New hat

For this guy.



It suits him.

Birds

Pickier than you might think!

Note

Upper East Side eggs:





Eight dollars a dozen!

That's why we live in Greenpoint next to the highway.

(THANK YOU GREG FOR ALERTING ME TO THIS PHENOMENON AND TAKING THIS PICHURE.)

Experiment

This hexagon pattern?



Not bad.

Dinner special

More stuff in a bowl, with cheese!

I had to get "creative" last night.

Store cat

Why do you run from me?

Do you ever get this thing?

Where you wake up in the night with a tickle in your throat? And you cough and cough and cough?

And you have to get up and eat a piece of plain bread in the kitchen to make it stop itching?

Me, last night. I had that.



(Extra piece of bread by the bed, just in case.)

Found!

Enameled metal basins:



In the trarsh.

Maybe from a really old fridge?





I'm giving M E A T to Greg; he says it will be perfect for etching copper plates.

Yay!

Dear Mr. Crazy Chef

Thank you for personally touching my chocolate.



With your dirty, onion-chopping hands.



Thank you for inspecting it with your face.

From:

Rebecca

Kitty + fish series

Most excellent pichures!

Comfort

Yep, that ripple blanket sure keeps petite Rose comfor'ble.



Why just the other day she said to me, Merci beacoup, tante Rebsy—je suis si conf'table!

(A remarkably polite and articulate girl.)

Making

A couple cushion covers for our new sofa:






Are they going to be ugly, or nice, or both?

Time will tell.

Yep

Some people have two different-sized ear canals.

Found!

Leopard-print street plates.



Fugly.

I left 'em there.

Bought!

Two new Mikasa mugs! Mustard yella!



Matching with my other favorites!



I seem to be starting a collection.

Health

I made dinner last night.



There is something very 1990s about "stir fry," am I right?

Hmm. "Stir fry."

Best present ever

On Christmas Eve day I found a mysterious parcel in my office.

In it, this note:



































And this amazing sweater!!!





Acorns!



Mr. Fat Squirrel!



From Northern Reflections!

IT'S PERFECT! (And it fits!) And now I have a "Christmas sweater."

Vicki and Sarah—you guys are awesome!

Fluffy snowflakes

Today!

Dogs

Yes, they are watching you.

Hot fudge sauce

You can chug it from the jar if you want to.



But Greg will tell you it looks "desperate."

Maybe just put it away.

Found!

A dollar!



Then,



Specialized receptacle!

That's known as serendipity.



Yessiree.

Ahhhhhh

I finished a big project. Landlady is leaving us alone. We have a acquired a sofa.

Celebrate with a steak!



For sharing with my Greg.

Followed by one of these, of course.

Monday morning

Going to work.

Rain.

Waiting for the bus . . .





Yep.

Oh, hi John.



I see you speak Spanish.

Well—there's the bus!

Bye!

Mille-feuilles

My favorite treat in the entire world!



It has to have this exact icing on top and actual custard in the filling, and I finally found a bakery with a good one (it's a secret).



Heaven!

(I saved half for Greg. Equals I deserve a best-wife-ever award.)

Whoa!

Skeletal remains!

Dear landlady

Thank you for accusing us of messing up our kitchen floor when it was in fact the fault of your contractor's extreme incompetence or laziness. Thanks also for not apologizing when said incompetence or laziness became evident. Thank you as well for randomly deciding to replace the entire floor surface when a few tiles would have been cool.

And most of all, thank for you for replacing our gray-flecked white linoleum tiles with excellent faux-ceramic textured beige sheet linoleum!



AWESOME!

Love,

Rebecca and Greg

What is that thing?

That thing where you see the flowers and are like, oooh I want tulips for our apartment!



But then you think, I can't spend $6.99 on flowers!

And then you keep walking. And then you stop and go back. And then you walk away again.

And you are confused. And you have no tulips.

And this happens every day!!

One of these eggs

Is not like the other ones:



Double yoke!

Special.

Lookit!

My friends had a baby yesterday!

Here he is wrapped up like a little burrito:



Theodore. I love him!

I wish he didn't live in Hong Kong—so far away.