March 16 - Borrowed

Today was St Paddy’s day in Chicago. As I’m sure St Patrick would be happy to hear, this means a day of dyeing the Chicago river, feasting upon green bagels, and, as he would have of course wanted, drinking excessively.

My friend Regan and I decided to meet at her apartment before heading over to our other friend’s spot for the pre-drinking-drinks. We both - sadly - have a lot on our Sunday to-do lists, so didn’t want to get too wrapped up in the festivities, but still wanted to partake in the fun.

I showed up to Regans in a pair of jeans, a cropped grey tshirt that read ‘Ithaca is Gorges’ in green font, and a green puffer jacket. I saw her in her very cute fitted white tshirt reading ‘Lucky’, and was badly wishing that I had put more thought into my St Paddy’s Day outfit before this morning.

“Do you… perhaps… have anything else that would work with this?” I gestured at my jeans and sneakers.

“Hmmm actually, yes, let me grab it.”

She came back out in a second with a super cute off-white t with ‘Chicago’ in green lettering. I tried it on and was immediately sold. The only problem was that it was a tiny bit see through and you could see my undergarments. Fortunately, Regan also let me borrow a solve for that.

As we were heading out the door, I paused.

“Regan, honestly, if I’m borrowing everything else… I got really hot on my walk over here.”

She laughed and came back out of her room a minute later with a lighter button up, perfect with the off-white t-shirt.

Seriously. If you give a mouse a cookie…