Art Building. Becoming a wavy wonder.
Postcard from Romania
45RPM: Oh what a beautiful morning.
One summer, I worked the night shift two days per week at a budget motel. There were a lot of “betweens” that summer. I was between colleges and boyfriends, my parents were poised between marriage and divorce and my brother was between residences. I loved and hated the night shift. It was fun being on my own, the only one awake among hundreds of sleeping motel guests. I loved that I was an official “creature of the night”. But it was exhausting, pushing myself all the way to 6:00 a.m., and sleeping during the day was a challenge. There also wasn’t much to do in the middle of the night after all the grumpy traveling families had checked in and were tucked away in their beds, and all the truckers had wandered from their endless conversations in the lobby to their slumber. I listened to cassette tapes to keep me company and every morning at 4:30 I would take a “security walk” around the parking lot. It was really just an excuse to get out of the office before people turned out to complain about the toast bar. By 4:30 the dawn had broken and the clear Boise sky was melting into blue. No matter how tired I was, no matter how boring the night had been, it was always a beautiful morning and I sang this song aloud as I ambled through the lot. Oh what a beautiful day.
ps. Hugh Jackman! He’s the man! He’s rather broad, but you have to picture him much further away from you, up on stage.
Postcards from Spain and Limburg
Those Boise, Idaho readers know that I loved this Basque Country postcard. For those not in the know, Boise has a pretty strong basque community. The postcard is from Dani, who asks me to send her something. I’ve not yet done so, but I’m not ruling it out.
Reading her Postcrossing profile, I found that Peggy is also very cool because she requests the tourist cards (some Postcrossing people don’t like them) and then uses them to plan her travels. You are a smart lady, Peggy.
Stay stiching the neckline, joining the shoulders
Here, I have traced my sewing line in disappearing marker so I know where to sew.
Three sentence movie reviews: Argo
Matt hadn’t seen this and so we watched it together. It was a good one to watch a second time as I wasn’t so tense and worried and had time to notice details, plus ponder if John Goodman is one of the most under-rated actors of our times; because that man always delivers. I will conclude by saying that this movie still has the best toast of all time.
Cost: $2.00 from Videorama
Where watched: at home.
Dead Relative’s Tour 2013
In Rose City Cemetery I snapped a picture of this gravestone because someone I know has this same last name. And Joshnston-with-a-“t” is much less common than Johnson.
I was intrigued because it had fresh flowers, so someone is still coming around. But it’s in a section of 1930s era deaths and has no headstone. There’s a story here.
I wish I’d taken a bit more time to properly capture it.
This year we learned that the cemetery is not providing the green vases to stick in the ground. I flagged down a maintenance worker to ask him for one and got an earful about how the cemetery is now cheap and doesn’t want to give them out anymore because it just causes more work to pick them all up. Then he gave me one on the down-low. Thanks guy, you are awesome. We will bring our own next year.
Sometimes, you just need a good grilled cheese.
All week long I’ve been craving grilled cheese. Thanks to my sourdough starter, I keep myself in homemade whole-wheat sourdough bread, which is good for many things, but not the grilled cheese I was thinking of. So I made a some perfect sandwich bread, bought some delicious ham, sliced up some Tillamook medium cheddar and made a pot of tomato soup to boot.
It really hit the spot.
Three sentence movie reviews: Explorers
This was a great favorite of my mother, brother and I when I was 11 and so in the present, I was happy to realize that it stars not only a very young River Phoenix, but also a very young Ethan Hawke.* It’s still a very sweet film, worth watching for it’s totally 1985 computer generated effects and copious pop culture references. It’s a great movie for the 8-12 year-old in your life and you, the adult might enjoy it too.
Cost: free from library
Where watched: At home while endlessly basting material together.
*Jason Presson, the other guy in the movie was my favorite actor of the three, at least during this viewing. His acting was pretty contained and had the most amazing voice. Ethan Hawke’s voice was still quite high and really bugged me by the end, but Jason Presson, since you don’t seem to be acting anymore, I hope at least you are a radio DJ or doing something with that great voice. [one Google search and 10 minutes later, here’s a picture of him from 2008 and a bit about what he’s doing now. http://americanvirus.com/2008/08/americanvirus-30-jason-presson-on-hollywood-boulevard/]