I was at an event tonight at the Boldfacersstudio, home to this awesome display hanging from the ceiling. I have more to say about the event itself, but as it revolved around a book that I haven’t read yet, I’m going to wait and say more about it once I’ve at least started, if not finished, the book!
Posted by Sarah G on May 8, 2012
https://mymonotonouslife.com/2012/05/08/boldfacers/
I’ve been wanting a Keep Cup for at least a year now, but they’re made by an Aussie company and for a long time the shipping to the US was pretty expensive. A few weeks ago Leyre pointed out to me that they were on Fab, a flash sale site, and I immediately went and bought one. I love that they have smaller sizes (Eight ounces is a tall at Starbucks, and is very hard to find in travel mugs! Keep Cup even has FOUR ounce mugs!), I love that you can personalize it to mark your drink, I love that you can mix and match colors. As small part of me loves that it’s an Aussie company, so I get a little reminder of my Aussie friends when I look at it and see “flat white” as one of the drink options you can choose to mark.
It turns out, I love my Keep Cup even more than I thought I would, which was already a lot! Even better, all the baristas at my most frequently visited Starbucks also love my Keep Cup, and I’m pretty sure I’m working my way quickly up the ladder to become their favorite customer. :) They love that the cup is already marked with my drink, and on the inside is a mark showing where to fill to 8oz, so they know exactly what size drink they need to make. Every time a new barista sees it they get all excited and talk about how cool it is and ask me where I got it, and I won’t lie, it gets me all giddy that I found this awesome product that people haven’t seen before.
And so now I’m making it my mission to spread the word. Buy a Keep Cup! Buy two! I don’t need a travel mug at home, but I’m totally buying one that is all white with an orange band and plug on top. Then tell everyone else you know to buy one, because you’ll love it as much as I do.
Posted by Sarah G on May 4, 2012
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This is overdue, but I’m so glad that we made sure to do it! Number one on this past winter’s To Do List was to eat at Cafe Polonia, a well renowned Polish restaurant located in Andrew Square in Dorchester – the heart of the Polish Triangle. This kept getting delayed over the winter, and the one Saturday we did make it there we were turned away because they were fully booked. I knew that the place was small and popular, but I certainly didn’t expect to be told to “make a reservation and come back another weekend”. I think that in the end, that actually made me even more determined to get there!
I should note that usually when I have a notion to try a new restaurant or to some type of ethnic cuisine, I have to do a certain amount of convincing to get Pete to go with me. This time around it was much easier – Pete only had to look at the menu once and he readily agreed to go with me. This time he even pulled a me and was scoping out the menu in the afternoon, planning what he would order! He may have done that with the intention of scoping out their beer list, which they don’t have online, but it still made me think that maybe he was as excited for this as I was – and when it comes to food, that’s just about never the case.
I got the Polish Plate, which is a sampler of pierogi (three different fillings – the potato and cheese were by far my favorite), kielbasa (tasty!), stuffed cabbage (I thought it was bland, we weren’t fans), and bigos (lots of sauerkraut – not my thing). Pete got the Gypsy Pancake, which is two potato pancakes with goulash sandwiched between. It was INSANELY delicious. Pete also got the only dark beer they serve – a porter (seen above) that he absolutely loved. He basically wouldn’t shut up about how good it was, and if you know Pete you know that “he wouldn’t shut up” is not something people say about him, so it must really mean something!
We’ve already got our return trip planned – one order potato and cheese pierogis, one order kielbasa, and one order gypsy pancakes to share, leaving some leftovers to take home. Pete, I’m sure, will have at least one of those porters, and I’ll be making sure to leave room for the chocolate babka cake for dessert!
Posted by Sarah G on April 28, 2012
https://mymonotonouslife.com/2012/04/28/overdue-number-1-eat-at-cafe-polonia/
I can’t keep my hands off my camera now that it has that new lens on it, and it was a slow morning at work, so here’s a picture of one of the plants that I took custody of. It’s a Christmas Cactus that was left behind by someone that now works from home, and some of the girls in staffing told me they would be happy to take care of it. They lied, and I got tired of walking to other side of the floor to water it (when I would remember), so I finally brought it back to my desk to add to my little jungle and (hopefully) bring back to good health.
Posted by Sarah G on April 27, 2012
https://mymonotonouslife.com/2012/04/27/protective-custody/
I took my camera to Bromfield Camera (best photo shop in Boston!) the other day to have the sensor cleaned – for one because I was tired of having to photoshop a million little flecks of dirt and dust off every picture I took, and for another because I was pretty sure that the dirty sensor was causing a lot of problems with my focusing. I figured I’d get it cleaned to see if that would fix my focusing problem before I looked into a new lens.
Well, I have no idea if it did/would have fixed my focusing problem, because I asked the guys what it would cost to upgrade my lens (a manual focus 50mm) to one that would auto focus with my camera body, and it was a lot less than I expected. And they would take another $40 off for my lens (almost 40% of what I paid for it). So I left the store with a clean sensor and a new lens.
AND I LOVE IT.
AND THE CATS (AND PETE) HATE IT.
Posted by Sarah G on April 26, 2012
https://mymonotonouslife.com/2012/04/26/fiddy/
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