woohoo!

we're fine. the bird house in the back yard had its roof blown off- unless it never had a roof, I'm not sure. Nik and I are avout to stroll around and survey the landscape.

I think I just became free of the breakfast cereal co. hegemony

Homemade Granola on the Food Network

Come on Irene

Gathering supplies today... only the bare essentials

dinner update

soup:
carmelized onions, polish sausage, kidney beans, chickpeas, gemelli pasta with oven roasted tomatoes simmered together in chicken broth, topped with pecorino cheese.

flown through a flaw in the flue

Nikki and I are now residents of:

279 21st street
APT 2B
Brooklyn, NY 11215

In the past 2 weeks I have:

Built-
1 bed loft
3 book cases
1 kitchen island
1 custom shelf

Installed-
1 window AC unit
hanging hardware into drywall

Living in the studio apt. with us-
1 aloe plant
1 tomato plant
1 fig tree
1 culture of sourdough starter
1 bin of Red Wiggler worms for vermicomposting
16 shelves of books

Aside from the above, learned:
the difference between a blender and food processor
what it means for a building to have metal studs
how to cook an artichoke
where not to park within a 5 block radius of the apartment

Eaten:
unpronounceable polish meats
hungarian goulash
lots of salad
home cooked Italian food
the Best of NY style pizza


pics to come
so far so good

Creative Maladjustment

Here I am! You can stop looking now...

Finished in the NICU, finished with being a medical clerk for a few weeks. So now I'm doing in whatever I want, which is apparently sitting in a basement, listening to music, sipping red wine, trying to figure out how things work by building them from scratch. Actually, that sounds about right.