Writing Just to Write

It's been awhile since I've written just because. I feel like I'm just catching you up on the big events that are happening, mainly because I have no time to do anything else. Working both jobs has finally caught up with me, I got nasty sick for the better half of this week and just now am starting to get better from it. I've still got a nice nasty cough and am having trouble sleeping at night, but I blame that on the meds. I also have ringworm. Don't ask me how I got it. I'm still unsure of that answer myself. So my body currently is fighting off lots of fun stuff. The bummer to all of this is just trying to get back into a workout routine. With the days getting shorter and the weather getting cooler, it's nearly impossible to workout outside. I almost feel to exhausted when I get home and there is such a lack of motivation. I'm contemplating joining a gym, if I can find one for a decent price. It would be right across the street from my second job, so I'd feel like it would be used quite often.

Not much else is new in this crazy life of mine, but I guess that's ok. I know this has been nothing short of boring, but I just felt the need to write something. So there it was!

Peace&Love
~L

Chicago Birthday

After much deliberation boy and I decided to go to a bed and breakfast in Rockton, IL for his birthday. We drove down on Thursday morning. With thoughts of what the town would be like we were slightly disappointed, but the bed and breakfast was indescribable. The property was so gorgeous. I'm so lucky to have been able to go with him. We did some antiquing before we checked in. We then took a tour of the grounds from the house itself to the apple orchards and everything in between. After a delicious homemade breakfast we decided to head out to Chicago which was about an hour from where we were staying. I haven't been to Chicago in quite some time and was so glad to have made it back. There is unbelievably so much you can do there, you honestly need more than a day to go there. We did as much as we could in a day: the Willis Tower, Navy Pier, Millennium Park and the Magnificent Mile. We rode taxi's and the train around town and did lots of walking. All in all it was a great day and a great end to a week with the best guy around. Happy 25th birthday! Here's to many more.

The barn/reception hall

Apple Orchard

Inside hall...so gorgeous

Most of the property

Our mansion

Just one of the many rooms in the house

One of the outdoor patios

Hot tub barn

Navy Pier, Chicago

The Ferris Wheel

Us under the bean

Ha

The Bean

That's a hefty charge for vomiting

Navy Pier

View from Willis Tower

The SkyLedge...scary

The Chicago River

Under the train

On the wheel

Peace&Love
~L

Where Have I Been?

It's been quite some time since I have last been on here, but I knew that was going to happen working 2 jobs and just trying to keep a little bit of a social life around here.

I left off by telling you I was taking a trip to Michigan and boy was it a trip. And not in a good way by any means. I left early Saturday morning with nothing buy happy thoughts of a stress free weekend. Knowing that the only thing separating me from fun times was a 6 hour drive. And needless to say that 6 hour drive turned into a 12 hour one. You might think did she get lost? Get stuck in major Labor day weekend traffic somewhere? No. None of that. I was flying high and making good time. I made it to Indiana and was about 20 miles in, when I looked down at my temperature and gauge and it was on hot. I started to panic. I was literally in the middle of nowhere. I knew the rest stop was about 5 miles up the road, but decided to let my car cool, so I pulled over. I saw some smoke start to come out of my hood and realized that wasn't a good thing. I checked the fluids in every compartment I could think of. Everything seemed to be in working order. I called my dad and told him what was going on. He talked me through things and I decided an hour after I had originally pulled over to go on ahead and push my car to the next rest stop. I made it. I decided that I needed to check everything again and that's when I found that my radiator was completely dry. Obviously I had a leak somewhere and it was a matter of finding it. I wasted quite a bit of money at the gas station on oil, coolant and the like. After about another hour or so, a nice man came by and helped me out. He found the source of my problem, a major hose that was leaking coolant. Unfortunately, there wasn't much I could do about it. I tried to patch it up with some heavy duty tape and thought it would work. All this time I called my dad about 50 times and then had my sister and her husband coming out to meet me and pick me up. My dad thought I'd be able to make it to the next city which was about 15 miles away. I decided to give it a try only to make it about 2 miles away before my car gave out on me. So there I sat in the middle of nowhere crying hysterically in the pouring rain alone. Eventually my sister made it out and I wasn't alone, but I felt bad for them having to drive all the way out. My car got towed to a city a few miles back the opposite direction. I got the car fixed but we didn't leave until about 330ish and still had to drive another 3 plus hours. That set the stage for the rest of the weekend. We didn't do much but hang around, which wasn't horrible, but I really wanted to do some more fun things. I came back on Monday with no problems. Thank goodness.

I will fill you in later on details of my bosses daughters birthday party and a Packer party.

Peace&Love
~L