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I want to blog, then i get bogged down, and then i forget, and then i remember and it’s like weeks after i’ve taken pictures. Anyways..here’s a little of what i’ve been up to as of late.

Nat was threatened by HR to use his vacation days he’s been collecting since 1988 and he took a week off work the last week of October. We just stayed here, but we did do some fun things, like go to Rick Bayless’s new restaurant called XOCO. We went one day for breakfast….

Churros and Mexican Hot Chocolate



Savory Breakfast Breadpudding and Torta (nat’s)



My breakfast torta from the wood stove



This stuff was so good and relatively cheap! So if you are downtown over near grand ave go stop in at least for a freshly pulled churro!

We went back 2 days later for some dinner caulderas (soup) and tortas…we each got soup and split a torta

My never ending bowl of soup



Nat’s soup



And this is what Rick Bayless calls a to-go spoon! Nat got some apple cinnmon fresh ice cream



We stopped at home for some driving along the lakeshore into the Dunes and pumpkin carving with zander. I still need to get those photos sorted and edited. I promise i will share them when i do.

We also scored tickets to the Blackhawk’s vs Habs game on Oct 30th, 2009. I always like when they play Canadian teams..it’s always a good game, but when you’ve got an Original Six game it’ sbound to be even better. (original six in laymen’s terms for those of you who dont’ care just means they are old teams, there were 6 to start like 1912 for the Habs and 1929 for chicago) I didn’t feel like lugging my camera but snapped these with the iphone..



And here’s one of the people in front of me dancing to the Fratelli’s song they play when Chicago scores a goal (some may know this song from the movie Run Fatboy Run)



I finished a pair of socks, simple toe up socks in Vesper’s colorway Trick or Treat, Nat is obsessed with called them my German Flag Socks. Even tho he knows the german flag has red in it, it’s not stopping him.



I think this is the picture everyone seems to like better



I am working on one other pair of socks that NEED TO GET OFF MY NEEDLES STAT. They are just taking forever, the pattern is a bit fiddly so i have to pay attention to what i am doing when i knit them. I am slogging thru and this is what they look like:


Also i just wanted to add this in, i know my post is long already but that was just all pictures. My sister’s router was bad and she called Comcast. Comcast proceeded to transfer her to a “windows department”. This Windows Expert then told my sister this: “Your Windows Operating System (XP) has reached the end of it’s life, so it’s not producing an IP address for you anymore”. My sister was then told to go buy a new windows os. Convenient that Windows 7 just came out 2 weeks ago, huh? Looks like they are preying on people that if they tell them any problem is their os, they can get people to go buy windows 7 even if that’s not the problem. Creepy Microsoft and Comcast, really creepy. I told wendy to call Comcast back and tell them to get their heads out of their asses. An IP address is provided by your internet service provider. Her problem was fixed in 5 min. So watch what Comcast will tell you or someone you know with a problem, looks like they want to fool people.

Posted by Jennifer on 11/12 at 01:39 PM ♥ Comments (9)