Taste of Chicago has been going on since June 26, and for people not from Chicago this means free music in Grant park and lots of different restaurants with stands selling food for you to try. In the past few nights I have seen the Counting Crows and The Wallflowers in concert. Tonight was the Bare Naked Ladies, though I was not there for the ( Read more... )

My two year old cat Chloe has always been curious and more often than I would like has made a break for the outside when I open the front door. At my parents house she can get her fill by hanging out on the screened in porch, but the best that I can do here is to leave the blinds up so she can sit in the windowsill. So for Christmas I bought her ( Read more... )

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

LINUS: "Sure Charlie Brown. I can tell you what Christmas is all about."

Linus walks to center stage, dragging his blanket.

LINUS: "Lights, please?"

Auditorium lights dim and a spot shines on Linus.LINUS: "And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night. And lo, the ( Read more... )

Current Life in Brief List form since not posting for a year would mean A LOT of writing to catch up ( Read more... )

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

LINUS: "Sure Charlie Brown. I can tell you what Christmas is all about."

Linus walks to center stage, dragging his blanket.

LINUS: "Lights, please?"

Auditorium lights dim and a spot shines on Linus.LINUS: "And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night. And lo, the ( Read more... )

On Thursday I donated bone marrow and I have been slowly regaining my energy since. I put myself onto the registry when I was in undergrad and I got called up this September saying that I am a match for a 56 year old gentleman with early stages of Leukemia. That is all the information that I am allowed to know, but if all goes well in a years ( Read more... )

I am now the mom of a beautiful 1 year old named Chloe.


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Yes, I know that I never post, and yes I know that there are people who have been bugging me about it and want to know more about Utah things. However when life is mostly filled with work I spend my free time doing cool things like hiking and going to hear bands and hanging out with people by the grill instead of writing here ( Read more... )

Hiking in Kolob Canyon today was AWESOME ( Read more... )

It appears that my computer, after two days, has decided to play nicely with the surrounding unprotected wireless networks. I can sit on the balcony and get Best Western's and starting this afternoon I can get one in my room that previously I could not connect to. Which works out well because today I finished my paper and e-mail it to my ( Read more... )