snacks!

I am hungry! Every since I got back from Florida, I haven’t set foot on the CTA and have been biking all around the city thanks to Gerard getting my bike fixed. However, my appetite has gone through the roof! All I want to do is bike and take snack breaks! This morning, I ate my lunch for breakfast!

on turning 25.

last friday, october 5, i turned 25 years old. a few things are changing in my life.
here is a picture of me smoking one of my last cigarettes. i look kind of cool, but totally dumb, because of the smoking.

this was at the burlington. a new favorite neighborhood hang.

natalie was there too.

we ate rice and mushrooms and cheese for dinner. it was tasty.

my bosses at work were awesome we had delicious sushi and everyone said happy birthday all day long. friday evening proved to be even better!

it’s also donald’s birthday! my little (bigger) brother

don and dad love to talk and eat (at the same time!)

aunt sallee and mom are really serious about their dessert. no fun here! chocolate makes you cry! (kidding!)

this was gerard’s early birthday dessert.

here is a handsome man relaxing during dessert. (we ate at lula, surprise surprise)

this was my regular birthday dessert.

christmas card (POSSIBILITY)

better christmas card (POSSIBILITY)

classic!

most hilarious picture ever.

sarah and emily came to visit me at work for lunch on saturday. here is what they got to eat at fan si pan. it was also tasty.

here are my roommates hanging out

on sunday we rode bikes

and wore tennis shoes

it was a good birthday weekend.

surreality

sarah is one of my dearest, and we’ve been having the best adventures for awhile now.

last night might take the cake though.

we decided to meet up as castaways as one ought to do sometime in the summer. there, we heartily enjoyed talking with our waiter — just to prove how creepy the internet is! only sarah will appreciate that, but since she is one of the longest readers of said blog, i think it is ok.

after drinking church lemonade at castaway, we decided to go on a walk. there is a volleyball tournament at north avenue beach this weekend. we sneaked inside and looked at the grounds in all their post event glory. among other things, we saw plates of roast beef that had been left to rot, larger than life gatorade bottles, and really giant fake volleyballs.

then we walked to the break wall and saw between 300-400 geese, who looked like wooden geese sculptures until we were within 3 feet of them and they started to make noise and move.

then we sat down on the beach, and an old man with googly eyes and an open security shirt offered us cold gatorade, fresh from the cooler.

then on the bikeride back to logan square, we saw about 5 million cabs on cortland street, which is weird.