Grill

icky is getting his grill done this morning. Hopefully he both lives
and stops peeing on things in the house.

rip

Howard Zinn and J.D. Salinger in one day, what a bummer. I still have
good intentions to start my copy of the people's history of the united
states any day now.

Icarus or a MacBook

So I had a sort of impulsive thought the other night involving a Macbook. I have wanted one for years but have been too cheap to pull the trigger since i can get a windows one for so much less. However my current laptop is starting to fail and has to be plugged in all the time and Someone depends on it quite a bit for school, including a class this semester that requires you to submit an essay in the last hour of class. I am worried that without a plug someone might have a computer failure and get an F in the class. So Sunday night I put it in my cart, but then had second thoughts about the 1000 dollars it would cost and removed it.

Thank goodness because then this week we had to take Icarus to the vet. He has been crying a lot, acting weird and worst of all started peeing on all kinds of things. I know from experience that male cats are predisposed to getting urinary tract infections so I was afraid that might be the cause. Well that issue hasn't been answered but in the examination they found he has a broken tooth(WTF, how did he break his tooth?!! Was he in a bar fight I don't know about) and the extraction will be about 500, the other tests etc about the same.....
now if i can only get Icarus to send emails and wear an apple sticker.

Christopher Buckley

I love Christopher Buckley's books and I stumbled on this article at the Daily Beast:



http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-01-25/the-audacity-of-oops/p/

birthday dinner

yummy!! To put the icing on the cake of the crazy suprise party that
Bo threw with lots of help from the rest of the family my mom made my
favorite dinner!!! For those of you ho army familiar that is salt pork
and crock pot mac n cheese with some beans on the side. I love salt
pork and can usually only guilt trip my mommy into making it on my
birthday!
I'm very lucky!! Thanks to all my friends and family that made this a
birthday i will never forget. I'm going to refrain fromm posting
pictures from the party because the embarassment factor was quite high!!

The Chicago connection

tried this little pizza place out at first and bullard in te center by
Savemart. It was delicious!!!!! The corn meal crust was really good
and for the quality and quanity of food the price was good also. The
owners were there and were very friendly and very nice. The place was
squeaky clean, I just had a leftover piece and it was still delicious.

Mike's Pizzeria

I just dropped in the Mike's pizzeria(on west and shields) and got some yummy minestrone soup. They are always so friendly and nice in there and I enjoy their food. Their minestrone soup and fresh bread is the perfect answer for this weather. I also enjoy the other location on shaw.