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March 2005 ArchiveSaturday, March 26, 2005Thanks to everyone who's emailed well wishes for Numo and I. I'm behind on email, so while unresponsive, I am grateful. I'm off to Memphis and New Orleans for a few days. Sandra is pet sitting, and I'm having my first trip as a new and slightly nervous pet owner!posted on 3/26/2005 08:43:00 AM Thursday, March 24, 2005 Here goes! I built a new blog for all things Numo. A few more pics for those wanting them. Oh, and, canned crickets are stinky. posted on 3/24/2005 12:22:00 PM Wednesday, March 23, 2005Condiments!Kent and I got take out dinner tonight and watched Survivor. Here's a bargraph of the condiments we got in our bags:  Left to Right: ketchup, mayo, mustard, butter, jelly, salt and pepper posted on 3/23/2005 08:30:00 PM Tuesday, March 22, 2005On My PersonWork was severly lacking December, January, February. Today was the first day in months I have just did errands. On the list was lots of pet supply procurement. My the time I plopped down back home, I had: • 200 black cable ties (to put together Numo's cage) • 1 4" diameter PVC elbow joint (hiding place for Numo) • 1 container hedgehog food (Numo food) • 2 packages cat food (Numo food) • 1 can freeze dried mealie worms (Numo treats) • 1 can freeze dried crickets (Numo treats) • 1 Cyber-shot® DSC-P200 Digital Camera (Brandy treat & replacing an well-worn DSC-P5. And marked down!) • 1 plush Peep "backpack clip" (toy for Numo) • 1 box black hair dye (Brandy maintenance) • 2 small cat litter pans (probably too tall for Numo) • 1 electric heating pad (pet hedgehogs don't like to be cold) • 1 electronic timer (") • 1 $2 room thermometer (") • 2 boxes wire grid storage unit kits (Numo's cage) • 2 lil' tennis ball toys (toy for Numo) • 10 washcloths (on sale, always useful) • 1 roll ribbed shelf liner (in case I need to line something for Numo so he can get a grip) + a business card for a Northside vet that cares for hedgehogs Productive day, though I gotta say I'll be ordering several pet items online to get what I want and need. Now I'll get coffee and then I get to start building Numo's new home! I'm using the C&C (Cubes & Coroplast) Method for his cage. Brilliant idea, if you ask me. posted on 3/22/2005 04:48:00 PM Monday, March 21, 2005Meet Numo!I've never mentioned this on this site, because it was all Top Secret - I love pets. I wanted a pet. Considering everything, the pet for me was a hedgehog. Yes, a hedgehog. Yes, they do have pet hedgehogs. Then I debated for a full year about whether to get one. Then some Kismet hit me in the face Friday morning. More Kismet later, I met my hedgehog yesterday at the PetChicago show at Arlington Racetrack. There's pages and pages of story behind this, but it's Monday and I've got to get client work done. So, here's Numo:  He's an African pygmy hedgehog, snowflake in color. He's 3 months old. Veronica Moyle of Hedge Hog'N Around tells me he'll need some patience. I've got patience. As you can see, after his first night, he's sleeping for the day, and wants nothing to do with the camera. Hedgehogs are diurnal, meaning they wake at dawn and dusk. At dawn he was tooling around in his wheel. I'm not used to this yet, and I groggily woke up and looked into his cage. He was looking back at me. Darn cute face. I can vouche for it without photographic proof yet. Much more to come after I get my worky work done. NOTE: I wanted and got a hedgehog, I do not want hedgehog stuff. Really, I mean it. When you see hedgehog stuff, think of me and Numo, but please do not buy it. posted on 3/21/2005 09:01:00 AM Tuesday, March 15, 2005 Amaryllis It's sitting on my CPU, smiling over me. posted on 3/15/2005 11:35:00 AM Sunday, March 13, 2005
A Japanese toilet deoderizer I bought to entertain myself. Still ironing out a few wrinkles left over from February. Therefore, it was an easy decision to buy a $6 piece of plastic and stinky blue liquid, because I knew it would make me smile. And look, he's already maknig eyes at my cold water knob. posted on 3/13/2005 10:52:00 PM Thursday, March 10, 2005Wisconsin AdventureNot an oxymoron. Just got back from Green Bay, Wisconsin, where I went to go see a movie. A beloved movie. Much more to say, but I'm supertired and superbusy. posted on 3/10/2005 10:58:00 AM Tuesday, March 08, 200531 + 1 Month Birthday Present?Someone should buy me this tooth pillow from The Small Object. It's chocked full of charm! (And I'm waiting for client payments.) I've been working on a good simple cartoon tooth that I haven't seen yet. Sarah nailed it. I gotta keep drawing little teefs... p.s. I like this dental kinda guy too. posted on 3/8/2005 12:49:00 AM Monday, March 07, 2005OverlapsI had a superb time in Madison over the weekend. It was sunny and a open jacket temperature all weekend. Amihan's party was good closure on a lousy February. I met lovely folks. And the weekend had loads of overlaps. Not really coincidence, overlap is when your life folds over on itself. Like last week when I was downtown and saw several strangers I recognized. I didn't know what to call it last week, now "overlap" sounds right. Like I said before, it lets me know that I'm going the right direction when little things cross my path again. In Madison, a friend of my friends was explaining that she was making hats for all the babies coming into her life. She said it was a Chicagoan's pattern, turns out to be my lovely friend Cinnamon's! I went to The Glitter Workshop and there I saw my new friend Richelle's fantastic cards. A man who lives in my building ended up on my bus Northbound. The first Madison stop on the bus route, is a Park-N-Ride. Happened to be across the street from the Broadway Motel. This was the place Jim, Pat and I stayed at my first pass through Madison. It's not a true overlap, but Madison's capitol building felt like a cousin to my beloved Chicago Cultural Center. The former wears brown and gold, the latter wears white and watery greens. The craziest overlap was meeting Jean Merrill. I overheard her mention Minnesota at a party and I later asked if she was from MN. Yes. Where? "Oh a little Nothern suburb." Where? "St. Anthony." "I'm from Fridley." Another anonymous Northern suburb of the Twin Cities. Yeah, I know Fridley is important to those who live there. I mention it out of state and I might as well say "Mars." "Fridley? What's FRIDLEY??" Jean (which is my middle name) went to school 5 miles from me, and played in the summer marching band that our two schools shared. She played the same instrument, French Horn, that I played from 5th to 8th grade. Wasn't hardcore enough to continue to high school. She played in my school's 1993? 1994? production of Bye Bye Birdie, the year after my tenure as "Most Valuable Senior" in theater had ended. We compared names that were younger than me and in band and/or theater. Our impressions of folks were very similar. And hey, Nathan Gustafson? Jean and I both want to know how life is treating you these days. I'll even say Nate Gustafson, in case you're Googling yourself with that variation. Email me if you find this page, eh? (The glut of normal Scandanavian names make it impossible to find high school comrades online. Larson, Johnson, Peterson, etc. Speaking of Gustafsons, Kurt Gustafson, I want to know what you're up to too.) So that bent our brains in a good way. Plenty of stories still to share, but I gotta get on with my busy, busy week. After three very lethargic months, it's good to really need to get my tuckus in gear. Back to Worky McWork! Oh, but first - a gallery of images from Madison.  posted on 3/7/2005 11:49:00 AM Friday, March 04, 2005Things That Make Me Sad These Days• Poor Bubba the Lobster. 22 pounds and maybe 100+ years and he dies when he takes up residence at the zoo. Don't they know, "Fish gotta swim and birds gotta fly"? Things That Make Me Happy These Days • In a coupla few hours I'll be on a bus to Madison heading up to visit the supersnazzy Amihan and company. • Okay, I usually refrain from talking about my penchant for reality teevee on my blog, but this is hilarious. I was reading the Survivor message boards on Television Without Pity. I got Kent hooked on Survivor a couple seasons ago, so sometimes watch it together. Last night I was trying to recall the handful of superfunny comments I read about the second episode. One was comments about the size of James' nostrils and later someone said that he must be a supersmeller. That cracked me up. Later, it the episode, they showed the totally great Janu in her glasses. I erupted in laughter, stifled a spit take for about two minutes straight, and Kent looked at me like I was crazy. I remembered another superb comment - that with the night vision camera, Janu in her glasses is the spitting image of Henry Kissinger. HI-larious. • As a palette cleanser on my usually very serious Netflix list, I got Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy. I laughed a heckuva lot more than I thought I would. Especially at the gang war between the anchorman teams. The PBS guys cracked my shit up, "No commericials. No mercy." • Katharine Hepburn's egg seperating scene in Woman of the Year. Ha! • I like Dioramamrama's quilt for her dad , but it's the pic of him and his dog that's the real charmer! And this reminds me of when I was talking to Heather and she was trying to think of a gift for her dad. I was talking about my fleece-backed quilts, and the lightbulb lit over her head. She said, "My dad likes to nap! I could make him a quilt." I really liked that declartive statement. "My dad likes to nap." Who doesn't? Things That Make Me Boogie These Days • Medium iced lattes from Metropolis and a day old roll. • That they arrested BTK. Not that I was fretting over it. I knew nothing about him til L&O:SVU did an episode based on him. But I think that's great that they caught the guy. • Reach Out in the Darkness by Friend and Lover. • Turning Japanese by the Vapors. When I was 10 years old, I remember being perched by my boom box forever waiting to tape this. • Clients came out of the woodwork this week. I seriouly suspect that they all synchornized themselves behind my back. It's uncanny how my client workload can from lethargic to bursting overnight. • The prospect of 8 hours of the bus this weekend. I la-la-love the limbo of travel. Do some of my best thinking in transit. My head is swimming with ideas and I look forward to getting them captured in my sketchbook. posted on 3/4/2005 09:35:00 AM Wednesday, March 02, 2005AllllllllriiiiiiiightIt is March. It is not February. It was sunny today. Super. Things are on the upswing. Yesterday on my adventures downtown, I saw five people I've seen before, from five different places - a bike messenger who lives in my building to a very odd bird I saw on the red line. Those kind of coincidences/patterns/repitition crossing my path again, lets me know I'm on the right one. This morning I hoofed it to my lovely neighborhood coffeehouse, Metropolis. As I got my beverage, I spied a sign that announced the movie they'd be showing tonight. Funny Bones. One of my all-time favorites. And I say that as a movie junkie. I mentioned it to the owner how much I liked it, and agreed with him how underrated it was. I looked towards the ceiling to think, "What am I doing at 6 pm?" Now, I'm sitting at Metropolis, watching Funny Bones, nursing and iced chai and working. Meanwhile, at the Agerbeckorium I'm taping America's Next Top Model and Law & Order. Not too shabby. posted on 3/2/2005 06:36:00 PM |
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