STRIKE!!!

Hey friends. I'm loving that we got an extra hour of sleep last weekend, but the sun setting as I type this kinda blows. But I do love driving to work with the sun out. Gotta take the good with the bad...such is life.

Happy Hump Day! I had a pretty great day...got off work early. I had to work, unlike SOME people I live with. Working for the government has its perks (getting off every possible holiday).

This past weekend I went up to my favorite city, Chicago. My friend Liz turned 23 on Friday, and her boyfriend R.G. planned a great shindig downtown. Traffic for the first time was non-existent on 65. I made it there in exactly 3 hours (and gaining an hour was awesome). Liz, R.G., his friend Jordan and I headed down to Chicago to meet Bonnie for dinner. We went to a great mexican restaurant that was underground called Twisted Lizard (I think that's what it was called...we had 2 pitchers of margaritas). R.G. had reserved a couple of bowling lanes at this amazing bar called Southport Lanes. It was the kind of bar I like: super old. I saw a Jim Gaffigan doppleganger, and I almost went up to him. I didn't obviously.

Some other friends met us at the bar and we bowled like champs. It was very old, and they actually had people behind the pins in charge of setting them up. And we had to keep score ourselves. I will say right now that I for sure won. No big.

We went to another bar called Deliliah's. It was....interesting. It was a whiskey bar. I think that's a good enough explanation.

I had to come home Saturday (sadly) but I hauled ass on the interstate and made it home in 2 and a half hours. It was amazing. Driving clears my head. I gave Jeni a Mac Tutorial on Saturday night, and we had some amazing sushi (it had been too long since I had any).

Sunday was Colts football, and raking leaves (gross). Since someone has no upper-body strength, I had to drag the leaves out to the cornfield. I wasn't bitter, though.