Halloween For Myself

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That was one of the few days for a very long time when I didn’t have any obligations after work: no volunteering, no visits to my mom, and nothing urgent to write about. And I had plans just for myself. The plan was:

  • Finally, visit the newly reopened Pret on Monroe

I should mention that Halloween was the coldest day of this fall so far. It was freeing and it was snowing for the good part of the day:

From the office window

However, by the end of the workday, the snow stopped and the sun came out:

  • After Pret, I walked towards the Starbucks Reserve Roastery on North Michigan Avenue. I rarely walk in this direction these days, and I enjoyed every minute of that walk.
  • I know it is hard to believe, but I never properly visited Starbucks Roastery. The only time was when we tried to get in last holiday season with Anna’s family, and it was way too crowded. This time, I wanted to try one of the Starbucks seasonal cocktails, especially because it was the last day for one of them – Pumpkin spice martini.

I really liked the whole design and all the details, and the fact that it was not overcrowded, with plenty of seating.

Pumpkin Spice Martini
A window view
Pear and Almond pastry from the first floor
And that was priceless 🙂
  • My last stop of the day was in Rogers Park – the haunted display on Damen. I read a lot about in the local social media, but it ended up being the least impressive thing of the day – everything was so creepy that I do not even want to post anything here.

Overall, though, it was a great day!

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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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