Real Chili at 1130PM

Sometimes you just need Real Chili. I order the medium marquette with everything (including vinegar) and the lemonade. I'd share a picture but it went down way too quick and easy. Lots of construction at the East Wells location, but worth the walk from where you have to park. Exceptional service! - Lisa

Sawyer at the Salon

Back on the 8th Smiley and I took the dogs to a salon on KK to have their nails trimmed. Alas, aside from the copious amounts of hair they left in my car, only one of the two behaved well enough to actually get their nails done. I'll let you guess which one (and it isn't this one). 

At any rate, here are some pics Smiley took. 

A few days later, Lulu took Sawyer to his usual salon where they successfully did the trimming. 

 

        

It Makes A Rough Day at Work a Whole Heck of a Lot Better

Back in late April I finished a case for a young pregnant client and she asked how she could thank me. I told her to just send me a picture of the baby when it was born. A couple minutes ago she held up her end of the bargain and sent me a pic of her newborn :)

NL Central Champs!

Boom baby!

They were predicted  by most experts to finish last or second-to last in the Central this year. Instead? They become the first MLB team to clinch this year, and do it with a 10.5 game lead. 

I've been following this team pretty closely all year - due largely to a couple of great games I watched while in the hospital, oddly enough - and I got to see them at AmFam with Junie and our exchange student too. 

Having lived through our current 42 year pennant drought, 'm not gonna try and jinx things by predicting November ball, but this is an exciting team to watch. 

Go Brew Crew!

The Wonder Bread Trading Cards

In 1978, when I was all of four years old,  Wonder Bread came out with a set of 36 trading cards based on the new show Battlestar Galactica.

I was then, and am now,  a fan of that original series, what with the menacingly Cylon voices and the fierce Viper combat,  and in my preschool head the series and Star Wars were probably jumbled up together into a happy little sci-fi continuity.

I have a very clear memory of my parents taking me to a Kohl's (back then the company operated both retail and grocery stores,  methinks it was the one one on 15th-ish and Burnham)  because they'd called ahead and found out that location had the "specially marked" bread with the cards.  Presumably other stores ran out of the product, I was pestering my folks, and they loved me enough to humor me. 

I don't think I have any of the cards now, but the fact that it remains a short but fond memory of such a very young age,  keeps them close to my heart.