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Two Part updated today:

Part One:

I'm not dead yet!

The swelling is going down, and I'm slowly looking more humanish. I'm still on mush for food (ok someone out there owes me a pan grilled steak when I can eat solid foods again, I SWEAR!) but I'm surviving. Staring to get a bit antsy as I've been stuck inside since the operation, and the IV sedation stuff has finally (I think) worked it's way through my system. Eating has been interesting but it's all good now, won't disgust you with the details. So yes, I'm alive and slowly doing well.

Part Two:

Continuation of the trip story

Jan 2, 2004

So I wake up several hundred miles from where I was the day before, and for the life of me SWEAR I could hear my girlfriend laughing upstairs, look at clock, 9ishAM. Hmpf. She's up early, better get moving, I would rather spend time with her than sleep at this point.

Start wandering around in early morning mode (I.E. I'm not awake, half asleep and I'm being deadly silent as I don't want to wake anyone else and leave them in the same stupor as me). Make it to the living room, notice that my girlfriend is not up, but my girlfriend's mother is. Decide to have a seat, make it half way into the room and she looks up and is startled to find me half way into the room.

Good Morning

I sit down and we talk for a good while before anyone else ventures forth from slumber. It was a good morning. Even saw my girlfriend groggily wander to the living room and instinctivly curl up and try her best to fall back asleep curled up with me. It's wonderful to not be dating a morning person, that would make my life so much more difficult, and shes dead cute being groggy in the morning too ;-)

Ended up going to a fantastic all you can eat stir fry place for lunch though, absolutly fantastic. If you are ever North of Chicago and need a place to eat, give me a ring and I'll tell you the name! (namely right now I don't remember it)

Rest of the day passed rather lacksidaically, don't remember all the much happenening. Mom called and let me know about a giant storm heading our way, and told me I should probably try and stay a day longer because driving home at night, with a rear wheel drive truck with a light back end into a snow storm is just NOT a good idea. Trust me.

Jan 3, 2004

The day started about the same as the day before. Good deal :-D And ended up going to the Science Museum with my Girlfriends Older Brother, a friend of his and my Girlfriend. Had a blast, tons of pictures and just fun wandering around in the museum. Got there early and went through the U-505 on the last day they were going to be touring it before they started in on the new enclosure for it and stopped letting people through, and the "Mine" exhibit before lunch and the crowds hitting. Great fun. Had lunch and meandered throug hthe rest of the museum. Saw the Christmas trees still up and lit (have some pictures). Saw the baby chickens, to which my Girlfriend said "I want a baby chicken, please?!" I hugged her and didn't say much knowing full well that was the best course of action. They were bloody cute I have to give them credit for that! And saw the giant model train set that's STILL up. w00t w00t! To which I said "Can I have a train set like that!" It was finally agreed upon the more baby chickens I buy my Girlfriend, the more model train stuff I get. Honestly, I think I'm getting the better end of this deal ;-)

Ended up getting done about 4ish, and headed to the gift shop, where I told my Girlfriend (she was still talking about the bab chickens) that if she found a baby chicken I would buy it for her. Low and behold, she found a baby chicken. Almost as cute as the real thing, but definatly much less hassle ;-) She got a baby chicken that day, and I got a train (it's on my keychain currently replacing the giant string bauble I had) So it all worked out

Ended up having dinner with her family that night. It was quite a production, all the younger than parent age folk got draffted to help with making manicotti. It was good fun, and tasted awesome as well. Ended up telling stories after dinner, and apparently was privleged to hear my Girlfriend's father not only laugh out loud (doesn't happen often), but he or the first time in the lives of my Girlfriend and her brothers, told a story about his childhood. It was quite an honor and a privlege.

After all that we went over and played scrabble for the rest of the evening, in an amusing experience of a computer scientist, a rocket scientist and an english major on a team ;-) you can probably guess how we did ;-)

Another wonderful day :-)

Jan 4, 2004

Wake up, getting quite standard now ;-)

Ended up sitting around most of the day and just chilling out, quite nice and enjoyable. The snow was coming down, and was just a good day to chill out and be kind of a vegitable. :-D

Did end up going out to eat with Mojan and her husband Eric, for dinner. And ate at a chinese place ;-) hehehe the odd traditions that are slowly growing around me. But it was quite an enjoyable evening.

It was a bit odd, I was the "odd man out" being at a table with mostly english majors and being the only person at the table with a technical background. You know as different as it is from my normal environment. It was nice and good. I didn't have to talk shop at all, got to listen in and be a fly on the wall :-D. Wow. The conversation that evening was good, and a great way to wind up my visit to Chicago. Next time though I'm going to have enough time and energy to make it to the temple with my Girlfriend :-)

Thus ends another day to which I was excedingly happy an enjoyed

Jan 5, 2004

Woke up, see above EXCEPT. Birght and early the carpet cleaners came around to clean the carpets and try and get a stain up. In the end we were drafted to help move stuff around and it was all good, glad I could be of help though. Ended up wandering out and taking care of a couple things and then driving home.

About it really, not much else to say.