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Hannah Spencer is my hero. Not only was she a wonderful fun guest and Valentine's "date" (I put that in quotes because we are lesbian lovers and I don't want people thinking otherwise), but she did my dishes and set up a wonderful little Valentines thingy with champagne and chocolate and matching heart socks and hair thingies and I keep finding things she put away and tidied while I was at work and she did it all in an amazing, where I would have put it myself were I capable of putting things away, and non-intrusive sort of way. She should be my housewife all the time, except I'd have to be the breadwinner and I make no money and never will if I really stay a teacher.

Highlights of our visit once the weather allowed her to actually come to Chicago:

1. Hannah coming with me to work and playing a very involved game of imagination with bears and pattern blocks with one of the kids who is usually too cool for those sort of imagination games.
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3. Vaughan's
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5. Thinking we'd missed our pre-paid reservation for the Untouchables Tour thanks to the El randomly stopping for 15 minutes and being all ready to fight with the supervisor for our money back when we saw the bus hadn't left yet and running like crazy people and making it, and then spending the next two hours with a corny/funny old man tour guide ("Big Julie," left) and his corny/funny/crazy side-kick driver ("Ice Pick," right) going around the greater Chicagoland area and seeing the many parking lots where famous buildings in bootlegging history once stood. It was pretty much awesome.
6. Wandering around downtown Chicago in the unseasonable warmth.
7. Getting the five minute Alan Rosenberg tour after the twenty minute visitors pass and security check-in stupidity when we had the last-minute idea to meet up with my dad at his office building which happens to be the Sears Tower.
8. Long-stem red roses and silly Japanesesque drinks and yummy sushi and general Valentine's ambiance at Ra Sushi
9. Deep Blue and general excellence at
10. for breakfast and cinnamon rolls (pecans optional)

Yay for fun and friends and wonderfulness.

Next, I'm on to a loooong day of Kids Klub and then going to LA with my mom to see my sister and select matrilineal family members!

And, just to balance out the joy in life, the Four Horsemen of the apocalypse and Satan him/herself would all drive this car. It is evil and it makes me angry and hateful every time I see it.