A fun-filled day of sleeping

My plan was to write something here yesterday since I had nothing else to do, but instead I decided to sleep. Five days worth of walking and carrying things left me pretty exhausted and with a giant blister on the back of my ankle. I slept 15 hours on Saturday night, waking up around 3pm on Sunday. I haven’t slept that much in at least 5 years. The rest of the day went pretty much the same as that, lying around in bed and watching Arrested Development (I’m already on season 2). My one big accomplishment of the day was showering, which I’m sure you’re all glad to hear. I know it’s not very exciting to read about, but it was really very nice.

Today’s been slightly more productive, but much less exciting by my standards because there was less sleeping involved. I continued shopping for more crap for my apartment, and on my way back from that I took more pictures of my neighborhood. I don’t know quite how Chicagoans (is that really a word?) do it, but there are pretty flowers and plants everywhere. Almost every restaurant has outdoor seating surrounded by a lush arrangement of plants and flowers, and the streets are all lined with flowers. Not a single one of them appears to be dying either, which is weird because flowers tend to die pretty quickly. Look at the evidence.

It’s so pretty! It’s almost magical how they manage to plant and grow these things every single year, because I fully realize they do this to make everyone forget the horrible, horrible winters. It’s funny too, because I tried to buy winter clothing while my mom was here, but nobody’s selling winter clothing yet at all. There are a few crappy jackets here and there, but not nearly as much as I expected. People really don’t want to think about winter here at all, and that kinda frightens me.

Anyway, there are also horses everywhere. Yes, horses. Apparently carriage rides are pretty huge here, especially on the weekends. While crossing the street, I had to look out both for cars and horses, which just doesn’t seem right. Also, if I leave my window open, I can sometimes hear neighing. I also don’t really see the point of paying $60 to ride in a horse-drawn carriage in the middle of a busy city for 30 minutes. I guess that’s because I’m poor. If I had more money to throw away, I’m sure it would make perfect sense.

Also, while I was walking around I saw this place. It’s a piano bar, but I thought immediately of Amanda. I’m sure you can see the resemblance.

Hehehe. . .I totally could have put up cornier pictures, just so you know. Also, these pictures are supposed to be side to side, but blogger doesn't want to cooperate. And. . .I'm done.