Recent Things

I've decided that I am awful at keeping this updated but don't really care all that much. So here is what is currently going on in my life:

I have started listening to Christmas music as much as possible. Some of you may feel that it is too early for such a pastime and to you I say, "Bah Humbug!" I absolutely love Christmas music and would listen to it all year long if I had the notion, however it is special because it only comes about for a couple of months every year and I will limit my listening time to those couple of months...plus I might not love it as much if I listened to it all year long. However, a little bit of Bing and Frank brightens my day! (If you don't know who I'm referring to then I will be more than happy to introduce you to them!)

Work is going well, it's pretty much the same thing every day but I am grateful for my job and the people I work with are rather pleasant. We had a fire drill this past week which was interesting, I felt like I was in HS all over again filing down the stairs in an orderly fashion. At least we only had to go down a few floors and it broke up the normal monotony of the day. I waited for ECobb to get done with work last night because she was working late and I felt it would be safer for her to have someone to ride home with. So I hung out at Borders, bought my sister her Christmas present and then went and spent the rest of my time at Argo Tea. Those of you reading this not from Chicago will not know what that is unless you've had the pleasure of visiting Chicago since they currently only exist in this city. So if you come and visit me perhaps I will take you there! Anyway, we got on our bus and found a knife/switchblade thing that was longer than my hand so probably around 6 inches or so...it was a pretty big knife. Freaked us both out a bit and so I took it to the bus driver because I didn't feel it was safe to leave it laying in the seat by us. Especially since a couple of creepy guys got on the bus shortly after and sat by us, Cobb was grateful that I had stayed to ride home with her.

I am going to be a hair model. ECobb was getting her hair cut on Tuesday because it was her day off and so I went to meet her after I was off work because we were going out for a friend's early birthday celebration. Anyway, I was sitting and waiting and one of the stylists came over and started talking to me and asked if I would be interested in being a model for one of their classes for their students, apparently they need people with naturally curly hair and she said I have really great hair, so I figured why not? It could be fun!

Our kittens are getting bigger, here is a picture of them sleeping by my head:



They are pretty adorable. We bought them some toys and a scratching post today, early Christmas present. We also got a tree stand for our Christmas tree, whenever we get that. Perhaps on Sunday? Cobb and I also our official Illinois residents! We went and got our driver's licenses today and passed with flying colors. We only had to do the written of course since we already both had driver's licenses from our home states. I am pretty excited about it because it means that I am now completely official to live here, yay!

It snowed for the very first time this past weekend. Beautiful big flakes just sort of floating down out of the sky, my favorite kind of snow. I went outside and just stood there because I was so excited...that was short-lived since I wasn't wearing a coat but it was worth it. Winter is fantastic! :-)

I have exciting things that will be happening this weekend so I will write about them probably later, but that's all for now!

Kittens!

So much has happened since I've last written in (on?) here, I doubt I will remember it all.  Also, if you're expecting pictures you're still out of luck...deal with it.

Halloween in the city proved to be as uneventful as halloween everywhere else.  Perhaps this is because I'm not willing to dress myself up in either a skanky or ridiculous costume and parade myself like a drunken fool, as is the custom on this day in many bars and clubs and at various events/parties throughout the city.  I am much more content to observe others in their foolishness and let them serve as my amusement.  Like these two guys I saw on the "El" on my way home from downtown.  They were dressed as nuns: ridiculous and not that creative, but still funny.  Another amusing costume observed on my way home was a man dressed up as Peter Pan, which was extra funny because he was not a small man.  In fact he was a rather large, football player-build, African American...and I think he was probably gay.  So it was more of the man in the costume than the costume itself that made it comical.  There was also a parade of bicycles around the Daley center before I had even left downtown.  I'm not really sure what that was all about but what I do know is this: it went on for about 10 minutes and prevented me from crossing the street to get to where I wanted to go and eat dinner while I waited for my roommate to get off of work.  Some of the people were dressed up, others were just normal-looking people.  If you're wondering why I didn't just choose to cross the street somewhere else it is because of this: the sidewalk where I could have crossed the street and avoided all of that nonsense was closed!  It has been for quite some time due to construction, and even if I had gone down a block I still would have had to wait for the stupid "parade" to be over because it covered that wide of an area...so I waited.  I did see the "Hi Guy" in the parade so that was cool I guess.  I eventually made it home with my roommate and we spent our evening watching a scary movie, which I thoroughly enjoyed.  For those of you interested, it's called The Haunting and has no gore or anything of that nature and is not really your typical scary movie, which is why I like it!  It actually has a story beyond, "we did something to some person and now he is pissed off and wants to kill us all."

And if you're wondering why I was even downtown waiting for my roommate (which you're probably not but I will explain anyway), I have a job!  My official title is "administrative assistant," but what I do isn't really what you'd expect based on that.  I spend most of my day working in the company's database system entering in changes and adding new vendors to the system.  I don't want to bore you with all the unnecessary details, but what you should know is that it's a good job and I like the people I work with, as far as I can tell anyway.  I haven't been there for very long and I don't really know anyone all that well, but that will come in time I'm sure.  I'm shy enough that I could stay unnoticeable, at least for a while I think.  I would like to be doing piano stuff, but again, that will come in time I'm sure :-)  I actually am playing piano at a church tomorrow morning, I'm just a substitute for their normal pianist, but if all goes well perhaps this will lead to other things!  That's what I'm hoping/praying for at this point.

Okay, so a lot of other things have gone on this past week or so, but I'll write about that later...for the rest of this post I will divulge what my adventures will be for the rest of the day.  Today I am going to visit my old roommate, Sarah, at her apple orchard/farm and maybe bring home a pet or two.  ECobb and I decided we wanted kittens to keep us company so I am going to go and look at some at Sarah's place and maybe bring them home with me.  Now the trick is, we'd have to come up with names.  This could be a difficult task since we're both creative people and would like unique names for our little furry friends.  Feel free to leave suggestions!  I will post pictures of them...eventually...just like the apartment, ha!  That is all for now, I will try not to leave you in suspense for too long and post pictures within a week, hopefully we'll have real internet by then so I can do it via my own computer! :-)