So we’ve had our Deisel bug (see earlier post) for just over a week and a half and I am having fun driving it. But the thing that is surprising to me is just what 45+ miles to the gallon feels like in practical usage. I filled the car up on the night we bought it (11 days ago) I have driven it about 230 miles in and around town as well as on the highway and I still have half a tank of gas left. I must admit, my inner geek is eager to calculate the actual gas mileage when I refill the tank.
May.11.2007. • 1:13 PM 0
Miss Teagan’s 1st tea party
last weekend we went to Binghamton to visit my family and so that Teagan could attend her first tea party. Despite the fact that she was not interested in any of the non-sweet food she had a great time. Read the rest of this entry »
Filed under: art+photography, family, life, pics, travel
April.5.2007. • 10:04 AM 1
spoons under the pillow
It was snowing last night when I went to teach my class, and Teagan was dancing around excited about the idea of Karen having a snow day on Thursday. So as is tradition, Teagan went to bed with her PJs on inside-out to encourage the snowfall. And as an extra measure of snow inducing superstitious behavior she placed spoons under all of our pillows— a detail that I didn’t become aware of until I climbed into bed next to Karen around midnight, reaching my hand under the pillow and finding something surprisingly cold. The cutest thing is when Teagan went around this morning (still dancing) to check to see if the spoons were still there, she put out normal sized spoons for Karen and I and a teeny spoon for her self
I think the spoons might have been overkill— we ended up with well over a foot of spring snow. So now we are off to go snowboarding. I still love a good snow day!
It’s a powder day!
Filed under: life, personal., pics, portland., random, thoughts, travel
March.22.2007. • 5:12 PM 0
a brief stay in nyc.
Karen and I spent last week in NYC— she had to go for the NAEA conference and I went along for the chance to spend a week alone in the city for our 8th anniversary. it felt like going home— we both worked in the city for almost 6 years and spent most of our pre-daughter-free-time there.
We decided to avoid the crowd of art teachers, tourists and parade-goers in mid town and stayed at the Gershwin— in a part of town that is much more our speed.
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For me one of the best things about nyc is the food. We hit— Mesa grill (our favorite [Iron chef] Bobby Flay’s restaurants), Mexican Radio and also tried a new-to-us sushi restaurant- Sushi Twist. This place was amazing, some of the most unusual specialty rolls I’ve ever heard of, quiet, sexy and both the food and drinks were out of this world. We were originally going to go to Morimoto’s newer new york venue but after reading some horrible reviews online we opted to try something new and were pleasantly rewarded— we ended up eating here twice
visual stimulation.
The surprise bonus of the trip was the fact that our event badges gave us free admission to all of the city’s best museums. The conference was being held at the Hilton on 6th and 52nd around the corner from the MoMa so we went together once and I went beck by myself while the St. Patrick’s day parade boomed outside. There was one exhibition at MoMa that we almost didn’t check out—comic abstraction. It actually ended up being one of the highlights of our visit. There was one artist whose enamel on canvas paintings had a really sleek surface that were incredible Inka Essenhigh’s website has some other paintings done around the same time as the ones from the exhibition.
