Speaking of special, my refrigerator is in yet another magazine! When I tell that to Chicago people they either don’t believe me, or they look at me like I’m Miss America and nobody bothered to tell them. Now the dyeing is done by fancy speed boats in a parade, but there was a time when it was just a bunch of kids on a tug boat, eating jellybeans and feeling cool. But actually looks like radioactive neon yellow powder. Want to know a secret? The dye isn’t green, it’s orange. Weird fact about me: my grandfather was Chicago’s fireboat captain for many years and so when I was but a tiny tatertot, I actually got to ride ON THE BOAT chugging up the river tossing out the dye. Not only do we go crazy, we DYE THE RIVER GREEN! I know! Folks, we’re going deep.Īnd, not only is today my cheat day, today kicks off St. People who know me in real life just read that sentence and gasped. For not only did I cross a bunch of finish lines, I went two whole mothertruckin’ weeks on nothing but salads and omelets and green things I don’t even want to talk about because they sound like something you have to treat with special shampoo from the pharmacist.
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