modified 20:30
Today is a rather odd day. Well, I guess a lot of weird things happened today. First off, I had this really vivid dream that I was cleaning my room, and I was doing a good job. And I woke up really inspired to clean my room. All day I've been wanting to clean my room. And for those of you that know me, i NEVER want to clean my room. Then at work, one of my meanest clients was suspiciously nice to me today, calling me 'The Queen of Reports' and engaging into giggly conversation about the American Girl Place. Later on, when we went to lunch, we went into the elevator to go down, and there were no lights at all in the elevator, except for the floor number we pressed. It was REALLY spooky, because it was pitch black in there, and we were half expecting the doors to open to the gatest of HELL (I know for most of you it's probably a Penthouse Letters dream, but it was spooky). When we finally got out, there was a maintenance man waiting there and we told him that there were no lights in the elevator. He had already known about it. Then he told us 'Um, if you see that there aren't any lights in an elevator, it would be a good idea NOT TO GO IN.' Hey, we weren't paying attention when we were going into the elevator! But we could definitely see his point. Then, at Taco Bell, there was NO LINE. There's always a line at Taco Bell! When we were walking back to work, we saw two guys, in the middle of the street, struggling to hold on to this rope that was attached to something. Upon passing, we realized it was a rope that was holding up this scaffolding that this man was on, which was hooked up to the building that we were eating lunch in. The man looked pretty worried, and the guys were yelling at him to hold on. Kinda freaky. We didn't want to stick around to see what happened. Also on the way back there was this car that thought that it was going to beat the light, but didn't, but ended up getting caught in the intersection (you know, THAT person). What was funny about it was that it was 2 old ladies in a sportscar. When we got back to the office, Sam found out that he had to leave ASAP to a client site in St. Louis. It's a 6 hour drive. Poor thing. And after he left, I found out that he had forgotten the directions that I printed out for him. So I had to call him and read them off for him. To top off the day (so far) I went to the convenience store and found out that they have no more Sabrositas Fritos!!! Oh the humanity!

I'll be extra careful today going home!

As for yesterday, we took the girls out to Lou Malnati's pizza (and they were AMAZED by the deep dish pizza, but the loved it). After that, we took them to the Shedd Aquarium. I never knew it was so hard to keep track of an 8 and 4 year old. The 4 year old wouldn't let go of my hand the whole time, so it was hard for me to take pictures. And the 8 year old was running around the place like nobody's business. I would see something cool, like glow in the dark jellyfish, point it out to her, she'd glance at it, and say 'cool' and run away to play with the 'interactive' stuff. Then the 4 year old would want to do what her big sister was doing. Hey! We're here for the fish, not the words that light up when you press a button! Oh well. They still had a great time. And it was a good work out keeping up with them. We then drove around downtown Chicago, and which my little cousin said 'Chicago is the best place in the world, you guys have ALLEYWAYS!' Um, yeah, right...THAT'S why we're a great city. But the girls were so cute. Even after making an ice cream run at 9 at night, and watching Monster's Inc 2 nights in a row, it was all worth it. They left early this morning, and it was so cute, because they were crying because they wanted to stay. Awww...

Tonight is an EXCELLENT night for television. BEARS ON MONDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL!!! WHOO HOO!

Posted by Yano at October 7, 2002 05:05 PM