Mine to keep.

This photo makes Lake Calhoun look really ugly. Therein lies my talent as a photographer - making beautiful and serene places look grotesque! I am available for hire.

"And other times, I see a baby and I'm just like, "I want that baby! I want all the babies! I want to scoop up all the babies in the whole wide world and just have them as mine to keep!"

- Erica on Tuesday, during our Tin Fish Lunchtime conversation per the whole "Gee, I should really decide whether or not I really want babies, because apparently I gotta hurry up if I do!" baby pressure that women get when we're in the middle of our third decade. 

And this is why I love her SO much! And miss her more than I can even write about, because it makes my chest hurt and the back of my eyes ache and then I'm tempted to do silly things like write a bogus email to her fiance Chris telling him that I'm a big-time movie producer who would like to offer him a screenwriting job for a feature film happening here but he can only have it if he and his lovely future wife move to Minneapolis ASAP and then surprise! there's no screenwriting jobs here but since you've already moved back I guess we'll just have to figure something out.