exercise

My brother is getting married!! I am so excited. I get another sister!

When I was younger I always wanted a sister (a twin sister).. but maybe it was good I was the only girl. Girls get all the mom's attention. :)

As usually I am going off in a tangent.  I have to start exercising for the wedding.  Is it working? No.  But as I type, I am eating popcorn and having a cocktail.  But I did go to yoga today. My first Friday class in a year.  The regulars were all there and said, "today is the return of the prodigical child." that's good, (Adam says that is probably not the word they used)?  Okay must start exercising and eating right (sips cocktail).

photo by charles masters for real simple magazine

grill

Have you been grilling this summer?

We haven't been able to grill as much since we've been out of town a lot this summer.  But when we do Adam grills a lot of fish and vegetables (and pizzas!). My favorites are the branzino and mahi mahi. 

Image by Francesco Tonelli for the NYT

projector

I'm a bit of Sofia Coppola-file.  I like her style, her films, and I especially like this photo of her bedroom.

I've always wanted a projector in the home to watch movies or to have screenings in the backyard.  We've had one successful screening of Blue Velvet.  I totally want to have more screening/parties.

photo via

Chicago Weekend (Day 4)

Our final day in Chicago. Turns out that Leslie was also in town visiting friends this weekend. So we met up and had brunch at Lula Cafe.

Mimosas!

Leslie ordered the graham cracker griddle cakes. It was like having smores for breakfast.

I ordered the chorizo and new potato hash. Delicious!

After we ran an errand at the Art Institute, we drove 23 miles out of Chicago to Arlington Heights to go to Mitsuwa Chicago. I think it is the biggest Japanese Market in the Midwest. I really miss all my markets out here.

We had a late lunch at the food court.  I ordered from Santouka. The usual.

Chicago Weekend (Day 3)

We visited the Museum of Cotemporary Art Chicago. The museum store is supposed to be the best store in the US.

We started our day at a brunch place called Nana's.  Adam's huervo rancheros

my nanadict

table scene

my bloody

i took adam to see the bean/cloud. he was pretty pissed because i took too many photos of him.

Chicago Weekend (Day 2) continued...

The reason why we came out to Chicago was for a Guided by Voices show. They played at a pretty cool venue called the Metro. It kind of reminded me of the Troubadour in LA. Ian said we could kill two birds with one stone (it is really close to Wrigley Stadium).

Guided by Voices

This is their 3rd encore. It was awesome.

Adam and the die hard fans were singing their hearts out.

here are some reviews of the show:
brooklynvegan
timeoutchicago

Chicago Weekend (Day 2)

We visited the Art Institute of Chicago on Saturday. They had a special Lichtenstein exhibit.

The Art Institute's most famous painting is probably Seurat's Sunday Afternoon.

Ruscha

Rothko (you know, I didn't start to appreciate Rothko until I started taking Graphic Design classes).

I made Adam go to all the intelligentsia coffess in Chicago. 

My latte