Category Archives: Friends and Family

May 14 2013
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Chicago Specific Fun, Food/Drink Fun, Friends and Family, Fun for Couples, Guilty Pleasures

Day 232: Froyo To Go

Ok I am officially writing too much about frozen yogurt. It’s become a big part of my life. My friend texts me when he wants it and we go. Weeknights, weekends its our social outing. We walk around Andersonville with froyo spying on all the other froyo eaters and avoiding that guy who is always cornering people to try and sell his cd.

Tonight, the froyo text is a group text. We meet several people at the Andersonville Forever Yogurt. However, we have other friends who cannot come at that moment. They jokingly request froyo to go. And we deliver. Cake batter and strawberry with Oreos and blueberries. French vanilla with cookie dough, brownie bites, marshmallow fluff and everything chocolate.

What’s fun about this is not only making crazy froyo combinations for someone else to eat but also seeing friends spur of the moment. On a Tuesday. My weeknights are just getting crazy.

May 14 2013
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Food/Drink Fun, Friends and Family, Fun at Work, Nightlife

Day 231: Closing Time

In a totally uncharacteristic move, I stayed out until 2am on a Monday. I was at an opening night celebration and I just did not leave until the bar closed. New friends and interesting conversation made it seem like very little time had passed. It sometimes feels good to do something outrageous on a work night. I certainly wasn’t thinking about my full Tuesday. I was living in the moment and enjoying myself. And that is pretty fun.

May 12 2013
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Friends and Family, Reader Suggested Fun, Travel Fun

Day 230: “Real” Photo Album

Before the big anniversary trip, a friend sent me a photo album, the kind with plastic pages ready for printed photos. Her note said it was for photos from the trip and Year of Fun. Because “who does that anymore?”

Since we’ve been back, I’ve dumped all the photos from the trip into iPhoto, played a slideshow on two different TVs from my iPad and posted an album on Facebook. All things digital. Today I was able to really look through and pick the best and funniest. I had to be selective. This album does not have seemingly endless “memory” nor is it free to “share” the pictures. Because I was printing them, I had to pay special attention to the photos and selection. I could not over share if I wanted to. 52 photos to tell the story of the trip, not hundreds. It was challenging, refreshing and fun. Thanks R!

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May 05 2013
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Friends and Family, Fun for Couples, Games, Outdoor Fun, Rheumatoid Arthritis

Day 223: Kids, Suburbs, Kids

After doing a little party clean up and recovery, the hubs and I headed out to the burbs to visit some friends and their kids.

First stop, J and A and their son in Buffalo Grove. We played soccer and baseball in their yard and a matching game in their home. Then we picked up Portillos (obviously a suburban favorite) and took it to V and J and their two children in Northbrook. After dinner we were treated to a game and a few musical numbers courtesy of their 6 year old.

I had a lot of fun and did my best to keep up with the seemingly endless supply of energy in all three of the kids. The hubs was great! Especially playing with the first boy, who is two and a half and just wanted to do sports the whole time. It’s also nice (and fun) to see friends as parents, to watch their kids grow up and to be a part of so many great families’ lives.

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May 04 2013
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Food/Drink Fun, Friends and Family, Games, Rheumatoid Arthritis

Day 222: Arthritis Party

I posted before about inviting people to a fundraising party for Team Year of Fun. Tonight was that party.

The date wasn’t a very good one for a lot of people so we ended up with a small crew of friends, many of whom had already donated. I did, however, have an iPad out at the party so a couple people donated and even more signed up to walk with me. Their donations and postings on Facebook drove other people to donate and Team Year of Fun ended having a little boom that blasted us back into second place! (Although I just checked now, since I’m writing this after the weekend, and another team has swooped in raising over $5,000 leaving us in third).

The party itself was a lot of fun. The hubs set up a quesadilla bar full of ingredients. People built their own and then the hubs grilled it for them. We played games and chatted. A few people even played a version of the 1980s game Battleship with shots of beer standing in for the ships (see picture below). It was fun to have people over, talk about the walk and spur some donations!

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