rhinoceros

My friend Ed and I went to the zoo today.

I've decided I want a jaguar. You may think it is funny to think I want a Jaguar when I really hate (and am semi-afraid of) cats, but it is the feeling of most of my cat hating friends.

Ed (art major, currently looking for a job as an art teacher) brought paper and pens and made me, too. So we stopped to sketch the rhinoceros. I at first drew him as a steak. Then I drew him for real, only to be sorely showed up by Ed.

My drawing was a failure, but it was fun.

Tomorrow=cubs game with 5 friends. Score.

dinosaurs and eating habits

We had a guest over.

I needed to eat lunch.

So, being the hospitable girl I learned to be from my parents, I offered to make some lunch.

-Macaroni and cheese

-Pizza

-Chicken Nuggets (shaped like dinosaurs- at no extra cost!)

-Fish sticks

-Spaghetti-O's

My guest pointed out that I eat like a 9 year old. Then, and again at Harry's when I ordered Loaded Tots (they are so good...).

This idea was reinforced when I went to Ikea with a friend and stopped for lunch, picture below. I will say that my insides felt weird and this was really the only thing that looked good. I'll be honest- I think the swedish fish saved me. I'll also be honest about the fact that I love Uncrustables.

ruined church again, you say??

I was in bed at 9:00 last night because I thought I had to open.

I looked at my schedule to see when I worked on Friday, and found out I work instead from 2:45-8:15 today.

Which is great, especially since Lydia played some DDR with me once I found out I didn't need to be in bed. Except I finally found a midweek service tonight. 7:30pm. Needless to say, I ruined church... again.

This time we're going to Harry's. Loaded tots... I love you.

i ruined church... several times

My church starts at 9.

I was scheduled to work at 9:30.

I asked if I could come in at 10:15, but that wouldn't work out.

Ed said he was going to Mass.

I said I was jealous, so we decided we'd go together.

First we had to find an early service.

I texted him.

I fell asleep before he texted me.

At 7:10 I woke up to see his text that said we should go to the 7am service.

Too late.

I didn't think about how the 8:30 service would work, too, and slept through it.

Protestant services are all during my work time.

I told him I'd meet him for 5:00 Mass.

Found out I had to work until 6:00.

Looked up CRC night service on my break.

They start at 6:00 and are 45 minutes away.

Except for one website that said a Korean church has an English service at 7:00p.

I looked at their official website and couldn't figure out if this was true because I can't read Korean.

We went in hopes there was a service.

No cars in the parking lot. So we walked to read times on the door. It was in Korean.

So we went to Buffalo Wild Wings.

I told him we'd go to Willow on Wednesday for their weekday service.

I just learned that Willow no longer has services on Wednesday.

more about the u of c

My grandpa also mentioned that he remembered doing this and grandma would come to watch with either his mother or her sister or whomever...

Looking at the pictures on this website is cool. Behind them (the large pointy buildings) is the Harper Memorial Library. We tried to look at it today but it is closed for renovation. I will see you in the fall, Mr. Library.

august 19

Today is my mom and dad's 31st wedding anniversary.

Today is also my grandma and grandpa's wedding anniversary. Number 67.

I spent the day with my friend Andrew (his and Tovah's 4th wedding anniversary is tomorrow) and we explored our campus, the University of Chicago. It is huge. Oh man. And so pretty. Andrew introduced me to a bakery just off campus. I bought a raspberry fruit tart. It was very delicious.

I was upset with myself for not doing my research before our excursion. When I got accepted to University of Chicago, my grandpa wrote me a welcome letter since he is a graduate from University of Chicago's signal training. He wrote about a few things he remembers on campus, and my goal is to find them. (Today I found out that Andrew's grandpa and my grandpa were both trained at Great Lakes Naval Base, which is where Lydia's dad currently works. The world is small, folks).

I've visited Rockefeller Chapel already which grandpa mentioned in his letter. Today Andrew and I happened across Sunny Gymnasium, which is where my grandpa stayed during his training, I believe (I still have the letter, but I left it in my parents car when they came to visit and now it is in my room at home).

Here is a link to the U of Chicago's World War II photo archive.

The picture above is of me outside Sunny Gymnasium, which is now a Laboratory School.

winter hats

I'm not excited for winter.

But I am excited to wear this hat. This seller is one of my favorites.

I still love my knit one and plan to wear it as well, I just have to find it!

country to chicago

My parents came to visit me in Chicago.

I'd say that we had the perfect visit.  We had to catch the train, so we had to get our Starbucks downtown instead of at mine.

We then walked to "the bean" stopping along the way at Caribou and the architectural foundation's model of the city. I pointed out some of the things of the city we saw along the way, like the Chicago theatre and the building that Obama's office was in (I think). We bought some raspberries from the market outside and ate while we walked.

After the bean we walked on this new ramp nearby and took some pictures. And walked through a garden which is no way near as good as my dad's. Then onto Buckingham fountain where I pulled my famous "would you like to be in the picture, oh yes I'd love if you'd take ours too" move.  (I love it not only because it is helpful, but it is usually a fun interaction and you get a full group picture out of the deal as well!)

We ate some ice cream on the way to Navy Pier.  It was homemade and delicious.  Also very melty.  We looked at boats on the way and thought we would lose dad over the edge a few times.  He had a hard time watching where he was going because he was looking at the boats.

I told mom that Oprah used to live in this building, because she did. I don't know where she lives now though. Sorry, mom.

Then the architectural tour full of fun facts, like that there are about 200 aircrafts in the lake near the pier due to training accidents.  I guess that shouldn't really be a "fun fact."

Then the weird tropical flower and cool fountain place at Navy Pier. With a coffee tree! Love you, coffee.

We then walked to the billy goat tavern for a Cheezborger. After, around Michigan Avenue and to one of my favorite places in the city, the presbyterian church across from the Hancock building. 

We then took the river walk to the Veteran's War Memorial which was very nice.  They had a timeline of the war lined up with the names of those lost.  I learned a lot, and probably asked a lot of questions.

We grabbed some Arby's (my mom's new favorite: chicken salad wrap) so that we could catch the 10:30 train home! 

After breakfast the next day we went to Skokie's Holocaust Museum and Education Center.  That, of course, was overwhelming (I felt sick).  The story was told by Jews that survived, and a lot of the artifacts were donated or on loan from them or their families. 

They left after lunch at 4:30p. :(

Here is the whole album.

personality test

I took a personality test online. It says I am isfj.

Apparently that means I should marry an estp.  I don't know what that means, but it reminds me of Stone Temple Pilots.

I suppose I just made it awkward for the two single guys that read this if they end up as an estp.  I don't want a diamond, so you have that going for you. 

etsy zombie

When I babysat for that family I told them if they watched more than one movie a day they would become movie zombies.  They started saying "movies, popcorn, snacks, quiet" in a zombie tone.

Someone should have warned me about etsy.  I've been on it for.. um.. I don't know how long, really.  But let's not try to count the hours.  So far I've managed to buy nothing, but just add to my favorites list.  Some of the items on there are gift idea favorites (such as the BABY THINGS).  So no worries, okay?

Someone needs to cut me off.

Although maybe I can get some inspiration for those white Toms I just bought.... shareTOMS = $5.00 off. 

crafts. vintage. jewelry. bags. accessories.... etsy. zombie.

august porch hopping

So about a year ago in May I decided to do a month of letting other people blog for me.

I think this year the safer bet is for a month of blogs about PORCH HOPPING.

My roommate Lydia and I have been for some nice walks the past two evenings.  We live in a lovely suburb that also has some wealth to it.  This equals nice front porches/front porch furniture that we hardly ever see being used.  So we have decided that for every day in August, we should use furniture on different porches and then blog about the outcomes.

August 6th

Actual outcome: We sat on my friend Amie's parents porch.  It is only kind of cheating because I tried to warn her that I might do this throughout the summer but I don't think she warned her parents.  Therefore I got nervous that we would end up scaring her parents if they were home so we left pretty shortly. But only after first graffitiing their sudoku book with "Lydia and Krista were here." 

Enhanced outcome: If her parents would have come out to join us!

TOMS Shoes

TOMS Shoes

I want these. My size is sold out. I guess I'll have to keep looking. I saw a coupon code on ebay today. "New2TOMS" will save you $5. Buy some.


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love this movie, and this reel, and this song

My roommate Sarah and I watched Mulan tonight.

I love that girl.

And that movie! So amazing. Definitely a little "girl power" dose that I needed to see 

from society.

We watched some of the extra stuff on the DVD. I learned that they do the movie in a 

lot of different languages. Which seems obvious, but I hadn't stopped to think about it.

Watching the multi-language reel is cool.