Another day at the beach...

I'm so lazy, I spent the day laying on the beach, listening to music and reading... Ran into an old friend at the lake - what a good excuse to have some Fat Elvis ice cream!

Sick Saver???

Why? There is a stack of these bags in our bathroom at work along with a lengthy email about sanitary work conditions. Apparently it isn't ok to puke in the bathroom, or if you do you better clean up after yourself! WTF?

heat!

Oh my god! It was so hot on saturday night that my smoke detector kept going off. My landlord was out of town and had to drive 2 hours back to the cities to fix it. We think it might have been caused by the humidity. Needless to say, I left for the night and slept on my mom's air conditioned porch. Between the alarm going off every ten minutes and the unbearable heat, I just had to get away. That's what I get for giving my air conditioner away. I'd even buy a new one if I had someone handy enough to get installed correctly. I never feel like its anchored well enough when I do it. Oh well, summer in Minnesota is short...

Also, its the last day/night of my vacation. UGH. I almost completely forgot about work for the whole week! 20 more hours to use up before August 12th! wooo hooo!

Art cars

2:00pm - 3:00pm
ArtCar Parade!

Beginning at Grand Ave. and Lake Street going West on Lake Street to Lyndale Avenue, then heading north on Lyndale to 28th Street.


Saturday July 23rd 10:00am - 1:00pm
ArtCar Gallery
Midtown Public Market, Lake Street and 22nd Avenue (between the Midtown YWCA and the Light Rail Station). Get an up-close and personal look at the ArtCars!

fat elvis!

banana ice cream with swirls of peanut butter and chocolate chunks! Lake Nokomis concession stand. YUM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Mad Hot Ballroom

This was such a great movie!!! Its playing at the Edina Theatre

NEW YORK REVIEW
In this entrancing, funny, and moving documentary, contemporary kids of many social and ethnic backgrounds shimmy their self-conscious hips to the merengue, swing music, the rumba, the tango, and the fox-trot. Ballroom follows a New York City public-school-system program that teaches fifth-grade students ballroom dancing, and the film climaxes with a citywide competition that’ll have you rising from your seat to root for your favorites. First-time director Marilyn Agrelo leads us like a good dance partner: Her cameras capture the drama of rehearsals, her subjects’ alternately hilarious and heartbreaking after-school chatter about their ambitions, dreams, and everyday frustrations; she even sketches vivid portraits of the students’ dance teachers (memo to Hollywood producers: Suave, witty Rodney Lopez at P.S. 115 in Washington Heights is already a more magnetic screen presence than two- thirds of the current male movie stars we’re subjected to). The winning school is never in doubt, but it doesn’t lessen the pleasurable tension and suspense—you’ll waltz out of Mad Hot Ballroom not merely exhilarated but with renewed respect for after-school programs and the work that teachers can do in children’s lives. — Reviewed by Ken Tucker, New York Magazine
Check it out here

Day of shopping

A good day to be in an air conditioned car and stores! We started out the day at The Wild Roast (creme brulee french toast!) and then off to the Salvation Army in the warehouse district. (Target sample stuff and lots of other Target goodies go to Salvation Army) I scored! A great bittersweet mixing bowl for $8 and a super cute string of bright colored paper lantern lights. Not sure what I'm going to do with the string of lights, maybe the kitchen?! Then off to SR Harris for fabric. Spent a fortune. Why didn't I just buy those expensive pillows from Room and Board? Probably be cheaper in the long run. After that we decided to head over to The Shoppes at Arbor Lakes in Maple Grove. Ick, the suburbs but its a really nice open air shopping center. Great stores - Anthropologie, Smith and Hawkin, Pottery Barn etc BlogItemURL>
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A day at the beach...

Diet cherry coke and bbq fritos

Those of you that know me know how odd this is! Odd cravings today... (Now I can post useless information like everyone else!)

My very first post! How exciting. Should we start with the name? I browsed thru my itunes library for ideas and found Bitchenostrophy. Its a Rickie Lee Jones song. Wait the other blog name I want is "Touch Dolphins". Yep. I heard it on a Beck show I recently downloaded. What a perfect blog name.