Weekend Update

Friday night Nate and I got dinner at Crust, then headed over to Country Club Chicago for the May or May not CD listening party and art opening. MOMN had several friends and artists do a piece for each song on the new album. All the pieces were great, and it was nice to do something a bit out of the ordinary. I haven't been to an art opening since SF. Afterwards, we went to Happy Village for drinks. Torri and out of towners Matty and Jori came out, which ruled. I drank too much cheap red wine at the opening so I ended the night with a headache.

Saturday was super lazy. For some reason Nate and I woke up at 8 am and couldn't fall back asleep. We took Audrey for her first excursion to the nearby dog park. Basically it was lots of Bucktown types (read: yuppie) drinking coffee and letting their dogs run wild. Audrey wasn't as active as she used to be, and I think it's because the dog parks here are concrete instead of grass. She had the typical anxiety at first, so Nate and I had to separate so she wouldn't get psycho protective of us. We spent about an hour there, had an enjoyable walk back home, and just sat around all day. I napped for hours, he went to band practice, he came back and then he napped for hours. We were in bed before midnight.

Sunday we went to Best Buy to get Nate a new digital camera so he'd have a working one for the trip to SF. Then we bought Audrey her birthday present: a brown sweater with embroidered blue dots. (photo on left. No Audrey did not become a pug overnight. Waiting for Nate to send me photos of her in the sweater.) Red Dog House, where we went, also had those twisty 'flossie' treats Audrey loves, that I haven't seen around Chicago. This store has been around for maybe 6 months and is only two blocks away, so I'm sort of ashamed I hadn't been in sooner. However, it's good I don't go in because I typically go way overboard in spoiling Audrey. So happy early 3rd birthday Pup!

The rest of Sunday was spent either at Cleo's eating, or on the couch watching baseball. Unfortunately I had to do some work from home Sunday night, which is never fun. And now I'm back at work again for another five days of ultra library excitement. Only two weeks until my Minneapolis trip, and three until my SF vacation. I can do it. Oh and only one week left of Nate being in 9000 bands and having practice every day. Life's lookin' up.