On Tuesday, I went to Chicago, mostly to deliver cookies for several people in the city. I was surprised and delighted to see that they put up a Christmas tree inside the Palatine train station.
There is way less people n the train that in was in October, but still more than in March and April.
When I came to the office doors, I said two big boxes, and realized that one of our vendors still sent us Christmas chocolates:
That was my only visit to the city this season, so during my lunch break, I met with a friend and we walked to the Macy’s windows and to the Millennium park.
The Macy’s windows are pretty modest this year, but I was still happy that they were out there:
And the tree – I was wearing a t-shirt when they were installing it!
Unfortunately, I could not come inside the ODS – the volunteering is postponed till the end of March. But we agreed that I will bring cookies – and I put together a giant box (and a box of chocolate ornaments.
My name is Henrietta (Hettie) Dombrovskaya. I was born in Saint-Petersburg, Russian (actually, back then – Leningrad, USSR) in 1963, and immigrated to the United States in 1996.
I love Saint Petersburg, the city I was born and raised in, and I think it’s one of the most beautiful places in the world. Similarly (but differently) I love Chicago, and can’t imagine myself moving somewhere else in the observable future.
I have three children, Igor, Vlad and Anna, all adults living on their own, and one (so far) granddaughter Nadia. I also believe that my children are the best thing that happened in my life.
As for my professional life, I am working in the field of Information Technologies. When I was twenty, I’ve declared that the databases are the coolest thing invented and that I want to do them for the rest of my life. Thirty plus years later, I still believe it’s true, and still, believe that the databases are the best. These two statements together imply that I think a person can have it all, and indeed, I think so! Keep reading my journals to find out how I did it.
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