Free again
I spent a perfectly lovely afternoon wandering around Chicago with my sister. The best part was visiting my friend elizabeth who works in the makeup dept. at marshall fields. we got makeovers and had fun playing. I managed to restrain myself, my sister bought LOTS of products.
then we came to my apartment. i had assumed (silly me) that I would get time there BEFORE they came over. Not so much. So some things weren't well hidden (or hidden at all) and there was a prevailing sense of clutter. Ah well. Both my sister and her husband were amazed at how big my apartment was, and my sister and I ended up smoking cigarettes together in my sun room. Which was surreall. Trust me.
Then they took me and my boyf. out for mucho fancy dinner at Ambria. It was, of course, excellent. and we all had fun. Less stressful then usual, though there were some tense moments. And, of course, it would be the time that we got the less-then-amazing waitress.Which continued a trend--other than elizabeth, we endured mediocre help all day. and we only went to fancy places. At one couture shop where I don't think you could find anything for less than $1,000 we were treated like shoplifters even after my sister made a request. And then--despite being open later "by appointment" if requested, they kicked us out for closing--quite rudely. This was after a really pushy saleswoman at coach effectively talked us out of buying anything (the security guard, on the other hand, was very helpful) and we had a rude cabbie. It was kind of amazing how everywhere we went the salespeople were clearly the "b-list" staff.
Ah well. Its the type of thing I never really care about but my sister obsesses over. Sigh.
off to work.
- posted by Heidi @ 7:57 AM