A bittersweet goodbye...

Well, its official, Kelly and I are moving back to Milwaukee.  Home (bitter)sweet home!  Now don't get me wrong, I am really excited to move home.  Our families are there.  Friends and new opportunities will offer themselves.  I'll be able to watch more Wisconsin sports. 

On the other hand, I've lived in Chicago for over 6 years now and have had great experiences and made many lifelong friends, gotten into some shenigans and have made great memories.  We have had countless experiences, and amazing memories, and in our last 2-3 weeks left, hope to make a couple more. 

Some of our highlights include the South Side Irish Parade, eating so much great food, brewery tours, BBQ's on friends' decks, and so much more.  I'm not sure how much we can do/accomplish in the next few weeks, but I know that were gonna try out best to make the most of it.  I'm gonna start this saturday by going to tour the Koval Distillery.
 

Lent

The Lenten season is upon us again.  Last year I gave up drinking all alcohol.  It was fairly difficult in the beginning, but the longer I abstained, the easier it became.  The more people that I hung out w/that knew about it, the easier it became as they accepted it more and more. 

This year, I'm attempting to not really sacrifice, but to do more.  Meaning, I intent to work out more often instead of giving up alcohol or sweets or something along those lines.  In a way, I guess I'm sacrificing some lazyness for my health benefit.  I've always wanted to run a race although I now have come to realize that a marathon or even a half marathon is probably not in the cards.  However, hopefully this can be the catalyst towards a 5k in the spring.

I still may try to give up meat on fridays since I can still never remember each year.