UPDATE

i got my new pants. lots of them. perhaps TOO many. in fact, they finally convinced me to do what i have been refusing adamantly for years - i signed up for a macy's credit card. HELLO! it was a 20 percent discount if i did, and there was no way i was putting any of that stuff back :) it was all way too amazing!

mmmm summer grilling

sundays have been the perfect day for summer grilling. last week i made the most amazing kabobs :) and a wonderful marinade for our chicken wings (which, of course, dan grilled to perfection) we also fashioned a "potato boat" to grill some potato slices in and i made some, let's face it, AMAZING veggie kabobs. Although these look pretty darn good too!

last night was grilled corn on the cob, tequila lime chicken and more of those potatoes :) they were a bit burned the first time, but we added a little olive oil and that took care of THAT problem!

mmmm i love summer grilling.

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new pants

i need them.

we should have summer hours on friday

just sayin. it would be nice to be able to go home at 3:30 on fridays during the summer. not a whole lot is going on anyway, except that i am ridiculously busy and scrambling to get meetings for my client while he is in NY next week! i guess i will be in NY next week as well :)

final move in date for the apt scheduled for august 2- our landlord was nice enough to allow us to stay an extra day.5 so we could move out on a weekend instead of rushing back and forth between the city and apt during rush hour traffic. go, nancy.

penny finishes puppy kindergarten next week and she will then start on her next class of obedience training, family dog. before you know it, she will be running for president. i need to find a dog walker in the city ... although i guess maybe not because dan and i will be close enough that we can go home during lunch to let her out every day? interesting. also i feel like not too long from now, we won't have to let her out in the middle of the day - if i don't leave til 8:30 and dan gets home at 2:30 ... is that too long for her to sit ? i think she could do it.

going to the new john barleycorn in schaumburg tonight - i guess lisa kosty was there last night - i should call her and ask how it was. ha!

heehee - this one's even better

i hate everything

seriously. the george strait song is in my head, and then also that "i hate everything" song from the first grey's anatomy soundtrack. and that's how i feel right now.

i think number one on my sh*tlist are the IL police. seriously. don't they have better things to do with their time than pull over people who are going SIXTY?!?!?!? i understand that it's a construction zone. actually, i didn't even know that because apparently, the entire freeway (the tri state) is a freakin' construction zone. and people are supposed to go 45 that whole way? sweet. nice freeway. people have been sitting in dead stop traffic for an hour, they finally have a bit of open road ... and then? crapola.

top chef thoughts

i just have to say that i am really upset that antonia went home and lisa stayed. i think that generally speaking throughout the show, that antonia has made consistently better food. not only that, but personality definitely plays a factor in top chef. i mean, how can you demand respect and cooperation and teamwork in the kitchen if you constantly have a bad attitude and are complaining and accusing people of "sabotaging" you? lisa just seems like she is really vindictive and not all that creative with the dishes she makes.

obviously i hope stephanie wins because she's from chi-town and i think her food and personality ROCK! but at the very least, i hope that if stephanie doesn't win, richard does. i would be extremely disappointed in the hometown version of TC if lisa came out on top.