. i mean it HAS to weigh at LEAST 7 pounds, easy. Have you ever eaten a 7 pound pizza?? it is AMAZING!! we stuff ourselves, get on our show gear and head to the show.
The shows were at the Auditorium Theater. I think it is the prettiest place i have gotten to see Panic. Some folks there were saying that it had nothing on the Chicago Theater, which we saw from the outside, but to me it was great. We had great seats, got some good drinks and we didn't have to wait too long before the boys took the stage...
After the show, we just headed back to the hotel and hung out in our bathrobes that came with the room, drank a little night cap and retired.
Saturday we woke to rain and wind. I guess there is something to that nickname The Windy City", who knew... So we decided to ditch the baseball game and stay warm and dry. About that time my friend from MI called and said he was on his way, so it was a good decision. and if you read my previous blog, you know what happened Saturday.. (briefly- got lunch, drank beer, got sick, really got sick, went to the show,saw the show, sore throat, home, beer, bed)


The most beautiful birthday present ever!!!!












Sunday we got up and made some plans to hit the The Shedd Aquarium. WE jumped on the bus and it was a great trip down Michigan Ave toward the Aquarium. This place was AMAZING. They have everything from bottle nosed dolphins to humpback wales. They had Dragon seahorses and large sea turtles. We saw a HUGE gilla monster not to forget the penguins and coral. very very cool!!!! the large dolphin tank over looks the shore of Lake Michigan. Very neat place.. The attraction they have right now is a 4-D experience hosted by Sponge Bob. This was very cool. The 4-d meant that the movie part was all in 3-d, yeah you got the cool glasses etc. but the cool part was the interactive stuff. Like at the beginning you are being shown around the ocean by a dolphin. And there are bubbles floating through the air. When the dolphins go up to get some air, you feel a blast of air on the back of your neck. Then when they land in the water after a dive, you actually get a little splash of water that lands on your face. There was a snall segment at the start that shows an old man spitting water and you get water splashed on you.. VERY VERY NEAT!!! a full experience. Then the Sponge Bob segment was cool. It was all 3-d so that was cool and the premise was that SB was looking for a pickle to put on his burger. When the pickle rolls away it goes right by your face and you SMELL Pickle... I KNOW!!! so cool.. well you just have to go to Chicago and see for yourself.
Then we headed back to the room, grabbed some food and got ready for the Sunday show. Night three is always the best. Everyone is all gooey and ready to do it one last night.This was no exception. Great show..
Sunday night we got back to the Hotel, re-heated the pizza for the third time, wound down and settled into bed. I think we both were asleep in seconds flat.
Monday we awoke... cleaned up the room, cleaned up ourselves and packed up. After checking out we headed down to the Sears tower.. This was cool too. I am sure many of you have seen the sights.. but here are some of my pictures from the top of the tower...
View to the east, Millennium Park down below and the Hancock building in the clouds to the left.

To the North...
NorthEast

South.

I call it the bike helmet.














Self portrait...

It was a great trip and we had a blast. I can't think of a better way to spend my 35th birthday. everything was perfect.

WOW, that was a doo-zey.

my oh my, that got me good. I had no idea i was going to get that sick, but i am just glad i was able to fight it off quickly and am back to work this morning. I really got my ass kicked by what ever the heck that was.
So, we were in Chicago last weekend and it was Saturday, my friend had taken the train in from Michigan City with a small keg of bells for me. It was a particularly nasty day and after venturing out for some lunch, we decided the best use of the day would be to go back to our amazing hotel room, tap the small keg, grab our hotel coffee mugs and precede to put a hurting on the beer. We sat around for the better part of the day sipping on the nectar of the gods. About an hour or so before we needed to get to the show, my friends headed out and my boy friend and i sat down to some left over pizza (Gino's, the best) and that's when it happened. I felt it all at once and i knew i was in trouble. My nose opened, the back of my throat started hurting right away, and i got dizzy. I just asked for some vitimin C that my boyfriend had, for some extra boost, ate a few bites of the pie and we ran out to catch the bus to the show. About three blocks from the stop we were heading to, i told my boyfriend that i needed to throw up, and we ran out of the bus, to the trash can, and yup, the vitimin C tablet had made everything come up. but boy did i feel better. My boyfriend was doing his best to make a block for me to the cars at the stop light, but i am sure that some thought i was just some silly chick that couldn't hold my liquor, but nope.... anyway, that night, my throat was sore, but i just ignored it over the fun and the band. We headed back to our hotel and i still didn't feel well and by this time i had no voice.

The next day my throat felt better, but i just had no energy. But that is expected after two nights of panic and heading into the third show, so it felt more normal than anything... from the way i was feeling, i thought for sure that i had had an allergic reaction to the non-filtered beer that i was drinking. It seemed to make more sense to me after the next few days went by and i didn't feel any worse that that one night. The flight home was fine etc.. then last thursday, i woke up feeling, well not right. just off, you know.. I was very tired, but i figured that was just from burning the candle at both ends in Chicago. I knew i needed some time home when i got dizzy again driving to work. I came in to work, checked my email, sent an email saying i was sick ad went home. I was ok on the drive home and even had some energy to do some dishes, collect the laundry and i vacuumed the whole house and then it hit me, like a ton of bricks. I had to lay down, ended up falling asleep and when i woke i had a nice small fever. for me anything about like 98 is a fever, as weird as that sounds.. but then by about 5pm it was at 100... It broke the next day giving me the whole beautiful weekend to get over the sniffles and cough that seemed to linger.
I am better today. out of the woods, as they say, but i have my personal stash of Kleenex with lotion and some nasal spray at my desk... but i am GLAD to be back!!!
I will tell you all about our trip to Chicago, the pizza, the shows and the sights in future postings.. AND
we are getting down to the wire... My boyfriend and i are so excited.. we are going to try to get pregnant in about a month, so i have personally dubbed the next 30 days the last 30 days of debauchery for me...
I am not the craziest chick, but i got some balls... so the next 30 days is dedicated to doing things i can't once i get pregnant..
Yesterday i drank a beer.. like i said, i am not going totally wild, just keeping it real...:) I will be hitting up McDonald's and the pizza place pretty regularly, drink coffee and cokes and maybe even try to sleep on my stomach every night... hehehe...
but the exercise plan has started again.. I am going to keep walking as much as i can to get into a good habit. and now that the weather has seemed to change.. more opportunity for outside walking is very welcome, not only by me, but my dog Watson is very excited too.
alright.. again, sorry for the absence... but there will be tons of things to catch up on..
Oh and the sky is pretty hazy today, can't see the mountains because of a human started fire in Boulder.. thanks humans!!!

Happy Earth Day everybody

go plant a tree!

Sorry

the mind is a racing and I am not even in the lead.

That's how i feel today.. just a busy mind and no solutions coming to me AT ALL...
my boyfriend and i have a lot of things coming to a head at this time of year and so many things to weigh and discuss..
our lease is coming to an end at the end of June. We can stay where we are, if they don't raise the rent, for another year, 6 mos or we can totally find a new rental that will be in the price range of the house we are in now. We have been thinking of moving back to the east coast and are trying to gather all the info we can to make a wise decision about that. Houses is SO MUCH less expensive to rent and to buy, even if we move to the beach and that's what we are thinking. But to move means we have no jobs, (we both have steady incomes with consistent raises that we can see ourselves staying in) Moving is going to cost a TON.. just a Uhaul, i priced, will be about 1100 bucks.. and that doesn't include filling it with gas, at $4.00 a gallon- OUCH, and then moving with no jobs, we would need deposit for a house, rent, utilities hooked up, water turned on, trash arranged to pick up, all of which will cost money. And we have no savings as of right now, so we would have to find some serious lottery tickets to make that happen.
Today i made up a chart to mark the pros and cons on for moving or not moving.. we will see how that gets filled up in the next few days and weeks to see what we come up with.
WE also want to try to become pregnant in the near future, but we don't know how that will effect a move or if it will be better in one place than another.. etc.. and the baby issue brings about it's own set of stresses.


Other than that. I am fighting the allergies that come around this time of year. I never got allergies when i lived in other parts of the country, but i am being attacked by the aspen trees i think. They are all in pollen mode and it makes me feel like i have a cold. UGH, I picked up some Zyrtec today, because i have tried Allegra last night and it did NOTHING and have tried Clearitin before and it was worthless too. I think this zyrtec is working though, I can at least breathe through my nose and that is a big improvement over the last 24 hours.

So, 81 in denver yesterday and it is going to snow here today. That's colorado in the spring time for you. Never the same day twice.. at least we have sun until the snow comes later this afternoon. The mountains already look dark, so it's a coming.

I have a free burger from Red Robin coupon that i have to use soon from my birthday AND a cold stone creamery coupon too, for a free sundae. I am going to check the website and see what i can make before i get there. They have too many things to choose from and it would take me a year to look over all the concoctions.

Well here is some stuff to read while i go blow my nose.

Today is National Stress Awareness Day, always the day after income tax are due. (yeah, I’m aware of my stress, very aware- believe me I have not been able to look to the right or left for two days- yup I’m aware)

Today is International Moment of Laughter Day, time to set aside a moment to laugh (That’s what I need, so post some good jokes, I need a good laugh)

Today is National Wear Your Pajamas to Work Day, always the day after Income Tax Day. (sorry; I had no idea or I would have told you about it yesterday so you were prepared- I wish I had my PJ’s on)

Today is National Auctioneers Day. At the first auction on this day in 1864, the first item auctioned was a sack of flour at Austin, Nevada.

Today is Rekindle Your Romantic Self Day. (hmmmmmmm)

1987: The U.S. Patent Office began accepting patent applications for new animals created by genetic engineering.

1993: A Monmouth, Illinois, man told a judge his wife could come back home and cook for him while she was out on bail awaiting trial for trying to poison him.

1994: The first woman was inducted into the National Comedy Hall of Fame. The 50-year veteran of the Grand Ole Opry, Minnie Pearl, died in 1996.

1999: Wayne Gretzky announced his retirement from hockey.

1999: Shania Twain became the first woman to be named as Songwriter/Artist of the Year by the Nashville Songwriters Association International.

2000: As a protest against noise at Italy's Malpensa airport, some 30 voters in a Milan suburb cast their votes in regional elections in their underwear.

2003: Michael Jordan played his last NBA game with the Washington Wizards, who lost to the Philadelphia 76ers, 107-87.

2006: Lance Nesta of Waukesha, Wisconsin, found a fruitcake in his mother's attic his aunts had sent him in the Army in Alaska in 1962. Nesta didn't like fruitcake so he shipped it back home and forgot about it when he left the Army. Still in its original tin, he said the 44-year-old fruitcake hadn't changed at all, fresh as ever. But he still wouldn't eat it.

Tuesday's Snack

Small cheesecake squares..
got no pictures
sorry...

back to life....

I am falling asleep at work and really tired. we got in about an hour or so late last night, which was expected from the airlines.
But we had a great time, a great trip and three great shows, our hotel room was great, the beer delivery was accomplished greatly and the deep dish was great!!!!!
I am planning to show some pictures and things from the weekend. It really was a great time.. for sure.
Please be patient with me as i get my pictures into my computer and then i will post them...
Have a good day.

It's my birthday

So, this is it. today is the day... It is shower time and then leaving fr the airport.. have a great my birthday weekend and I will chat with you all on tuesday.

Here are all the things that share my birthday.

Today is Barbershop Quartet Day.

Today is Iinternational "Louie Louie" Day, an opportunity to celebrate what many call the greatest party song of all time (louieday.org).

Today is National Dandelion Day.

Today is M&Ms Crisis Day, marking the day in 1966 when American astronaut Shannon Lucid reported from the Russian space station Mir she was "absolutely, totally out" of M&Ms. Lucid spent 188 days aboard the Mir and asked only for regular resupplies of M&Ms.

Today is National Cheese Fondue Day.

Today is 8-Track Tape Day.

Today is Liberation Day in Uganda.

1973- I was born- Thanks mom!!!

1979: Rebels and exiles backed by Tanzanian forces seized control of Uganda's government deposing the brutal dictator Idi Amin.

1981: Guitarist Eddie Van Halen and actress Valerie Bertinelli were married in Los Angeles.

1986: Kellogg’s of Battle Creek, Michigan, stopped an 80-year tradition of tours of its breakfast-food plant, believing that spies from other companies were taking the tours to steal company secrets.

1989: The U.S. issued a patent (#4,821,247) to Reginald Grooms of Conway, South Carolina, for his Ear-Mounted Alarm Clock, a digital alarm clock so tiny it can be hidden in your ear and awaken you without bothering your spouse.

1990: Astronomers at Lowell Observatory in Arizona named four asteroids after John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr.

1999: Florida accountant Jim Akin finished his annual count of dollar bills stapled to the walls and ceiling at McGuire’s Irish Pub & Brewery in Pensacola. Since 1977 customers had signed and stapled up 175,000 dollar bills, which every April have to be inventoried and reported to the IRS.

2003: Thieves broke into a safe and stole $1,020 -- from a prison. A spokesman for Spring Hill Prison near Aylesbury, England, said the crime took place in the prison's reception area.

2006: Sicilian Mafia leader Bernardo Provenzano was arrested near Palermo, Sicily, after eluding capture for 43 years.

Oh yeah, the interesting things about today...

Sorry, with all the excitement of leaving and packing i forgot to include these for today.

Today is Dust the Ceiling Fan Day, a day for those who finished their spring cleaning, but forgot to dust the blades on the ceiling fan.

Today is National Siblings Day, a day to honor and celebrate brothers and sisters.

Today is D.A.R.E Day. The Drug Abuse Resistance Education Program is now in nearly 5 percent of American school districts.

Today is Salvation Army Founders Day. On April 10, 1829, Methodist Pastor William Booth started an outreach ministry in London to house and feed the poor. Almost 50 years later, in 1878, he named the ministry The Salvation Army.

Today is National Teach Children to Save Day.

Today is National Cinnamon Crescent Day.

1986: When a Salem, Oregon, movie theater offered half-price tickets to see "Young Sherlock Homes" to anyone dressed as a movie star, 400 costumed customers showed up. Unfortunately, the star dressed as Edward G. Robinson pulled a gun and robbed the box office.

1988: Thirteen cars, 13 pianos, and the rest of Liberace's estate went on the auction block. One piano brought $42,500.

1990: Singer Sinead O'Connor's album, "I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got," sold a half-million copies in one day.

1993: Police in Charles City, Virginia, easily tracked an accused drug dealer after he bolted and ran into the woods late at night. He was wearing athletic shoes equipped with battery-operated flashing lights.

1999: The Miami Heat humiliated the Chicago Bulls, 82-49, holding the Bulls to the lowest NBA point total since the introduction of the shot clock.

1999: Women serving in the Danish army were furious when a male supply officer purchased brassieres, all the same size, for 500 women soldiers. The officer said the manufacturer claimed 34-C would fit 90% of Danish women. The women vehemently disagreed.

2000: Ken Griffey Jr. became the youngest player in baseball history to hit 400 home runs. He was 30 years, 141 days old.

2002: A 25-year-old Westport, New Zealand man facing charges of driving without a license had an auto accident on his way to court. He collided with the judge who was due to hear his case. No one was physically hurt. The case was rescheduled before a different judge.

2006: U.N. personnel identified more than 100 new cases of bird flu in central and northern Myanmar, formerly known as Burma, in a one-month period.

it's friggen snowing

that's right, April 10th and it is snowing.. We are expected to get about 2-4 inches. It doesn't seem to be sticking to the roads yet, but the grassy areas are pretty much covered and layering up. I hope all the weak new tree branch growth can take the heave spring snow. But i hope this might take some of the tree allergy causing agents out of the air, my nose hurts :(

Today i am staying at home and getting things ready for the trip. we leave in about 24 hours. Very exciting. But the crappy thing is that this storm that we are getting now will only be moving east and hitting chicago just in time for us to get there.. it will be snowing some in Chicago also. Nothing like following the storm across the country. crazy... And the folks here in denver will get to enjoy 60 and 70 degree weather this weekend.. something just doesn't seem fair.

But we have lined up media credentials for the aquarium and the Sears Tower. I have never been to Chicago, so it is all new to me. We are also going to try to get into the Art Museum at some point too. But the main attraction will be the three panic shows that we will be seeing each night.. Can't wait.. oh and that reminds me, we need to check set list from last night, so hang on...

Set 1 - Lil Kin, Can't Get High, Pickin Up The Pieces, Boom Boom Boom > You Got Yours, Flicker > One Arm Steve > Jam > Solid Rock
Set 2 - Good People > Bears Gone Fishin` > I'm Not Alone, Goin Out West* > Drums** > Jam > Blight > Greta, Walkin
Encore - Up All Night > Porch Song * w/Ben Ellman ** w/Stanton Moore

Not bad, good solid set. looks like they started pretty slow, with the can't get high and pickin up the pieces, but not bad... boomx3 is a new one, pretty catchy and i can see where it could get big in the middle, and then the rest is pretty solid (flicker is new too)
second set, good people is fun and bears gone fishin is a great, classic tune. Going out west (well i guess Cincinnati/Chicago is more west than The east coast, so ok. and there is my greta that i should have gotten for my birthday, but now that wont happen. the soonest they might play it is sunday night, but totally not going to play it tomorrow. and walkin is a good solid song.
well those are my thoughts on the sets...
hope everyone has a great weekend...

Wednesday's Snack

Wow, that's small..but it is what we had

Taking off for the long weekend

Ok, so i woke up this morning and decided that i am adding Thursday to my birthday weekend and not coming into work tomorrow. So, you will have to make up your own snack time items...

We don't head out until friday, but i want to take some time tomorrow to pack, get some goodies for the hotel room, pack some more.. clean the house for someone to come and take care of the dogs, and then rest some...

I don't know if it is a universal thing that happens to all people but around my birthday, my energy level gets kind of low. I mean I love my birthday and can't wait to go away, but i am SOOOOO friggen tired.. anyway, i feel like i need to take the day, so i am going to take the day.

Oh the Rockies topic, they pulled out a back to back win the last two days against the Braves.. I think the first few runs were a little emotional and they needed to get their heads out of the clouds and back into this season. I think they felt some pressure to be the "National Champs" and they didn't consentrate of being the 2008 season Rockies. But now they have their rings, they have their fan fair of the first home opener etc.. time to play some ball.. So they have been hitting better, getting some good swings in and hitting it pretty far. There were a few errors by the Braves that we took advantage of and scored. Come May/June time i will be seeing more games personally and will be bringing you some pictures from the field. I know you can't wait.

But in the mean time you will have to watch on your tv.

I am taking te easy route and ending my blogging here...
Have a wonderful "my birthday" weekend... check the set lists each night to see what we are hearing.. See you on Tuesday 4-14.

Today is National Chinese Almond Cookie Day.

Today is Jenkins' Ear Day, marking the date in 1731 when Spaniards boarded the British ship Rebecca off Jamaica and, among other atrocities, cut off the ear of mariner Robert Jenkins. Seven years later Jenkins appeared carrying his ear before a committee of the House of Commons. As a result, the British declared war on Spain. The 4-year conflict is still known as the War of Jenkins' Ear.

Today is National Cherish An Antique Day.

Today is National Former Prisoner of War Recognition Day.

1973: Carly Simon received a gold record for the single, "You’re So Vain."

1984: Robert Duvall won the Oscar as Best Actor for his role as a country singer in Tender Mercies.

1988: Singer Brook Benton died of a spinal disease at age 56.

1988: Elders returned to Bikini Atoll to begin cleaning up the island where no one had lived since the nuclear testing of the 1940s.

1988: The final episode of the action drama The New Adventures of Beans Baxter aired on The Fox Network.

1992: U.S. President George Bush fell suddenly ill at a state dinner in Japan. He became pale, slumped in his chair, and threw up on the Japanese Prime Minister. (That was funny)

1993: The Colorado Rockies set a National League baseball record by drawing 80,227 fans to their first game. (THAT”S RIGHT!!!! GO ROCKIES)

1994: Actress Judy Geeson was playing a chain-smoker in the play Faith Healer at a New Haven, Connecticut, theater, when a man in the audience stood up and said, "You’re gonna kill yourself smoking that much!" Then he yelled as he walked out, "Smoking is prohibited in this theater anyway!" (Sounds like something I wish I could do, I love cranky old men)

1996: The Church of England was in uproar after actress Ruth Ford was cast in the role of God in the annual York Mystery Plays.

1998: New Zealand’s conservation minister proposed firing the Easter Bunny and replacing him with the Easter Kiwi. Nick Smith said the bunny was one of New Zealand’s major pests and that the kiwi would be better for the environment and for kids.

2002: Former Arthur Andersen auditor David B. Duncan pleaded guilty in Houston federal court to ordering the shredding of Enron documents, and agreed to cooperate with prosecutors.

2002: Scientists at the Army Soldier Systems Center in Massachusetts introduced a vacuum-sealed battlefield sandwich edible for up to three years. Using an array of chemicals to seal the meat and inhibit bacterial growth, the scientists had produced pepperoni and barbecue chicken indestructible sandwiches, and were experimenting with pizzas, bagels, burritos and even the staple peanut butter sandwich.

2005: Britain's Prince Charles married Camilla Parker Bowles, who took the title Duchess of Cornwall.

Tuesday's snack

Three days, not like anybody is counting

so three days to go and only two more of work. I am really looking forward to getting up Friday morning to a Mimosa and a shower. I got the oj on one of my three trips to the grocery store on sunday. The hint was all he needed because my boyfriend called from his car on his way home from a meeting last night and asked if i wanted anything from the liquor store. I said, sure pick up a six pack of Sierra Nevada. Not knowing where he was going, i wanted to stay with something safe that they would carry. A little while later my boyfriend comes home and says "I am sorry but i passed on the Seirra." I was flipping though a magazine and didn't really think much of it, so i looked up and was saying that's ok when i saw that he was holding 2 six packs of Green Flash West Coast IPA>. If you have been reading long enough you will know that aside from Bell's Two Hearted Ale (that i will be drinking this weekend and can't get in Colorado) the green flash is my favorite!!!! We have a hard time finding it around here so i was SHOCKED when he had two sixers.. AWESOME!!! Oh and why i started that story is that he picked up some champaign also. I think my hint of getting OJ showed that i am serious about the mimosas.

Why mimosas you ask.. well it seems to be a great morning drink for one. i mean you get your vitamin c AND a nice gentle bubbly buzz.. It seems to also be a drink for me when i accomplish something that i never thought i would. I had mimosas before my college graduation(ok and in a water bottle during), I had a mimosa the morning after my sister got married. and now, i am going to have one on my 35th birthday..
It just seems appropriate. Like most kids if you asked me when i was 12 if i would ever be this old, i would say that 35 is about as close to the grave as i can imagine and no, i would never get that old. When i was about, oh i don't know, 19 to 27 you would have thought i was TRYING not to make it to 35... and now, WOW!!! I did (barring nothing happens between now and 4:58 Friday afternoon. Is that east coast time, I thnk it is.. so it will be 3:58 in Chicago, right...
I will guess that we will be on the el-train somewhere in the city trying to get to the hotel when i turn exactly 35 years old.. I will give my mom a call and she will remind me that she didn't get dinner that night because she was delivering when they went around to ask for the meal requests. And since i was a C-section, it took a little longer. I will say that i am sorry. She will tell me how much it hurt and that she can't wait for me to have the same pain.. (no she isn't jewish, but i know, you would think.. :) Then i will proceed to hear about everything that i have done in my life, that party i had in high school where all the porch furniture ended up in the lake but I was sure they would float. And the time I drove my brand new Mustang through the christmas tree field at 10Pm and told my folks when the came driving up the drive way and caught me, so I said that i was looking for my watch i dropped. It sounded good to me at the time.
Well more birthday musings to come....

Did you catch the Rockies game, yeah, well i was watching the basketball game too.. But i watched the game up to the 8th inning and saw the Braves earn one run before i turned it over to the basketball game for the last period. Then i heard this morning that we won!! no kidding, about time, right. Well our man Holliday hit a two run home run to bring up one over in the 8th. We went on to win. Not bad for the Division Champs that are currently ranked LAST friggen place.. again.. we are used to being down here. I just hope that we can climb out before it really starts to count. Cant tell the season by the frist 5 games, but really.
They are playing again tonight and then tomorrow. I think it is an afternoon game on Thursday. But the kicker is that we are under a winter storm warning starting tonight and going into Thursday. (Boy am I glad i am not playing softball thursday- it is going to be COLD!).
Well that's all, here are some things that have nothing to do with my birthday or baseball. it's a shame I know...

Today is Counter Stool Memorial Day, a day to see if you can remember the last diner or lunch counter where you spun round-and-round on a stool at the counter. Is there still a place where you can do it again?

Today is Children's Day in Florida (always on the 2nd Tuesday in April).

Today is Tutor Appreciation Day. (Thanks for all your hard work)

Today is National Notice a Wildflower Day. (Not when there is still snow on the ground.. UGH!)

Today is Draw a Picture of a Bird Day. (Here's my bird, of course he's pooping, now draw yours.)

Today is Trading Cards for Grownups Day. (whatever)

Today is National Peanuts Kids Baseball Day. . (Sorry there was one thing about baseball, not my fault it is the best sport ever.)

Today is Hammerin' Hank Day, marking Hank Aaron's 715th home run, breaking Babe Ruth's long-standing record, on this date in 1974. Hank's record of 755 home runs is still standing. (What?!?, it wasn’t planned! I swear)

1974: Hank Aaron of the Atlanta Braves hit his 715th career home run in a game against the Los Angeles Dodgers, breaking Babe Ruth's record. The homer was off pitcher Al Downing. (Same story, doesn’t count)

1975: History’s oldest canary died in Hull, England. Joey, owned by Mrs. Kay Ross, was 34 years old. ( I made it longer than a canary, there is something to be said for that. I don’t know what, but something)

1986: In a landslide, actor Clint Eastwood was elected mayor of Carmel, California.

1988: The Rev. Jimmy Swaggart was defrocked by the Assemblies of God church after he rejected an order to stop preaching for a year.

1989: "Entertainment Tonight" hostess Mary Hart married producer Burt Sugarman. (and I care because???)

1990: 11-year-old Richard Daff Jr. of Crownsville, Maryland, bowled a perfect game. He is believed to be the youngest bowler ever to score 300.

1992: Britain's top humor magazine Punch published its final issue. It had lasted 151 years.

1994: The grunge rock group Nirvana’s lead singer Kurt Cobain committed suicide in his Seattle home. (tragic loss to music- for real)

1995: Associated Press reported that Virginia prisoner Robert Lee Brock’s lawsuit for $5-million against himself had been dismissed in state court. Brock claimed he had violated his own civil rights by getting himself arrested for grand larceny and asked the state to pay the $5-million because he had no income in prison.

1998: Japan slapped restrictions on the use of flashing lights on television after a "Pocket Monster" cartoon made thousands of kids sick. Some 680 children were rushed to hospitals after being thrown into fits by the cartoon show. Another 10,000 reportedly suffered convulsions and blurred vision.

2001: A Valparaiso, Indiana, couple who met through their mutual love of jogging were married in their running shorts after completing a 5-kilometer race in which they competed against their pastor and best man. During Wanda Johns' and Clarence Melion's wedding, the Rev. Duane Schmidt told the sweaty couple they were starting the "marathon of life." Johns' racing outfit included a white veil attached to a baseball cap, a wrist corsage and a white lace garter.

2006: A White House spokesman said President George W. Bush approved a leak of classified information, as charged in the I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby case, because it served a "public interest" and did not compromise security.

Monday's snack

Just a little something

Today is No Housework Day, no bed-making, no dishes, no trash, no guilt, sponsored by the Wellness Permission League of Lebanon, Pennsylvania (717-279-0184). Some call today Let Someone Else Clean Day.

Today is National Coffee Cake and Caramel Popcorn Day.

Today is Women's Day in Mozambique.

Today is World Health Day, marking creation of the UN's World Health Organization on this date in 1948.

This is Families Laughing Through Stories Week, time to tell funny family stories.

National Networking Week and National Public Health Week begin today.

1997: An Amsterdam university began offering a course entitled "Madonna 101."

1998: Three inmates at New York’s Rikers prison were indicted after one smuggled a gun into the jail and another shot the third in the leg as part of a scheme to sue the city. The mastermind, as you might expect, was the guy who got shot.

1999: An Israeli couple was hospitalized for fatigue after kissing in Tel Aviv for 30 hours and 45 minutes. Dror Orpaz and Karmit Tsubera set a world record and won a trip around the world. But they were really tired.

2002: Police in Moss, Norway, said they caught an assault suspect trying to escape naked on a single roller skate. They've charged the man after he allegedly attacked a woman delivering his newspaper. The woman said the man was angry at the number of advertising flyers that came with his paper, so he hit her over the head repeatedly with the paper. Though not hurt seriously, she said it was a little scary.

2003: The U.S. Supreme Court voted upheld a 50-year-old Virginia law making it a crime to burn a cross as an act of intimidation.

2005: The popular painkiller Bextra was removed from the U.S. market and a warning was put on Celebrex after the Food and Drug Administration cautioned that similar prescription drugs could lead to risk of heart attack or stroke.

I'm so excited, and I just can't hide it...

I can't wait, the count down is on.. Four days of work and then off to see some Panic shows!!! We were watching Panicstream.com this weekend as the show in NY was going down, OMG they played an amazing set list. Some times you can't tell the show from the set list, as what might look good on paper may not have played out that well on stage. but with a set list like Saturday's, it made me really kick myself for not being there...
OK, so there is this song, Big Woolly Mammoth, that i have not seen played live since something stupid like 2003. I have been wanting to see it. They don't play it much and it isn't my favorite song, i just would like to be at a show where it is played at some point. My friend Cal seems to get the song whem he travels to see shows, (because when he is home seeing shows, I am usually with him and of course we don't get the tune) so anyway, Saturday night, i log on to check out the set list of the show that had just started and Cal IM's me and tells me that I should have been in NY and what i thought. I take a look and the boys OPENED the show with Big Woolly. Man, I thought catching some shows as early into the tour as Chicago is, but NAAAAW ~they had to play it two nights ago... Well take that off my list of things to see.
So, we were doing some checking around for other things to do while in Chicago, like other bands playing and such and came upon the info that JB (the lead singer and rhythm gutarist) is singing the National Anthem at the White Sox game this Saturday. Though the weather looks like it is going to be nasty, if they are playing the game, i want to catch the National Anthem. so that is on our list of things to do. And then we are going to check out the Aquarium since it will be nasty out, we needed something that wasn't sight seeing. That will be accomplished on Sunday, when they say the weather will be a touch better. At least not snowing :)
With that being said, i am doing my homework as instructed by my friend Cal. He said that i need to get the new album and get to know the tunes, so that is what i am doing thin week while going to and from work. More musing to come as i try to procrastinate my way though the week :)