We're moving!

Yes, yes, I know, moving makes it seem like we can't cut it in the neighborhood without the Morans but...well...we can't cut it in the neighborhood without the Morans. Oh I'm just kidding. Honestly, we've been thinking about moving anyway and, upon looking around for a while, we found a place exactly in the neighborhood we want! So, in two weeks we'll be hauling all of our junk over to a place in Lincoln Square. I'm excited to be able to walk to many of the places we love. I'll also be headed back on the CTA and using my ipod again!

Photo courtesy of future landlord.

Cute alert!

Ok, this cheered me up today in the midst of being way too busy at work!
Read this from the bottom up. I can't even explain how much I wanted to hold that little furry cutiepie! Check out this blog:
Buster's Journey

Felines

This past weekend we shopped around for cats!  We had it in our mind that we wanted a kitten...so cute...so silly...so tiny!  Anyway, within seconds of our visit to the Evanston animal shelter, the ladies were shaking their heads, smacking their gums, and telling us a kitten is just not a good idea to pal around with a bored and depressed 10 year old male cat.  I don't know if I agree...Ralph is pretty darn playful and seems like he'd adore something to just take care of but hey, I'm not professional cat psychologist so I don't know.

Anyway, we left there and headed over to Felines, Inc. near our house.  They have about 140 cats in that place all just hanging around in a cageless building.  It was an amazing experience.  The staff was so cool and so nice - the just let us walk around and just hang out which was great.  We got to just sit and chill, pet the cats, check them out, let them schmooze us.  After we left I realized I had fallen in love with about 3 cats in just 30 minutes!  That's way better than trying to see which cat you think is cute while in it's cage!  WHA?  

We didn't get a cat that day...I think we're just sitting on the idea a bit...working on some more pressing issues (which I will fill you in on shortly), but I think we've decided we're in love with that place and would love to get Ralph a new buddy from them.  I'll keep you posted!

P.S. The first and third photo are of the cat they named Toto because he was left on an animal shelter's doorstep in a basket.  He was aaaadorable but maybe a little snippy toward some other cats.  He swiped at one guy while we were there but man, he even let me pick him up and snuggle him!  The second cat (oh, I can't remember his name) followed Ryan around the whole time, rolling around and looking cute until we'd go to pet him and he'd want to bite.  The big black and white guy was Moki and he was so calm, so sweet and cool.  I just wanted to scoop them all up and take them with me!  When I got home I was instantly on Petfinder.com looking up their cats like it was their personals ad.

A little bit of randomness

Here are some photos that I took a little bit ago when accompanying Ryan on a journey to his band's practice space.  I thought the area was the perfect Chicago hidden nook...I wanted to take photos of everything.  Between the rapidly setting sun and the battery dying in my camera, I didn't get a lot of photos but I got a few!

Andrew Bird show

Wednesday evening Ryan and I met up downtown at the Pritzker Pavillion in Millennium Park to see my favorite - Andrew Bird.  

He was spectacular.  Like a proud mom I watched my local boy rocking out one minute and silencing the crowd the next with his violin, his wildly waving pointing finger and his shoeless pedal-pushing feet.  

It was a perfect evening.

More to come

There will be more photos than this but this was the first one I really took a look at today and I kind of liked it. Last night we saw Andrew Bird down in the park and it was splendid.