icy cold weekend

It's the weekend finally - Saturday is almost over. This past week has been long and stressful. My bosses came back from France and have been disrupting the office as usual. Last night Colleen came over and we went out with JC and got a bottle of whiskey. Had finished the bottle by the time 10 came around and went to get some more. Back at my house we drank, played cards and hung out until suddenly it was 5am. So much for catching up on sleep. Tomorrow I think me and JC are going to the aquarium. It's free this week after being closed for renovation. Didn't end up going down to Hyde Park this weekend - Becky is sick - but will soon. I get paid on Monday and am going to try to be very good with this paycheck and squirrel some of it away. I get paid again before all the bills and rent so I should be able to be fairly good. I want to get some invested away where I can't touch it since I have a habit of chipping away at anything I have in my savings account. Tonight - a nice long sleep and tomorrow will be a fresh new day.

it started snowing

duck

I'm at home watching the news. Barrack Obama was sworn in today. I walked home after work because tonight its supposed to start snowing. We might get a few inches over night and I want to spend as much time outside now as possible.
So New Years and the Holidays have come and gone. I had a great Christmas - went to my parents house, had a little snow on the ground. The house was beautiful and cozy as usual. I love being out there in the middle of trees and meadow. My brother was back, to. Had a mostly mellow visit - spent a little time in Portsmouth, NH. On my way home we had dinner in the North End of Boston, which was great. It was early because my flight was in the late afternoon but it was great because we were the only ones in the restaurant.
New Years was really fun. I didn't have any plans until the day before, but at the last minute my friend S came up from St louis, NP came over (of course), my friend G came over with her sister, B came up from Hyde Park and N came. Had a lot of booze - went and got some whiskey. vodka and champagne. Already had some Old Style. Mostly hung around my house and drank, but went out to the Rainbow around 11 and was there until they closed. B and N had eaten some aderol so they went out again - something about sitting in a bathtub and two guys. I felt pretty good the next day, for once. Didn't want a repeat of Halloween.
JC is coming on Friday. It's going to be fun. I'm ready for him to move here. Its going to be a big change from Louisiana, but I think he's going to love it.

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Thursday, December 23, 2004
almost Christmas
tomorrow I'm flying out of O'Hare to Maine for the Holidays. It's probably going to be a nightmare at the airport, but I'm not too worried about it. After busting my ass at work all week I feel like I could hang out in a line with no problem. A few days ago I got a call from my friend John P. He was flying down from Toronto to New Orleans with a stop over in Chicago, but his connecting flight was cancelled. He met me in the loop and we rode the blue line west to Wicker Park and had dinner at a greek place on Damen. It was really great to see John. He came into town a couple of months ago, but my parents were in town at the same time so I didn't get a chance to see him. I forget how good a friend to me he is. My roommate was out of town in San Francisco so we just hung out in my apartment without any interuptions. We talked about New Orleans and people we know there. I miss it a lot. I miss everything about it, the smell after it rained, the sweet rotteny buttery smell, the sweet almond, the jungly-ess, the heat and dampness, the screech and low thunder of the streetcar. I miss days of walking beneath the oak trees and feeling like I was more in a forest than a city, the river I rarely saw, tin roofed bars and days so humid it felt like you were hallucinating. Chicago is getting drier and colder. Snow hasn't come yet, but it's icy and taut. It's a different way of living. Going outside is a survival feat. It's wierd feeling for once that i don't want to go out and walk in endless circles around the neighborhood.
My bosses are leaving town for Paris. Won't see them until they come back in January. Can't wait for them to be gone. It's been high stress having Steve freak out all over the place all day long in a frenzy. Now we can listen to the radio and check our email and ironically probably get more work done than we would constantly having to explain ourselves and do damage control.
JC is moving to Chicago January 7. Staying at my place for a few weeks, hopefully he'll have an apartment by February. It will be great having him around again. I need more close friends here, especially since things with my roommate haven't come out as well as hoped. It will be interesting to see how the dynamic of me and Jess and JC works out with all three of us in our tiny apartment. Anyway, for now its home and happy thoughts and a three day weekend next week.

Getting Started

Hmm, lets see if we can get this thing started