I won a Thurston-sized stuffed pug at a raffle last night. Her name is officially Lovey, so you can all get those awful thoughts out of your head. The only thing wrong with her.......she doesn't snore.

Perhaps Thurston and I can make ring tones as an arts and craft project for the weekend

Not ... taxidermy? I ask because we have an awful lot of taxidermists next door in Wisconsin.

Listen, Museum of Science and Industry has a Harry Potter exhibit on. Going?

A few choice pics:


It was cold and rainy so what did we do?




The Lurie Garden was in full bloom. Awesome!



Lovey on her way home:


When Thurston saw me at the airport he got super excited then IMMEDIATELY pulled Lovey out of my bag and drug her across the dirty LAX sidewalk. (Blury iPhone pic)




My hotel room was on the top floor of the square building behind the Marina Towers. AWSOME location!




I have TONS of pics of "The Bean".




And, of course, a pug. Gracie is a pupy mill rescue and it very shy but SUPER sweet.



The entire Chicago set is here.