I must say I have the COOLEST password for this site. Anyways....I just got back from a super-duper weekend spent in Chicago with my super duper bud Mandy MOo. I went up with Darcy, Aimee, and Charity. The drive was great....nice and peaceful...I got to blab to Charity and stuff and watch Darcy talk to Rainbow, her pet sugar glider (a kind of super cute flying squirrel, I guess). We got up there at around 2 and found her place lickety-split. Let me tell you the nighttime Chicago skyline is just beautiful. I definitely enjoyed driving up there better than flying. Don't know why. Lace and I flew up there over last spring break. I guess it's cause we had a terrible landing. We all blabbed for a while and then went to bed. Next day we slept till around 10:30 and then got ready. We ate some chocolate chip waffles and listened to some mp3's. Then Mandy showed us around. We ate at this awesome little place called "3rd Coast" and it was so good. I got this excellent salad and some ice cream. Then Moo and I went to Borders while the girls went lookin' around, and I tried to see which Lord of the Rings illustrated book Mandy might want, but she wanted to wait for one. So hopefully we can find an exquisitely crafted one somewhere else. We both had to use the bathroom pretty bad the whole time and they had one of those pay to use the toilet things so we went to Bed, Bath, and Beyond. Instantly talked about weddings. I told her about Chad and Melanie's wedding this summer--it was beautiful....

We came home and then took the girls to their first show, The Ataris. Then we drove to Joel's house for his bumpin' going away party. Yeah. Two of his friends came. "Well, I did email them all about it just yesterday afternoon.....," he said. He he. We snarfed some dip and then played the guitar and Mandy sang me a lovely Dixie Chicks song she wanted me to hear. She was gonna play it but couldn't remember so she just goes,"AH, I'll just sing it to you," which if you haven't heard is one of my favorite most lovely sounds. :) Then we went downstairs and looked at some pics. I was gonna drive her home but I am pathetic at driving aggressively so she switched me. We drove down Michigan avenue on the way back with Toby Mac and John Reuben turned up really loud and we did some dancin'. Oh, that was definitely my favorite moment of the whole trip. There was no where else in the whole world I would have rather been at that moment but with my best bud, actin like a dork, listenin' to her rap about "extreme days".......

We talked about some old eighties cartoon spiels and fell asleep to the attractive sound of my coughing. We woke up at the same time (we always do that) and looked at each other and smiled, and got up to get ready to go downtown. We went to J Crew and got some nifty stuff and took pictures of a cool piano guy. Then we checked out the thrift stores and I went and got some disgusting cough drops. We got ready to go to Giordano's, a Chicago pizza place, and I was prayin' cause it is majorly stressful drivin' down there. Charity, Darcy, and Aimee got a dose of Chicago-style drivin', that's for sure. That girl can move her little Saturn. The pizza was good stuff, and I ate more than anyone (of course.) Then MOo and I went home after droppin' the girls off at Boxcar Racer and just hung out with Joel the whole night. We fell asleep watchin' Trading Spaces and of course, listening to me cough some more. Oh yeah! MOo showed me her SIMS "hot date" and I'm in it wearing a cheesy Barbie (one shoulder) shirt. He he. She even made me have a special jam-making station. She also made our friends Andy and Brandon on there and it was TOO hilawious. Andy was all skinny with shaggy blond hair and Converse All-Stars on and Brandon was buff and bald. It was great. We left at around 12 the next day and had a nice drive home. Aimee and Charity switched about half-way or more and Aimee went a little under 100 most of the time (well, close). It was funny.

Let me tell ya bout how MOo blessed my birthday with gifts......new sport pants, a new PowerPuff Girls shirt, an AWESOME RAD Chicago thrift store shirt, three cd's with silly pics of me on them and special music for each, several home-made buttons, a new necklace and bracelet, my old Volcom shirt that I forgot I had let her borrow, a cool thrift store long city coat that she used to wear, and prally more stuff that I don't remember. :) :) :) I felt so loved!!!!!!!!!

Well, I'm sure there were simply millions of great quotes this past weekend but I don't remember any. MOo, thanks for a super time. I love you.

Emperor's New Groove quote of the day:
"He's even doing his own theme music....I'm so glad I was unconcious...."--Kuzco