I’m confident that I own just about every type of shoe imaginable. Flats, heels, snow boots, sandals, and wedges all crowd my closet, but one 
shoe that is noticeably absent is cowboy boots.
I suppose living in Chicago doesn’t warrant a pair of cowboy boots from Cavender’s, but what should it matter? Are Uggs really a necessity? What about 3 inch platform sandals? There’s really no good reason for me to have either except that I think they are cute (because believe me, it certainly isn’t because those sandals are comfy)!
There’s no real reason why I can’t pretend to be a bad-ass in the middle of spring with a pair of pink skull & cross bones cowboy boots. Absolutely no reason.
When I was in college, my roommate, Stacie, and I used to take bike rides all the time. I admit that it was primarily a social event. We would bike from one dorm or apartment to another visiting friends and grabbing dinner, but exercise is exercise and our regular route was about 15 miles round-trip.
I remember that Stacie had a bike that she picked up on sale at Wal-mart and I had a bike that I got free from an employee promotion at my summer job, so we weren’t exactly riding in style on lowrider bicycles in fun colors. I don’t even think we bothered to chain them up when we weren’t riding and I know they sat on our balcony in the snow all winter and were a little rusted by spring, but I did buy handlebar streamers in pink and purple to try to make mine a little cuter!
If I were to get a new bike now, I would ditch the boy’s 10 speed in a hot second for a beach cruiser from CruiserStyle.com. Besides being unbelievably cute, they are well made and can be customized with fenders, baskets, decals, and my favorite, streamers! It might take me a while to work back up to a 15 mile ride, but I think me and my pink cruiser would make a name for ourselves around town.
For the second winter in a row, my windshield wipers have crapped out on me. Both times have been after a big snow storm, but I swear I clear the snow off my windshield before I turn my wipers on!
I look like I’m driving around town in an old jalopy because the wipers are stuck in the up position.
In the past week, Chicago has gotten snow, thunderstorms, sleet, snow, rain, and now dense fog. I am so fed up with winter weather that I am about to put Mike and I on flights to New Zealand were we could be 
enjoying beautiful 80 degree summer weather. It’s a 12 hour non-stop flight from Chicago to New Zealand, which means I can go to sleep when I board the plane, and wake up in paradise!
New Zealand has beaches, hot springs, vineyards, lakes, fine dining, fruity cocktails, and cabana boys. If we feel nostalgic for winter weather, New Zealand even has ski resorts.
The National Weather Service has issued a winter storm warning for Chicago, which sends every meteorologist in the city into a tailspin, including Amy Freeze.
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHICAGO HAS ISSUED A WINTER STORM WARNING…WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 6 PM CST /7 PM EST/ THIS EVENING TO 6 PM CST /7 PM EST/ FRIDAY.
LIGHT SNOW WILL DEVELOP ACROSS THE AREA THIS AFTERNOON. SNOW WILL INCREASE IN COVERAGE AND INTENSITY BY THIS EVENING AS A STRENGTHENING STORM SYSTEM ACROSS THE SOUTHERN PLAINS BEGINS TO TRACK NORTHEAST. HEAVY SNOW WILL BE POSSIBLE FROM THIS EVENING THROUGH FRIDAY MORNING…AND THEN WILL TAPER TO LIGHT SNOW AND FLURRIES FRIDAY AFTERNOON. STORM TOTAL SNOWFALL ACCUMULATIONS WILL RANGE FROM 5 TO 7 INCHES FROM EVANSTON TO MORRIS TO PONTIAC TO 7 TO 11 INCHES FROM GIBSON CITY TO FOWLER INDIANA WHERE LOCALLY HIGHER AMOUNTS CLOSER TO A FOOT ARE POSSIBLE.
Depending on where you live, they are predicting 5 to 11 inches of snow tonight, which is quite a bit of the white stuff, but why must every weather event turn into “STORM WATCH 2008!”?
It’s the meteorologist who cried wolf. I never know whether to stop at the store for toilet paper and milk or just ride it on with what’s in the fridge!
