May 26th marked 1 full year in Chicago.

May 26th marked 3 full years of marriage.

(forgive this edit. I’ve not gotten around to fully editing them…for three years.)

May 26th marked 1 full year of action packed life that seemed dull while it was happening but now seems like rather a blurr of pizzaz.

May 26th marked the first time Naph and I have celebrated our anniversary on the actual day. The past two years we’ve either traveled or waited 3 months to even do anything exciting….which actually was because we were on the coast of Chile. suffering, I know.

In other news:

I’ve been trying to think of things to do for this summer. My greatest downfall is that Hubs will be gone for all of June and much of July on tour. SO I’ll be all by my lonesome. Last year Hubs went on tour 1 week after we moved here so I’ve been through this before. I just thought I’d be much farther along on the “having friends” thing. I do have some, we are planning on doing things, but I fight the sensation that I get when I feel like I’m sounding like a burden.

So instead of picking up the phone and calling to see if people are in the mood to hang out, I just sit and watch Law & Order (every kind) and eat fudge-cycles.

Anywho. A girl in the Bible study I’m attending said that she has great ideas of things to do if you’re all alone, don’t want to hang out with people, or watch tv, or play a game, or be on the computer. So that should be interesting.

Do you have any suggestions for me? Things to do, places to go, people to see? or not see? or talk to? or not talk to?

“We love to talk, or not talk, we could not talk all day and still have nothing to talk about.” – NAME THAT!

I am planning on hitting up some free concerts at Millenium Park and maybe hitting a few sessions of summer dance with the old point and shoot. That should make some interesting documentation. It did last summer:

This is from Zoey DeChanel’s show as She and Him. It was so packed people had to pass their strollers through the crowd in order to get on and off the lawn.

People tried identifying themselves for late coming friends with colorful objects. It was everywhere! And really smart, actually. It would have saved us a lot of time in trying to explain to people how to find us, especially since AT&T had all cell phones jammed b/c there were too many of us all in one place.

These next few are some of the ones I took at the Punjabi summer dance. It was phenomenal.