Happy Anniversary!

A year ago Saturday, I went with Liz and Andy down to Rob's parent's lake house for a weekend of Beer Die.  On the way down we went to pick up Rob's friend Tim.  Didn't understand why a single guy would be living in Aurora.  Didn't quite believe him when we were shopping for food for the weekend and he said he wanted veggie dogs.   But he was sweet even then.  Beer Die means A LOT of beer.  I was drinking and belching and just enjoying hanging with friends.  So it seemed appropriate that this Saturday, Rob was in town from LA and we went out with Andy and friends.  Unfortunately Liz was home for Easter and there was no Beer Die.  But another fun night of drinking and belching and hanging with friends.  Happy Anniversary!

Me and Tim givin' Luke a little lovin'

Luke and Andy

Man hugs

Not sure what they're up to here

Awww...

Lovely

Robbie, Tim & Andy.  Tim seems physically incapable of taking a picture w/o making a face.

Like I said...

List of Five

I found out last night that a friend works for WGN.  I LOVE their morning show.  And I LOVE their newscaster Pat Tomasulo.  He's a cutie pie and a riot.  (See his blog.  Check out the one on Facebook and poking)  Karen has said that Pat is as cute and funny in real life AND she's going to see if she can set up a tour so I can meet him.  I was over the moon when she told me that last night.  I told Tim who immediately asked if he was on my "List of Five".  He's not.  So he's no threat.  I thought I'd put out there for the record my List of Five-- the five famous people that if you met you could hook up with and you'd have a free pass from your partner.  These are totally delusional fantasies, but what the hell.  Better cover my bases.  And I did get twitchy when we went to the Liz Phair concert since she's on Tim's list. 

1. George Clooney. 

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I'm not sure there's much to say.  He's hot when he's sophisticated and Cary Grant-like.  He's hot when he's funny and goofy.  He's hot when he's gruff and dirty.  He doesn't take himself too seriously (which is my problem with some like Johnny Depp and Daniel Day Lewis).  He is simply perfect.

2. Rhett Miller

Rhett Miller is the lead singer of The Old 97s.  Now, I had seen pics of him before and he always looked too baby faced for me.  But then I saw him live.  And he does this thing with the guitar and his pelvis that makes me understand why Elvis wasn't shown from the waist down on Ed Sullivan.  That combined with his sweet smile and his voice?  Knees buckling.

3. Pete Yorn.  

You can see I have a thing for musicians.  Where Rhett has the sweet, puppy-dog-who-wants-to-please-you look, Pete has the skinny, dark, brooding look.  And man, oh man, does it work for him.

4. Jon Stewart

I've always said that the most important thing to me in a guy is a sense of humor.  And that's the thing about Jon Stewart-- objectively he's only average looking.  But he's so funny and so smart and so clever.  Oh yeah...

5. Rafael Nadal  

As Kim can attest, picking #5 is tough.  You know you only have one more slot and you don't want to waste it.  I knew it would be an athlete.  Ray Allen was up there.  So was Favre.  But Nadal's got that accent to boot.  And I love how he bites the trophy.  Such a little boy.   A sexy, sexy boy.

There's my list.  Of course, my REAL #1: