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i love you mom

blogging out from warrenville!

so this weekend jess and i house/dog sat. it was good, and really relaxing. we mostly laid around, grilled out tons, and watched tons of cable, and drank some too. but really that is all we could ask for. this was jess' first weekend since starting school, and i have been needing a break from work. ideally we prefer a quiet weekend, so when we can do so, we go for it. today may have been our only day of really running around(aside from friday, where we had to drop off jess' laptop at the apple store). today we went to breakfast at the warrenville pancake house, one of our fave diners. and then drove back home. after we settled and put all of our stuff back(one nice thing about house/dog sitting, is that we get our laundry done!), i rode my bike back to my mom's to finish watching the house/dog. since jess has school and work tomorrow, it would have been a very busy morning if i had to drive her back to aurora before i went to work(in wheaton). so this way, i can just ride my bike to work, and then ride it back home after work.

here's some random things...last week we sent out a package of vegan goodies to someone in france, well he already got them, and we are going to be getting some french vegan goodies soon! also, i got a new shirt and some new deadformat stickers last week: my sister in-law amie is getting her blog on nowadays and recently posted about brayden having a great time at a carnival! check it, he looks so adorable! also, you'll see i added kevin's blog to our list of friends, and he recently posted a good pic of his work(read: my new tattoos, DUH!) this weekend i was lucky enough to touch base with my buddy ben, which i play mean phone tag with. in fact, all my friends that live more than a stone throws away, know i am really bad about keeping in touch now that i have a really weak phone plan(300anytime mins, and only free weekends). so it was nice to hear from ben!

so tonight, jess and i will be reminiscing of the days when we were separated by hundreds of miles and only getting to see each other for days at a time, while we talk on the phone and watch intervention, thankful that we are merely a 40min bike ride apart. life is wonderful.

republican for thirty minutes

so today my mother gave jess and i two free tickets to go to a rib fest for local republicans. oh my goodness jess and i couldn't have been more out of place, but when you are on a tight budget and free food is your best friend, then look out red states here we come!

i had two and a half slabs of ribs and three huge cups of beer(budweiser, ewww...), and jess had a smattering of everything they had to offer. and the highlight of the day was when jim oberweis offered us some ice cream!!! i have mentioned oberweis in one of my early blogs, when he lost a recent election. anyway, free ice cream from the man himself.

ok...back to reality.

we love free food, we are the exact opposite of republicans, but this was such a fun time, to just eat our food, people watch, and be thankful we know better than to vote for mccain!

thanks mom!

Al's Pizza!

last night was wonderful. i picked up al's pizza for jess and my mom, and we ate like starved animals. nothing is better than looking forward to food like you have never eaten before and getting together with the people you love and scarffing it down. we sat around and made numerous trips to the pizza box until there were merely scraps left. i of course ate the bulk of it, being the scavinger that i am, but no one was left hungry i can assure you! we watched the tv and talked and enjoyed eachothers company. it was fun and simple, warm and cozy. occasionally having to deal with a hyper puppy trying to jump up or lick our faces. why the hell do dogs like licking faces so much!??!?!?! anyway, the day begins, and i wish for the coming home part to begin. oh goodness....tonight we are eating vegan sushi though! WHHHOOOO HOOOOO!