Love Birds Update

Here's a very late update from this post.



These are the birds I ended up making for Ashley.  =]

Dance

Katie got me hooked on So You Think You Can Dance a couple of years ago, and now I'm realizing that I love dance so  much I need to put effort into getting to dance performances.

I'm really mad at myself for missing this:

Flamenco Vivo Carlota Santana

And I really want to go to this this Saturday:

River North Dance Chicago

In general, I just want to go to performance at Diana Wortham more often. Sigh.

It's been a while...

but sometimes something so important happens that you realize you need to blog about it, even when you haven't blogged in 1 year and 7 days (also known as 1 year and 1 week) (last year was a leap year, which is why Feb 28, 2012 was not 1 year and 6 days ago).

Anyhoo, back to the point:

About a year ago, a new bakery opened downtown, called Karen Donatelli.  It took me forever to get my butt in there, but holy ... cow.  Today I went for the second time and had the. most. amazing. chocolate. croissant. of. my. life.  And really good coffee to boot.

The croissant was filled with dark chocolate that was somehow melty even though the pastry was room temperature.  Like some chocolatier of the gods made high quality dark chocolate that melts inside the croissant while baking, and then holds on to that magical creamy consistency forever and ever.  And there's not lack of chocolate inside this delectable snack - not like those ones where there's one measly strip of hard chocolate that comprises about 1/80 of the croissant.  This thing is filled all the way through with almost too much (as if that would ever be possible) rich chocolatiness.

There it is!  Top right.  Feeling a little weepy just seeing it again.
Got the pic here.

OK I'm exhausting from reliving that experience and typing about it.  More blogging to come, maybe.