OK, here is a list of some of the things that bother me (in no particular order)

Drinking and driving
Lack of education
Motorcycles
Horrible aesthetics
Noise
Asymetrical window placement
Moustaches
Tatoos
Smoking
Excessive Concrete
Smoking
Teddy Bears
Mauve
Bars
ATV's
Dogs kept outside
Nascar
Piercings other than 1 per ear
Vinyl Siding
Smoking

Did I mention my book problem? Basically my idea of home decor comes down to this: Bookman's Alley in Evanston. Preferably set in the middle of the Chicago Botanic Gardens. OK, so that isn't really true. My ideal would be a David Adler house on the lakefront with acreage for the horses. Just 21 million between me and my dream.... Feel free to donate to the cause. Why would someone with Michael Jordan's money build that ugly house in that hideous neighborhood when he could have had the very best lakefront house in Chicagoland? No accounting for taste I guess. A lot of people wouldn't think Bookman's Alley is decorated well but then those aren't people I would want to live with I guess. Lots of McMansion tacky modernist crap going up everywhere. Kills me when they destroy 1920's beauties to put up builders McCrap (with open concept kitchen/family room and granite of course!). I have invented an architectural term I call BRAILLE Architecture. It is a school of architecture designed by the blind for the blind and it is very much in vogue right now..... I guess it isn't the same as the prairie inspired soviet architecture known as MODERN but it is ugly regardless.

Well the nice thing about exurbia after a snowstorm is the views. It is gorgeous everywhere in Chicago right now but our woods is spectacular. Just having woods is spectacular but having snow covered woods even more so. The negative is the inability to get decent food delivered. In Evanston we had every imaginable type of food at our fingertips. Here. Forget it. There are only a few places that have decent food once you cross the state line and they do not deliver. Did I mention that the property looks gorgeous today? Fortunately I had stocked up at Sunset Foods and we are ok in the edible options department right now. Still, I wouldn't mind a Giordano's pizza right now...