I was in Houston over the weekend to be Justin's best man. An occasion I wouldn't have missed for the world ( Read more... )

Ben and Angie have a neat house in East West Lafayette. I always forget how amazingly friendly people are there until I go back.

I am really jealous. I miss the smaller town living.

It hailed here today. Probably about 10 minutes before I got off the train. The pavement and rails were all steaming when I got off the train... it was pretty neat to drive home with all the special effects ( Read more... )

So tonight was one of the nights that I missed all the express trains and ended up on the 7:30 milk runner out to Palatine. That's not a whole lot of fun, and utterly exhausting ( Read more... )

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Things continue to progress on the new house front. The closing date is March 9, and there's nothing in the way of that yet. I'll probably be moving in two waves, the move from my apartment here in Arlington Heights, and then the move to take some things from Springfield ( Read more... )

Those of you not in the know (because I haven't updated this in two months, hi!), I have been looking for a house since the beginning of the new year. As of this evening, after a couple weeks of negotiating and frustration, I have laid down earnest money on a house in Hoffman Estates ( Read more... )

I had a great weekend visiting Justin and Jessica in Houston. 8" of snow didn't keep my flight from leaving here on Friday ( Read more... )

Miscellaneous thoughts from the last couple weeks ( Read more... )

It's been a month and a week since I updated. Absolutely pathetic. Frankly, it's pretty much midnight so I'm not going to write much tonight either ( Read more... )