Weekend Update

Thursday night I met Nate's parents. I haven't met parents since almost exactly 5 years ago, so I was pretty nervous. Overall I believe the meeting was a success. I sort of got the third degree from them, but that makes sense seeing as we've dated for 10 months and they only had 2 hours to get to know me. Then the next night it was same deal different parents. Nate met my dad and his wife. It went well, and they told me they liked him. My dad also went from "oh so you guys are like 'dating'?" to "so is he the one" in about three minutes on the walk home. Oh pops.

In addition to the dinner Friday night, I got to spend the day with my dad. He hasn't been to Chicago to visit me since I've lived here so I was nervous. He is very much a Chicago hater. I gave him a tour of my neighborhood and he was shocked. "Wow there are restaurants here! And shops! You don't even have to go downtown!" He didn't make fun of my dank apartment too badly, which helped. He even said that he thought Audrey wasn't "as bad as the last time I saw her" which is only mildly insulting. By the end of the day though he had Audrey in his lap and was baby talking her. We also went to my grandma's grave, somewhere I haven't been since the funeral almost 10 years ago.

Today I slept in then did grocery shopping. I bought a pumpkin! How festive of me. I doubt I'll carve it as I have no carving implements. Then I caught up on the last two weeks of Mad Men (yeowzas! so insanely good! Rare to see great visions of classism and sexism portrayed on tv). I was going to go to Nick's house, but at the last minute just couldn't get off the couch. So I totally ditched and have sat here ever since. I watched a crappy movie, The Chumscrubber, and now I'm watching HGTV and dreaming of having a place of my own.

The Doomsday Scenario for the CTA came out yesterday. Apparently, if they don't get the funding they need by November 4th, my bus line will be cut. Without the Damen bus I'm paralyzed. I use it to go up to Roscoe Village, down to Ukrainian Village, to the train, everywhere. It picks up right outside my house and is one of the cleaner easier bus lines. Most importantly, Nate lives right off of it as well. We depend on that bus in the winter to hang out. Without it, I'll never see him! It's like the city is forcing me to get a car. No recycling, no bus lines, this place is backwards. Hopefully my gut feeling that the scenario is all for show and scare-tactics holds true and my Damen bus will remain.

Not sure what I'll do tomorrow. Chill with Audrey and relax some more I guess. Hooray for weekends!