The Weekend

The weekend started on Thursday night. Jon and I celebrated our terrible horrible no good very bad weeks over tapas. The next day, Lauren and I had a marathon shopping date planned and I couldn't have needed a vacation day more. We hit up Kohls, Michaels, Target, and Pet Smart. Kathleen joined us for dinner at Lauren's house around 5:30 and we had Vicinos multi-grain thin crust pizza with spinach and a colorful side salad. After dinner, Lauren and I watched The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants II, pausing the movie every so often to comment on the character's choices and react to the issues they were bringing up.

On Saturday, Jon and I relaxed at home most of the day. We headed down to Wicker Park around 8 pm to check out Reckless Records and Myopic Books. I ended up buying more CDs than I probably should have, but so far each of them is wonderful. How can you go wrong with Andrew Bird, Aimee Mann, The Decemberists, Elliot Smith, and Pink Floyd? After shopping, we ate dinner at Cafe de Luca and then met up with friends for some drinks afterward.

Today I had a productive morning. I threw out a trash-bag worth of stuff that I no longer needed or wanted. Anything from old nailpolish to kitty toothpaste was fair game. Then I filled a canvas tote with clothes to donate. Around lunchtime, Jon came over and we went to Jimmy John's -- I can't recommend the JJ BLT on multi-grain bread enough.