High High HIGH heels

This may really define me as a midwesterner, but holy crap look at these heels.

Who honestly wears shoes with this high of a heel? Not that I don't think they're appealing, they're gorgeous but just the walk to work alone would kill me.

Thank goodness I'm 5'8"

Let the growing begin!

I started my self-sustaining system of growing plants and herbs with my own compost this week! So far it's been easy and fun.




I went and bought a few extra containers that were easily punctured for drainage.




And then some starter plants and seeds.




Then I decided based on how the plants grow which ones should go in what containers, and planted them. Next, I found a sunny spot for them all. Two went up on top of my bookshelf where the cats won't eat them, and the fluorescent light that I plug in at night gives them extra growing power.




And then the mint went into its own window sill.




All the seeds went into the basement to grow. Luckily, my old downstairs neighbor, Derek Maxwell, left a grow light from when he tried to plant a vegetable garden in the lawn and sprouted the plants in the basement.




These plants are a test to see which lettuces grow best inside and in what conditions they do this best.




Here from top left, clockwise we have: mixed salad greens A, mixed salad greens B, Spinach, Kale A, Kale B. My plants will never be outside plants because our yard is not at all fertile, super sandy, and won't grow anything. Plus, a sustainable lifestyle is done best in a city where you can easily be more efficient, so why not hone the skills to do as much as possible with little to nothing.

* I planted these two days ago, and the spinach and mix salad greens are already sprouting!

No luck on the compost yet... it's really hard to find compost worms in the winter!

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

With the end of Feb I have finally aquired a new camera, and have documented a few outings, innings, and other ings.

This first image is for Jack Randol: You're Christmas cactus bloomed! er.. well there was a flower bud, and then it fell off, but hey it shows your plant is healthy!




Here we have Dylan in a lovely, Vikings-colors, pair of Zubaz that him and Colin adorned themselves with for Senior Project. So funny




And here is a picture from Brunch, where my lovely drag ladies served up some great lip-synching, dancing, campagne, donuts, and sexual innuendos all before 2pm. It was a great setup.




With Thursday came a blizzard! Work was cancelled and wine drinking ensued.







Before the adventurous walk:




Lastly, I recently attended a birthday party of a friend who is dear to me, but whom I do not often see. I brought some of my friends along, and learned a great lesson:
Do not mix new friends with old friends. My entire night was spent mediating, and trying to get people to be cordial to the people I brought. But unfortunately I expected too much from this tight-knit group in thinking that they could welcome someone not from mcad, and decided it was time to go when a friend of over 6 years threatened to break my boyfriend's fingers for no reason. You should feel ashamed of yourselves. Now that I've said it, here's a few pictures from the night.




Natalie made the most bad-ass necklace out of rabbit's feet.



Initial reason for strife at party: Last episode of Conan O'Brien








Trials and tribulations y'all.

Robert Mitchum

During my film noir class this week we watched Out of the Past, a really great film from 1947. Robert Mitchum is the lead role and woah. What a dreamboat. These images don't seem to do him justice. Go rent one of the 100+ movies he's been in. RIP Robert. You're still breakin hearts from the grave.