accentuate the positive

yeah... so... some pretty crappy things happened in the past 12 hours or so. but this here addition to my blog will focus on the positive.

new year's eve was a blast! many friends from out of town traveled to the great city of chicago for the festivities. i had a few to drink but nothing too crazy... just honest to goodness fun and spending quality time with friends. new year's day i played tour guide for some out of town friends. we walked around downtown and saw some sites including the sky deck at the sears tower. then we finished our play time with some giordano's pizza! mm mmm good! friday i met brian from cali for breakfast and a little shopping at tower records and urban outfitters. i always appreciate conversation with brian... in the short time i've known him he's been a blessing and just a real cool guy. in retrospect, i feel that we talked about me a lot and i wish we could have talked more about what's going on in his life. but i had a blast with him and was glad to be able to say hi to his wife leah before he and i parted ways. friday night i ended up driving out to rockford to meet aaron while he was visiting his parents. we had eggnog milkshakes at culver's and ended up spending some money at the local best buy.

in total i bought the following records:
broken social scene - you forgot it in people
over the rhine - ohio
peter gabriel - so(remastered)
the sundays - reading, writing and arithmetic

good stuff.