Winter Time and the Livin's Easy

Actually, Sublime said it best, “Summertime and the livin’s easy”. Winter time is exceptionally dreadful. However, at least with my newly acquired living arrangement the livin is a bit easier than my prior situation. After a 2 year stint living in Chicago with three fine modern gentlemen, it came time to renew our lease. After some lengthy contract negotiations, a few months of holdouts, and several signing bonus disagreements, our agents thought it would be best to seek housing elsewhere.

So I have temporarily relocated back to the place of my birth, Elmhurst, IL. As with any living arrangement you must take the bad with the good. Let me explain.

The Good:

I now live 18 miles / 20-50 minutes (depending on traffic and train schedules) closer to work. Therefore I have at least an extra 40-100minutes a day to train/sleep/eat/write this blog out of pure boredom etc. I’m a 12 minute jog to York. Food is plentiful, and much more abundant than at my apartment. Food is cheaper. Downtown there were two local grocery stores, the closest being Treasure Island, which was run by some crazy/deli meat eating shady employees. The second, a bit further away, was the Old Town Whole Foods, which seemed to charge and extra 20% vs its suburban store fronts. The Prairie Path is 0.8 miles from my front door. Below is tonight’s dinner of snacks (rice/tomato/bean/carrot/corn/chicken sausage stuff, low fat salt free cottage cheese with black berries, grapes, almond milk/almond butter/banana/Interphase smoothie, eggs). Below that is a photo of breakfast during the “moving out of the apartment” phase.

The Bad:

Nothing happens in Elmhurst, the fun meter is pretty much permanently set at 2, on a scale of 1000. If you’re a glass half full kind of person, there are actually hidden benefits inside the boringness (as mentioned above, more time). EDIT: Top 6 Nut Butters #1A: Chad informed me the most important nut butter was over looked, dznuts... for proper maintaintanance