True that! Honestly I feel like that generally. I was in a funk and now I am non-funky (in a blue kind of way) and I feel inspired again and well, it rains and it pours! I am emailing and blogging and generally making-up for the time when I was cocooning from the wide world. Bring it on! I'm ready for you. Fear can be such a disabling thing. It is easy to get caught up in that tangle of fear. Remember tapes of yore - the kind that held music? I imagine fear to be like unraveling one of those babies - you pull on it a bit and then all hell breaks loose and before you know it you are tangled in a pile of it with a mission to get out of it on your hands. And you can't put it back once you've started.
I saw this poster, advertising re-cycling, in Chicago. We were staying at the Holiday Inn - smack dab downtown. Our morning ritual, me and the Huzz, was to take the elevator to the Merchandise Mall - we were linked and right next to said Mall - and get breaky. Coffee and a muffin or breaky-sammy. One morning I could not sleep anymore and it was early (5am) and so off I went to get breaky. I took my camera (got a new one! bit more fancy Canon that the one I dropped and broke......). On this am walk I took a photo of this poster. Good reminder that things happen in small ways to actually make a big difference.
From the Merchandise Mall - very fancy place of design - two floors open to the public - stores mostly for kitchen/bathroom design. The rest of the building (it was say, 12 floors high or so?) was offices for designers etc. Their was a food court on the second floor/McD's, Dunkin' Donuts....First floor was Starbucks and other assorted stores (wine store, kitchen gadgets, newspapers and mags, hair salon....). My but doesn't this fellow have nice abs? You see what I mean by 'fancy'? cool displays.
This is the Hallway you walk along in the Merchandise Mart. Art Deco. Coolio old elevators to your left.
Ah the Starbucks - guaranteed goot coffee. My fave is an Americano 'roomy' - room for cream. The Huzz and I find most coffee served in restaurants in the States is 'too weaky'- McD's and Starbucks faves in the 'count on coffee' category. Consistent no matter where you go. We like to make a stronger cuppa at home. Don't you love the fellow in the background? It is like he is posing. I didn't notice him until I looked at the pics on my computer. Ha. I did try to get some people shots as I walked about on our trip - tough to do b/c you can't make it obvious you are taking their photo.
And here is a tub I'd love to sink into. There was a store with bathroom 'fixins' of all kinds - taps, showers, tubs....nice heh. Wouldn't that just be a good soak and a whole lotta water used up? (rainbarrel would come in handy for that).
So that was my Merchandise Mall Experience.
Benny is at the groomers as he stinks from being at the Kennel and it is time he got a good brush out/bath and nail clip. I'm going to do some sparkjoy stuff and wrap my head around that again. Perservere. :)
Perhaps a tea-visit with sista dlee as she'll be in the City. And just enjoying the day while it is not raining. We've got some wasps to take care of -they have made a nest in the wall of the house somehow (outside) and jeepers, don't know how to banish them. They are irritating. What a weird place for a house!
Tomatoes are in and red-ing - cherries especially. the bigger ones seem to have some sort of 'rot' so not sure what is up with that - could be all the rain we've been having. Too much for them I think. I notice a front peony has a similar 'mildew' so will cut that back to take care of it pronto. We have three bushes out front and they are just in their beginning growth stages - had them 2 yrs..... Have a lovely one.
Happy 3rd anniversary K and R!
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