confession:

every time i see harry's toy mouse in the middle of the living room in the middle of the night:




i think its a real one:



and it kinda really freaks me out.

omg australia!

guys. i am going to australia this october. get excited.

saving my pennies

over the weekend, i took my jar of coins to coinstar.

well. actually, i made tim carry my jar of coins to the nearest TD bank because they have coin machines you can use. and i was really excited because my coin jar was overflowing.

but their coin machine was broken. and tim and i were left standing in the middle of the street. with two very heavy coin jars. and i was on the verge of tears because i was so excited about getting money.

so we found the nearest coinstar.

in the middle of this very weird grocery store on northern blvd. it was like i was in the suburbs. but stuck in the 80s. it was dark. and the layout was weird. and i almost had a panic attack with all the spacious aisles and full-sized carts. it's just not natural.

and then we had a race to see who had the most money.

i won.

$51. (and only 13 quarters in the whole jar! i pick them out for laundry. obvs.)

also. i have been trying to pack my lunches this week to help save my money. only i left this morning's lunch on my bed. so i guess harry can enjoy that pb&j sandwich all he wants. sigh.

you are no liza.

i dragged tim to see arthur with me on a sunday morning.

and you know why i did this?

because they filmed a scene of this movie on my street. on my street. in front of my apartment building. and omg, more than anything in the world, i wanted to see my apartment in a movie. my cute little apartment building was going to be in the movies! and then i was going to announce to fb that my apartment was in a movie. and everyone was going to be really jealous. and it was going to be the best day ever in my entire life.

instead. my street was not in the movie. i don't know what happened. but it wasn't there. even worse, the love interest in the movie was so boring and dull that i felt the need to shout out "you ma'am are no liza" every time she appeared on screen.

(i also punched tim in the arm any time there was a cameo from a semi-famous person. JOHN HODGMAN! DYLAN LAUREN! NOTED FASHION PHOTOGRAPHER NIGEL BARKER!)

i hate today.

guys, its april fools' day. and i HATE april fools' day. you cant trust the internet. you cant trust tv. you cant trust anyone!

surprise

so i planned a little surprise for alana's going away party this saturday. you see, tim has been mia for like two months. and none of our friends know where he is or what he's doing or when he'll be back.

but he managed to hop on a train from dc to nyc saturday night. and show up halfway through alana's beer garden send off.

AND OMG NO ONE KNEW HE WAS COMING. and he just walked in. like it was no big deal. and everyone was like OMG.

i spent all day saturday feeling like this:



i freakin love surprises.


ps: i did break down and tell chee. but he was going to leave the party! and i panicked.

lovely weekend was had by all, chicago edition.

airport rendez-vous with kisses and gummies (plus some slow motion running.) super cute hotel room, located blocks from oprah's apartment. lazy breakfasts and naps with movies on in the background. jimmy's gyros. being an assistant electrician AND learning how to use a walkie-talkie. sprinkles cupcakes and the inevitable tummyache that follows. massages and surprise fajitas. learning that the french own everything in the world and are the absolute best at everything. standing in line for an hour to go to the aquarium (seeing dolphins now makes me cry, thanksfornothingthecove, but i loved the white belugas.) and ending it all with a snazzy dinner in the posh part of town.

it went by much too fast.