Tuesday, June 21, 2005

Announcing the Silly Sign Series!

No one cared about the Cheap Vegetarian's Guide to Survival, so i'm doing something else to drum up interest! Also, i haven't been able to update the Guide yet due to technical difficulties... i need a different host for my recipes page.

Anyhow, Monday was a funny day at work, and my boss sent us some amusing emails for the first time since i've started there. Heheh heh. So, i have a bunch to share. Enjoy.

Yeah, i know i'm vegetarian. That doesn't mean i don't have a sense of humor. Posted by Hello

At last, a truly bilingual sign. That's where we can start breaking down cultural barriers. Posted by Hello

a good add for a law firm Posted by Hello

Sunday, June 19, 2005

Habitrail for Humanity

Have you ever wished you had a cool new place to live? Off the coast of Japan, a construction project is launching to build a totally enclosed city they're building on the ocean. Among the plans for the structure to have its own port, tourist facitilies, etc, are plans to build hanging residences from the top of this pyramidal dome structure over the ocean. I don't know if i'd want to live there or not, but it won't matter because it will beso expensive! Unfortunately, the site in Japan is going to be such a site that lower income families won't be able to participate in living in this "wave" of the future.

It's a good thing that Habitrail for Humanity is stepping up to the plate. It's not above the ocean, but at least its residents will get their exercise:
http://www.theonion.com/news/index.php?issue=4124

Saturday, June 18, 2005

HARK!

Announcing The Cheap Vegetarian's Guide to Survival at http://cheapveggie.blogspot.com!

Spokeschicken will remain my vent, and now i have a venue for the area that has proven to most please my creative energy: my cooking. So, please enjoy The Cheap Vegetarian's Guide to Survival.

Tuesday, June 14, 2005

now i can breathe again

GODDAMN was it hot for a while there. YUCK. but on saturday i still managed to have an impossibly productive day.

7 am - woke up, ate breakfast. was too hot to put wear anything, so i went through my entire wardrobe, decided what to pack in the trunk, what to keep, and what to give away (then reorganized my office supplies) while naked. finished by 9am

9 am - showered, made coffee. still naked. too damned hot.

10 am - out of the house going to McIntyre books to sell some old religious texts i've had kicking around and refused to sell again. got 25 bucks for them! went to drop off clothes at goodwill, spoke some french with a moroccan woman who works there.

11 am - pick up chair from person i found on craigslist. fortunately the chair is really light and i can move it on my own. fits in the scion with plenty of space to spair!

11:30 am - run errands in allston, one of them being checking out a moving sale for another chair. nada, except for a wine rack i scored for 3 bucks.

12:30 pm - heading home. feeling very proud about how well i've moved around in a car in the boston area without a map.

1 pm - remember that i've had nothing since 7 but a bowl of cereal and a luna bar. still too hot to eat, so oh well. laze around for a bit

2:45 pm - walk to italian market. get produce to make salsa, pesto, and smoothies. spent 11.50$ on a pound of green beans, 10 peaches, 2 lbs strawberries, 2 lbs bananas (which i left there somewhere...oops), 2 lbs basil, 1 bunch parsley, 1 bunch cilantro, 4 lb bucket of peeled garlic, 3 lbs of tomatoes. all for $11.50! i'd say i made out like a bandit, but i didn't even have to haggle too much.

4 pm - made it home, started making pesto and salsa. MMM! both came out GREAT, and i ended up with about 3 quarts of each. dang.

the rest of the weekend was spent lying on the floor hating how hot it was. thank god it cooled down today. my hands are freezing, but i can breathe again.

Thursday, June 09, 2005

Links to Pictures of New Things

Map to our place -- drag it on over a bit west, and the cluster of roads you see there is Davis Square.

Pictures of our new place -- it's even prettier in person

Picture of my new sandals... (well, you have to click on the brown box underneath the sandals in order to see it displayed in the color i got them in. I was considering the multicolor, but realistically? No.)

Wednesday, June 08, 2005

Ch- Ch- Ch- Change is Cool.

daN and i have quite a lot going on. We just got a new apartment! And there are no tenants there right now, so we can bring stuff over as we need to, and the landlord is totally OK with that! Additionally, when we went to bring over the checks today, she let us poke around in the apartment and take measurements, etc, so we could get an idea of what we're we'll want to put stuff.

Let me paint you a picture of this apartment and why we took it even though the begin-lease date is 2 months before our current lease ends. Full living room and dining room, with sliding doors between the two, so that when we have guests, we they can actually have their own space! Lots of windows. It's in the first floor of a two-family home -- the other tenants being the landlords, who are very sweet and liked us so much that they held the place for us over other people until we decided. The floors are actually level (which is a big plus over this place) and are gleaming, newly refinished hardwood floors. We'll be getting footies for ALL our furniture. The view out the windows is garden and trees. The street parking was ample. There is laundry in the basement, and we'll be the only people using it. Not to mention that half of the basement storage space is ours for the taking. There is a little porch on the back for our use only, and there is also the possibility that i'll get to have some vegetable plants on the side of the house. The kitchen also has a HUGE full pantry with beautiful cabinets and gorgeous counters. Only downside is that the sink is in the pantry as well (a butler's pantry, according to my mother -- common in Victorian homes, because the butler could clear dinner into the pantry and still have the kitchen look clean). The kitchen itself has a new KitchenAid gas range, and doesn't have counters (those are in the pantry up and down the sides) but is rather large and is big enough for a table and a breakfast bar. The fridge is big (our current one is small).

The bathroom has usable counter space!

It's about a 15 minute walk from Davis Square -- our favorite neighborhood down here -- along a tree-lined bikepath with no car traffic, and if it's a crappy day, there are three nearby buslines we could hop on if need be.

And it's 50 bucks a month cheaper than what we're paying now.

So, we're excited.

We'll probably have to pay July for the place we're still in. The landlord isn't contractually obligated to look for new tenants, and i don't think she's in a hurry. August, though, she says we'll get our money back if she is able to rent it out. We've already paid August, so that would be pretty sweet. Otherwise, oh well. The new place is essentially our dream apartment. As my Mom pointed out, it's worth it to be happy about where we're living.

That having been said, does anyone know of someone looking for a 1 bedroom in Cambridge that's only a 5 minute walk from Kendall, Lechmere, and the Cambridgeside Galleria?
Ch- Ch- Ch- Change is Cool.

daN and i have quite a lot going on. We just found a new apartment! And we're getting it! And there are no tenants there right now, so we can bring stuff over as we need to, and the landlord is totally ok with that! Additionally, when we went to bring over the checks today, she let us poke around in the apartment and take measurements, etc, so we could get an idea of what we'll want to have there.

Let me paint you a picture of this apartment and why we took it even though the begin-lease date is 2 months before our current lease ends. Full living room and dining room, with sliding doors between the two. lots of windows. It's in the first floor of a two-family home -- the other tenants being the landlords, who are very sweet and liked us so much that they held the place for us over other people until we decided. The floors are actually level (which is a big plus over this place) and are gleaming. We'll be getting footies for ALL our furniture. The view out the windows is garden and trees. The street parking was ample. There is laundry in the basement, and we'll be the only people using it. Not to mention that half of the basement storage space is ours for the taking. There is a little porch on the back for our use only, and there is also the possibility that i'll get to have some vegetable plants on the side of the house. The kitchen also has a HUGE full pantry with beautiful cabinets and gorgeous counters. Only downside is that the sink is in the pantry as well (a butler's pantry, according to my mother -- common in Victorian homes, because the butler could clear dinner into the pantry and still have the kitchen look clean). The kitchen itself has a new KitchenAid gas range, and doesn't have counters (those are in the pantry up and down the sides) but is rather large and is big enough for a table and a breakfast bar. The fridge is big (our current one is small).

The bathroom has usable counter space!

It's about a 15 minute walk from Davis