Chicago: A Study in Two Parts

Part I: Observation

[Mr. Overly-Tanned at Nashville's Airport] Yeah Dude she's having a baby, so we're having kind of a bachelor party...

[Metra Station Sign] "Children left unsupervised will be given two lattes and a free puppy"

[Shirt in a very democratic store] Monica Lewinsky's ex-boyfriends wife for president

[on the train] I took a rocket to the moon, and blew up a martian!


[also on the train] ...and all the girls painted their right thumbnail red, so they'd know it was their right hand; but the boys didn't want their nails polished, so we put X's on them and said "Aaarrrggghhh" like pirates...

[walking in the city] Bacon & Cheese

[a random Irish pub] All we have are really bad cookies


Part II: Conversational Tidbits

* There are only two reasons for cornfields:
1. Alien signs
2. 'Will You Marry Me' signs

* Sometimes they are one in the same...

* I've waited my entire life for a $4 bottle of liquor!!

* I can't believe we're really doing this...

* My hands are turning blue... I should probably go to the hospital

* Crystal, you'll never guess where we are!! DALLAS!!!
(Crystal's response: ARE YOU SERIOUS??)

* Look!! They're perfect parallel lines!

* I really feel like a dork today for wearing green.

* We saw Celtic Woman in Ireland where I started blogging and had lunch with Dick Cheney; It's not pretentious, it's a fact.

* I need one of those monkey's on my back.

* What time is it? I just wanted to tell you you're really pretty.



(there will be pictures following, but rubyred has already posted these)

I'm going to Chicago today,

and I really feel like I'm forgetting to pack something. This is the first time I'm only taking a carry-on and I made a nice list and I know I'm not missing anything... but I still feel like I am.



I was supposed to get my new glasses today, but they're not in yet. I just called =0(


Hopefully sometime next week... I'm bummed =0(

That Toddlin' Town

Can you name that tune?? That's right, it's Chicago. Frank Sinatra made it quite popular back in the day, and I had to learn it for school back in, oh I don't know, the third grade-ish?

Anyway, I thought of it becasue the second line of it it:

"Chicago, Chicago I'll show you around"

As it turns out, I'll be showing Ruby Red around the toddlin' town mid-March!! After a whole lot o' e-mailing yesterday/today, we've got plane tickets!!

Now to start planning the rest....