PONYTAIL

this is me with a ponytail.

today is my official second ponytail day. to make it more exciting, i wore mascara. this heat is not my friend. i cannot wait for fall, love weather, winter. i will buy christmas lights and put them up around my living/eating room. where the wall meets the ceiling, tasteful not tacky. the humidity just makes me think of holding chocolate and how it melts so fast, it makes me feel like my skin is doing that, but stuck in a bag or wrapper. really gross. i do like the way it feels after biking or gardening or doing stuff around outside, but just living my life in the summer, things like dishes, taking out the trash... they make me feel icky. i have been falling asleep akwardly, watching movies or tv from my pillow nest and my back is not happy about it. this heat is making my plants sad too. not all of them, but the babies are just so sensitive.



betsy gave me a dress form. it is wearing my new dress that i am scared to wear because i will spill on it and stain it. i just know that will happen. maybe i will never wear it, and just watch it sitting on the form.

chuck roast

tonight i made a chuck roast.


the ingredients were:
chuck roast meat
baby carrots (not pictured but so so cute)
yellow onion
potatoes
garlic
celery
red wine
pepper

i have my new knife and my very own kitchen!

i browned the roast in a little oil and garlic and onion in a pan

i put it in a i put it in a casserole dish with everything else for about 75 minutes at 325ish degrees...
until the center of the roast was over 165 degrees.

it is pretty darn good. it is too bad that i am eating it by myself, i wish i could make a fancy dinner with it for someone. next time, this one was the practice meat.

dearest dumpster shopping

bissell american queen with 'cyco' ball bearings

porter's streamline with ball bearing wells and combed brush

please note the beautiful metal plates on the side of the american queen. it also has a rope bumper!

they are made out of wood! solid beautiful wood!


floor sweepers!
two cute old floor sweepers! right from my dear alley.

more of my apartment

i took my cupboard doors off and made curtains.

















there are 4. i think they look pretty nice.

















this was my apartment before i brought anything into it.


so naked. so boring.

















here is my living and eating room.




the ironing board has now moved but this is pretty much how it is looking still.

new home

i live by myself now.
the kitchen is still being painted.
the O has a home.
knickknacks are making their way onto everything.






















my sad sick plant is still sad and sick. it is growing new sad sick leaves. i want to kill it but that seems so cruel. if i do, it will have a funeral.