Play in the City : The Chili Bowl

January 10, 2007

The Chili Bowl

Global warming, my rear end. It’s freezing!

It’s so freezing that I couldn’t sleep last night. That’s right, the heat was cranked to 70 degrees like it always is, but since we live in such an old house, the windows are paper thin and since my bed is right under a window, I was an icicle all night!

Project for the weekend: finally biting the bullet and sealing our windows with plastic. We are wasting so much energy, it’s terrible. So we’re going to do something about it.

You know what would really warm me up right about now? Chili.

Since this weekend’s forecast calls for sleet and snow and more cold temps, it’s the perfect time to check out The Chili Bowl, Milwaukee’s largest chili cook-off.

The Chili Bowl takes place this Saturday from 3-9 p.m. at American Serb Hall. For $10 in advance or $12 at the door, guests can sample eight of the varieties of chili being offered. More than 50 Milwaukee area restaurants are participating, and guests get to vote on their favorites. The event will benefit Camp Heartland and you can learn more here.

I can’t attend as it’s my birthday weekend and I have plans. Well, my birthday isn’t actually until Monday but hey, I say I get a whole weekend.

Therefore, if I have nothing fun to report after the weekend, I have two good reasons. It’s my birthday WEEKEND and I’m sealing my windows.

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Comments

Happy birthday! Early. Mine's Saturday, so it's my birthweekend too! :)

Posted by: Erin | January 11, 2007 at 09:52 PM

Thanks Erin!

I know, I saw that on Facebook - I said not only are we both writers and October brides and married to boys named Dave, but our birthdays are two days apart! =)

Happy Birthday to you! Hope you have a good one!

Posted by: Erin Nevicosi | January 12, 2007 at 08:39 AM