Tattoo...

My tattoo has healed very nicely and I still love it.

A Mighty Wind...

Chicago is well know as the Windy City. Today is no exception. It is an absolute beautiful day outside. I woke up early this morning and decided to go for a run along the lake front from Belmont Harbor to Diversey Harbor and back. Nice, cool, still morning. Then the winds started whipping around about noon. I have the windows open in the apartment and the wind is so strong that it has blown the cushions off the sofa! But at least it feels mighty nice outside.

Law and Order:LA...

...cancelled!! HAHAHAHAHA! That is what they get for canceling the original!

This ain't right...

I love the Golden Girls! Love em!!! But this picture just bothers me. It looks like Dorothy is about to choke Sophia. (Thanks Brittny!!)

Happy New Year...

Happy New Year everyone!

My year is off to a good start. We got moved and are settling in nicely in the new town house. After 6 years of living on concrete and hard wood floors it is taking some getting used to living on carpet. But I like it! Now that things have settled down I will certainly be posted more often. I am also working on a new Cooking with Karen!

My anniversary...

Today is the 33rd anniversary of my birth! To celebrate I slept in then transfered to the sofa to drink hot chocolate and watch Divorce Court. There are really no plans for the rest of the day. At some point this evening Ron and I will have our Christmas. He is leaving early tomorrow morning for Kansas to be with his family. While he is out I will be packing up the loft for our move on 1/3/09 into our new town house! That is about all that is going on for now. I am considering a quick Cooking with Karen at some point before I pack up the kitchen!

TV Shows...

I am really pissed. ABC went and cancelled two great shows that I love: Pushing Daisies and Dirty Sexy Money. This has somewhat baffled critics and viewers alike. Both shows are getting decent ratings and PD has won all kinds of awards. I blame the strike that occurred which put these shows on hiatus. DSM keeps getting better and is really a guilty pleasure to watch. I know that ABC is not the only one canceling good shows. They get rid of the good stuff but keep shit like Nanny 911, Survivor, Extreme Home Makeover (how many of those homes have gone into foreclosure, huh?), and other useless bullshit that, unfortunately, people watch. If, for whatever reason, 30 Rock is cancelled I think I will just stop watching TV!

This is rare...

It is is freaking cold ya'll. Our temp is just above freezing with a wind chill of 13!! WOOT!

For sale...

Update:

The closet has been sold!

Hey everyone! We are moving at the end of the month and would like to sell our closet. Please see pics below. There are 3 sections and the doors are glass. This is a very nice closet. I hate to part with it but we just will not need it after we move. I paid around $1000 for this and it has been worth every penny! The center has 4 drawers and each side has 2 hanging rods each. As you can see there is plenty of space. The very top of each section has a slot of a light. If you are interested please let me know. We are moving at the end of the month but will still have the loft until the end of January. I am asking a very reasonable price.

Costco...

On Sunday we decided to check out Costco. I had been thinking about a membership for a while anyway. Well, behold the Mecca that Costco is!! We spend a good two hours covering the store from top to bottom. You can get power tools, wine, underwear, veggies, gas, and appliances all under the same roof!! I think that we are going to get our washer and dryer from there as well. I was actually really surprised at the wine selection….HUGE! They have many of the specialty food items we like to use at deep discounts. Once we really start running out of certain things then we are going back to stock up!

My new phone

Every two years I get a new mobile phone whether I need one or not. I have had my Blackberry for a little over two years now so I decided that it was time to get something else. I love Apple products because they are high quality, simple to use, and very attractive. So last night I purchased an Apple iPhone 3G. OMG! I love this phone and I have had it less than 24 hours! All I did was plug it into my MacBook and everything updated instantly. All of my contacts, my email settings, my internet bookmarks, everything! The only thing I had to update manually was my music but that took all of 10 seconds. I was worried at first that I would not like the keyboard but I have gotten used to it very quickly. One of the coolest things I love is the fact that I do not have to call my voice mail to listen to the message. The iPhone creates a list of your voice mails and lets you select which ones you want to listen all by touching the voice mail contact on the screen. They call it reading your voice mail. What I really love about it is that it is a phone and an iPod all-in-one. There was nothing wrong with my iPod. It is two and half years old and works as well as the day I bought it. However, I was becoming annoyed with carrying both a phone and iPod. Sometime the Blackberry's signal would interfere with the iPod and the volume would go crazy. Now I no longer have those problems. There is just so much this phone can do that it is almost unbelievable! I can't wait to learn it all!

Mrs. Ed...

I came across this photo showing two ads. On of Sarah Jessica Parker and another of a horse. Coincidence??? Her dress does look like a salt lick. I am just sayin.....

Pumpkin Spice Latte…

Every fall Starbucks places its Pumpkin Spice Latte back on the menu. Normally the only thing I get at Starbucks is green iced-tea but I love the PSL. It is certainly a hearty beverage. It is basically pumpkin pie in a cup! LOVE it!

New look...

I became tired of the color scheme on here so I decided to change it up a little. I really like the blue against the grey!! Hope ya'll like it too.

Need a tissue?...

The J. Erik Jonsson Library located in downtown Dallas (and next door to my residence) is full of everything a great Library is known for…and then some. Now, for the price of FREE, one can watch a peep show. I am not talking about those penny peep show machines from the early 1900’s. I am talking a live peep show. The other day there was a man who, while surfing internet porn on the fifth floor, pulled down his pants and began to masturbate. After a woman turned him in he disappeared and not even the cameras could find him. I am guessing he needed a little “me” time.

Jumbo Hostel...

I came across an article about a new hostel/hotel at an ariport in Stockholm, Sewden. I really like this idea and wish something like this would be done here in the U.S. Basically a guy had the idea to convert a 30 year-old 747 Jumbo Jet into a hostel.

http://www.jumbohostel.com/DynPage.aspx?id=64660&mn1=5291

http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/science/09/11/Jumbohostel/index.html#cnnSTCPhoto

Young McCain...

I came across some pictures of John McCain back in his early years and I gotta tell ya…he is kinda sexy!

200th post!!...

This is the 200th post of IBIN!! Not much to say except that it certainly won't be the last!

Another reason...

Last night as we walked Moses I looked over and clearly saw a non-homeless female squatting in the Browder Street entrance at DP&L relieving herself. The woman was so drunk. There are trees and bushes and restaurant bathrooms she could have hidden herself in. Instead she pees right there for everyone to see. I came incredibly close to saying something but it would have done no good. There was pee everywhere. WTF? If it was a homeless person I dont think I would have really been so peeved or suprised and honestly, probably would not have cared. But this was a woman, about my age, and clearly not homeless (and not very pretty if you ask me). If I lived at DP&L and walked out the door to only have to step over her...I think I would have beaten the crap out of her for what she was doing.

Cooler weather...

I am so happy that cooler weather is arriving here in Dallas. Today's high is 92 instead of 102. Thanks to hurricane Gustav we have been getting into the upper 60s at night. I expected the temps to get higher after the hurricane but nope! We are holding steady at around 90.