They just opened the rink at the zoo this year! I haven't been yet, but I read about it.

I know. I know...

I refused to buy any of the dolls, but I am the BIGGEST enabler! Ooooh! You should get this one! Look at her bedroom set!!

Bundle up!! And while you're here, stop by Lincoln Park Zoo for the light display and brand new ice skating rink!

If you can see the outline of your belly button, go up a size, honey!

There's that stupid face again! Who is telling young people that mouth-breather is a good look?!?!

I interviewed for a job at Playboy HQ in Chicago in the late 90s. That place is a trip! Boobs everywhere! Sculptures, paintings, photos. Nekkid ladies IN YOUR FACE! Like, you're walking down the hall to HR, and, oh hey, there's a a 3D nude hanging on the wall (guess which parts were jutting out into the third…

I have little boys, but I love the tea! I took my nieces two years ago for their birthday and my cousin's daughter about 10 years ago.

It was right off Michigan Ave., but close! :-)

Water Tower Place. Michigan Ave between Chestnut and Pearson. Bring ear plugs and a cattle prod.

Water Tower has the worst entrance anyway! Too many lookie loos and dawdlers.

You know they moved it to Water Tower Place, right? Where Lord & Taylor used to be.

I am an unashamed Pinterest whore! But then again, I'm a stay at home mom with two young children for whom it is physically impossible to throw a simple party of any kind. I also enjoy making fun of some of the more ridiculous Pins, however. These are some of my favs:

Three floors? Pshaw! In Chicago we roll with SEVEN FLOORS in our American Girl store MUTHA FUCKERS!!!

Viktor Petrenko.... Sigh...

A Facebook "friend" (guy I apparently went to HS with but have no memory of whatsoever) posted this article today with the vow to never watch A&E again.

They left my James Dean calendars, though, right?!?

True story: A friend of ours went on a trip to Rome several years ago and came back with gifts for us. When he gave me mine, a plastic, hexagon-shaped box with a picture of the pope on it, I said, "This is awesome! 'Pope in a box!'" Then I opened the box and found a gorgeous red, handmade wood Rosary, that he bought…

This has got to be a ruse, right? Actor/comedian trying to move his name up in google? Please tell me, Heath Hudson, that this is not for real.

I heard a lengthy interview with DiRogatis this summer, just as Pitchfork was set to kick off. I was floored by the amount of information he had uncovered, about which nothing had been done. And one point that he made struck me pretty deeply, the park where Pitchfork was held this summer, and where R. Kelley, headline…