Went to Chicago for the weekend. Hung out with Papa Bear, Scotty Dub, Brian (who I just realized needs a nickname), Kevo “Clown Bag”, Colleen “Mrs. Clown Bag” and others.

Had a good time but it was 55 degrees and overcast. It makes me so depressed. That whole city does. I just don’t like it, and I don’t know why. It was the middle of the summer and it was still “meh”. I uploaded my 9 pictures over in the photos tab. It was nice to be in a city that actually feels like a city though. Phoenix just doesn’t feel like it. Chicago had people in a rush, horns honking, people jaywalking, nobody making eye contact… Almost like the East Coast. Almost. What I didn’t realize is how everything there operates on cash. What a pain in the ass THAT is. I love my debit card culture of AZ.

In other news, Lauren’s been in Door County for like 2 weeks. Seems like forever. She was supposed to come back the day we were supposed to move to the new house (seen in the aforementioned photos tab). However, the bank is sitting on their ass and we might not be moving in before the 1st, when my apartment lease ends. This is frustrating and concerning to me. I might have to move my shit to a storage container. That would be a major league pain in the behind.

I really just can’t wait to move into the damn house and get it over with.

Near my work there’s a pizza joint called Slices, where the guy who runs it (I think he runs it, fuck if I know) is from Boston. He cooks legitimate Boston-like pizza, and he shoots the breeze with you. I went in today for lunch and he was talking to the guy making the pizza crusts telling him that if the AL wins, crust-guy owes Boston-guy $10. I said “That’s not fair, the AL is going to win by 10″ Boston guy says “Alright, you get the AL and I get the NL and 2 runs, will you give me 2 runs?” Me: “I’ll give you 1 and a half” Pizza guy: “Deal. You win, come in tomorrow and I buy your pizza. Now I just need to have the AL win by 1 and I win both bets.”

The AL won by 1 run.

Fuck my life

A lot of things are going on in my life but at the same time, nothing is going on in my life… You ever had that happen to you? All this house stuff was taking up a lot of time. Long story short, the house appraised lower than our offer and so I’m getting it for even less, which makes me pretty happy.

Move in tentatively scheduled on the 23rd. I’m super excited but can’t wait to get it over with. The stupid hassles of moving… Forwarding mail, getting cable/internet set up, etc. And of course, the moving part. Luckily, this is my first move in the last 8 or so that didn’t involve putting everything in the back seat of a Corolla and driving across the state… or states. So I’m excited about that.

I baked some cookies tonight. The hardest part about baking cookies isn’t the break’n'bake part (which are the only cookies I make) but rather the 10 minute wait to let the cookies solidify. That is sheer torture.

Thinking about going to the DBacks game tomorrow, which will be my third of the year through the all star break. A little lower than I’d like but I just can’t get excited for national league baseball.