Monthly Archives: April 2010

Take Me Out to the Ballgame

April 30, 2010
Take Me Out to the Ballgame

I used to collect baseball cards. In fact, I had so many baseball cards that I needed a special “baseball card binder” to keep them in. In middle school, one of my favorite excursions was a trip to Atlanta, Georgia to watch the Braves play; John Smotlz was super-hot, and I dreamed nightly of autographed baseballs and season tickets. Sadly, I settled on going to one game, and before too long the shine had worn off, so to speak. Apparently, when living in Chicago, being a mediocre baseball fan is unacceptable, or at least frowned upon. But even though I’ve been in Chicago for 6 years, only 1 member of the Wetzel household has taken a true liking to...

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Bittersweet

April 27, 2010
Bittersweet

Speechless is an appropriate term for how I felt this weekend. Morose is an appropriate term for how I felt yesterday. Emotional embodies both. I’ll explain. As we all know now, I turned 30 last Friday. It ranks in the top 2 of all birthdays, and was filled with loads of fun, friends, food, and wine – my very favorite things. Hubs had quite a few tricks up his sleeve, as expected, and surprises were aplenty. The first was an out-of-town guest, our good friend Todd who we met in Italy almost 10 years ago. Todd lives in Pennsylvania and made the trip, and seeing him was birthday present enough, but it didn’t stop there. I found what at first glance looked to be a puppy leash (I know – I won’t stop with the puppy nonsense!) in my bag once we were back from lunch, or perhaps an...

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Feature

The Gut Buster

Eating good, healthy food is an admirable goal. It’s a really good goal. Sometimes though, it’s just. so. dang. hard. Ya feel me? Exhibit...

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