i love spending the day.  

i really just followed my whims today.  i walk to milwaukee to catch the milwaukee, but it's taking forever, and there are so many rude men making me uncomfortable, so i just hop on the blue line to damen.  i explore for awhile, go to kinkos (yes this is my idea of exploring). then i have lunch at this new vegetarian restaurant called mana food bar with a friend i haven't  seen in a long time.  i devour this delicious thai watermelon salad.  this is mint, watermelon, and cucumber heaven - who knew? then i sneak into alliance bakery -well not really sneak, i don't know why i put it that way - and have a hazelnut fudge cupcake that disappears too soon.  i sit for a while, reading my new employee manual for my new job at a certain athletic club and then decide to move on.  

i walk back to milwaukee through the wicker park fest and get on the bus to chicago, then the chicago bus to mies van der rohe.  it's just a block east of michigan avenue, but there is the nicest park with lots of shade and welcoming benches, just feet away from tourist madness.  i am reading and waiting for my friend who works in the midst of the tourist madness at macy's in the water tower.  after a few, i walk over into the water tower and into the lindt store and splurge on a few truffles.  (i'm reading eat, pray, love, so i've been pretty liberal with the pleasure i get from food) then i go to the 8th floor to look at sheets and ultimately blenders.  i have my eye on a magic bullet.  i think it will change my life. 

 i wish i had a gift registry.  i would definitely put the magic bullet on my registry, and a cuisinart food processor, and special knives too.  i haven't been wanting to get married as much lately, but i still really want a registry. i think you should be able to have a registry even if you're not ever planning on getting married.  just because you're not having a wedding doesn't mean that people won't want to buy you stuff.  right? sometimes i want to buy things for people, for no reason, and i think,  i wish they were registered somewhere.  why, i just thought that yesterday when i was thinking of my friend amanda.

 

my friend who works at macy's is off now, and dying to get out of the mall. so we chat and walk to the red line to take it to belmont and eat delicious thai food at duck walk.  i tell him how i happy i am that he is living in chicago now. we agree that it's so nice to have good friends around who can just pop over and always have something to talk about. we walk to broadway and he has had a long day so he leaves to go home.  

i suddenly for the first time in a long time feel lonely.  i had spent most of the day by myself, perfectly happy about that.  joyous even.  i actually really love being with just me.  but i felt for a brief moment that i wished i weren't walking down broadway alone.  

then i saw world market.  something about that place just makes me happy and  i didn't even go in.