Wow, 12 days since my last post. Sorry for the lack of activity here, but I just haven't felt like posting much, not a lot has been happening. I've had new pictures to load that I took just over a week ago, but never felt like moving them from my camera until now.

My half sister and her husband were passing through Chicago last Friday, so they took me out to dinner, and I got the chance to show them my apartment. Of course, that meant getting all my "fall" cleaning done to make the place presentable, lol. Once it was clean, I took pictures of my apartment. Although it was the middle of the afternoon, because of how my apartment is situated, I don't get a lot of direct sunlight. Therefore, after moving the pictures to my computer, I had to lighten some of them up. I don't even remember if I used the flash or not, I'm sure I probably would have, but who knows or remembers at this point.

So, to get everything started, here's what you see when you walk into my apartment starting out looking straight and turning to the right:

Yes, that's a fireplace by the sliding glass door

As you can see, I have a lot of cd's, lol

My tiny kitchen, perfect for one person

Here are the two pictures I took this afternoon of the Rosemont Water Tower about a block away from my building. I can stand at our windows and look out on it. These pictures were taken from the top of the parking garage behind our building, so I could get an unobstructed view of the tower. You can also go to this link to see the article on the Chicago CBS website about the water tower being named "Tank of the Year."

I was right, I did have a couple pictures that I hadn't posted yet. These next two pictures are the view from my balcony. If the sun is shining enough tomorrow, I'll try to go outside at lunch and get a better picture of the water tower. It's actually painted quite nicely.





It's been quiet here the last couple weeks. Just working and watching football on Saturdays (college) and Sundays (pro), baseball at night (GO CUBS!!!) As I type this, they just tied the score in the bottom of the 9th.

I signed a new lease for this apartment, so I'll be here for another year. I jokingly asked the customer relations gal, Dawn, what their policy was on murder...if they would terminate my lease if I were to murder my upstairs neighbors. I think for just a second, she thought I was serious, lmao. If they don't stop doing laundry and vacuuming at midnight on Sunday nights, I might just threaten them with bodily harm.

Hopefully more tomorrow!

Not 5 seconds after I clicked publish, those Cubbies won the game!!!

Go Cubs go...go Cubs go...hey Chicago what do ya say, Cubs are gonna win today!

Here's the last (I think) of the pictures I took on my walk a couple weeks ago.

School where I vote

This is actually a backyard. There used to be a German Shepherd in the backyard that would bark anytime someone walked by. No dog now, but the yard is still overgrown.

Here's a charlie (squirrel) climbing up a tree

I also saw a couple pictures on my computer that I'm not sure if I posted for you. Tomorrow night, I'll go back through blogger and see if I've posted them. If so, then I'm out of pictures for now, unless I find something else to take pictures of. Perhaps the water tower I mentioned in the picture of the plane landing by my office building.

Playing Ketchup!

Ok, so maybe that should have said "catch up," but do any of you really mind? I had to open another window to see when the last time I posted was, because I couldn't remember! So my last post was last Tuesday, right before I went to Indianapolis for the day on a business trip.

My trips to Indianapolis always seem to be interesting, lol. I started out by having my alarm JAR me awake at 4AM. I drove to the airport, parked, went to my gate (I had already printed my boarding pass Tuesday night) for the 7AM flight. Amazingly enough, it left on time. And...it arrived EARLY! Can you imagine? A domestic U.S. flight actually leaving on time and arriving early? It so rarely happens these days, it's shock when it does happen. Since my salesman was just leaving the hotel (he wasn't expecting me to be 20 minutes early), and wouldn't be there for about 10 minutes, I perused a book store for a few minutes then went and sat outside. This was a day trip, so all I had with me was my itty bitty purse and a notebook.

The salesman, John, arrived, and off we went to visit the customer. This customer is one I've gone to visit once a year since 2004 when I started working at Metal One. The customer is a stamping facility that makes the tops, sides, bottoms and ends for caskets. They have about 60 employees, and she is in charge of most of them. They are located on the border of Indiana and Ohio, about an hour and a half outside of Indianapolis. We chatted for a few minutes, then headed off to an early lunch.

Afterwards, John and I headed back to Indianapolis, for the second part of the trip. We were going to the warehouse where we store coils for that casket stamper, to do physical inventory. We needed to go out and physically account for every coil the warehouse said was there, and make sure it matched what we said should be there. It was about 95F that day, and at least that hot in the warehouse, plus we had to wear hard hats while out there (you never know when a coil might drop on your head, lmao.) Everything went smoothly, no missing coils, no extra coils, everything matched up, just as I figured it would. This place is really good about that stuff. I love dealing with them.

My flight home was supposed to leave at 6:31pm, arriving home at 6:41pm. No, it's not a 10 minute flight, lmao. There's an hour time difference between Chicago and Indianapolis, so the flight home was actually going to be an hour and 10 minutes. Note I said "supposed to leave at 6:31?" Yeah, that would be because it didn't actually leave then. First it got delayed to 6:47pm, then to 7:12pm, then to 8:21pm, then to 8:55pm. Argh! We did finally board by 8:55pm, but I'd had no dinner because by the time I was hungry enough to think about it, it was too late to go get anything. And the only place to really get anything was at a little restaurant in our concourse. Anything else, I would have to go back through security to walk to the other end of the airport. No thanks, I just wanted to get home by then. It probably took us another 15 minutes to pull back from the gate, then another 15 minutes to actually get out to the runway and take off. Fortunately, they were able to get a more direct route to Chicago, so the flight was only 30 minutes. I still didn't land until about 9pm, then had to walk out to my car and drive home.

I walked in the door at 10pm. I put 2 pieces of bread in the toaster, put some peanut butter on them, ate that while I got ready for bed, and was in bed asleep by 10:30, lol. I was exhausted the next day at work, and again on Friday. But I got all caught up on Saturday. After my stream Friday night, I was in bed at 11:30pm, slept until 8:30 when I moved from my bed to the loveseat in the living room cause it was darker there, then slept until 11:20am. I love love LOVE getting 12 hours of sleep, lmao.

I did pretty much nothing, nada, zip all weekend. My aunt is still trying to get over bacterial pneumonia, so I stayed home again on Sunday. Yay! I got to watch a full day of FOOTBALL!!!!!!!!!!! Too bad Da Bears sucked, but Dallas won big! Woooo hoooooo!

So that brings us up to today/tonight...it's raining, cool, fall like temps (where's summer go?) and I can go back to posting more pictures, cause I'm sure AK will want to see some more very soon, lmao. (Do I have any more pictures to post? Hmmmm, I'll have to look.)

Here's some more photos of where I live. These are pictures of the pond/lake that is at the one end of the golf course. While taking these pictures, I had to make sure I stayed out of the way of three golfers, who weren't too happy I was wandering around the course while they were trying to play through, lol.

You can just barely see part of the road on the left, that takes you out to the main road. On the other side of the pond/lake are townhouses. One just out of the picture was on fire several weeks ago. Last I saw there was still a chain link fence around the building so people wouldn't go in the building.


Here's a little bridge for the golf carts to cross to get over the water. You can see how green the grass is, and it's all done by natural watering this summer! Normally on Aug 26 the grass isn't this green. It's normally all burnt up, as someone I know likes to say.

Another view of part of the lake/pond.

As you can see, we have plenty of water, but not too many mosquitos for as wet as it's been.

And last but not least, the view you get if you go out for a walk on a Sunday afternoon before the garbage men have a chance to come Monday morning and empty the dumpsters, lmao.

It's a slow holiday weekend here in the U.S. and Canada. I've just been lazing around, reading and watching t.v. Here's some more pictures I took last weekend on my walk around my neighborhood.

Beautiful blue sky!

Golf Course around my complex

Another part of the golf course

Anyone got $429,000 sitting around?