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I hit the road for SoCal this afternoon have quite a list of &^%$! [can you say hair issues?] to do before I make the early morning drive to Century City tomorrow. Can't wait.

I thought I'd try my hand at a six word memoir:

A good time all the time.

It's a nobel goal anyway. And my icon today is from last year's SCBWI Silver Ball. I'm always fascinated by the costumes every year. *Insert Wayne and Garth I am not worthy*

Will try and scrawl a few things I learn from the conference here each day.

I'm submitting to a contest this morning. Feels good to stay on track with a goal.

Here's a random pic from my trip to Chicago that makes me happy just looking at it:



And HAPPY BIRTHDAY MOM!

It all started at Buddy Guy's Legends [I know a lot of stories that begin this way...wink-wink]:



Mt Rushmore of the Blues at Legends hangs by the pool tables

My dad loves to play. This and a remote control dragonfly kept us laughing:



The skittles/diet coke geyser [You know how I love geysers!]

Then...a little later. Well, you know what they say about best laid plans? Um, the walking wounded that is our family tossed in the towel on the whole fancy-smancy-dinner at The Renaissance Hotel [scene of our rehearsal dinner] and hung at home for a fun celebration with take-out pizza from Connie's. Here's the Round-up: Mom-a little episode of heat exhaustion-Dad: Shingles in his eyes and ears and face-Mark: dislocated shoulder with a torn rotator cuff-Me: Um...I think it was food poisoning-Mx: healthy by day, but later that night would burn her hand with the hot tea water [and, across the pond, showing solidarity with the family Mike: my oldest bro while touring London visited the hospital for a possible Deep Tissue Thrombosis, but he turned out to be fine:)]



Mom Turns 80!



Make A Wish!

Fun at Millennium Park on Venetian Night:





Took an El ride to The Second City for an awesome show "No Country For Old White Men" HAVE to check it out! SO funny and after the show they stayed and did a bunch of Improv. Mx and I didn't get back to our hotel until 2.

View all birthday pics here.

Going back home. No feeling like it in the world. And I literally got to stroll through my old home, now in the throes of a major renovation. The new owners were so sweet and took Mx and I on a tour. I took pictures of things I didn’t get a chance to before Mom and Dad moved. Pictures of things I only now wish I had.
Here’s one:



My three-year-old hand print covered up now, but my name is still in the concrete and Suzy’s is beside mine. I guess sometime after 3 I became a Laura. The best part of the trip? Sitting around and sharing stories with each other-new ones and old ones. Never fails that there is always some new story that Mom and Dad tell when we are together. That and getting some new SHOES...oh, yeah.