In Chicago
For another 3 hours, anyway. I came up to surprise my best friend Patrick, who's currently appearing in a Christmas musical revue downstate. The revue was fabulous; hanging out with Patrick, my sister Stacy (who spotted someone in the front row TAKING A CALL in the middle of the show; she promptly got the entire audience to belt out "Jingle Bells," shaming the woman into putting her damn phone away), BIL Mike, Kathy the Foreign Correspondent and Tammy Harnish Mullins was a ball, and I got to see my lake! Yes, it's my lake, and I don't care what anyone says, so there.
But bugger, I forgot how cold it could get here. Brrr...
But bugger, I forgot how cold it could get here. Brrr...