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I can't believe I'm in the 200's already...didn't think I'd stick with this so well!

Saw this rhino chameleon at PetSmart on Lauren's and my Monday Funday.  I love lizards and he is super cool -- chameleons have the most awkward, halting walk, and it's awesome.

Lucas discovered milk!

Gave myself this bruise on my thigh about 13 hours prior to this picture.  It's going to be a doozy of a bruise.  And just in time for super hot weather and shorts!  I asked Nick if it was OK to say he hit me, because it's less embarrassing than saying I opened the car door too quickly on my way to work.  (JUST KIDDING, HE WOULD NEVER EVER HIT ME AND DOMESTIC ABUSE IS NOT A JOKE.)

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Oh dear...I've been quite negligent.  Here goes nothing.

Made these cupcakes for the BBQ after the Walk Now for Autism Speaks Walk.  Thanks to Mom for helping me make the flags, which were made of Duct Tape sheets and toothpicks.

Nick, standing on Soldier Field, when we first got to the walk.  Fun note -- he designed the shirt he's wearing!!

I actually forgot to take a picture that Sunday, which was Mother's Day....so the next day, I saw Brian like this.  The poor cat always look so pitiful in all the pictures I put on here of him.

The starving Armenians, as we like to call them (minus Howie, who was otherwise occupied when I took this picture), at feeding time.  They act like they never eat every time we feed them, and they come running from all corners of the house as soon as the first morsel of food hits the bowl.

Saw this bumper sticker on the way to work.  I don't think I have loved, or will ever love, an operating system this much.

Forgot to take a picture on Thursday too...jump to Friday, when I got a pedicure with a birthday gift certificate.  Yay!

This was used at the party for the preschool teacher's.  I thought it was so adorable and clever.

It's-a me, Mario!  On Harlem and 22nd!

You can ALMOST see the rainbow!!  (but more importantly, can you taste it?)

This is in Soldier Field's main hallway.

This robin's egg was outside my car when I went to work today.  It was so stinking pretty I had to take a picture of it.  Of course, I almost got hit by a car in the process, but it was worth it!!

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So Nick lost his ID when he went to Wrigley on Saturday, and they found it (yay for honest people!)!  So I went down with him on Monday night and watched the game at Rebel.  This was my view for the whole game. We had a lot of fun, and made a new best friend with our bartender, Joe.  It was one of the best dates we've had in a while.

Dunkin Donuts is doing this promo thing for MIB III, so the straws are all black and pink.  It makes me happy.

Bonus dork picture!  Nick said to me, "EJ, go be Ron Santo."  So I pretended to be Ronny.

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Ninja apparently thinks that Brian is a fairly comfortable sleeping place.

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So my mom got this rosebush from "he who shall NEVER be named" (no, not THAT guy), and I have sort of adopted it's care.  I usually trim it all the way back in the early spring, but since we never really got a deep winter, there was no need.  It's a giant bush now, about 4 feet wide and as 4 1/2 feet tall.  It started blooming yesterday, and it makes me smile!

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May the Fourth be with you!
Below you'll see Darth Vader, Yoda, and our Ewok.

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This is a Voodoo martini from Olive or Twist (say it fast and it's a literary joke!), the martini bar in Berwyn where we celebrated a friends birthday.  Originally, it came with a pickled, spicy green been along with the lime and lemon.  A green bean!  In a martini!  What will they think of next?

I made my own black velvet!  I was so proud, because it is very difficult to keep the stout floated without mixing immediately into the cider.

This is Nick and Brian.  Brian LOVES Nick, and Nick thinks Brian is pretty cool.  Whenever Nick comes over, Brian has to come and say hello.  The only problem with this relationship is that Nick is reeeeally allergic to cats.  Hence, the hilarity of this picture.

This was taken as I was about to go to sleep, and realized I hadn't taken any pictures on Monday.

This Batman clock projects the time (along with the bat signal) onto the ceiling.  Another, "Crap!  I didn't take a picture today!" picture.

She needed to take a picture of her and the kitten for someone at work and this was the first take.  Lauren's going to be sooooo mad when she sees this up.

Howie sleeps in the funniest positions.  I love his front foot bent at the ankle, wrist, or whatever the joint is called on a cat.