Went out to breakfast with former assistant at historic deli, Canter's, and then to the Melrose Trading post (a great Hollywood Flea Market). It was crowded and full of cool stuff, but SOOOOOO hot. She moved here from Chicago and has been here several months and lives only a few blocks from both these places, so it is about time that she visited both of them.
Natter 74: Ready or Not
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Sigh. I miss Canter's. And Molly Malone's. Then again I still ate chicken when I was frequenting Canter's and so now couldn't get my fave matzo ball soup there anyway!
Just went to see it. It's a cute little apartment that's been remodeled, but it's only 460 sq ft.
Ah, sounds neat, but that kind of space is hard to live in. My first solo apartment was 400 sq ft and it felt like I was living in a storeroom.
Cloudburst would be my choice of the three colors, but then I've recently been thinking of doing my bedroom and kitchen in sky blue like this room in Mamma Mia!: [link]
Staying up late reading last night resulted in me sleeping through lunch today. Since I'm only having one actual meal, I think I'm going to cheat on my soup & salad diet and make it sushi.
A friend of ours goes up to Michigan every July to buy massive quantities of fresh blueberries (he has a deep freeze), and he's always offered to pick some up for friends, too. We took him up on it this year, and we just got our blueberries from him -- it's a 5-pound box, about the size of a shoebox. Oh my lord, they are SO GOOD. I have a lot of baking in my future.
Oh, aren't they, though? My dad use to talk about picking blueberries in the scrub behind the farm, and running into bears every third time or so. Totally worth it.
I just want to eat nothing but blueberries for dinner. But I won't, because I respect my gastrointestinal system.
I love summer. Our kitchen is bursting with fruit: 5 pounds of blueberries, 2 pounds of strawberries, peaches, nectarines, and cherries. And apples and bananas, but those aren't really seasonal fruits.
Among the other things I regret about not going up to Canada this year is missing the opportunity to buy fresh blueberries out of the back of a pickup truck every few miles of TC-17.
Oh my god, so many flies in the basement. I sprayed everything. We're all going to die.
These are regular flies, not fruit, god help me.
Pool time did not make me like people today.
I caught myself looking forward to an hour of digging into the bottom of the closet.
That's the main reason I like digging through the Storage Heap Room o' Doom: things I didn't know were there! Things I'd forgotten!
Day 4 of staying on calories. Tonight the struggle is real, had to choose between a beer and a piece of dessert. Dessert won. (and the piece is half the size of what it would have been last week).