The League

If you don't watch The League, you should get involved.  It's a show about a group of friends and their fantasy football league.  But even if you don't do fantasy football or even like football (i.e. me) you will still like it.  Its on FX on Thursdays at 10:30pm EST.

Last night the cast was at a bar near our house for Monday Night Football.  We had a great time hanging out with them, here are some of the pics. 

Now we need your help...WHO IS THE GUY IN THE PICTURE BELOW???  We recoginze him, but can not think of his name!!

It will always be the SEARS TOWER

Since Josh moved here he has wanted to go to the Skydeck at the Sears Tower.  So the other day I lost a bet (don't bet on the Bears!) and was forced to go.  I have nothing against the Sears Tower, but paying $15 and standing in a long line of tourist really isn't my thing.  But the purpose of our visit was to visit "The Ledge"!  The Ledge is a glass box that extends outside of the Sears Tower on the 103 floor.  

I didn't think it would be a big deal, but once I got close, my body seriously shut down.  You can tell yourself that its glass, and your brain says its fine, but your body just wont do it.  Here are some pics from our adventure, please notice the fear in my eyes!

Jackass 3D...

Date night this week included Jackass 3D the movie...it was much better than expected.  Very quick, and lots of funny things that are not included in the previews.  But definitely not for the weak stomach

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Open House

A new piece of real estate recently came on the market, so if you are looking for a place in Chicago...

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This is the former home of the original Playboy Mansion, after Hef and the bunnies moved to LA the building was broken up into condos.  Now for only  $2.9M you can own a 3 bedroom / 3.1 bath condo in this historic building!

Click on the source above for more pictures of the inside

- K -

Quote of the day...

Life is short
Break the rules
Forgive quickly
Kiss slowly
Love truly
Laugh uncontrollably
And never regret anything that made you smile

Author: Unknown

Karlie's quotes

So, I don’t know if all you knew this or not but Karlie is a very funny girl and she likes to keep me entertained. When we first started dating she used to say some silly things, most of the time, without thinking first!

The latest quote from Karlie really had me laughing and I felt like I should share…

"Hey, they are playing Raiders of the Lost Ark in the park in a few weeks, let’s go watch it,  I've never seen it, I have only seen Return of the Jedi and Revenge of the Sith."

I just started laughing.

More quotes to come.

- J -

Scary Gary

As some of you know, Josh and I took a trip a few months back to Gary, Indiana to see the childhood home of Michael Jackson...

Seeing Michael's house was cool, but Gary was one of the scariest places we have ever been.  So we were not surprised to read this headline...

"Tigers Taken From Gary Tattoo Parlor"

Apparently 4 tigers were found in a Gary, Indiana tattoo parlor. 

I think someone has seen The Hangover one too many times

Oprah don't go...

...because when you do, you will take all of the other celebrities with you!

A few weeks ago Drew Barrymore, Cameron Diaz and Kourtney Kardashian all dined at Frontera Grill.

AND Oprah and Tom Cruise ate at RL

Obviously we didn't see any of these people, but its fun to know that they are here!

Field of Dreams

If you have an extra $5.4 Million you can buy this...

Jonathan Daniel/Getty Images

Ray is finally selling the farm...

Its only 3 and a half hours away from Chicago, hopefully we can make a trip our there before they sell it.

Banksy in Chicago

Ok, so I know the blog is supposed to be from Karlie AND Josh but she has done all the work until now. Here is my first post, and I think I have chosen an appropriate name for it. :)

Karlie sent me the link from Chicagoist about a cool underground street artist that is new to me and I dig his work. He recently made his first appearence in Chicago and Karlie was not sure where exactly, so I did a little research, turns out his first Chicago piece was done only 1 building from where we just enjoyed some great pasta, Vivo. Anyway, I decided to walk around the Meatpacking District (and yes, it is an ACTUAL Meatpacking area, get your mind out of the gutter) here in Chicago and I found this cool looking piece.




I walked around a bit more and there were some pretty cool photo ops but I think we need to upgrade our camera first. I kinda broke our camera a few years back so our zoom is pretty lame and too much sun gets into the shot, and yet I digress. Here is the link that Karlie sent me and a link to the artist website as well.

Chicagoist link to Banksy

Banksy Website

I am not sure how to end these blog things so....farewell for now.

-j

What do you think, ya own the place...

A few weeks ago we went to the cubs game.  The day started like this...

We we're very happy to be there

Half way through the game, we looked over and guess who was standing next to us...

Yep...thats Tom Ricketts the OWNER of the Chicago Cubs

He was very nice and signed a bunch of autographs.  Meeting him must of been good luck because Josh FINALLY got to see the cubs win!

Forget Disneyland, THIS is the happiest place on Earth

Number 7

Congrats to our little neighborhood restaurant, Alinea , for being voted the seventh best restaurant in the WORLD!

According to the S. Pellegrino World's 50 Best Restaurants 2010 list, Alinea is now the number 1 restaurant in the nation.

At around $225 for dinner we're not sure if we will ever dine there, but ya never know.

Quote of the day

Sunday May 2, 2010


Josh: "hey Pen, Happy Mothers Day!"


Pen: "IT'S MOTHERS DAY????"


Josh: "Ugh...I think so...maybe?"


Pen: "Really? I don't think so"


Josh: "Well...Happy 1 week before Mothers Day!!"

Something New

Every Wednesday Josh and I try to do something new.  It doesnt always work, but we do our best.

A few weeks ago we did this...

Our first ride on the Water Taxi.  Great cheap way to get from my work to Michigan Ave.

If you are sad...

DON'T  watch this movie...wow big tears.  Read the book instead, I didnt cry near as much

CHICKEN!!

Big news...The Chicago-area has officially broken ground on the first Chick-Fil-A

The Aurora location is scheduled to open in August and the locations in Orland Park and Wheaten will open later in the fall. They plan to open 6 locations in Chicago but they are not sure where. We vote for Lincoln Park!

Silly Roxie

Free Bagels

Einstein's Bagel is giving away a free Bagel and Schmear now through 5/2. You can get a coupon by becoming the company's Facebook fan.

You can find the coupon on the options tab.

Enjoy!

The big O

If you have a social death wish, Kitty Kelley the author of the unauthorized biography of Oprah Winfrey will be signing books Monday, April 19th, 12:30pm at the State Street Borders in Chicago (150 N. State).

We personally, wouldn't mess with Oprah...

Roxie's Buddy

Roxie had a sleepover this weekend with her friend. Here is her and Wisco messing around

Martinis, Muscles & Poutine...round one

The Gage vs Kith & Kin...round one


We love the Martinis, Muscles & Poutine at Kith & Kin (where Josh works) so we thought we would try out the same meal at another favorite place, The Gage. Its too early to pick a winner, but for now enjoy some pics from our dinner...