Arcadia Knitting

I finally made it to Arcadia Knitting for my size seven needles. I asked if it would be alright to take photographs and after an initially suspicious response things got a lot better when I said it was to post on my blog...then I was told how someone called the Yarn Harlot was coming to the store on October First.

If you live in Chicago and want to meet a Yarn Harlot you should go to Arcadia Knitting. Click on the title and it will take you to their site, they are very nice and have a pretty impressive selection of yarns.

New Furniture

This is the circa 1926 sewing table we got at the Brown Elephant thrift store on Clark...for thirteen dollars. The sewing machine is very pretty and works. We also got a dining room table with chairs and a kick ass desk I am currently typing away at (photographs will come later).

Before and After

As much fun as the air mattress was, I am very glad to have a real bed to call my own...the boyfriend thinks we have too many pillows but I don't think one can ever have too many pillows!

Angel's

The boyfriend and I, after much rearranging, went to Angel's Restaurant. We sat outside and only had only tiny candle to read the menu and eat by (thus the blown out flash photographs). I had a margarita and chile rellenos. The boyfriend had some steak, cactus and pepper concoction. All was very tasty and the meal (including one margarita and one beer) was under thirty five dollars.

T's Bar

Last night, after spending two plus hours going up and down our back stairway with heavy things, the boyfriend and I decided it would be good to eat something. So we did.


The boyfriend had the mozzarella stack and a potato pancake type thing with goat cheese (which didn't make a very good picture, but was tasty).

I had sauteed cod with lemon sauce and capers, over smoked salmon mashed potatos. The photograph doesn't do the potatoes or the fish justice.

Attack

Well the boyfriend arrived today with a Penske truck full of my favorite and most beloved items.

If you need reminding of what my apartment looked like for the last few weeks, please feel free to remember through my archives. This is what it looks like now. The boyfriend and I, after much arranging and rearranging, have decided that this is the best use of the space.

Do you like the use if juxtaposition? How about the way we contrast utility with futility? We're thinking about putting the printer on top of the bookshelf, but it's so risqué!

Stuff on Cats

I found this site care of Zulkey.com (her September fifteenth diary entry...was funny and has more sites with animals being wonderfully objectified). If you click on the title you can go directly to the site where I found this image...there are others.

The Safety Of Objects

Last night I watched the first part of HBO's Empire Falls series and enjoyed it...and was pissed that it was a two parter (I didn't know when I rented it). I also watched The Safety of Objects, a film still from it is accompanying this post. The opening credits were quite good. There are extremely funny moments...for example the relationship the boy on the left has with his sister's barbie doll. There are also extremely sad, verging on the melodramatic, moments. I cried though, for whatever that is or is not worth.

Spaghetti

This is the spaghetti I had last night.
The sauce consisted of jarred marinara sauteed with fresh chorizo and goat cheese. It was good, but, perhaps, not something I will make again.

This is my back 'porch' in the rain...yellow.

In Questionable Taste

I thought this was pretty funny. Though, maybe not everyone will think so, like my mom. Mom, do you think this is funny?

You can find more examples of this comic by clicking on the title of this post.

My goodness, I can't seem to figure out what I want to eat.

Plan Aborted

Well, I had geared myself up to walk to my neighborhood Blockbuster and pay too much for a movie I may or may not like.

But upon, stepping out side I felt a rain drop.


And now I'm confused.

Mice With Bubonic Plague

Are Missing! Check it out...click the title...

Chicago Soap

This is my triptych on soap in Chicago. The soap is all fluffy. Never in my life have I come across so much fluffy soap. Come to Chicago and take part in the joy of fluffiness.

My Thai

Tonight, before my six o'clock class, I gave myself sustenance at My Thai. This is the fried tofu I ate, it was hot and tasty.

And this is the Tom Yum Soup with shrimp I slurped...with too many green peppers for my taste.

And this is the cutest mushroom in my soup...ain't it cute?

Why?

Why are my photographs running into previous posts? Why? How do I fix it...it makes me look so amateur...wait a second...okay, I am.

Got lots of school work to do. Must fight my addiction to online scrabble and any book.

Frogs Are So Cute...And On The Decline

But you can see them in abundance in my local Vietnamese (I think) fish market, they hop around yelling eat us, eat us!

V.I. Warshawski

I just finished reading Blacklist by Sara Paretsky. A fulfilling detective novel. Here is a question: Why is it that in so many contemporary P.I./mystery novels the main character must have a well meaning but overbearing neighbor? Why?

I planned to take a bus to Wicker Park to attend a stitch and bitch meeting. The plan involved me first stopping by my local yarn store to get a pair of size seven needles. The store was closed, I couldn't continue on my project without them and so I didn't go.

Instead I ate an avocado,tomato,beet, olive and goat cheese salad and then cooked myself some brussels sprouts with garlic.

Salmon

This is a picture of the salmon I made myself last night. Poached in the oven while wrapped in tin foil, it had about a table spoon of olive oil, one cut up clove of garlic, one quarter of a lemon's juice and a bit of salt....broccoli and beets as well. It was very tasty and not over cooked.

Daunting

I am, yet again, trying to organize my photo files. I have thousands of photographs that are grouped arbitrarily and named (by the computer) things like DSC233.jpg or DSC1444.jpg. I am attempting to name them all in a date/tag format like this: 091105dimsum1.jpg or 041304meowcat.jpg.

But there are three years of photographs!
And I keep on taking pictures.
This is so dumb.

That's a picture of my cat looking at the damaging blisters I received due to baling hay at the farm. It is DSC251.jpg.

Brown Steps Down

So Brown has stepped down. Poor Brownie. There's a lovely Tennessee Walking Horse Museum in Tennessee, maybe he can get a job there.