Sounds like a great weekend! Your plants look great out on your balcony...and the drapes and placemats and the napkins. Remember how I used to always tell you that you should have a cooking show? Maybe you should have a crafty-pants show. I would watch. I would learn. But even without your show I will be inspried.
BIG HUG!

I meant...inspired. Whoops!

you're moving? staying in the windy city?

Totally understand the part about "JOSH'S FRIENDS." Lots of the people we hang out with here are "*JUNIUS WORTH'S* FRIENDS" and it can get annoying.

Also, you're moving? Staying in the windy city?

When Brad and I first moved in together he would never use any of "my" dishes, especially the coffee cups. He would dig through the cupboard to get on of "his" for his coffee. It was irritating that he did this because it made me feel very separate and alone and rejected. It took a couple of years for him to realize that those cups were now "ours" together.
I completely understand your feelings of not having "your" friends here in Chicago; I've been here for over nine years and still have very few of them. Most of my friends live very far away from me. It's very difficult not having them close by like before. You should stop differentiating between "his" and "mine" and start seeing "ours". Make his friends yours, too, and you will have friends here that are yours. Hold them at arms length and they will always remain "his" alone.
I'm a stranger to you. I'm friendly with Josh. But I hear from people how wonderful you are and I read your posts ever day. I've gotten to know the metallurgist from this medium. I would be sad if I thought you would reject the friendship of this coffee cup simply because I knew Josh before I knew you. If you felt I had nothing to offer because of some arbitrary criteria like a timeline, because my route to you was not as direct as you would have preferred.

3rd pic down - So, you're friends with Miranda from Sex & The City?