How to See the Sun Rise

My phone broke Monday night.  I tried to upload the new apple operating system and, long story short, it erased everything on my phone and restored it to factory settings.  Again, keeping this to the short version let's just let it suffice to say that I wasn't an idiot (this time) and it wasn't a matter of simply resetting the phone and backing it up.  So I was phoneless.  In 2011.  I was against getting an iPhone at first.  I didn't want to be constantly connected; checking my email and playing angry birds while simultaneously having a conversation and driving my car on a 6 lane highway.  Weird.  That said, my two previous phones had their own slight personality glitches - the first literally had to be plugged into the wall to hold a charge (and for me to hold a conversation) and the second worked fine, as long as you didn't need to use the 4 key.  So it was time. I like to think I'm still not the emailing, game playi...

We adopted a dog.  Meet Fitzwallace.  You can call him Fitz. Yeah.  Pretty adorable.  He's a 3 year old shepherd mix from Chicago Animal Care and Control.  We had decided awhile ago that we were going to adopt, but we were waiting until I got a job and we got settled in the apartment.  Of course, with no luck on the job front and Nelson starting school a few weeks ago, I was getting antsy...and bored at home all day.  I had been bugging Nelson about going to look at dogs for awhile and last Friday he agreed to go 'look'.  I got a (probably fair) lecture on the way there about how we were not going to bring anything home that day and we needed to talk more before making any decisions.  Plus, we had plans that night to visit some friends and weren't going to be home most of the evening.  I agreed, but pointed out that if we found a dog we really loved, we'd have to act fast.  Nelson kind of agreed. About 40 minutes and 2 dogs la...