monday 02.09.09

i fly like paper...

driving home from work at the medical foundation. midvale & mineral point. i accidentally stayed later than i anticipated. the building i work in has a workout room on the main floor. i was in my cube until 6 or so, then headed downstairs to use the equipment. much more convenient on the weekdays than going to the princeton club.

-bkh

sunday 02.08.09

she got the money and i got the honey...

grammy watching party at the house. erin had been craving taco dip since before the super bowl, and the guys had been craving pbr since...forever. so the grammys seemed like the perfect occasion to combine the two. erin, nick, ryan, wilke, and i settled in front of the tv to take in m.i.a.'s disaster polka dot outfit, thom yorke's awkwardly endearing attempt at dancing, the jonas brothers closing in on stevie wonder, and definitely not katie perry's performance.

-bkh

saturday 02.07.09

and a feeling like you've been here before ...

making sushi at the house with erin nick and ryan. our second try at home-made sushi (it turned out much better this time, andy). kara 'k1' miller bought me a sushi making kit for christmas 2007. the house is trying to get good use out of it. we filled the sushi rolls with avocado, shrimp, scallion, cream cheese, spicy temeph, string cheese (string cheese?), cucumber.

-bkh

friday 02.06.09

just like every cowboy sings his sad, sad song...


i went out for happy hour with deniz, my co-worker and friend, after work. there's a new bar right by the office in middleton. it can be a pretty interesting place. they have live music every now and then; we missed bret michaels by one day. we did, however, run into some other folks from work. and that made happy hour turn plural. i got a little sleepy by the time i got home.


-bkh

thursday 02.05.09

it's a crazy mixed up world...

walking liza. she gets needy when she isn't walked regularly (dogs are funny that way). she won't leave our sides...lays her head in our laps...drags ryan's underpants into the backyard... maybe dog people use words like 'adorable' or 'endearing' to describe that. but i'm not a dog person. liza hadn't burned off that energy for a day or two, which means the backyard is full of fun stuff. we went for a walk since the weather was being agreeable.

-bkh

wednesday 02.04.09

there'd be music playin', people laughin' all the time...

pottery, pottery. the class is very...therapeutic(?) for me. good people, relaxing work, creative space. i missed the three previous classes. and oh how my skills waned. i managed to puncture a hole in the bottom of what was supposed to be a coffee mug. turns out i made myself yet another coffee-mug-turned-pencil-holder. seems to be my specialty. i went to a training for work earlier in the day entitled 'discover your strengths'. we went over the difference between a strength and a hobby. simply put - a strength is something someone will pay you to do; a hobby is not. pottery is my hobby.

-bkh

tuesday 02.03.09

the day the music died...

i walked over to reina (and neil)'s for chai and games. reina and neil discovered the going out of business sale at cub foods and stocked up for hibernation. reina gave me a tour of the overflowing kitchen. spices, pasta, candies, fake chicken. and especially excited about a starbucks double shot espresso drink in the fridge. we had oregon chai & soy milk (a chilled one for the hibernator, a warmed one for the walker) and le petit écolier cookies as we played backgammon. neil joined us for a never-ending game of scrabble.

-bkh