sunday 06.21.09

'you say i misread you, i say you led me on...'

driving through barabooish home from the cities. jonathan delehanty in the passenger seat; jen & jason in the backseat. jonathan took us on a countryesque tour of my cd collection, with a little preview of some original tunes in there. hadn’t had company on the mpls to madison ride since andy hopped in das auto june of last year for the same ride. it was nice to have someone other than the beatles or dylan or phone people to keep me company.


-bkh

saturday 06.20.09

'starting a war by avoiding a fight...'

rocking the garden! watching colin meloy watch calexico from the side of the stage. it's like 'where's waldo' for hipsters. kara miller, ash, and i scored front row spots for the festival. spent the saturday watching solid gold, yeasayer, calexico, and the decemberists rock the shit out of minneapolis. and i only had one beer spilled on me, and only got in one verbal brawl with an awful drunk gal. all around, a success.


-bkh

friday 06.19.09

having a drink with my pa on the porch. ma is to the right. chocolate martini & wine kind of night as the scallops and asparagus cook. though, when is it not at a chocolate martini & wine kind of night at the hanson household? i certainly miss this porch and this moment when i return to madison. nothing beats the porch deck backyard my parents have built, and the times we have there.


-bkh

thursday 06.18.09

driving home madison to minneapolis after a day of work. heading the wrong direction on the wrong road. the car defaulted to lax after all the epic weekends with the ladies spring semester. whoops. nice day for driving; i wasn’t too disappointed. obviously dangerously and illegally enjoying my drive. i spy no less than three things wrong with what’s going on in this picture. luckily the cop i passed a few moments in the future saw no more than zero things worth pulling me over for.


-bkh

wednesday 06.17.09

driving home from old chub happy hour from heaven. discovered montmartre served old chub scotch ale (!!!!) at the daredevil show last week. old chub was a group favorite at la crosse’s beer & cheese fest a few months back. i couldn’t believe my eyes when i saw montmartre served the classy canned beer! i thought my eyes, and the bartender, were deceiving me. kourt and i immediately set up a grand happy hour celebration of this find. hopefully to be repeated. repeatedly.


-bkh

tuesday 06.16.09

'i didn't know, i didn't know the weight of my tongue...'

hanging out at the colorectal cancer prevention initiative (CCPI – we loooove acronyms) steering committee meeting. the group gets served a dinner of some sort, then have lively discussion for 90-120 minutes about colorectal cancer in the uw system. hearing about the electronic health maintenance record for a bit and what it can do to help the project along. i high-tailed it out of the meeting asap following adjournment to pick up ryan perket, fresh off the highway from colorado, and head to the high noon for an early blind pilot show.


-bkh

monday 06.15.09

moisturizing post-shower. planning to bike to work tomorrow, and not really wanting to shower in the morning. takes time, and i have to deal with the wet hair + helmet... being proactive. the blue soap container next to the magazines has been sitting there for a while now. not really sure if it belongs to someone in the house? or someone who crashed on the couch? oh, the mysteries!


-bkh

sunday 06.14.09

cooking up some dinner. made myself a garden wrap for lunch at barriques work. it is as delicious as it is huge. so i only made it through half of the thing at work, leaving the rest for home. i took it out in the backyard with a glass of wine and did some europa internet research on the patio furniture for a bit.


-bkh

saturday 06.13.09

closing up barriques with a 1-8pm shift with ryan. just consulting jill’s (tracy’s?) ‘pairing food & wine’ guidebook. searching for the perfect wine to pair with microwave popcorn. the book provided options for everything imaginable – i.e. wild boar and kangaroo – but not popcorn. wtf? this classy gal just wants to know the best vino for my big nights in. i find this book to be flawed. and elitist.


-bkh

friday 06.12.09

at the echo tap with my co-worker and friend – deniz, and her boyfriend – ray. rounding out hour four of the happy hour. what?... no big deal, nothing to see here… just kicking the feet back after a full week of work. deniz was ever so generous on this friday payday to shower me (and nick when he joined us) with pitchers of beer hour after hour. what can i say? she takes care of me.


-bkh

thursday 06.11.09

mmm – snack time. apple snack time. a perfect braeburn apple snack always sounds nice. work managed to drag out well into the six o’clock hour. by the time the computer was shut down for the night i was in no mood to make a proper dinner. so it was the old stand-by – microwave popcorn and an apple. no complaints.


-bkh

wednesday 06.10.09

in yoga class. it was a flow class, so i didn’t want to take a picture because that ruins that flow, so to speak. but i can guarantee you this is exactly what i looked like.


-bkh

tuesday 06.09.09

grabbed my journal, yoga magazine, and thermos of red wine and headed off into hoyt park. the june magazine featured an article on discovering, or realizing i suppose, what you are committed to. the magazine offered journal prompts, which i gladly took. i, unfortunately though, underestimated how much wine a half a thermos holds. and i unfortunately realized this when i stood up to walk home after an hour of journaling. whoops. guess that’s how i roll on a tuesday evening.


-bkh

monday 06.08.09

caught red-handed. updating the blog. left the computer at work for the weekend so i could run around playing without feeling like i ‘should’ do internet working. so i was perfectly content having a relaxing weekday evening in to catch-up on pictures, emails, and whatnot (read: life) from the previous weeks.


-bkh

sunday 06.07.09

dinner! oh delicious dinner!! alix cooked a few people an impossibly delicious vegan dinner – broiled tofu, mashed potatoes, chickpea marinara over spaghetti, salad, bread, and i won’t even mention dessert (chocolate peanut butter pie!! apple crumble!!) attending an epic dinner party made it feel like i was living in the old place again. except this time i didn’t see the twelve hours of cooking. (and this time i felt like i could contribute to conversation.)


-bkh

saturday 06.06.09

'why don't you kick yourself out - you're an immigrant too?'

unplugging the charging ipod for a jog. exploring the streets of the neighborhood. so far this summer i’ve found hoyt and quary parks within one block of my place (who knew?) this time around i found a playground park. swung on the swing to the delicious sounds of jack & meg white. after a bit a mom and son came to play. my new friend, felix, was very happy to make small chat about his name. then i had flashes of ‘little children’ and felt like the awkward twenty-five year old swinging on the swing at a playground, so i left. ehhhh…


-bkh

friday 06.05.09

just getting back from a hike with liza. up around and through hoyt park. i don’t think we saw a single person on the trails. disappointing, considering how perfect it was. but good cuz that way when she poops on the trail, i can push it into the woods without feeling bad/worrying someone saw me. (gross.)


-bkh

thursday 06.04.09

naptime. i am so so tired. all i want to do is sleep and sleep and sleep. so i do.


-bkh

wednesday 06.03.09

packing up my biking bag. the uw-health wellness folks set up a ‘bike to work week’ promotion at the office. chatted with them to get the scoop on how to bike to work without dying. they were somewhat helpful, i think. i left armed with maps and a blinkie light – all one needs to elude death on university avenue rush hour. put it to the test with a bike ride to dinner with reina. we found moderate success, and tasty sushi.


-bkh

tuesday 06.02.09

waiting for dinner. waiting (im)patiently for dinner. waiting (im)patiently for dinner for 90 minutes. i despise baked potatoes. i ate so many tostados chips during the cooking time that by the time it was ready, i wasn’t hungry anymore. i made a verbal note to nick to remind me in the future: waiting for baked potatoes makes me unhappy.


-bkh

monday 06.01.09

happy june. where the hell did may go?
barriques, barriques, barriques. another epic disastrous close for bree & liz. eh. cleaning out half the espresso machine, and eating one of the leftover five maple scones – five! what a treat. there’s rarely any maple scones left when the five o’clock shift rolls around. one of the barriques bakery favorites.


-bkh

sunday 05.31.09

catching-up on email, and g-chatting with andrea 'half of team bredrea' langhoff. spent all of sunday trying to be clean again. a wasted effort, it turns out. with nick, ryan, and erin, i settled happily into the couch in my pajamas with the computer.


-bkh

saturday 05.30.09

pulling into the rockton bar, again, after an afternoon of canoeing. at this point i was too stubborn to change out of my river-drenched clothes (imagine that?) and much preferred to shiver (maybe not so) quietly at the bar. apparently, may isn’t all that warm this year. and, apparently, may isn’t all that warm when you won’t change out of soaking clothes. lesson learned.


-bkh

friday 05.29.09

heading into the rockton bar with heather. took off for a weekend of camping and canoeing the kickapoo with ryan, katy, heather, aaron, and stacy. got the scoop at the bar (aka – the hub of everything rockton) on campsites, canoes, firewood. and the bar, perhaps, provided us with a drink or two.


-bkh

thursday 05.28.09

reading. managed to power through most of ‘the kite runner’ on the plane rides, and was motivated to finish it pretty soon after making it back on solid ground. curled up in the big green for an evening read with liza joining in the distance.


-bkh

wednesday 05.27.09

making dinner with colin/watching colin make us dinner. after a weekend or so trip, and a night at barriques, i was fresh out of food (other than scones and cinnamon swirls – which i bring home for nick and ryan to dominate), and grateful for a night to kick back with some wine and enjoy a good meal.


-bkh

tuesday 05.26.09

right back in the swing of things in america’s dairyland. after a day at the medical foundation, an evening at barriques. cleaning up with quinn, trying to get out and get some rest asap. the flight landed at 12:20am. so my mind was already in bed by the time i hit the coffee shop. cleaning off the first of the two the milk steaming wands for the night.


-bkh

monday 05.25.09

trip over. mom and i flew san francisco to denver in the afternoon. we had enough time in the layovers to grab a bite to each and some ice cream over backgammon (i, uh, can’t recall who won…) before parting ways. i had a few more hours in the airports. i watched her flight pull away and sat for a while at her gate waving, remembering the trip.


-bkh