thursday 12.31.09

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

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

sunday 12.20.09

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

wednesday 12.16.09

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

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

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

saturday 12.12.09

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

sunday 11.15.09

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

thursday 11.12.09

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

tuesday 11.10.09

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

sunday 11.08.09

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