seven.thirty.pm

thursday 12.31.09

2010-06-27T13:45:00.001-05:00

new years eve! playing a drinking game with shannon, fred, and todd. getting ready to head on over to steph & carson’s with nick, brendon, jay to meet erin (fisk!!) and stacy (sorry for inviting all my friends to your party, s&c). then heading off to the barrymore to see shoeless perform, and meet up with my emmy!! in town from nyc!! what a way to ring in 2010.

-bkh

wednesday 12.30.09

2010-06-27T13:43:00.000-05:00

at home relaxing. watching something with fred & shannon. winter-proofing my boots. waste of time. didn’t work. RIP those brown suede boots. boo.

-bkh

tuesday 12.29.09

2010-06-27T13:42:00.001-05:00

driving home. stayed at work a bit later since i rushed out on a frantic note to make it to my forgotten barriques shift the day before. ran by target. picked up a basket to hold my new record collection.

-bkh

monday 12.28.09

2010-06-27T13:41:00.000-05:00

and back to madison i got. back in the swing of life at barriques. (kinda. i didn’t know i was supposed to be working! first time i missed jotting down a shift!) making some post-holiday drinks (though still full of mint mochas and more) for the west-side madison folks. doing dishes. with heidi.

-bkh

sunday 12.27.09

2010-06-27T13:40:00.002-05:00

just stepping out of the shower. back in maple grove still. work’s going to be a blast tomorrow after that 4-5 hour drive, i bet.

-bkh

saturday 12.26.09

2010-06-27T13:40:00.001-05:00

immediate family christmas dinner. a wonderful evening, with good food drink and people. out at ocean aire in minneapolis. having an impossibly long dinner (is this what they do in europe) with ma pa bro and sis. drinks, appetizers, wine, dinner, drinks, dessert, coffee. we retired back to the house and treated my parents to all 600 or so pictures from our trip. what a fantastic night!

-bkh

friday 12.25.09

2010-06-27T13:39:00.000-05:00

christmas day! spent the snowy day at aunt mona and uncle mike’s place in chaska. back home, using the pa’s espresso machine to fire myself up a shot to go in the espresso martini he doesn’t know he’s making me yet. but i am sure it will be delicious. i drink and eat so well at home.

-bkh

thursday 12.24.09

2010-06-27T13:38:00.002-05:00

christmas eve! i love christmas eve! with the anderson (my ma) side of the fam. in my family room, with uncle tim cheering a cheer of christmas happiness and wine. booting up my computer to show the fam some key picture from me and the bro’s trip overseas.

-bkh

wednesday 12.23.09

2010-06-27T13:38:00.001-05:00

i’m home! with my girls! my MG7 (well, MG6 since we are sans sarah this evening). eating a delicious dinner made by ann at her and michelle’s place. shallon telling her ‘best thing of 2009’. we all shared, in turn, our happiest memories of 2009. and this moment was definitely high on the list for me. the pre-christmas eve snow storm cut out evening a bit short, but we certainly packed all our happiness in the brief time together!

-bkh

tuesday 12.22.09

2010-06-27T13:37:00.000-05:00

with becky! and lina! in the dells having dinner at the moosejaw of something like that with them and their friend rasa and her two cute-a-roo twin babies. pit stop on my drive back to minneapolis for the holiday weekend. my lovely notebook/journal and herbs seeds gift from the ladies. catching-up in person the first time since my departure from london in august. how lucky am i to have such good friends around these holiday seasons.

-bkh

monday 12.21.09

2010-06-27T13:35:00.001-05:00

at the claddagh – with jen! jen middleton back in madison (middleton)! having a drink and appetizers with my dear friend. exchanging christmas gifts (good thing i wrapped hers) and looking at my euro trip pictures. what a good friend to look at picture after picture of my month of fun. we’re only on london right now, so we have a waaaays to go, ms. middleton! lucky for him, ryan monte left before getting stuck in my euro-picture trap.

-bkh

sunday 12.20.09

2010-06-27T13:33:00.002-05:00

wrapping christmas gifts in the living room. being ‘green’ and cheap and using copies of ‘the isthmus’ – weekly madison newspaper – to wrap all my gifts. jen middleton’s gift is getting wrapped in front of some boring football game fred’s watching. trying my darndest to keep liza from running all over my precious and carefully chosen gifts.

-bkh

saturday 12.19.09

2010-06-27T13:32:00.000-05:00

jackie’s in town! sitting right next to me at sushi happy hour. out with schrvyer and shaina. pre-drinking games and ‘houses in motion show’ at the high noon. clearly starting the night out with a volcano (ryan’s favorite) drink at ginza. thankfully they didn’t try (key word being try) to refuse him service this time.

-bkh

thursday 12.18.09

2010-06-27T13:31:00.000-05:00

‘santaland diaries’! at the bartell theater. going to watch the david Sedaris play about a disgruntled mall elf. out with liz, harvey, steph, carson, schryver, kara. little did we know how ‘lucky’ we would be front row with the surly cast members! luckily we were fresh off of happy hour with some additional folks, including perket (!!!!) in town with his landlady from london.

-bkh

thursday 12.17.09

2010-06-27T13:30:00.000-05:00

driving. somewhere.

-bkh

wednesday 12.16.09

2010-02-27T23:19:00.002-06:00

walking upstairs. one of many walks upstairs everyday. i seem to forget things up or down regularly. the stairs are unusually empty. with only one notebook waiting for someone to claim it and take it to his/her room. must be fred’s.

-bkh

monday 12.15.09

2010-02-27T23:16:00.000-06:00

cooking dinner. scallops (on sale at sentry!) and broccoli with quinoa. had my first ever massage. at inner fire yoga. all geared up to have a nice evening – massage, cooking, relaxing. and then my car battery died. less than peaceful evening, turns out. car problems make me nervous and tense. good thing my insurance company paid for my massage, right?

-bkh

sunday 12.14.09

2010-02-27T23:10:00.000-06:00

monday off from barriques. weird… was supposed to go to a uwmf work meeting on the updates to the pap and mammography guidelines. but it got cancelled, so i had some extra time on my hands. what did i do? i cleaned the living room. swept, picked things up, dusted (thanks for the crocheted rag, mom) while ‘six feet under’ was playing. i was going to vacuum, but ryan got home and we walked to video station with liza. and rented a movie we both had forgotten we had already seen. suppose that’s what happens when you live with nick for a while and regularly have double-feature nights. you forget all the movies you only half-watched.

-bkh

sunday 12.13.09

2010-02-27T22:49:00.005-06:00

bela fleck holiday show! watching some of the best musicians in the world play some holiday and some non-holiday tunes at the orpheum with brendon, ryan, and shaina. this isn’t what the show looked like. but it’d be a bit rude to take a picture, now wouldn’t it? (and they don’t allow flash cameras.) show good, i bought my dad a cd. brendon and i got dinner pre-show at the afghan restaurant on state street. turns out i like afghan food – who woulda known?

-bkh

saturday 12.12.09

2010-02-27T22:39:00.000-06:00

night at home. watching ‘weeds’. got addicted. to the show. spent the afternoon with liz at ‘the christmas carol’ at the overture. took two or three times longer than usual to get back from the east side. madison seems to have a snow removal problem this winter. cooked dinner and settled in for an evening in the big green chair.

-bkh

friday 12.11.09

2010-02-27T22:35:00.001-06:00

having some hot chocolate & peppermint schnapps in my coffee mug (i made it myself!) around the house. i got hooked on the drink with the new snow and the snow day. mm-mmm. getting ready to head to steph & carson’s for a fancy wine and cheese night, and the alchemy, with ryan.

-bkh

thursday 12.10.09

2010-02-27T22:26:00.000-06:00

sitting at home. icing my knee. i’ve hurt this knee no fewer than three significant times in my life. the third being recently on the ice walking into my house. tripping and falling with all my stuff. strike against you, winter. reading through my mail in front of msnbc. postcard in the mailbox from alli – ‘she like imaginary men the best of all.’ thanks, darling.

-bkh

monday 12.09.09

2010-02-27T22:10:00.003-06:00

snow day, snow day! happy snow day!! madison, wi received a gift of 19 inches of snow tuesday night/wednesday morning. the city (and state) shut down. my office and coffee shop were closed. so, no work for this gal, or ryan, or fred, or shannon. so what did we do? we shoveled. and drank. nothing quite like hot apple bourbon cider and peppermint schnapps hot chocolate on a snow day. headed on over to the willy/atwood area to kara’s and play some circle of death with kara stacy and cody later in the eve. good day. thanks mother nature! snow days should be mandatory.

-bkh

tuesday 12.08.09

2009-12-16T19:18:00.001-06:00

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

2009-12-16T19:17:00.000-06:00

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

2009-12-16T19:16:00.000-06:00

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

2009-12-16T19:13:00.001-06:00

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

2009-12-16T19:11:00.000-06:00

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

2009-12-16T19:08:00.000-06:00

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

2009-12-16T19:05:00.001-06:00

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

2009-12-12T20:23:00.000-06:00

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

2009-12-12T20:22:00.001-06:00

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

2009-12-12T20:19:00.001-06:00

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

2009-12-12T20:18:00.000-06:00

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

2009-12-12T20:17:00.000-06:00

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

2009-12-12T20:16:00.000-06:00

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

2009-12-12T20:14:00.000-06:00

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

2009-12-05T10:55:00.001-06:00

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?

job. money. vacation.
lala.com and npr.org/music
my able body
coffee shops
letters cards postcards via USPS
my independence
my roommates (ok, even liza)
color
family
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

2009-12-05T10:54:00.000-06:00

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

2009-12-05T10:51:00.002-06:00

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

2009-12-05T10:49:00.001-06:00

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

2009-12-05T10:47:00.002-06:00

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

2009-12-05T10:45:00.001-06:00

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

wednesday 11.18.09

2009-11-29T15:11:00.002-06:00

cait! cait! cait and the girls playing at high noon! cait is the manager of the middleton barriques, and an exceptionally talented musician. taking in her happy hour show with tristan - my former fellow la crosse erbs & gerbs sandwich maker - and the old sauk barriques staff (+ kourt).

-bkh

tuesday 11.17.09

2009-11-29T15:09:00.000-06:00

out on a walk with ryan and liza. got back from my colorectal cancer prevention initiative meeting right as ryan was taking dog out to let out some of her energy. joined them for the 30 or so minute walk around the neighborhood. november is so beautiful this 2009.

-bkh

monday 11.16.09

2009-11-29T15:08:00.000-06:00

washing dishes at barriques. working with heidi. washed out the dustpan, too. it was coated and caked with coffee grounds.

-bkh

sunday 11.15.09

2009-11-29T15:06:00.002-06:00

cleaning up after dinner. baked potato and brussel sprouts. usually i get real antsy when a baked potato is cooking, and eat ‘appetizers’ until i’m not hungry anymore when the potato is finally done. i played it right this time around and popped it in the toaster oven while i went to an hour long yoga class. perfect timing. roasted brussel sprouts with olive oil, salt, pepper, balsamic vinaigrette, and honey. the honey bottle says in big letters: ‘do not feed to infants under the age of 1’. not really sure why? but i guess i won’t argue.

-bkh

saturday 11.14.09

2009-11-29T15:04:00.002-06:00

spanish wine tasting at monroe street barriques with jess & andy. shannon, leah, and liz too. barriques old saukers night on the town. andy getting the nose feel or whatever, trying to find the pencil lead and gooseberries in his wine. enjoyed the eight (plus one times two) wines before heading to meet tracy, travis, cait & others at the frequency for some tunes that sounded like death metal and yoko ono guitars, and looked like a band with my hair and a mess of a dance party through my wine and spotted cow lenses.

-bkh

friday 11.13.09

2009-11-29T15:01:00.000-06:00

working the barriques on monroe street. spanish wine tasting going on over on the other side of the counter. matt & finn were looking for someone to help out with the coffee side of barriques. and i could see why. monroe gets owned by wine tasters! wow. the joint was packed. michelle, jason, and i were busting our butts running around. cheese boards, and mediterranean experiences, and wine by the glass, and conversations about wine… i did not make a single latte drink in my five hour shift.

-bkh

thursday 11.12.09

2009-11-29T15:00:00.000-06:00

watching ‘the office’ online with ryan. finding out what happened in the past few episodes before watching this week’s episode. awkwardly balancing the computer on the arm of the couch between the two of us and angling it so we can both kinda-sorta see the screen. fred and shannon joined us, finding a standing spot behind the chair. when will we be able to access internet from the tv so we don’t have to watch nbc.com awkwardly? maybe some people already can?

-bkh

wednesday 11.11.09

2009-11-25T22:30:00.000-06:00

working with heidi. holding down barriques like pros. we’ve committed ourselves to barriques-improvement projects or whatever every monday and wednesday we work together. getting a little elbow grease in our shift. she scrubbed down behind the espresso grinders, and i tackled behind the big grinder. took a little bit of extra work, but, oh how it shined when we were done. wednesday we have an extra hour to close than mondays, so we can be extra effective in our cleaning the latter part of the week. got started on sweeping the floor, appropriately an hour later than mondays.

-bkh

tuesday 11.10.09

2009-11-25T22:29:00.000-06:00

watching ‘lost in translation’ with fred and shannon (...and liza). took a short break to instruct fred on the steps to gift wrapping. his kind request to have me ‘wrap this’ gift was denied, though i felt it appropriate to teach him how to fish, as the saying goes.

-bkh

monday 11.09.09

2009-11-25T22:28:00.000-06:00

working with heidi. food is already cleaned up. i am ready to go. did some cleaning and closing right when i got it, which was good cuz i was ahead by the time old travis stopped in, and was able to spend a bit of time catching-up with the former co-worker without getting owned by the closing to-do list. it was nice to see him again after so long.

-bkh

sunday 11.08.09

2009-11-25T22:26:00.002-06:00

making dinner. hummus-grape-almond-honey pizza. it may not sound delicious, but that is exactly what it is. jason made one of these back in my baldwin street days, and it was mighty tasty back then. i had been meaning to make it for a while now. when i saw grapes on sale at coops, i knew today was my day. cooked it up, and enjoyed it in front of ‘the us vs. john lennon’. oh, uh, and the weekend first-aid kit was slowly making its way back to the bathroom by way of the stove, it appears...

-bkh

saturday 11.07.09

2009-11-25T22:22:00.003-06:00

at edo (eato? eto? eadto.) sushi restaurant on park street with bjorn, shannon, fred, noreen, and ryan. having some food after a day hike at devil’s lake. does a better day exist? (other than the unforgiving hangover that plagued the house) i think not. i asked the waiter to leave the pitcher of water on the table (please note the small glasses in front of fred), but since it's a sushi restaurant he instead brought me a bigger glass. and was very attentive in filling it. someone got a good tip. and someone got made fun of by her friends.

-bkh

friday 11.06.09

2009-11-25T22:21:00.000-06:00

bjorn! bjorn! bjorn in town from viroqua! sharing stories from his 3,500 mile bike ride to and from the pacific northwest. and reading about the movie festival going on over the weekend in madison. fred ryan and shannon are grilling out our food outside, and getting the bonfire ready for a night of friends, fire, and beer (and jim beam and 99 peaches?)

-bkh

thursday 11.05.09

2009-11-25T22:20:00.000-06:00

watching the news. flipping msnbc to cnn to fox waiting for the press conference on the fort hood shootings. it kept being delayed and delayed. never ended up seeing it. i had a meditation class at 8. i got a whole lot of ‘information’ (read: speculation) though. oh the joys of this non-stop 24-hour news world we live in.

-bkh

wednesday 11.04.09

2009-11-22T22:13:00.001-06:00

cleaning the espresso machine at barriques. getting ready for the last power hour and a half with heidi. trying to stay ahead of the curve so we get on out soon after we lock the doors at 9.

-bkh

tuesday 11.03.09

2009-11-22T22:12:00.000-06:00

heading down into the basement. started doing laundry (maybe the first time since i got back from europe…?) but got distracted by the village of empty detergent containers, dryer sheets, sock widows (for you, mom!), lint balls the size of my head hanging around on the floor. i am quite sure they have all been there since i moved in. probably since stacy moved in. so i did a bit of power cleaning. after 20 minutes it looked like a whole new basement.

-bkh

monday 11.02.09

2009-11-22T22:11:00.002-06:00

barriques with heidi. someone dropped off his/her coffee cup at the end of the bar before heading out. taking it back to the sink to put with the other ‘for here’ dishes ready for the dishwasher. we have a tub bucket or whatever by the door, but about ¼ of customers seem to prefer putting their dishes on the counter. fine. it’s closer to where they need to eventually go. it’s funny, though. we’ll find dishes abandoned there throughout the day, but no customer will just drop it there and walk away if we’re standing there. they always ask ‘where do you want me to…can i just leave this here, or…’ as though they can’t just leave it when we’re there, but don’t mind passively dropping it when no one is looking. people are interesting.

-bkh

sunday 11.01.09

2009-11-22T22:09:00.000-06:00

sushi dinner with some of the barriques staff! i really like my social time with my barriques staff. and it is much too few and far between. jess and i have been trying to have dinner for ages, and we finally (finally!) succeeded and brought a long a bunch of co-workers, too.

-bkh

saturday 10.31.09

2009-11-22T22:08:00.000-06:00

happy halloween. hanging around the house, playing trivial pursuit, drinking some hot bourbon cider, ryan playing fred’s bass. ryan nick and i cooked up some homemade pizzas using the wealth of pasta sauce i had from thursday. and hung around the house before getting all dressed up and heading to the big 10 to meet up with the wilkie bros.

-bkh

friday 10.30.09

2009-11-22T22:07:00.001-06:00

working at barriques. but at monroe street barriques, not old sauk road barriques. got a mid-morning email from the owner looking for a barriquer to help hold down monroe at some point between noon-8. sure – why not? got to meet some new folks, see a new store, make some money. win-win. monroe sure sells a lot of wine by the glass. about 10 times as much as old sauk.

-bkh

thursday 10.29.09

2009-11-22T21:58:00.001-06:00

cooking dinner. roasted tomato and pesto marinara sauce to go with pasta. tasty recipe i picked up from either vegetarian times or eating well. it made a lot of sauce. a lot of sauce. i used the amount i needed for the box of pasta, and could have easily added three or four boxes of pasta. i have some awesome leftovers. for months.

-bkh

wednesday 10.28.09

2009-11-15T19:48:00.001-06:00

just getting home parking my car and packing up my stuff to bring inside. went to ‘the time traveler’s wife’ and dinner with deniz. the movie was a whole heck of a lot better than i anticipated. i would highly recommend it, and not just to ladies. and best off all, we saw it at the 'cheap theater' on the west side, so the ticket was <$3. every city should have a cheap theater. they make me so happy.

-bkh

tuesday 10.27.09

2009-11-15T19:46:00.002-06:00

dane county immunization coalition’s annual immunization symposium. this year’s topics?: seasonal flu, H1N1, and vaccine refusal. no surprises there. listening to donna weaver from the cdc (centers for disease control and prevention) before dr. conway from UW speaks. sitting behind the group health cooperative immunization person (i’m the unity immunization person), and next to my boss.

-bkh

monday 10.26.09

2009-11-15T19:45:00.000-06:00

monday nights are barriques nights. barriques nights with heidi. washing up dishes. staying on top of the dishes, otherwise we’ll be there oh so much later than 8:00.

-bkh

sunday 10.25.09

2009-11-15T19:44:00.000-06:00

mckinley street house has a mouse situation. a severe mouse situation. setting up some mouse traps with ryan to catch the little shits. after a couple episodes of ‘arrested development’, we went back to the kitchen to survey the damage: all four traps successfully fulfilled their role in life. yowzas. mckinley street has a mouse problem.

-bkh

saturday 10.24.09

2009-11-15T19:43:00.003-06:00

lounging around the house with ryan and jackie (jackie! another day in madison with us!) we accidentally stayed up all night last night, and were real nice and tired by the time saturday evening rolled around. the weekend started wednesday, so we were well due for a quiet night. picked up some stuff to make some stir crazy popcorn and popped in ‘savages’ followed by ‘mallrats’. brandy old fashioneds made an appearance. you can tell because the liquor cabinet has it's lights on. when there's drinking, the mood lights illuminate the 'man room'.

-bkh

friday 10.23.09

2009-11-15T19:40:00.002-06:00

yonderfest day 3. ryan kara jackie. jeremy, heather, katy, kay, and kay’s roommate, too. oooo – what good people. out to dinner & drinks at jolly bob’s in madison. a little light on the drinks for most of the table given the previous two days for most of ‘em. hearing about jackie’s law school life, and the cases she’s working on in st. paul. good people.

-bkh

thursday 10.22.09

2009-11-15T19:38:00.003-06:00

yonderfest day 2. after a day of drinking, ryan and benny decided to shave their heads (whaaaat?) jake doing a bit of one-handed touch-up on ryan’s hair. fred had to intervene so jake could concentrate on more important things (read: his pbr). though, jake couldn’t do much more damage to ryan than benny did during the ryan-benny-kara-katy-fight-for-the-razor scuffle. ryan is now the proud owner of a small bald spot and an inverted rat tail.

-bkh

wednesday 10.21.09

2009-11-12T22:07:00.000-06:00

yonderfest! day 1. in my backyard. hanging out having some beers, boxed wine, straight whiskey, getting ready for the avett brothers show. people in town from chicago, rice lake, seattle, appleton, st. paul, stevens point, milwaukee… for the week(end). kara brought some birthday hats in honor of ryan’s recent and stacy’s upcoming birthdays. so many reasons to (over)celebrate.

-bkh

tuesday 10.20.09

2009-11-12T22:06:00.000-06:00

making a decaf skim latte. for here. apparently the gentleman did not realize barriques closes in thirty minutes. luckily my co-worker, jess, is so darn sweet, so he wasn’t upset when she started vacuuming around him at 8:00.

-bkh

monday 10.19.09

2009-11-12T22:04:00.001-06:00

closing with heidi. my first (of many to come) shift with heidi. trying to keep on top of the dishes. putting away some silverware at barriques. knives for our in the dining room. sometimes people don’t notice/acknowledge that we have silverware, and just go straight for the plasticware. come on, people. this is madison!

-bkh

sunday 10.18.09

2009-11-12T22:03:00.001-06:00

happy anniversary mom & dad!

watching some tv with fred. and probably shannon and ryan. got back late(rish) after a nice afternoon/evening with steve & megan in milwaukee.

-bkh

saturday 10.17.09

2009-11-12T22:01:00.001-06:00

reading some ‘us weekly’ so i of course must be at marissa & nina’s place in milwaukee. reading about ‘twilight’ in the twilight decorated apartment, hanging out with marissa and her itunes top 25 listened to list that definitely did not contain miley cyrus songs. spent the day with marissa, marques, and chris. seeing good people and the city. now just waiting for the mrs. to get home from work.

-bkh

friday 10.16.09

2009-11-12T22:00:00.000-06:00

watching ‘the life of david gale’. by myself. ryan and his folks came back from dinner & shopping right at the climax of the movie. kinda like they did when i was watching ‘pheobe in wonderland’ a while back. seems to be ‘their thing’. after the movie i riled myself up from what could have been a quiet evening. went with ryan and nick to ‘st. vincent’ show at high noon. not as good as i hoped. one band i’d say is better recorded than live.

-bkh

thursday 10.15.09

2009-11-12T21:59:00.000-06:00

sitting around the house. it appears as though fred has slowly undressed in the living room.

-bkh

wednesday 10.14.09

2009-11-08T11:27:00.001-06:00

movie day. my life is awesome now that netflix came into it. ‘amelie’ with fred. though fred is reading his new palahniuk book on the couch. so i suppose i’m watching amelie by myself. hadn’t seen the movie since freshman year of college. the french professor had our class over to her apartment to cook a french meal and watch the movie. ryan and i stayed in the montmartre district in paris, which is where amelie was filmed. the tour we took of the area pointed out a lot of places from the movie. i had many memories of the trip watching the movie.

-bkh

tuesday 10.13.09

2009-11-08T11:26:00.001-06:00

barriques with jess. and training new co-worker travis. new co-worker travis is sticking around longer than new-co-worker mike/matt did. showing travis how to close up the food stuff for the night. pull out the bins, cover them with the plastic covers, put them below – making sure to pull out the breakfast stuff so the morning people can grab them in a sleepy second.

-bkh

monday 10.12.09

2009-11-08T11:25:00.002-06:00

working with ryan (not roommate ryan or brother ryan; barriques ryan). ryan is a master speed-worker. always antsy to get moving out the door. i’d take it personal if i were someone who took things ryan did personal. but luckily i’m not. folding up the clean towels for the openers while ryan shuts down the soup station for the night. getting ready for the mad-rush of closing duties that starts half an hour before close.

-bkh

sunday 10.11.09

2009-11-08T11:25:00.001-06:00

movie time. watching ‘stranger than fiction’ with ryan (sorta) and fred (kinda) and picking away at some facebook stalking. sundays are a great day for multi-tasking.

-bkh

saturday 10.10.09

2009-11-08T11:24:00.000-06:00

oooo – nap. big nap. the house was coooold when i got back from barriques. heat was not yet turned out. crawled up in to my bed for a bit. it felt like camping. if you don’t know what that means, well i don’t really know how to describe it better. ‘men in black’ was playing on the tv in front of ryan when i got up, so that was good. we decided the only way to warm up was to go to whole food to pick up some cider for hot apple (bourbon) cider before going to steph & carson’s vegas shindig.

-bkh

friday 10.09.09

2009-11-08T11:23:00.000-06:00

happy birthday, schryver!

mmm…pizza. cooking up some pesto, tomato, mushroom, and mozzarella pizza. my allergies knocked me off my feet in a big way. ryan was ready to be moving and partying for his birthday. but i was hearing none of it. sick sick sick. me, my pizza, and ‘slumdog millionaire’ (god i love netflix) spent the night on the couch. good decision.

-bkh

thursday 10.08.09

2009-11-01T14:06:00.004-06:00

barriquing with jess, again. warming foaming frothing some milk to 140 degrees for a beverage. hot chocolate, maybe? latte? we close at 9 on thursdays, so we have a bit more time to get all the closing stuff done, and we have quite a few more customers at 7:30, since they have ninety minutes to enjoy their drink ‘for here’ if they’d like.

-bkh

wednesday 10.07.09

2009-11-01T14:06:00.003-06:00

making myself some pesto. spinach-almond-garlic-parmesan-olive oil pesto. my favorite. mixing it in with gnocchi and veggies. still a favorite meal for me. and a quick quick meal, too. which is exactly what i need for a late start to my dinner. i picked up some potter’s crackers, and fontania cheese at the store for a personal appetizer while dinner was in the works. good idea, breanna.

-bkh

tuesday 10.06.09

2009-11-01T14:05:00.001-06:00

working barriques with jess! it has been aaaages since i’ve worked with jess. her & i will be holding down the joint tuesdays for the fall, it seems. fantastic. taking out the garbage here. attempting to take out the garbage here. the garbage was apparently not collected mid-day, and was impossibly heavy by the evening shift. jess required a bit of assistance getting the bag from the can. that’s why there’s two of us running the place.

-bkh

monday 10.05.09

2009-11-01T14:04:00.000-06:00

happy birthday, dad!

took a walk to hilldale mall. in the clearance room at anthropologie. checking out the pretty color shirts dresses pants skirts etc. i can barley justify buying things on clearance – and even then is usually the bottom of the barrel multiple mark down clothes. so i don’t even bother anywhere in the store but clearance, fitting room, and register. my bank account appreciates my self-restraint.

-bkh

sunday 10.04.09

2009-11-01T14:03:00.000-06:00

packing up my gps to sell. it doesn’t work in my car. the vw’s cigarette lighters/car electronic chargers are broken. so the gps can’t work. which sucks, because i really want it. but, such is life right now. i found a buyer on craigslist. making sure it’s all there and accounted for. and getting my netflix ready to be returned to the factory or whatever so the next ones can come and be viewed.

-bkh

saturday 10.03.09

2009-11-01T14:02:00.001-06:00

barriques work. working with leah. getting ready to close – a nice 8pm closing on saturday. checking out one of the leftover single espresso shots. we pull double shots always, so if people want a single shot drink, there’s an extra one hanging out. what should i do with this? wait for someone to order a single or triple drink? make myself a drink? reserve it for a milkshake? or…? counting down the hours until i head from barriques to chris koza at the union.

-bkh

friday 10.02.09

2009-11-01T14:01:00.001-06:00

willy street co-op dinner. fred and ryan are both out of town for the night. so i’m having a night at home by myself. my life gets pretty interesting/exciting in winter, so i signed myself up for a netflix subscription. things are going pretty well with that. in addition to dvds in my mailbox, i get to instantly view some movies online, too. so i spent the night with ‘he loves me, he loves me not’ and half of ‘paris, je t’aime’.

-bkh

thursday 10.01.09

2009-10-28T21:21:00.002-05:00

at the wisconsin asthma coalition meeting in marshfield, wi. at the dinner presentation. listening to ‘techniques supporting relationship centered care and shared decision making’ by dr. michael cabana from the university of california, san francisco.

-bkh

wednesday 09.30.09

2009-10-28T21:19:00.001-05:00

hanging out on my bed. staring up at the poster hanging above my bed (no, not that one – i took that one down). talking on the phone with katie naessans. playing some long overdue catch up about her d.c. life, and my madison life, and whatever falls in between there. oh, a friend like katie is perfect on a wednesday evening.

-bkh

tuesday 09.29.09

2009-10-28T21:16:00.000-05:00

connie schryver – ryan’s mom aka an angel from above – coming to pick up liza for two (two!) weeks. ryan has a bit of work traveling to do, and liza does much better in lake geneva with mr. & mrs. schryver than madison without ryan. ryan’s showing her his and fred’s new pride & joy: the liquor cabinet. no, not a hutch. no, not a china cabinet. a liquor cabinet. complete with illuminating lights. the house really is coming together just as nicely as anyone could imagine.

-bkh

monday 09.28.09

2009-10-28T21:15:00.001-05:00

another barriques shift. buying myself some blue heeler coffee beans. new roommate fred came with new appliance – a coffee maker! whoever would have thought the barista didn’t have a coffee maker in her house? bought some coffee beans and ground them up (for a drip) to make myself some morning coffee to bring to the office in my thermos.

-bkh

sunday 09.27.09

2009-10-28T21:14:00.000-05:00

updating the blog. caught red-handed. yowzas am i behind after europe. good thing i kept a journal of captions for the pictures while i was traveling.

-bkh

saturday 09.26.09

2009-10-28T21:12:00.001-05:00

closing barriques with new co-worker matt (or maybe it’s mike). closing barriques for the first and last time with new co-worker mike (or maybe it’s matt). he quit two days after this shift. maybe it’s because i kept calling him matt (or mike). twas my first shift back after six weeks away. finally grabbing a moment during the unusually busy saturday to teach him how to pull bakery for the openers to bake the next day. it was a pleasure knowing you for a few hours, mike/matt.

-bkh

friday 09.25.09

2009-10-28T21:11:00.001-05:00

shhhh – aroma therapy yoga. three hours of yin yoga taught by two of my favorite inner fire instructors. yin yoga paired with essential oils. oh so relaxing i just wanted to fall asleep (and maybe i did). the class was deep stretches, which we have already established i am very good at, and ended in a meditation. my eyes were closed for much of the three relaxing blissful & peaceful hours.

-bkh

thursday 09.24.09

2009-10-24T22:39:00.000-05:00

michael pollan speaking at the khol center. talking to madison folks about local, organic, seasonal, food. preaching to the choir here, i bet. i don’t think the kohl center has ever heard this much cheering and applause. the place was packed for the ‘go big read’ event put on by the university. luckily reina and i biked to the kohl center in enough time to get spots after cooking up some of our own fresh vegetarian food.

-bkh

wednesday 09.23.09

2009-10-24T22:38:00.001-05:00

new roommate fred. in the kitchen making some chex mix. fred had an itch for some chex mix, so we went over to sentry and picked up ingredients. the three boxes of chex cereal all had different recipes for chex cereal snacks. fred trying to determine which box – the rice, the corn, or the wheat – holds the recipe we were looking for.

-bkh