I never did really decide.

So today, g-ma had an appointment and I took Mikale to the library to see a magician perform. Turns out the magician is a married 28 year old dude from the detroit area named Jason Abbott. The site won't tell you anything. It's not exactly functional.

He started out amusing enough, though I think his humor is more to be appreciated by adults. He made fun of most of the kids. Which was funny. To me anyway. Except when he made fun of Mikale's hair cut :p Kid has a weird shaped head! It's not his fault!

There was more "comedy" than magic I think. He had a few tricks. I appreciated the straight jacket bit at the end. And the bunny. Russell. Russel? I'll say it's two Ls. I didn't ask. Russell was cute! And fuzzy! And gray! And I'd be able to show you pictures of him but my camera decided not to cooperate and didn't actually take any pictures. Grr. I keep getting the stupid CHA error the last few days. I do not like it. I need to clear off all the pictures soon and reformat probably. I've been putting it off until I get the chance to pick up another drive.

But otherwise, I wasn't terribly amused. He called me out for being on my phone through the show. Not talking, just internet. I wasn't being obnoxious. That's not why I had issues with him anyway. I'm not exactly sure why. I think it might have been that much of the "comedy" wasn't terribly funny. Now I really wish I would have kept track of what he was saying when I was twittering. There were things that brought it on. Oh well. Doesn't matter. The bunny and the straight jacket were at the end and he redeemed himself then. So I'm going to go with 2/3 amusing 1/3 douche bag.

After I visited the bunny I talked to him for a minute and told him I was going to blog about his bunny and him. And he seemed concerned. He wanted to know what I would write and told me to be nice. So if he actually googles himself like I recommended: Hi Jason Abbot! Sorry I called you a douche bag on the internet!

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found him/her flapping around in the road as I was driving by so I turned my
car around and went back. now he/she is at my grandma's and hopefully will
make a speedy recovery.

11:11 a.m. Starting the day with coffee, internet, and the sixtyone! Yay!

I've really been digging thesixtyone.com. I've found so much new (to me) good stuff with it! Plus it's a little addictive with the quests to keep me busy.

11:37 a.m. Today: the Taste + who knows?
12:28 p.m. we both managed to leave our transit cards at home. drat!

I have a wallet that just has my chicago related things in it and it is right now at home on my kitchen counter. It does me no good there! So we had to go buy cta 3 day passes.

12:28 p.m. I am starving.

I had not eaten yet. I was hungry and crabby and headachey.

2:35 p.m. yay for food!
3:21 p.m. end round 1. I can eat no more. stuffed but happy!
4:03 p.m. checking out that new sears tower thing. I'm excited!

We weren't too terribly far away so we walked over there to go up to see the new observation things. We hadn't gone there at all before so it worked out well. The line was loooong.

5:17 p.m. my baaaaack huuuurts.

Like I said. The line was loooooong. The wait took forever. And I was carrying a heavy bag on my shoulder. My back was complaining.

5:43 p.m. http://twitpic.com/92zr7 - (picture)from the top of the Sears Tower
5:58 p.m. http://twitpic.com/931la - window thing at sears tower

That second picture was taken from inside the glass observation thing. It had just opened to the public that day. They're glass and jut out from the building 4 feet or so. So when you go in it everything but behind you is clear glass. It wasn't nearly as unsettling as I thought it would be. I was kind of disappointed!

6:34 p.m. heading back north for dinner with the fam

They picked us up from the station when we got off the train. That was nice!

7:03 p.m. we are looking for something fun to do tonight.
7:33 p.m. little scottish girl with adorable voice/accent asked me "why is your hair pink?" she was so darn cute!

I was in the bathroom at Sears Tower and her mother pointed me out to her. She was adorable! I told her that it was because I like it. And because once you're a grown up, no one can tell you not to!

8:48 p.m. food was *fabulous*!

Oh, it really really was. I had the A-1 Peppercorn burger (which they describe as: Sizzling, hickory smoked bacon, melted Pepper Jack cheese, A1 peppercorn spread, crispy onion straws, onions and tomatoes on an onion bun.) I substituted a turkey burger for the cow. I don't like burgers or turkey usually but it was SO GOOD.

11:00 p.m. At Hamburger Mary's having drinks & dessert.

Mmmm, fried twinkies! Delicious! Also had some pink drink that was there special. Followed that up with a Long Guy Land and then some other stuff once Aharona and Ken arrived & we went upstairs.

11:!5 p.m. Steve just made a very ugly face at my drink.

My pink drink involved sour mix. Steve is not a fan.

11:15 p.m. Talked to Aharona. She said she might come out but I suspect she won't. Too bad!

Obviously I was wrong.

11:21 p.m. Yay she's coming!
12:10 a.m. Yay! Aharona is adorable!
12:37 a.m. Just had a shot that tasted a bit like a jolly rancher.
1:07 a.m. another jolly rancher shot. aharona is sipping hers.
1:13 a.m. We have met pwople! Rachel and Patricia. We stole their table.

We went and sat down and then all of a sudden two girls appeared and sat with us. We had taken their table so they just decided to join us. There was a Rachel and a Patricia. Nice, very drunk girls.

1:38 a.m. I completely forgot what I was going to write. Oh well!
1:47 a.m. Steve is dancing with one of the girls. It's really something.

That was with Rachel. She was really getting down. She told Steve he had big nipples. Um, what?

2:40 a.m. We're back home. Well, home until we go *home* home anyway.

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12:17 p.m. Touching up my color, then packing, then a forever car trip!

My hair turned out bright bright this time. Vibrant. I dig it! I'm glad we still got on the road at a reasonable time even though I waited to pack until the day of.

3:28 p.m. time to hit the road! I've had my dramamine so I should be good to go.

Dramamine has been so awesome for these car trips. Sure, I'm a little out of it for hours, but I'm able to look at things and read things, which is fabulous. So I spend most of the trip on my phone and Steve's. I use his for his facebook app.

4:07 p.m. waiting in construction. bleah.
4:29 p.m. making progress again. yay!

There seems to be no end to the construction in Michigan in the summer. Maybe it's like that everywhere. I wouldn't know!

4:35 p.m. anyone want to txt or I'M with me?

Boredom had set in at this point. It doesn't take long. Especially when I have no new email, no new twitter posts, no new Facebook posts.

5:08 p.m. took my dramamine. this means I can read/look at things but also means I'm sleepy.

5:10 p.m. Pat called to tell me Biscuit was throwing up. Poor Biscuit :( Hope he gets that out of his system & didn't eat anything too harmful.

She called me a couple times but I haven't heard from her since. I'm guessing all must be well then. Which is good. Biscuit must not be pukey any more.

5:22 p.m. listening to: veggie tales - the bunny song. yay!

It's happy.

5:56 p.m. I have coffee! and ice cream! yay!

Perhaps not the wisest time to have coffee but I was so sleepy from the dramamine! And I needed a McFlurry to go with it. I don't like McDonald's coffee really. But their iced hazelnut coffee is actually good. Tasty.

6:09 p.m. feeling perkier already. yay! also, I yay a lot. I don't seem to be able to help myself.

It's true!

7:39 p.m. Steve is hating on the Pumpkins. Boooo!
7:39 p.m. Smashing Pumpkins, that is. Not our Pumpkin.

I don't understand it. Steve must be crazy.

9:17 p.m. We're here!

Took forever but we finally arrived! (yay!)

9:26 p.m. Watching so you think you can dance. Steve needed his fix.
10:36 p.m. I'm sleeeepy!
11:31 p.m. I left my phone charger in the car. Think I'll have to sweet talk Steve and see if he'll go down and get it for me.

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not as unsettling as I would have thought.

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June 30, 2009

4:59 a.m. being awake really sucks.

I was up until 3 the night before, but still got up to walk with Heather. It was painful. It was the first time that getting up that early felt physically unpleasant. I'm thinking that the time stamp on that one is wrong though because I didn't get up until 5:30 so we could walk at 6.

5:57 a.m. but now being not awake is going to be *fabulous*

I went home right after and went straight back to bed. Time stamp must again be wrong because that would have been around 7. Perhaps the time stamp is just an hour earlier than it should be.

11:51 p.m. I attempted to post earlier that I was going on a date with skater80. We did. Dinner & movie. Yay!

For all I know, this one could actually be right with the time. We went to Bennigan's for dinner and I ate a delicious but way too big salad. Which sounds all healthful and junk, until it's noted that it was covered in cheese and fried chicken pieces and ranch dressing. Still delicious though. Then we went to see The Proposal, which was very amusing. Steve wants to see it too, I think, so I'll probably see it again.

1:51 a.m. Time for shower then bed. Need to start packing when I get up tomorrow!

I think I finally got to bed around 3ish? I finally felt like I had gotten enough sleep when I got up. That's the important part!

I'll post about yesterday when it starts giving me actual times and not "about 23 hours ago". Later or tomorrow. Or something.

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At Ian's party. He's pretty happy.

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Post shoot. Bay City. Finally getting cooler.

I'm not feeling like doing anything that will cause me to sweat today. But g-ma has an appointment, so I'm going to have to venture out before too long. No AC in the house or the car.

Heather went to a midnight movie last night so we didn't walk today. We're supposed to go tomorrow though. If it gets un hot enough tonight, I might take an evening walk to make up for it.

I'm supposed to meet Sasha tonight to do some maternity photos. I hope it's not too hot for that. We're meeting at 6, which might be too early.

Otherwise I have nothing. I've been sitting here in front of the computer since I woke up. Soon, I ought to take a shower and get ready for the day.

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Heather and I decided to start walking together. It helps to have someone to keep you honest. So we've gotten together yesterday and today at 6 am so we can get in about an hour before she has to go to work. This means I'm tired! So both days I walked an hour with Heather and then tagged along with Mike for his walk with Patch. Lots of walking! Yay! I may get in better shape yet! Which is a good thing considering I have new clothes now and want to feel good in them. I have lots of old clothes I'd like to look nice in too.

I'm sitting in the screen room next to an open window. I'm touching up my pink so my hair is full of dye+conditioner. I want to go slightly blonder so it will all take better but I missed Michelle this week and will have to wait until next Monday to try to catch her to discuss it. So in the meantime, I'll make sure it's kept bright. No sense in fading it if I don't even know when or if she'll do it.

My bladder doesn't feel right. I've spent the past two mornings sweating a ridiculous amount and I'm probably a little under hydrated. I have a bottle of water but it's hard to force it down.

I have photo work I need to get done soon. I have to finish the kitty birthday invitation cards so I can get them printed and sent out. It's sneaking up and will be here before I know it! I also need to remake the referral cards I made last week. There is room for improvement and I just don't like them as is. I have to order the story boards too. Work work work. This is good though!

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He looks amusing right now.