lee_b's Profile

Eeehee. I too have a fat cat named Pigeon :)

Also -- great home! I love all of the fun art.

I HIGHLY recommend the bakfiets, which several other folks have mentioned. They come with a hefty price tag, but they are totally the safest way to schlep around kids on a bike. They're practically impossible to tip over, super sturdy, have the advantage that you can see your kids in front of you and know they're all right, and you can use the rain cover to keep your kids warm and dry. My brother's carless family uses their bakfiets in conjunction with a couple of portable foldable bikes to safely and easily get everyone where they need to go (that way dad can drop the kids off, and mom can pick them up). I've been both rider and passenger, and I'm a huge fan.

They have one of the bakfiets.nl bikes, bought locally through CleverCycle in Portland, Oregon.

Might be fun doing a big wall display with a ton of small, funky, mismatched frames, one per ticket, in a display something like the ones here:

http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/style-sourcelist-create-this-f-158154

You could even pick frames that somehow reflect each band or concert. I'm a sucker for mismatching.

@Blandwagon

I would also point out that the Salvation Army has shown that they are willing to SACRIFICE the people they serve in order to more effectively discriminate against the LGBT population. Remember when they threatened to close down all of their soup kitchens in NYC because they didn't want to provide equal benefits to unmarried domestic partners? Yeah.

Here's an interesting question: do the Salvation Army's "blatantly homophobic corporate policies" completely negate all of their good work with the poor and needy? It would seem to me that in order for a boycott of their charity stores to be valid, the pain they have caused homosexuals would have to be greater than the relief and hope they have brought to others.

This isn't a troll, by the way: I'm genuinely curious to know people's responses. Folk seem very willing these days to overlook 9 good things a person or organisation does in order to concentrate on the 1 bad thing they do.

What's that nice flat storage unit on casters on the right?

I've lived alone for three years, and in the past week just purchased my first home, alone. It's the best thing ever. I think even if I lived with a significant other, I would need my own designated private space in the house to which I could retreat.

Lizsh -- I did too, but after six years of living in normal lighting conditions, I've totally readjusted. I visited just recently, and I found I was absolutely unable to wake up at my usual time because it was still completely dark, and pretty soon I was staying up and sleeping two to three hours later than normal. Awful!

A light like that is a brilliant idea. Where do you find one? My major dilemma is that while I use sheers to let the light in, it would be nice to be able to put up heavy drapes in the winter to keep it a little warmer. That may be the solution.

Forgive the plug, but in my kitchen, I like to celebrate the french press :D

http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=27493572

lol@Seaside.

The selections chosen for the article are tacky tacky tacky, but I do have one "inspirational" image in my home that I absolutely adore:

http://ny-image1.etsy.com/il_fullxfull.50818001.jpg

(if you're too lazy to click -- it's a great little gocco print by Rosemary Travale that reads "Stop being sad, start being RAD!" Gets me out of bed on those extra-tough days ;)

I've had a ton of dreams about moving and new apartments, but they're usually anxiety dreams, not wish fulfillment dreams...Either I've moved from my nice one-bedroom into a dorm-type situation, or to get into the apartment, you have to climb this horrible ledge and through a crawl space, or there are people in my apartment who shouldn't be there and who refuse to leave, or my place has been rearranged or remodeled without my permission, or I can't afford to rent anywhere, etc. etc. The fears of the city! I've had a ton of dreams like that over the years.

Though when my ex was about to change apartments, he had a dream about moving into a huge house with his friends with a giant kitchen as well as a big, deli-style fridge full of microbrew beers, which probably just means it's a pain to buy beer in Pittsburgh.