12-9-2010

Nicole's carnivorous plant terrarium that she got for her birthday in March is doing pretty well (at least the Hooded Pitcher Plants are, they're the only ones that grew at all). I like that they're carnivorous and it looks like they have little mouths. Here are some of their baby pictures from 4-26 and 8-17.

12-8-2010

...it's work related. No, really.

This would be kind of pretty to wake up to if I didn't know that it meant multiplying my commute to work times four. It's even worse when the parking lot looks like this when I'm leaving work.

12-7-2010

We chased this cat around the entire parking lot after dinner. I named him Peepers. He lives outside of the saddest, loneliest Mongolian Barbecue ever.

12-6-2010

So I kind of posted about it already, but yesterday we got an antique Sonora phonograph at an estate sale for the price of a bad dinner. It's the kind in a big cabinet that you hand crank to make work. It even came with a bunch of old gramophone records that we've been listening to. Specifically pertinent to Nicole's interests is a song about cats. Our house now sounds like someone's grandparents live here.

12-5-2010

Today I loaded the Fuji Sensia 100 slide film I got yesterday into my Leica M4 and went exploring with Nicole. These are all random cross processed shots from today with no editing/photoshop/whatever. I'm pretty happy with how they came out.

Every good Sunday starts with brunch.
Bloody Mary hot sauce bar.
Instructions.
Country, State, and City.
We randomly went to an estate sale.
Look, a record player.
We need a bigger trunk.
Veranda.
Really Cleveland.
See, Cleveland.
Cuyahoga.
Cracks and drips.
Boards.
More boards.
Boards coming soon?
Or maybe urban renewal.
But probably boards and no copper pipes.
Maybe Jesus can save Cleveland.
He has a lot of work to do.
This looks a little apocalyptic.
But it's really one of my favorite places in the whole city.
Favorite flame.
Favorite.

12-4-2010

Have you had a morning bun from Starbucks? Ask them to warm it up first, it's pretty much the best way to start a lazy, do-nothing-important Saturday. We went looking around for things in places we don't normally...or probably shouldn't ever go. Then we did some Christmas shopping for ourselves. I like cylindrical things that come in boxes.

12-3-2010

I took another Friday off work to day drink paint. This is a habit I could definitely get used to.

If you know me at all, you know that I'm pretty much crazy and obsessive compulsive, but only about really weird things. At the beginning of the year, I determined that I would eat every one of the monthly special sandwiches at Melt for the whole year. In addition to these monthly specials, they started doing weekend specials in honor of certain movies playing at local indie theaters...I decided to eat all of these too. Tonight, I completed my mission with the December sandwich and the Big Lebowski themed (vegetarian) meatball with fried mozzarella cheese stick sandwich.* It even came with another plastic toy to put on my desk at work.

*I feel the need to mention that Nicole and I shared and only ate halves at a time.

12-2-2010

He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named (7-8) came back to town for the first time tonight to make this city look bad all over again (He's those blurry blobs on the TV). So to celebrate the occasion, I poured myself an extra tall pour and went to paint in the basement instead of watching. Sienna just lounged around. The paintings are starting to come around. I'm now somewhat optimistic about actually finishing them before the show.

Earlier today, I lunched with The Eye of Sauron from Lord of the Rings. That's two fantasy novel/movie references in one post if you're counting.

12-1-2010

I'm under the impression that terms like "winter wonderland" and "Christmas spirit" are really just coping mechanisms people use in an attempt to negate how absolutely horrible cold and snow really are. In the continuation of this theory, I'm pretty sure early decorations are the next manifestation of this psycho-climatological disorder, and extra excessive, over the top decorators are really people living on the brink of complete weather inspired mental breakdown.

P.s. I really do love Christmas time, I just really really hate cold weather.

11-30-2010

Remember the bike I got on 8-24? After months of Craigslist and eBay hunting, I finally got a pair of the black GT mags I've been wanting to put on it since I bought it. Considering I never win anything on eBay, I was pretty happy to win these. The bike looks much fancier now.

In other news, the 25¢ vending machine gifted me a mini-matching monkey to live on my monitor with my other plastic toys.

In other other news, there's only one more month left for this 365 picture project. I really can't believe I've made it this far. We'll see if I even attempt to make it a 730 picture project...

11-29-2010

Oh, hi! We're tearing apart (and vandalizing) our house again. Hopefully you'll see why soon.

Now I probably shouldn't be doing this, much less posting about it, but I think it's fun so I'm going to anyway. I was getting super bummed out about it getting so dark before I get out of work at this time of year. That is, until I discovered a new game called "Voyeurism." I noticed that my new lens can see super far and into the lit up windows of the office across the street. Have you ever seen the movie Rear Window by Alfred Hitchcock? I'm pretty sure I'll eventually see a shooting or at least a fight or something if I keep playing. I'll be sure to post pictures when I do.

11-28-2010

I almost took a good picture today. Hopefully I'll be more ready next time we see a giant deer running at full speed down the highway along with traffic. That happens a lot right?

Today, we also saw Harry Potter, an old woman flossing her teeth with both hands while doing 65mph, and this store.

11-27-2010

Still painting frantically, I started my color layers today. Then we got dressed up to have second Thanksgiving at my family's. My family has a strong resemblance of features. I think it's something right under my nose but I'm not quite sure what. Second Thanksgiving had everything again. I had everything again.

11-26-2010

Black Friday is gross. Nicole and I did our best to avoid ravenous soccer moms beating each other up over $6 DVDs (though that would have made for better pictures), and went shopping in places where they sell fish with antlers.

At the beginning of the year when I was first getting used to not eating meat, all I ever wanted was grilled cheese. Now at the end of the year, all I ever want to eat is eggrolls. I feel proud of the fact that I've discovered the two most unhealthy vegetarian foods on the planet.