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In list form: What I’ve been doing lately

July 23, 2008 · Filed under blog, kuma's corner, lake county fair, max and the marginalized, scoopin genesee, six flags great america, the dark knight, toynk, waukegan

Things I’ve done in the past ~~few weeks~~ month:

Went bowling for both Lynn and Ben’s birthdays
Went roller skating (Lynn’s birthday)
Ate at Bill’s Pub (Lynn’s birthday again)
Went to Toynk (got an Invader Zim figure)
Ate at Kuma’s (had the Mastodon with chicken)
Pool party at my aunt’s, to celebrate Fourth of July-slash-cousin’s high school graduation
Saw some fireworks
Saw my sister and brother-in law for the first time in a year — they were in town from Seattle
Hung out at Scoopin’ Genesee (twice)
Went Geocaching
Ate at Fong’s Kitchen
Saw The Dark Knight three times, including a midnight show and an Imax show

Things I’m going to do in the next few weeks:

See our buddies Max and the Marginalized (tonight! at Beat Kitchen!)
Go to the Lake County Fair
Go to Six Flags for a company-sponsored event

In other news… I really wish the Wordpress iPhone app would work for me. It crashes when I try to set up my blog. Not fair.

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Waukegan blows up!

February 29, 2008 · Filed under blog, explosion, sexycake, waukegan

AP Photo

Well, not the whole town, but a section of the strip mall on the 1900 block of Grand Avenue (route 132) blew up. The explosion is thought to be caused by a natural gas leak.

I won’t go into all the details here; you can read all about it on probably any news site. But this hit close to home — literally. The explosion was just three blocks from my mom’s apartment.

The story even made it over seas, showing up on the news as far away as the UK and China.

The funniest thing about this whole situation (not that there’s really anything funny about it)? Pretty much all the windows of area buildings were blown out from the blast — one window that survived is the one with the Lucky Lady cake (aka SexyCake) painted on it. SexyCake can not be destroyed!

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