The Green Zebra

If you happen to be in Chicago, you should consider going to eat at the Green Zebra (especially if you are a vegetarian). We went there for lunch and I got the most awesome BLT. The "B" is actually mushrooms which have been magically transformed into this sort of dried, chewey, barbequed mushroom awesomeness. Also, the food presentation is so spectacular that I just had to take a picture.

Book List

Another meme from Allison

These are the 106 books most often marked as "unread" by LibraryThing's users.

Bold the ones you've read, underline the ones you read for school (I turned them blue instead too), italicize the ones you started but didn't finish. Add (*) beside the ones you liked and would (or did) read again or recommend. Even if you read them for school in the first place, put !! next to the ones you mean to read...someday.

I don't consider myself well-read, so I was kind of surprised that I had read a lot of these.


Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Anna Karenina -too boring, even on tape
Crime and Punishment
Catch-22!!
One Hundred Years of Solitude

Wuthering Heights
The Silmarillion
Life of Pi : a novel
The Name of the Rose
Don Quixote
Moby Dick
Ulysses
Madame Bovary!!
The Odyssey
Pride and Prejudice*
Jane Eyre!!
A Tale of Two Cities
The Brothers Karamazov
Guns, Germs, and Steel: the fates of human societies!!
War and Peace
Vanity Fair
The Time Traveler's Wife
The Iliad
Emma*
The Blind Assassin
The Kite Runner
Mrs. Dalloway
Great Expectations
American Gods everyone loves it, I just couldn't get into it
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Atlas Shrugged
Reading Lolita in Tehran : a memoir in books
Memoirs of a Geisha got in an airport to read on an airplane
Middlesex
Quicksilver
Wicked : the life and times of the Wicked Witch of the West
The Canterbury Tales (intend to finish)
The Historian : a novel
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Love in the Time of Cholera
Brave New World*
The Fountainhead
Foucault's Pendulum
Middlemarch!!
Frankenstein
The Count of Monte Cristo
Dracula
A Clockwork Orange
Anansi Boys
The Once and Future King
The Grapes of Wrath
The Poisonwood Bible : a novel
1984*
Angels & Demons*
The Inferno
The Satanic Verses
Sense and Sensibility*
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Mansfield Park
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
To the Lighthouse
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Oliver Twist
Gulliver's Travels
Les Miserables
The Corrections
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Dune!!
The Prince
The Sound and the Fury
Angela's Ashes : a memoir
The God of Small Things
A People's History of the United States : 1492-present
Cryptonomicon
Neverwhere
A Confederacy of Dunces
A Short history of Nearly Everything
Dubliners
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Beloved
Slaughterhouse-five
The Scarlet Letter
Eats, Shoots & Leaves
The Mists of Avalon
Oryx and Crake : a novel
Collapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed
Cloud Atlas
The Confusion
Lolita!!
Persuasion
Northanger Abbey

The Catcher in the Rye*
On the Road
The Hunchback of Notre Dame

Freakonomics : a rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything!!
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance : an inquiry into values
The Aeneid

Watership Down
Gravity's Rainbow
The Hobbit*
In Cold Blood : a true account of a multiple murder and its consequences
White Teeth* I highly recommend this one
Treasure Island
David Copperfield
The Three Musketeers

Today I'm a reposter

So I saw this on Allison's blog and felt compelled to do it too. Meanwhile I discovered that she's friends with Jen, who I know from high school. Small world, or at least small state!

1. Where is your cell phone? ………….. purse
2. Your significant other?…………………London
3. Your hair? ………………………………....barrette

4. Your mother? ……………………………Wisconsin

5. Your father?…………………………………church

6. Your favorite thing?………………………sunshine

7. Your dream last night?………………….. sweaty

8. Your favorite drink? ……………………….juice

9. Your dream/goal?…………………………awesomeness

10. The room you’re in?……………………..store

11. Your ex?………………………………………New York

12. Your fear?……………………………………sweaty

13. Where do you want to be in 6 years? kids

14. Where were you last night?…………..home

15. What you’re not?………………………….weak

16. Muffins?………………………………………donuts

17. One of your wish list items?………….. books

18. Where you grew up?……………………..here

19. The last thing you did?………………….. phone

20. What are you wearing?………………….. t-shirt

21. Your TV?………………………………………useless

22. Your pets?……………………………………..furry

23. Your computer? …………………………….dell

24. Your life?………………………………………good

25. Your mood?………………………………….blah

26. Missing someone?……………………….. sorta

27. Your car?……………………………………….new

28. Something you’re not wearing?…….. skirt

29. Favorite Store?……………………………ReBelle (duh)

30. Your summer?………………………………school

31. Like(love) someone?………………………yup

32. Your favorite color?……………………….dye

33. Last time you laughed?……………….. Today

34. Last time you cried?………………………Wednesday
35. Who will re-post this?……………………..reposters

Baby Birds!

The bird outside my window has had 4 babies. It is really neat to watch them being fed, but it's hard to be fast enough to get a picture.

It's Bike Season!

This is my bike. I got it last year near the end of the summer. Isn't it pretty? Today I rode it to work for the first time this year. I've decided to set a goal for myself to ride my bike 92 days this year (no, it's not random, it's 1/4 of the days in a year). It shouldn't be too hard, but I think it will make me ride it more than if I didn't have a goal. 2 down, 90 to go.
Also, it seems like a lot of people are starting diets and I'd like to loose a little belly fat, so maybe I should start one too. Diets for me really just involve being more aware of what I am eating (yesterday, being on a diet meant picking most of the breading off of my onion rings.) Anyhow, I decided to look up how many calories I should ideally be getting per day. You always think that 2000 is like the normal, average amount. Well, I only get 1400! Harumph!

Stash, what stash?

So, I've always thought that I don't have much of a stash. Just a box under the bed with a few skeins in it, nothing too exciting. Then today I went looking for a particular yarn that I knew I had to start a project with. That's when I realized that my stash doesn't seem that big because I have multiple stashes. So here they are. 1. The current project basket. For all on the needles projects, recently finished projects and their leftover yarn and several random skeins that just got thrown in there when I was cleaning the living room.
2. Leftover bits of superwash wool.
3. Basket of mostly chunky yarns that I assembled together when I was inspired to make some funky hats this winter. (Number of funky hats made so far: zero)
4. Yarn that was selected from stash #5 because it was deemed 'superior' or 'inspiring' and that something was going to be made out of it "soon". The selection now seems quite random and I'm going to recombine it with the big box.
5. Project leftovers (mostly of usable quantities) and inferior yarn. This is the box that I have previously thought of as my stash.


In other news, a bird has made its nest right outside my sewing table window! It's really the perfect spot, very sheltered, what a smart little bird!

It's Dyeing Weather Again

So this blog was supposed to be about stuff I make, right? Whatever, here's some yarn I dyed last week.