tuesday 12.08.09

it’s gonna snow in madison. hard. work was already postponed for the next day until 10am. so what did we do at mckinley? we drank. ryan and i headed out to the grocery store before the snowfall started falling to pick up some warm drinks. playing euchre with ryan fred shannon in the living room. getting geared up for our hot apple bourbon cider fueled hike through quarry park later in the evening. by the way, if you were thinking of buying the rights to market and sell bourbon apple cider sno-cones, too bad. we already called dibs.


-bkh

monday 12.07.09

working with heidi at barriques. not feeling too hot. i think i used my netti pot wrong? and now i feel sick? a little off my game. heidi was a champ with me. washing up some wine glasses cuz we were running a bit low. threw them in the dish washer, and let them sit and dry on their own. if i put them in their crate upsidown to dry, i don’t have to dry them off with a cloth. which is nice cuz they are fragile and i always feel like i’m going to crack the glass when i’m drying ‘em off (and they’re expensive).


-bkh

sunday 12.06.09

hanging out in the living room on the computer. curled up under my button blanket. my favorite blanket. ryan and fred high fiving over something exciting.


-bkh

saturday 12.05.09

barriques barriques. closing it up with kari. soaked the milk thermoses and clips in the…stuff, and am putting them all back together.


-bkh

friday 12.04.09

my evening plans with tristan fell through. what to do, what to do with my newly free evening? go to a costume part in cottage grove with ryan? nah… play with crafts (crafts? really?) with brendon? eh, not today… put off making a decision by taking a nap instead? yea, that sounds real nice. i think i’ll do that.


-bkh

thursday 12.03.09

roommate dinner. baked lemon-garlic-pepper salmon, cumin quinoa, and sautéed broccoli. cooking with fred & shannon. ryan made it home in just the nick of time to join in on the eating. shannon cutting into the salmon. enjoyed the perfect dinner with wine and whiskey. the night quickly turned to game night complete with chutes & ladders and loaded questions.


-bkh

wednesday 12.02.09

a barriques night with heidi. the drawer was a bit low on quarters, so counting out the tips putting the coins into bills so not to open a whole new roll of coins. makes it easier on the closers and the openers. counting 70 quarters evening morning and evening isn’t really high on my list of favorite things.


-bkh

tuesday 12.01.09

it’s me! checking out my face damage after a 90-minute hot yoga class. i bought myself some non-water proof mascara this time around. i’m not a crier, so i didn’t think it’d be an issue. however, i am a sweater. didn’t think that one through. looking in my car mirror to see if the raccoon eyes had appeared. i was in luck! if they did, then i smeared them all over my face and evened it out during the bikram style class.


-bkh

monday 11.30.09

grabbing some gloves. at barriques. about to head over to the food cooler to shut it down for the evening. pull out all the food bins, cover them, and wash the utensils and dividers. make sure my coffee hands don’t get all over the sandwich food. no one wants that.


-bkh

sunday 11.29.09

i was inspired by the weather to start making hats again. trying to crochet, but as always when ‘crocheting season’ starts up again, my hats just look like tacos. which is not the goal. in my defense (and to boost up my ego again a bit), i was distracted by ‘finding forester’ on the tv (and i was a glass or so deep into a bottle of wine). didn’t actually get a hat finished, or close to finished. but i put forth a good effort. so that counts for something, right? right?

-bkh

saturday 11.28.09

at bunky’s café with the fam. i eat so deliciously when they’re in town. waiting for the waitress to take our delicious order. meg is a bit impatient with…well, waiting in general. and with my dad. he can be a bit of a teaser. meg playfully mid-whack over dad’s head with the menu. what a feisty little gal.


-bkh

friday 11.27.09

the family is in town! mom dad and meg (sans ryan) in from minneapolis for the thanksgiving weekend! we spent the early evening in the hotel sipping on chocolate wine before going to barriques for a wine tasting. at dinner at la brioche on the westish side of town. it came highly recommended by fred. we were happy customers. taking a peak at the beer list (oh too sleepy for more wine) as mom’s listening to meg tell a story of some sort.


-bkh

thursday 11.26.09

happy thanksgiving! celebrated the holiday with deniz and her family. her boyfriend ray, and his daughter allison. had a, of course, delicious meal. accented by vino and good company. i was content spending the thanksgiving at my place with a glass of wine and movie, but i was more than grateful to have such a wonderful home welcome me into their celebration.


-bkh

wednesday 11.25.09

working barriques. me & heidi. washing the bakery oven. wiping off all the…crap?... that gets on it and accumulated throughout the work day and week. plenty of time in the work day to tidy up some of the store.


-bkh

tuesday 11.24.09

putting the finishing touches on an email to my gals back in maple grove. ash sent out an email asking us to list ten things we’re grateful for in the month of november. my list, you ask?

1. job. money. vacation.
2. lala.com and npr.org/music
3. my able body
4. coffee shops
5. letters cards postcards via USPS
6. my independence
7. my roommates (ok, even liza)
8. color
9. family
10. friends (especially high school relationships that have lasted outside of MGSH since 2002)
    

alright, so maybe that actually 16 or so. but, whatever. i'm a grateful gal. and, it is more cohesive in the paragraph form i used in the email. but that is reserved for my gals.

-bkh

monday 11.23.09

happy 25½ birthday, me and bkhainje!!

celebrating my half birthday at barriques. with travis, aka ‘new heidi’. putting away the soups. it’s time to get moving and going! i have some leftover cookies i’m going to need to be eating at home soon!


-bkh

sunday 11.22.09

looking at some beautiful pictures of food and life at cucinanicolina.com. whenever i am looking to slow down a bit and remember how much i like stillness and peacefulness every now and then, i pull up this site. (so, basically i look at it every day.) the woman who write for this blog has such a great appreciation towards seemingly little things. and she finds this joy and shares it through pictures and writing. it is what i aspire to be, all right there on one site. after an unfortunately uncomfortable day, this was precisely what i needed.


-bkh

saturday 11.21.09

getting ready to go over to kara pennoyer’s. kara pennoyer! the newest madison friend. moved up from chicago and threw a moving party, which was actually just a clever name for a ‘drinking boxed wine out of a can’ party. grabbed some beers, just in case. the crew of kara, henzie, stacy, liz, ryan, fred, nick, jake, wilkie, shaina, katy had been moving & drinking since 3. so clearly i had little confidence there would be drinks left.


-bkh

friday 11.20.09

barriques downtown. wine tasting night! reading up on local activities in the isthmus. waiting for steph birr to come join me so we can get this cali wine train moving. enjoyed a few hours of good wine and excellent conversation before walking (it was a generous tasting this day...) over to the high noon for the haley bonar show.


-bkh

thursday 11.19.09

having some dinner on my night off. quinoa with almonds, lentils, and sautéed vegetables. watching a tv show about coca-cola on msnbc. relaxing relaxing. all i want to do is relax. ryan fred katy and shannon went to the oak crest for a few drinks, but nothing sounded more appealing to me than slipping into pj pants, sitting in the big green chair in front of the tv, and eventually making some puppy chow (thanks for the recipe, mom). so that’s exactly what i did.


-bkh