hey liz - sorry i didn't call you back, i was on the plane when you called on monday. i got up at 4 on monday morning to catch the rochester direct to MPLS and was back in chicago by 9:30. hope everyone had a thankful weekend!

so last night i went grocery shopping at around 11 pm at the mexican grocery store 3 blocks from my house. i normally don't go there because the selection is small and the produce isn't great, but the prices aren't bad. I usually get beer or wine there on weekends nights when i'm on my way out because it's so close by. When it's warm out i go to a produce market for all my fruits and veggies, and to the jewel for dry goods and meat, but it's been too cold to bike or walk all the way over to those places lately, so i had to go to Edmar. When i went to check out the two girls working started joking in spanish that normally when i come in i only buy liquor, so they were relieved to see that i actually eat too.


ha ha ha.

so LAST night i had a dream that i was at my parents house and there was a rattlesnake in my parents bedroom that bit me. on each hand. my dad caught it and took it outside and killed it, but it was awful and hurt a lot still. but dan was there to check out the wound and tell me if it was going to be okay or not. which was comforting. and then suddenly in my dream there was this whole bit about my grandma and how we were moving her from a nursing home back to her farm and i had to go help with the move, and i thought the people weren't being very careful with her because she's pretty old and fragile. i don't remember anything really about what happened next.

no more tummy aches, i'm all better and i'm SUPER excited to be going home to minnesota this weekend!!!! i'll be there from thursday morning until monday morning, and i think it's going to be so fun. a friend of my mom's has a big letterpress that she bought from assissi heights some years ago, so hopefully i'll get to spend at least one day printing at her studio. i've been making cards and statinery sets lately, mostly as christmas presents, but if i get a lot made and actually like the way they look, i might try to enter a DIY show in chicago and sell them. it would be really nice to be able to print on them though....

maybe i'll see some of you soon, maybe i'll post another letter from kristin.


l8r!

Sorry you feel bad Gin! I have a stupid cold, and can't breathe through my nose now. That sucks.

Nothing much going on here. Training at work is pretty boring. Although we have finally moved on beyond learning how to surf the internet and check email! If you have any questions about how much you have to work to be eligiable for social security benefits, I'm your girl!

In other news I got a SUPER cable deal from chater. I got the biggest value package, which is 250 channels, all the HBO and STARS stuff for 40 dollars a month! The deal isn't actually offered in Rochester, but the internet let me sign up for it, so they had to honor my confirmation number. Rock. I hate charter.

Some people from work and I went out thursday night since we had vetrans day off (I love the feds!) and in case anyone is wondering, yes, it is still lame here.

ugh. going in to work a little bit late today because of extreme nausea. i wish i could take the whole morning off, but i have a guy coming in for an interview at 9. poooooo.

i had a dream last night that i ran into marie at a kmart in chicago. it was across the street from a new fleet farm where they had an indoor shooting range. marie had just moved to chicago and was recovering from a crazy night of drinking in old town. it was a fun dream.

i don't think these saltines and coffee are doing their job of calming my uneasy stomach like they are supposed to. uuuuuuuughhhhhh. i don't want to go to work!!!

Atlas

I guess it's now my turn to hold up the blog.

It's Friday and I'm getting ready to leave work and I'm just SOOOOOO excited for the weekend. My taining buddy at work, Anna, just left to go close on a house. Makes me feel somewhat inadaquate to be older and still renting. But hey, what are you going to do? My apartment rules no matter what. I'm helping her move in tomorrow morning. I'm really really excited for her.

My dad called last night sitting next to the Chicago Region Chief Appeals Judge for Social Security. They are good friends, I guess. So I talked to the guy, he seems nice. I love the Greek Mafia, and am now going to be the youngest head of all of SSA. Well, maybe.

I have been sending out emails to my Korean buds, and I got this email from one of my fellow teachers son, who I hung put with many times over the year:

Hi. I'm Poo Reum. Do you remember?

I hope you back in Korea again. If you back, you teach me English. (Lisa writeing. only alone~~~~~ very difficult~~~~~~I'm tired.T.T)

I' hope go to you in minnesota sometime.

Good-bye. I love you.(me too.) Please write back.

I miss being adored as a rock star!