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It's really hot. Hotter than it's been in a long, long time. It's supposed to get up to 103 today (will feel like 115, so say's Janet Huff at WNBC, and I trust Janet!) A good day to crawl into a hole.
But it's beautiful, finally, in LA, I'm so happy for them. Seriously, I am. No one should have this weather, and they suffered through it longer than most. Ick. All of this heat is making me, and my computer a little - how you say - screwey?
But we have two cool areas in the house; the basement (my new office, aka the hole) and the living room (my oasis with the small air conditioner) and that makes me lucker than, oh, 95% of the population. I can't complain.
But I will. Because if you do something well, you should do it often. So for now I'll sit and write and play photoshop games when I should be knitting and designing, and drink many iced coffees. I like my coffee like I like my men, cool, tall and very pale... And that makes me think - does anyone besides me refuse to order coffee in faux Italian at Starbucks on principle?
- "I'd like a Large iced coffee..."
The barista furrows their brow and has to stop and translate (as if English is a foreign concept)
- "You mean Vente?"
- "Yeah. Large."
New Office
So here's my new office. To many of you it may seem a step down (11 steps to be exact, it's in the basement) and although it's dingy and the walls are dank, the Pixar posters make life worthwhile!
Here's where my yarn and books are now (formerly my office, but it was too hot in the summer and too cold in the winter)
Which, of course, frees up our Dining room to be a - well - a DINING room. Now we'll eat together. What a concept...
Back to my hot life. And I have to leave at 1:00 to pick up the kids from camp and deposit Hannah at the Library where she volunteers. Max is bringing a friend home (she called him last night - a date? At eight?) and they'll be taking over the hole -er, basement, to watch Star Wars movies and eat popcorn. Too hot to run around with the light sabres.
Of course, in Minneapolis it's lovely today. And at Caribou Coffee they don't speak Italian (unless you want them to...)
posted by Annie at
Tuesday, August 01, 2006
20 Comments:
So, bribing you with weather to move to Michigan won't work today as we are as hot here as S. Orange. rats. How do you feel about chocolate? Enjoyed the IK interview very much!
I,too, love my iced coffee. Altho I drink my regular coffee black, I drink my iced coffee with 1/2 t sugar and a dash of 1/2 & 1/2. Since I got my fall taxes today (school taxes -- ouch!), I imagine that when you get your fall taxes you may well be packing to move to Minneapolis regardless of how really nice your house now is looking!
It is lovely in Minneapolis today - we're so happy to see rain fall from the sky I wouldn't be surprised if we're all (yes, every single Minnesotan)out dancing in it for National Night Out tonight. However (caveat emptor) it was over 100 degrees yesterday - I think I sunburned the side of my face driving home from work with the window up.
Great piece in IK! Hoping you move to MN so I can take all of your classes and graduate from scarves & dishcloths sometime in this decade.
I hear you, Nancy.
This is from an article this past Sunday in the Newark Star Ledger:
A study by the Tax Foundation, a nonpartisan organization based in Washington, D.C., found New Jersey's property taxes in 2004 amounted to $2,100 for every man, woman and child -- 93 percent above the national average.
I love my work area in the basement, you will too.
Yes! Enough was enough when I realized that my dad knew how to order all the drink sizes using their terminology at Starbucks! I'll take a large please!
I SO feel your well-heated pain. I am attempting to finish an article that was due yesterday, yet all the words are sticking together in my poor brain and not showing up on paper at all.
Ah - the tax bill. I have told my young one that while she is walking down the aisle for HS graduation, I will be hammering the for sale sign into the front lawn.
Stay cool!
Oh, I hate it when they try to make you say the weird sizes. I always refuse to say them as well.
If it makes you feel any better, Mpls cooled down but now the humidity crept up to a yucky 85%! I can't knit 'cause my yarn just sort of sticks to my needles. At least we are getting some lovely rain!
Really enjoyed your IK interview!
ibe if the first times they put my large on the counter and said 'vente' or whatever it is, the person next to me said, that's yours, and i said no, really , i ordered a large.
dollar and half of BeanStreet from the "little champ" is fine by me.
Annie- geek that I am, I couldn't help but cheer when I got my IK yesterday- that skirt was started in my very own tv room. LOVE the way it came out- looks so cute with the belt, too. (And for once, they put something flattering on that gorgeous red headed model! Very fitting for you to get the red head, I thought))
Great article- it really captured you, I think, so hope you were happy with it.
BTW- its the "macchiato" that isn't one that is my biggest Fivebucks pet peeve.
Congratulations, IK covergirl!
Jill
It's so hot here in NJ, when you step outside you can taste the moisture in the air. I just got back from the store and the two second trip from the car to the house made me sweaty, and it's 10:30 at night! It's INSANEeee.
Yay central air!
hey, if it's comfy, then the "hole" is the way to go! i wish my basement was more finished, i think i'd move everything down there! as it is, the bedroom down there is downright chilly this time of year. in the winter, you need a space heater, though, a might chilly.
and i don't speak any italian. gimme!
this is what i do:
"I want a tall iced coffee in a Grande cup. That way we both get our way - and I have plenty of room for my skim milk.
Stay cool!
Phyllis Howe
I cannot believe it. I thought I was alone and yet there is you, Annie, and several others right here in front of me with the same starbucks issue. Although i don't drink coffee, I love the hot chocolate and refuse to ask for it in Italian. they also correct me and I again repeat Medium or Large.
Your paint colors look awesome and I am inspired to clean off the dining room table so we can eat together...maybe after it cools off and we stop eating in the living room next to the little air conditioner.
Who was it who decided to use those ridiculous words, anyway? And why is SMALL called TALL? I cannot imagine that's an Italian word. Between their insistence on using words like "venti" and "barista" and the self-important customers who reel off an order that would make my head spin, I can hardly stand to go to Starbucks any more. When I do, I take a perverse pleasure in asking for "a small cup of coffee, please." You should see their eyes widen! Shocking...this woman just wants COFFEE! I'm always happy to find like-minded people willing to break the rules...
I too always say, "small, medium or large". They know me now and know better not to correct me anymore because I do leave my change in their tip cup.
"What's Starbucks?" she asks from SW Wisconsin where large is large and "Children are above average."
It is lovely here in Minneapolis. Not only do they speak English at Caribou, they frown at you for using Charbucks speak and order something Grande or Vente. I like Caribou. I especially like Caribou in the winter when the fireplace is going and you can knit with your coffee.
Ice coffee tastes better when the ice cubes themselves are frozen coffee. I admit to having a "why didn't I think of that?!" moment when a friend told me. :)
We no longer have Starbucks here in Israel. They couldn't compete with the existing local coffeehouses. Israelis are really picky about their coffee. At the beginning of July, Aroma, opened in NYC. Go Team Aroma!
RE: tall = small...Starbucks used to have a size called "short"---but got rid of it when the "venti" was introduced. And I hate the way the baristas say "ven-TAY".
My big beef with them is how I always order a hot cocoa, and the barista always corrects me with "Don't you mean, hot chocolate?" Until I see someone put a piece of chocolate in my drink, I'm going to continue calling it hot cocoa.
Congrats on the IK piece. It was lovely~!
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