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| holiday weekend |
| 07.02.04 (11:04 am) [edit] |
Holiday weekends suck ass. I'm sorry to be unpatriotic and unAmerican and all that stuff, but the traffic around here is a nightmare around holiday weekends. Add to the 4th stuff the fact that the White Sox are at Wrigley Field today, tomorrow and Sunday.The good thing about living near Wrigley Field is that you can walk to games. These are also pretty friendly neighborhoods with relatively affordable rents. The bad thing is, we can't afford tickets, we have two kids too small to go anyway, and the traffic gets just nuts. I kind of wish I had the forethought to make plans and stuff, but I hadn't (as usual). Despite the commercials forcing information about sales and barbecue-goodie specials, we really can't spend any money. Oh, and the forecast is rain, rain, and more rain (what the hell?). Boy, I sound really cranky; sorry about that. Hopefully the weather will hold up during the day so we can at least take the kids to a playground, and maybe even the zoo. (The Lincoln Park Zoo is free, which is amazing, and has a brand new Regenstein ape exhibit opening this weekend. Supposedly, the apes have special buttons they can push to force puffs of water or air out over the audience. I'll report back.) Anyway, I'm going to take a nice long shower and then Danny and I are heading to the burbs to do some shopping with my mom (she's buying me clothes for my birthday). Then it's back to fight the game traffic to pick up Jakey from summer camp. Maybe we'll head to Dominick's for a $5 pizza tonight. Here's wishing a sunny, low-congestion holiday weekend for everyone.... |
posted by: almsthvn (reply)
post date: 07.02.04 (4:54 pm)
It's s'posed to rain here, too. Hard to think of free things to do that get you out of the house. Maybe I'll cover the floor in plastic tablecloths and let her loose with the fingerpaints. Afterwards we'll go outside and rinse off in the rain while singing songs from "Dog". It's guaranteed fun!
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