What a wonderful weekend. Life is good right now, despite our egregious seasonal allergies (I practically have to sit on the kid to get the prescription eye drops in his eyes). A small price to pay for contentment I guess. Though I am just superstitious enough to think I should shut up now, lest I jinx myself.
The boy and I kicked off our weekend with Punch Pizza on Friday night. We dined outside, on their patio, for the first time this year. Then it was a hop skip and a jump away to Amy Rice’s art opening, at the Frank Stone Gallery. I was only able to speak with Amy briefly, but she made some exciting propositions. I’m looking forward to exploring them. After heading back to St. Paul I had a lovely and curious evening…spending some time getting to know an interesting friend a little bit better.
Saturday involved pancakes, lazing about, catching up on my teevee shows (online), swimming at the rec center, more lazing and then having a good friend babysit. So that I could head out to see Adam perform as Oktaha at Eclipse Records. A lovely set, as always, but TOO BRIEF. And no lap lap steel guitar. He’d better have that next time. Or else! And I managed to get over my claustrophobia long enough to swing through the Art Crank poster show opening. SO PACKED. Almost didn’t take my camera out but that goes against my nature. So here are those photos. I didn’t manage to snap any shots of the bike valet setup, as it was dark by the time we’d arrived, but Pete Ryan got some and WCCO did a little video piece.
Sunday was fairly quiet. Spent a lot of the day outside, split between socializing at Cake Eater Bakery and a park near there, and our backyard, where we grilled for the first time this year. But I’m kind of kicking myself for not heading to the Alpaca Expo in Owatonna, with Adam and Carolyn. I had no idea alpacas make such weird sounds! Oh well. We’ll check it out next year, for sure.
Five or so good things for this fine Monday:
- The Awesomeness Manifesto - advancing the hypothesis that awesomeness is the new innovation. Worth a read.
- I only learned about the new Cult Status Art Gallery, in the Lyn-Lake neighborhood, this morning and here it turns out there’s been controversy over it already, due to a Deuce Seven mural. I love his stuff!
- So many people have forwarded this “First camera, then fork” article to me saying, “hey look, it’s you!” Yes, I do compulsively photograph my food (though maybe not quite so thoroughly). Guilty as charged. In other NY Times related photography news, A Photographer Whose Beat Was the World - Henri Cartier-Bresson. And lastly, a photo of my son will be used, with my permission, in a piece for Science in the Service of Autism in the UK. Cool.
- This Thursday, April 15th, is another one of those nights with multiple shows happening that I’d like to attend but I don’t know that I’ll get to any of them. Sad face. Quasi is playing at the Turf Club, Dark Dark Dark at The Cedar and Daughters of the Sun with Vampire Hands and Brute Heart at The Hex.
- Like, whoa. Kitty cat legwarmers?
In other news, summer childcare options are being fleshed out and things are looking up. We may be able to get into the expensive awesome looking day camp after all. Though the budget will still be a bit tight. I do have unnecessary items around the house I could sell for cash money. One friend said “selling crappy old hardcore records I would never listen to again = cash for clunkers.” So true. The next few weeks will see some more scrambling, to get that all sorted out and to find out whether or not we do get into the school of our choice for next year, but after that? Hopefully the rest will be gravy.
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