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| Since this is a post about nothing, I thought I'd share some pretty incredible / crazy street art we found hidden away in the back streets of Chicago this past weekend. It's quite a statement, no? |
People always ask me why my writing slows down in the summer, and my response has always been that when the weather gets good, I get outside. It’s hard for me to spend any extra ounce of time in front of a computer when the sun is shining and the birds are chirping. They really need to come up with a computer screen you can read in the sun without glare, because then I’d blog from the beach! In all seriousness though, I realize that this is perhaps a bit selfish and contradictory to what “we here” at CGC are all about – sharing insights into food and lifestyle in Chicago (and beyond). Which got me thinking I should probably share what I’ve been up to lately…
Since my last post I’ve visited three restaurants on my 2011 Dining Wish List, (which deserve some well-articulated coverage, and will have some as soon as the words come to me – see below). I’ve also discovered a gem of a restaurant which wasn’t on my original wish list, but probably should have been – and have dined there twice in the past two weeks. I’ve made some key decisions about the design and furniture updates we are making to our living room and dining room, planned a vacation to California for August, and taken friends out sailing. I’ve had fun trips to the park with the puppy, discovered a new favorite recipe, and had many, many friends and family over to see our new place. I’m feeling slightly exhausted from all the activity, but at the same time invigorated by it all. And it leaves me in a writing conundrum I’m coining as “Blogger’s Guilt”. A friend of mine who also has a blog and now a baby boutique was lamenting with me recently over this exact point. As a blogger, when life takes you for a wild ride, it’s easy to have fun until you realize you should be writing about it all, and then the twinge of guilt sets in, and then the overwhelming conundrum of feeling incredibly lost on where to begin sets in, until you feel paralyzed with writer's block – or as I call it, Blogger’s Guilt. This is my attempt to rid myself of said guilt. I set out not sure if I’d even post this, because who wants to read about my excuses, with no real content or helpful material. I decided though, that it’s better to be honest and human. So here I am. I am blogger, hear me lament. So, where to begin? I’ll begin at the beginning, as soon as I can keep my fingers to keypad long enough. J Soon. Even if I have to go out and create that glare-free computer screen myself.
