WE'VE DONE IT AGAIN!

With Henry's admirable assistance, Trevor and I have again found ourselves in a Chicago magazine! It's really extended our 15-minutes of fame to a couple of months, and it's so much fun! This time we're in The Real Chicago, which featured my friend Kelli in their last issue--she owns a painting company and they were doing a feature on small business owners--so we're in good company! Apparently you can find the magazine all over the north side, in coffee shops, 7-11s, local bars, etc (that's what the publisher told me, anyway), so pick up a copy!

Other news is that Trevor decided to stay at Pettersen instead of accepting a Studio Manager position at another photo studio. Pettersen was so reluctant to let him go, they countered their own offer 24 hours after they put it on the table! He was the most popular boy at the dance, and it was terribly exciting! So now, we just have to get those Home Depot folks to calm down and be normal and everything will be okay!

We had Trevor's college friend Adam Schizzle-Ottavi visit us for a bit from New York City! It was a lot of fun; we got to all have dinner with the famous Jen Davis before she leaves for YALE and graduate school (yes, I said YALE. She's so Ivy League), which was a hoot and a half, and Adam and I got to eat breakfast at the Flying Saucer while Trevor drank a martini and waited for his flight to leave for Atlanta. Fun was had all around! Also, Adam seemed impressed with the scarf I'm knitting for him, which is good. Now I just have to finish it before the weather turns!

I started classes this week, and it's going well so far! I've had one class each of my 3-hour class, and I'm still worried that I'll never really have enough to fill up an entire class--both times I've been 10-15 minutes shy, and I even did more stuff the second section! I may have been talking faster that day...but the 2x a week class is just perfect, so I'll just have to jam more stuff into the other 2! I'm still getting used to this schedule; it's so strange for me to be home during the day and leave to go to work in the middle of the afternoon. It just feels strange. But it's been great hanging around with Henry in the mornings--we discovered that Eckhart Park up the street has an informal meeting of pooches every morning! It's been great because the park is huge and Henry can run around the entire square block of field like the horse he is, chasing other dogs, being chased by other dogs, or chasing the tennis ball I try to throw very far for him. It's great--20 minutes and he's so pooped he can barely walk home (then he lets me get work done at home because all he cares to do is sleep. Ah, a dogs life!) Also, I've discovered (though I really can't take any sort of credit for it) the Swim Cafe, across the street from the Ida Crown Natatorium at Eckhart Park. I've gotten coffee there the past couple of mornings after our park time, and it's terrific! Great coffee, delicious pastries (I couldn't resist), and a serenely decorated shop that made me feel like I was wading around in a fish bowl. Really, it was pleasant.

Trevor and I are also talking about getting a new car--a Rabbit (newly re-released from Volkswagen)! It's pretty exciting. We're probably going to wait a couple more months to get a 2006 for a bit less $$, but soon enough we'll be zipping around in a little silver Rabbit instead of a one-eyed purple people eater! Although it's going to be really, really, really hard to say goodbye to my purple people eater. I will miss her. A lot. Ugh.

Well, that's about all we've got right now! We'll post more soon!