Yay for snow days!

The amazing Sasha with my Sunday morning snowman. Bliss.

I just wanna dance

“The only true currency in this bankrupt world... is what you share with someone else when you're uncool.” Lester Bangs

I just want to dance. What better way to get rid of the winter blahs. I have been dying to take my ever expanding belly dancing; I need to get my groove on. I think I am going to have to make a mixed tape for baking in the kitchen.

This is the playlist I have in my mind:
James Brown : The Payback(I don’t know karate, but I know crazy) (Really, if James Brown doesn’t make you want to get your groove on, you might be dead inside)
Blur: Woo Hoo
Cheryl Lynn:To be Real
Justin Timberlake: Rock your body (Uh huh, yeah, I said it)
Chemical Brothers: Galvanize
Abba: Dancing Queen (Don’t deny it)
Maceo Parker : Pass the Peas
Beastie Boys: Hey Ladies
Notorious b.i.g.: Hypnotize
Outkast: B.O.B
Blondie: Heart of Glass
Deee-Lite: Groove Is In the Heart
Depeche Mode: Just Can’t Get Enough
Modest Mouse: Shit Luck
Duran Duran: Girls on Film
The Cure: Just like heaven
N.E.R.D.: She Wants to Move
They Might Be Giants: Damn Good Times
Blur: Girls & Boys
Beastie Boys: Prof. Booty

So this has made me think about really fun dance songs, I need to start a list, and make my own ultimate dance album, maybe I could make millions…

Cast on my knitters

The red scarf project sponsored by the Orphan Foundation of America is one of the kindest human acts I have come across. I can’t knit, or crochet, I would love to learn, just so that I could be able to participate. I do know wonderful people who can, so perhaps they can knit a scarf for me. It is just so great to be part of the human race when there are organizations like this in the world. I am wondering if there would be a way to make baked goods for care packages as well, that I can do!

Soy Verde, this ones for you.

In honor of the squid jerky snacks consumed on New Years Eve, there are some edible squid jerky postcards. You can send everyone bits of slightly gross fun from your castle by the sea! Too bad no one we know speaks Japanese, the site looks outrageous. I am not sure if they can be ordered outside of Japan, but you can apparently pick some up at the Susami fishing cooperative. Now we just need some more Pocky for men.

Greener Acres

I have abandoned my fine city by the lake for the drier digs of Champaign, Illinois, and life here is pretty grand. Sasha and I have a fabulous house with a great yard and garden, washer AND dryer and a dishwasher, and for the rent we pay we would be in a tiny 1 bedroom in Chicago with dodgy coin laundry somewhere in the building. As soon as my finals were over (I somehow managed to pull off an A in microecon???) we had one last dinner at Socca, and bid farewell to Chicago. Will I miss my city? Of course, but after one finds herself to be carrying her lovers baby, priorities tend to change, and the unappealing thoughts of lugging a stroller up the ratty stairs of the el station, being too poor to afford more spacious housing and not having green space for children to explore safely makes one ecstatic to be heading to the family friendly haven of inexpensive central Illinois to finish up school. Life changes so rapidly sometimes, but it seems that is all a part of growing up and the inevitable will occur whether or not you think you are ready. Champaign, despite being totally land locked, is not too bad. There are fantastic resources for students who are parents, there are decent cafes and restaurants, and there are loads of great people around. In fact, that is the best part about Champaign, the plethora of very cool, smart people, although sadly, two of my very favorite of those cool, smart people have left recently for their life’s grown-up events. Working from our home is better in Champaign, the coffee smells better in our kitchen and the sunlight that pours in is so cozy. I have joined the campus gym, it has this fantastic pool that is great for feeling weightless, and I have recently purchased a maternity swim suit, so I plan to take advantage of having access to a pool as much as possible. I have even been learning how to bake bread, from scratch! Such domestic bliss! Sometime in February we want to host a “Please help us with baby stuff!” party, and I have high hopes that our friends will want to pitch in a get a new Honda Fit for us!

Oh the sweet life, it is just so good.