Delicious

So, so full of lentils. Om nom nom! I did lentils with chicken stock, carrots, celery, onion, dried basil, pepper, cumin, and a bay leaf. No salt because of the nice salty stock. They're hideous but they turned out to be very tasty. Lentils for the win!

Stupendous!

My unit has decided that we as coworkers are going to rock a theme this year with our Halloween costumes. They've chosen one that is a piece of cake, so long as you're a man: superheroes.

We have one Hulk, one Thing, one or two Wolverine, and as far as my costume goes? Not a clue on God's green earth. Unless I wanted to spend my day scantily-clad in knee-high boots with enormous hair, there isn't really a female superhero out there that I can look to.

I was never a superhero kid, but I did love, above many forms of print media, Calvin and Hobbes. Somewhere in my blessed memory tank was his character Stupendous Man. Stupendous Man was normal Calvin (black and red striped shirt, black pants, sneakers) with a hood made of a pillow case and a cape. Add a Hobbes and you're set! No one'll recognize it, I'm sure, but it's basically normal clothes plus a cape.

We'll see. I'm not obligated to do anything but this is fun in a half-assed kind of way.

Deal

I helped Doug out with selecting a suit at what felt like the crack of dawn. It all fell wonderfully into place, despite the early hour; it was really one of those shopping trips that you walk away from feeling good. He found a stylin' pinstripe gray suit, slim fit, that we were expecting would ring up to about $260. No sale signs or anything around it. At the cash register it came up to (...drumroll...) $81. Woot woot!

We were both conspiratorially quiet until it was paid for and we were out of the store, just in case there was some kind of mistake. Victory!

Next up

Sock monkey number two is in the works and looking adorable. This promises to be one fine pair of monkey friends.

Yuk yuk--pair!

Oy...

Friend

Working on one very charming sock monkey, likely to be completed tonight. The monkey is a charming pattern of pink, red, and gray argyle. So far it has very gangly legs and a relatively short body. I suppose that is what happens when you use knee socks!

Switch

Making the switch back to this blog. Facebook is hitting the mark for photo sharing, and I prefer this site's format, so my MySpace account was becoming more and more obsolete. I'm giving it the old heave-ho and will be here instead.

That being said: Hi again, Mom! :-D I'm hopefully back to regular updates.

Shy windowsill adornment

Clematis, I think.

Shady gate on my block

Ivy: my building in the spring