Mary

Today Josh and I biked up the Skokie Forest Preserve trail. We parked our car on Dempster and went north from there. We were about to turn around thinking that the Chicago Botanic Gardens were still a ways further along, when we saw a sign across the street indicating that we were across the street from the far side of the Botanic Gardens. Seeing as admission to the Botanic Gardens is free (they charge $10 to park a car), we crossed the street and biked into the gardens. We didn't get to enjoy the Botany, however, as we were 11 miles away from our car and expecting it to start raining soon, but we were hungry, so we went into the cafe for lunch. It was very yummy and much deserved. We were also quite impressed by how much they had blooming too--they had roses blooming amazingly enough! I'm too tired to really post more than that about the biking though. Except that also we saw 6 deer in 2 groups. It's hard to point out deer to your sweat heart:

"Deer!"
"What?"
"Deer!"
"Yeah, I heard you. What is it?"
"Deer!"

Fortunately the deer were rather tame and were not scared away by this. Urban dear clearly.

Um, yeah, photos: http://pics.livejournal.com/sillygoosegirl/gallery/0003bfhb

In other news:

I also started the project of refinishing our table. It is sitting in the second bedroom drying the first coat right now (with the door closed and the window open. Also, before biking, I took in my zip offs about an inch and a half vertically at the hips... which looks kind of odd, but makes them fit better. I hadn't been thinking of this pair as a mock up originally, but I think that's what they are. I think the next pair will fit just right.

Aside from all that, accomplishments of the day include such mundane tasks as laundry, kitchen clean up, bickering with my spouse, and rearranging the furniture in the bedroom... or actually both bedrooms since we put the dinning room table in one of them.

Last night Josh and I brought the camping pads and blankets into the living room to watch Angel, and ended up deciding to spend the night there. It was fun. It's been a long long time since I've camped out in the living room. :-)

Josh: A beautiful picture of a beautiful bride.
Me: ::sigh::
Josh: My bride.
Me: ::sigh::
Josh: Always gonna be my bride.
Me: ::sigh::
Josh: If you divorce me and you want to get married again, it's gonna have to be to me.
Me: What if you don't want to marry me?
Josh: ummm...
Me: What if you wanted to divorce me and got married to somebody else. Do you want me to be the creepy ex-wife who is always coming around trying to win you back?
Josh: Yes.

Just for the record, just in case, I figure I should have this exchanged witnessed.

When am I going to wake up and discover that it is all just a happy dream?

The suspense is killing me.

Happy sigh... :-)

Josh and I went bowling. Bowling is totally fun, and it doesn't start obsurdly late in the evenings. We bowled two games and got 3 frames into a third when Josh's rist started hurting and I decided I'd abused my leg enough (it started hurting on around frame 7 of the first game). But the bowling alley charges by the hour, so there was no feeling that we were wasting our money to leave mid game.

Josh was kind enough to let me win the first game: 110/101,
But he totally creamed me on the second game: 130/90
what can I say, my leg was cramping up something awful during the second game.

Should do that more often.

"I love you." -- me
"What?" -- Joshua
"Nothing!" -- me
"I love you too." -- Joshua

Posted: October 30, 2002