March 2017

Spring has finally arrived in Chicago. Kind of. We had one more big blizzard that was pretty terrific. I It was like trying to walk through ice needles. A few of the trees have started budding and allergy season is kicking in.

St. Patrick's cake

St. Patrick's day came, cut it was kind of a cold, drizzly day so we didn't go downtown to see the river this year. Maybe next year. I did, however, make a Bailey's chocolate cake complete with green frosting.


We went to the theater to see the movie Logan, taking advantage of the $5 Tuesday deal at the Cinemark in Evanston. It was a heart-moving (and rather violent) film certainly not intended for children. But it was a different kind of superhero movie.

I've been making headway on my thesis novel, and Lawrence has started a new painting. We've gotten new plants for the apartment. And of course, the clock my family made for us finally arrived. It's beautiful, and very very large. We had intended to prop it in our chair in the living room, but it's too big. It now makes our TV (which is in no way small) look small. It was a little fractured in places from the journey, so we had to do some quick DIY with wood glue and clamps and it's almost as good as new. It mostly just stayed propped up on the corner until we move to a bigger place. For now, it's on the ground and still visible enough to let us know how much time we're wasting watching TV.

Welcome 2017

Sorry for skipping January, there's no reason other than I was just being lazy and we didn't actually do that much. It was mostly just kind of cold. We had a quite New Year's since we had a pretty Christmas. We had a couple warmer days and took one to walk down to the lake to check out the lake ice. It was kind of cool, the ice creaked, and created a shelf on the beach.

We did go to a concert toward the end of January. I got Lawrence the tickets for Christmas, It was for the band Devil Makes Three. They're a kind of bluegrass/rock kind of band. We went out for dinner at the Cheesecake Factory (my coworker had given me a gift card there for Christmas) downtown and then went to the Riviera Theater for the concert. The theater is cool, it's old and and has cool ceiling murals. We sat up in the balcony area (because I hate being in the pit with the drunken peasants), probably got some secondhand marijuana high, and enjoyed the music.

February wasn't much different, just school and work as usual. I went to DC for a writer's conference and stayed with my uncle there over a weekend, so Lawrence got a few days with the apartment to himself.

Valentine's day was another night in with steak and chocolate. I'm not much of a Valentine's day celebrator, and it was the middle of the week.

February got really quite enjoyable warm for a couple of days. We attempted to get to the zoo one day, but we left it kind of late and it was starting to cool down by the time we got there and the zoo closed about 45 minutes after our arrival. But we did see the baby camel Alexander Camelton. We'll go back when the weather warms up more and get there before 4 in the afternoon.

Time is moving toward spring here, and we don't have much else to say, this is a short one!