February 28, 2008 by kim.

Okay - I’m not trying to slack off on my blogging duties, but I think I’ve been fighting something for a few weeks, and when I come home from my temp job as an Executive Assistant…I’m pooped. Too pooped to think, let alone write. Hopefully, with enough rest this weekend, I’ll be back to my feisty self.

In the meantime, loyal fans, I’ll entertain you with a pretty picture (back when I had a camera):

Taken in Fort Tryon Park in NYC, Oct 2007

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February 25, 2008 by kim.

Hey! Look what Chris found one day while poking around the internet:

See below for enlargement

He just typed my name into Google and…voila! Here I am listed on another website. Ha HA!

Who would have thought?

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February 18, 2008 by kim.

I have just HAD IT with this chilly weather. It’s been such a stinking roller coaster. It gets warm in the 30s, sometimes in the 40s, then BOOM! It drops to the teens with wind-chills in the negative digits.

www.weather.com

Do you know what that does to roads, alleys and most important - sidewalks? It causes flooding which then freezes into slick ice that can attack you when you least expect it. Especially if it is hidden under a light dusting of snow and you aren’t paying attention because you’re busy walking while at the same time putting on your earmuffs and gloves which you should have put on before leaving the house to begin with. Now, who would be silly enough to do that?

You know who.

Of course, it’s me. Let me tell you what makes the spill I took this morning even worse. My mom gave me a pair of winter cleats to put on my boots so that I wouldn’t slip and hurt my klutzy self. I contemplated putting them on, but thought that the sidewalks wouldn’t be that bad, so I didn’t.

Really - parents do know what they’re talking about. We should all try listening to them once in a while.

Distracted by my earmuffs and gloves, I didn’t see that I was walking on a concealed sheet of ice.

BAM! Down I went. My leg went one way, and the rest of my body went the other way. In what would have been a perfect shot had I been filming it, my earmuffs slipped out of my fingers, rolled slowly down the sidewalk and into the street, where they came to a gentle rest alongside the curb.

I sat there for a little while, hoping that I didn’t break my leg. Luckily, I was able to move it and eventually was able to put weight on it. I limped over to the street, grabbed my earmuffs from the oncoming traffic, hobbled to the train and was able to make it to work on time.

Oh. In case you’re wondering, no one - not a single person - asked me if I was okay. No one. Not one. Nope. No one asked Chris if he was okay when he slid all the way down the stairs leading away from the train platform last week, either, and there were more people around him than were around me today. How considerate.

32 days until spring, and boy…I can’t wait.

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February 15, 2008 by kim.

Calling all fans of Stealing Kisses! Chris was invited to upload his film to Crackle.com - a subsidiary of Columbia Pictures. He has also been entered into Crackle’s short-film contest!

Screenshot from a few days ago (the arrows are mine)

How cool! As of today (2/15/08) it has been viewed 13,360 times! Now, it’s your turn. If you haven’t seen it yet (I’m sure you’ve ALL seen it, right?), just click on this little link here.

Happy viewing!

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February 13, 2008 by kim.

What this girl needs, is a compass. How many times have I lived in Chicago now - four? Do I know where I’m going yet? No!

I was temping downtown today. It’s only my second day, so I don’t have the lay of the land yet. Not really the best excuse, but that’s what I’m going with.

Anyway, I left work tonight and it happened to be snowing. A lot. So much that I couldn’t read the street signs. Yikes! I was completely lost. I spun around in circles trying to find my bearings. Where did I come from? Where was I going? I called Chris and told him the situation. I couldn’t find Ogilvie station (Metra train station). He told me to look for the big blue skyscraper.

Are you kidding? It’s snowing and there are at least a hundred skyscrapers in the city. He then told me to go North. My response - silence. Those kind of directions don’t help me. He said that the river was to the East, and that was how to find North. I asked if the river was on my right or my left, because depending on which way I face, it could be on the right or left and North would be either this way or that way. I couldn’t even see the river.

After a big sigh from Chris, I told him I would either find the station or I’d just give up and sleep in a snowbank. He told me to call if I was going to miss the train.

All I wanted to do at this point was scream. Why could I not find my way? I even pulled out my little Google printed map, but that wasn’t going to help much if I couldn’t read the signs. I decided to take a deep breath and replay in my head how it was that I walked to work in the first place.

Finally, I figured it out. Not by street signs, but by way of the CVS I had passed on my way into work. As you can see (or read, as the case may be), I did make it to the train and home again, relatively unscathed. Only my pride was hurt.

Man. What a production.

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February 12, 2008 by kim.

Especially if your name is Kim and you happen to slice yourself on the plastic lid of the chocolate frosting you’re about to devour:

It may not look that bad, but it sure didn’t feel that great.

It’s a PLASTIC LID, people. It just shouldn’t be that sharp!

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February 8, 2008 by kim.

My brother recently flew to Colorado on United. He had two bags and a carry on. Luckily, he flew just before the new rule was enacted by United, requiring nonrefundable domestic economy ticketed passengers to pay an extra $25 to check a second bag.

Come on.

How much more can the airlines stick it to us? Already they charge for such minor things like snacks and earphones. Things that cost pennies, they charge $2 - $3 for. Snickers? $3. Crappy earphones that you will probably use only once? $2.

They of course have some exemptions, but the people exempt are people who generally have enough money to pay for the second bag. First class passengers, business class passengers, people who fly so much they get to belong to a special club (not the mile-high club)…

They are also doubling the fee for overweight packages and items that require special handling.

Wait a minute. Shouldn’t ALL of our bags require special handling? Shouldn’t they ALL be placed nicely into the airplane? I shouldn’t see them drop the bags off the conveyor belt and toss them around like the Samsonite gorilla, right?

When will this insanity stop? When we’re only allowed to pack one change of underwear and are stuck sitting two to a seat?

I’d rather drive.

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February 5, 2008 by kim.

Every now and then, I like to buy a fun magazine to read. Usually, my choice is decided by the picture on the front. Usually, that picture is of some type of baked good. This one was no exception.

On Sunday, while leafing through the coupon inserts in the paper, I found a coupon for 25 cents off of a Woman’s Day magazine. When we went shopping on Monday, I decided to use it.

This is the magazine I bought:

The price was $2.79.

With my 25 cent coupon, I paid $2.54. Not too bad.

I brought the magazine home, and added it to the collection of magazines sitting next to my bed that my mom had given me to peruse. When I dropped the magazine on the pile, the magazines slid a bit to reveal this:

Not only did I pick up the same magazine that my mom had given me, but I paid more than she did even with my special coupon:

Let’s rub it in even further:

How could I have forgotten that I already had this magazine? You would think that the Valentine cookie pops would have stuck in my head, but no. Now I have two identical magazines.

Way to pay attention, Kim.

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February 1, 2008 by kim.

Sometimes, it is hard to come up with things to blog about. It’s even harder for me now, not having a camera with which to take wonderful snapshots. We saw a lot of neat things in the past week that I could have taken a picture of and posted. Frozen bikes, a random unconnected house phone sitting outside on a siamese standpipe system, heavy snow on trees, the doughnut that I shared with Chris yesterday that looked exactly like the doughnut in the Simpson’s movie, which it would since it was from 7-Eleven and they are promoting the movie (it was a really good doughnut, too)…

It’s making me crazy! Now I have to rely only on my wit to carry me through.

Ha. Hahahahahaha.

Bear with me.

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