Happy Easter - with Peeps pictures!

Sorry in advance that this is all so smooshed - I've tried three times to space it out more evenly, but Blogger isn't cooperating.

I don't know what my deal is, but it feels like every year Holy Week is more exhausting. Fortunately, I've only got 2 more church services to get through, and then I can do brunch & mimosas at Evi's!

Last night Trey and I took advantage of some free comedy club tickets forwarded by some friends and saw Basile the Greek - very funny guy. We've had great luck with free tickets to the place and though there's the 2 item minimum, when you're getting free tickets paying too much for drinks doesn't hurt as much and still makes for a relatively inexpensive evening. Really the only downside was that our tickets were for the late show at 10:15pm, which was more doable than I thought. Trey was nice enough to make dinner so I could take a nap before we went out!

We made it home by a few minutes after midnight, and, as usual, all of the boys came running to greet us. Trey picked up Siggy and started rubbing him down a little, and all of a sudden said something like, "Whoa! Dude, you smell like shit!" He put Siggy down and realized his hands had picked up a less than desirable scent as well. By then I was concerned, so I sat down on the floor to play with Siggy, and sure enough, he smelled like poop.

I decided the only thing that would make getting to sleep doable - because Siggy sleeps on my pillow a lot, and if you try to shut him out of the room he screams all night - would be giving Siggy bath. So there we were, giving the cat a bath in the sink at 12:30am. Though he screamed the whole time, he was surprisingly cooperative. Willie lent moral support by sitting under the dining room table and letting out a little meow of sympathy every time Siggy yelled one out.

When all was said and done we towel dried him as best we could, but didn't put him through the blowdryer torture because I figured it was warm enough in the house. Poor cat went walking around the house really slowly, shaking his back paws as he walked, and stopping every 10 seconds or so to lick more of the water off. Fortunately when all was said and done, Siggy smelled like Pantene rather than poop.

Unfortunately, after searching through litter boxes, closets and the more remote places of the house, we couldn't figure out where the poop smell might have come from.

Ok, so that was last night. Remember last week when I was talking about the Free Peep Show going on in the one window of the Tribune building? Well, turns out they were doing a Peeps diorama contest. Sorry I didn't realize it sooner - maybe some of you could've entered it. Anyway, I know these pictures are not going to post the way I want them to, so here's what we've got:

The first is the window that was catching everyone's attention.

Sidenote - the stone to the right of the window slightly more than halfway down is from the Alamo. For anyone not familiar with the building, it incorporates all kinds of stones/building material from famous buildings around the world. The most recent addition is a piece of one of the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in NYC.

This the what you see looking into the hole that's farthest to the left. I really like the Santa Peep.

And this is what you see when you look to the hole that's the farthest right. The Peeps roasting marshmallows around a campfire it just hysterical!

Happy Easter!