Hello folks.
This is my massive "what the hell has been up with KT" post.
Ok... er.... I've got nothing.
I've gotten to that point in the quarter where the weeks seem to really fly by, the days go really slow, and the months are eons.
I'm not really sure what happened last week - was that the weekend I went up to Madison? Yeah. I was up in Madison last weekend... For Scott's birthday party, and to see the Boyfriend... And I crashed my car... It's coming back to me now. Ok - last weekend, drove up to Madison Saturday and ended up waiting around for Scott and Molly (my sister and her husband) at a bar called, literally "Sports Pub". Despite the name sounding a teensey bit sketchy, it was really very nice and the liquor was cheap cheap cheap (ahhh Madison). So a good, dancing, cake-eating, boot-stompin' time was had by all. It was a blast.
Then I ended up at the Boyfriend's that night and the next morning some idiot backed his car into mine in the Barnes-n-Noble parking lot. Alas. My car was not significantly damaged except for this mysterious black box that fell out of the front right corner. I don't know if the people at Saturn have just started making up shit to put under the hoods of cars, but this is apparently (from my insurance company) an "air resonator". This is a made up part, I swear to God. What the hell would the air in my car need to be resonated for? There is no fluid in the box, only a couple of dead leaves. The car seems to run just fine without it. Eh?
Ah well. So post that I returned to Chicago for Monday then back up to Racine on Tuesday to meet with said insurance company. $25 to replace this thing, and they can't tell me what it does.
Did some thrifting, came back to Chicago, and worked my ass off all week until last night. Last night was dinner with Allyson and Ivan for Ivan's birthday at Hulio's Hacienda on North St. Damn damn damn damn damn fine food. This was unbelievably good.
Today, Saturday, was thrifting with Kerri in which I snagged such a cool pair of black suede pants that I'm going to name them - perhaps "Shirley?" I also grabbed a really cool faux 50's dress that is a nude base and a black mesh overlay that is difficult to describe in text. Needless to say - very cool. Total with red cashmere sweater? $12. I love thrifting.
Oh, and I've been making soap - so the past few days have been spent carefully shredding Ivory and then Dial Natural bars and boiling them down in a double boiler, adding random delightful and fun-scented things to them and re-molding them. Sounds strange, but it's quite fun.
Current soap recipe:
4 - 4.5oz Dial Natural bars shredded
2 tsp sesame seed oil
1 tsp coco butter
1 tsp sunblock
1 tsp moisturizer
2 tsp aloe vera
4 drops peach colorant
1.5 tsp honey fragrance oil
Seems to work well.
Of course I am also thinking of a morning face bar with crushed apricot seed, peppermint scent, and eucalyptus.
That was Thursday. Today I'm making soups - Black lentil with sausage and split pea with ham.
That means lunches for the rest of this and next week. Yipee!
Ok. So this sounds a little manic, but at least I'm getting stuff done.
Ok... er.... I've got nothing.
I've gotten to that point in the quarter where the weeks seem to really fly by, the days go really slow, and the months are eons.
I'm not really sure what happened last week - was that the weekend I went up to Madison? Yeah. I was up in Madison last weekend... For Scott's birthday party, and to see the Boyfriend... And I crashed my car... It's coming back to me now. Ok - last weekend, drove up to Madison Saturday and ended up waiting around for Scott and Molly (my sister and her husband) at a bar called, literally "Sports Pub". Despite the name sounding a teensey bit sketchy, it was really very nice and the liquor was cheap cheap cheap (ahhh Madison). So a good, dancing, cake-eating, boot-stompin' time was had by all. It was a blast.
Then I ended up at the Boyfriend's that night and the next morning some idiot backed his car into mine in the Barnes-n-Noble parking lot. Alas. My car was not significantly damaged except for this mysterious black box that fell out of the front right corner. I don't know if the people at Saturn have just started making up shit to put under the hoods of cars, but this is apparently (from my insurance company) an "air resonator". This is a made up part, I swear to God. What the hell would the air in my car need to be resonated for? There is no fluid in the box, only a couple of dead leaves. The car seems to run just fine without it. Eh?
Ah well. So post that I returned to Chicago for Monday then back up to Racine on Tuesday to meet with said insurance company. $25 to replace this thing, and they can't tell me what it does.
Did some thrifting, came back to Chicago, and worked my ass off all week until last night. Last night was dinner with Allyson and Ivan for Ivan's birthday at Hulio's Hacienda on North St. Damn damn damn damn damn fine food. This was unbelievably good.
Today, Saturday, was thrifting with Kerri in which I snagged such a cool pair of black suede pants that I'm going to name them - perhaps "Shirley?" I also grabbed a really cool faux 50's dress that is a nude base and a black mesh overlay that is difficult to describe in text. Needless to say - very cool. Total with red cashmere sweater? $12. I love thrifting.
Oh, and I've been making soap - so the past few days have been spent carefully shredding Ivory and then Dial Natural bars and boiling them down in a double boiler, adding random delightful and fun-scented things to them and re-molding them. Sounds strange, but it's quite fun.
Current soap recipe:
4 - 4.5oz Dial Natural bars shredded
2 tsp sesame seed oil
1 tsp coco butter
1 tsp sunblock
1 tsp moisturizer
2 tsp aloe vera
4 drops peach colorant
1.5 tsp honey fragrance oil
Seems to work well.
Of course I am also thinking of a morning face bar with crushed apricot seed, peppermint scent, and eucalyptus.
That was Thursday. Today I'm making soups - Black lentil with sausage and split pea with ham.
That means lunches for the rest of this and next week. Yipee!
Ok. So this sounds a little manic, but at least I'm getting stuff done.
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