This kid made my day

There are so many great people who come through Food Fantasies, it's hard not to leave work with a smile on my face.

Mosaic Stuff

With all the time I've saved via not blogging, I've spent more and more time on mosaics. I'm working on one now that measures 24" x 44" and modeled after a quilted table runner my mom made for me for Christmas. I'm using broken dishes for the tesserae, though I may use smalti for the background. I'm undecided at this point.

The inspiration:


The mosaic, during the sketching process:


The mosaic, so far:


Eesh! Sorry for the crappy photos! They looked better on my phone.

Meow!

Roommate Life: it ain't so bad

Me: Are you sure you don't feel like going to the gas station and putting gas in my car? It's supposed to snow tomorrow.

WI Geoff: Sure. Let me wait until the washer stops so I can put clothes in the dryer.

(Sweet!)

The last time I got gas in my car, he put it in there. He also put up storm windows and fixed the gutter (that he broke back in July ;). Shoot, he even puts the seat down after he pees.

Come to think of it, he's done my laundry several times, delivered me Happy Meals, mowed grass, torn down my garden at the end of the season, takes trash to the alley, picks up dead animals my dogs kill, fixes stuff around the house, found me a replacement bicycle and actually, he gave me that bike that just got stolen.

We date other people, so we get or own room -and- he pays me to live here.

Having a roommate isn't so bad.

Doomsday 2012

The thing about the Mayan Calendar, it had to end sometime.

Or should it have been carved to infinity?

Nowadays we keep track of time digitally and on paper, neither of which can be expected to last forever; future beings will investigate our remains thousands of years from now and wonder how we kept track of time and shared information.

Yesterday

I spent the day with my brother and we took a road trip south on the Columbia Bottoms to Fort de Charters, stayed for roughly 15 minutes, then turned around to head home. It was awesome. Remind me to tell you about it sometime.

Philadelphia

I'm totally here. Right. Now.

I was lucky to be invited to help run a booth at the Philly Bike Expo, but so far the highlight has been catching up with Alex and having a slumber party at his dad's house. The bike expo will keep me too busy to do much sightseeing, but I will certainly eat a cheesesteak while here.

Boom.

For future reference

It takes the average wimp about three hours to dismember an average bicycle chain while watching SNL (The Commercials episode).

Yo

Last weekend was awesome. I worked, lazed about, played with curlers, rode my bike around the fairgrounds and worked on my mosaic. This weekend should be pretty rad, too.