Last Saturday was our eleventh anniversary! Because, somehow, over the years, we have become old. We had a lovely weekend. Dinner with friends on Saturday, a baby playdate Sunday, and then we took babaloo out for a fancy meal at Launderette. We hadn’t done a nice meal out with baby since good friends of ours came into…
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Life is for the living
Well. I’m feeling a need for this outlet again! And it’s because life has bloomed and exploded and grown in ways that have been, at times, hard to synthesize. Or maybe it’s because I got an email that my domain here would expire unless I paid $26, and I don’t want to feel like that…
Fall!
We’re so lucky this year! Due apparently to the rain over the last month, our trees have enough energy to keep their leaves while they’re changing color, rather than just dropping them at the first sign of cool weather. Yesterday I walked almost 4 miles to get some ground coffee. Unbelievably, this didn’t even get…
The Weekend
It was a crazy one! There were stretch hummers, live lobsters, loud cars, and handmade pasta. Not to mention art and games of Cards Against Humanity. More to come when my brain gets done feeling run over.
The Burlap Bag and Frozen Rickshaw
I feel like those names could just as easily be bands that I’ve never heard of playing somewhere on Red River tonight. I did make it to the Burlap Bag yesterday. It’s a cute store. Not a ton of stuff, but most of what they do have is handmade here in Austin. I found a…
Balance.
No, the title is not a metaphor. This is actually about balance. I was returning the rental car this morning (I had one yesterday so I could run errands all over town without an enormous car2go bill) and ended up behind this. Impressive, right? It’s not every day that you see a truck piled quite…
Barlata
Last night, we tried to go to Bufalina. It’s become one of our favorite restaurants in town for their Neapolitan-style pies and carefully chosen wine list. However, unfortunately: http://www.kxan.com/news/local/austin/substation-fails-leaving-8000-without-power Right before we got there. The whole situation was remarkably calm; The crew was still pouring drinks, which helped. After about 45 minutes without power, they…
Liberry
I love our library. It’s comfortable, and there aren’t nearly as many vagrants loitering in it as there were in Chicago’s Blackstone Library, my childhood ‘berry. Austin’s North Village Library is missing the grand neoclassical columns of the Blackstone, but it has giant skylights and hybrid car parking and is just generally sunny, airy, and…
Oof.
Funny how this looks like a lot more food AFTER I’ve eaten it. A bit too much value for my money, not that I am complaining. Exactly. Thanks for the tasties, Hanabi!
Classy Otter 