It’s weird how you have such highs and lows all in one 2 day weekend

Saturday everything sucked since my home computer decided it no longer wanted to startup. Changed out the motherboard/power supply, computer fires up, and now disk is corrupted. nice. Good thing I’ve been burned by this before and have everything backed up to my server, so I hopefully wont lose any music/files or more importantly, pictures that Jen and I have from vacation, honeymoons, family events, etc. I really didnt feel like re-installing this week, but it looks like that’s how things go.

The BETTER part of the weekend was downtown. We spent the afternoon at a Germanfest, then off to the Bears game. It was an up and down game, Bears scored first and then ended up trailing most of the game. We had *awesome* seats too (thanks Jen!) so we were like 20 yards from all the action. 4th quarter, Bears are down 14 points w/ 9 minutes or so to play. People are starting to leave. Bears hold on defense then block a punt… so on and so forth. Here it is 4th down, 25 seconds to play in the game, Bears at the goal line. Pass to Berrian. TDDDDDDDDDDDDDD. PAT made, all tied up with 20 seconds to go. Broncos get a nice pass down the field to get them to midfield, next play, false start, 10 second run-off. we’re going to OT. Bears win the toss and march all the way down to the 20, line up a Robbie Gould FG, GOOD! Bears win, after being down 14 points with 9 to play. Offense looked horrible, defense looked horrible. Special teams once again saves them. It was a great game to be at! So much fun!

And to top off the good weekend, today is Jen’s birthday! happy bday sweetie!

Its been so long since Jen and I were able to get away for a day and do something enjoyable on the weekend. Normally its housework, laundry, yardwork, or some birthday party, etc

This weekend we had tickets to go see Dane Cook at the United Center. But before we went to the show, we figured we’d stop for some dinner in Chinatown. It was goooooooood. Went to Royal Dragon on Cermack/Wentworth. I’d recommend it. And at 6:00 on a Saturday night, there was hardly anybody in there. Some sweet & sour chicken, sesame chicken, and chicken fried rice! Then back to the car to find I had about thismuch space to try and get the car out. Made it out w/o using the other peoples bumpers and on our way to see Dane. Traffic sucked as downtown chicago traffic normally does, but we made it there just before showtime, only to find out he didnt end up going on stage for another 45 mins or so. Awesome show though, Jen and I were near tears for most of it. Then the LONGGGGGGG trip back home. It was a really enjoyable evening though.

Then sunday was just putting the Halloween decorations away, and beginning to bring out the fall/xmas stuff. Before you know it the xmas decorations will be up. And trust me, we have TONS of that. probably 8 large bins of stuff!