Adventure Kitty!

So we had a pretty good time at the lake. We did a lot of reading, I finished a small quilting project and James did a bunch of Su Doku puzzles. Erin managed to get into the ceiling in the kid's room. She thought it was a good time, but it kind of freaked us out, so we closed the door to that room after that. Ever since we got back she has been very talkative. I think she wants to go back out onto the screen porch. Oh well.

Liz, if you haven't already, you may want to check out St. Germain. I like his "Tourist" album. He samples Miles Davis. It is good stuff. I also just today found out that I like all four of the Gnarls Barkley songs that play on their website. I probably like their other stuff as well, but it's hard to say as I haven't heard it yet.

Right now I am reading a biography of Django Rheinhardt. It is really interesting, not only for the info about Django, but because it gives a wonderful history of Jazz in France and also an overview of gypsy culture. One of the books I read at the lake was Dial M, the murder of Carol Thompson. It is about a murder that took place in the Highland Park neighborhood in 1963. Dad, did you or your sibs know the Thompson girls? Do you remember anything about the murder? The three girls went to Highland Park High School, the boy to SPA. I think the youngest is about two years younger than my dad. It was kind of odd to read an account of a crime where I knew all of the locations. Fascinating though, and the book was great because the second half dealt with the aftermath. How the kids grew up with their mom dead and their dad in jail for it. It also discussed how the kids dealt with their dad after he was released. I highly recommend this to anyone curious about a slice of local history.

My neat-o kean cousin

I think Liz has fabulous taste in music (from what I can tell). There. I said it. Out loud and everything (well, virtually out loud). From her blog I discovered Gotan Project (fan-tas-tic electronic tango fun) and Ok Go (the treadmill guys). I think they are both great. The music she mentions that I know is always good stuff, and the stuff I don't know is also good (when I manage to remember to find it.) Ok, lots of parenthases tonight huh. Silly me. Anyway, I thought the world should know that I like my cousin's taste in music.

Friggin' about time.

Yea! I finally finished the afghan that I started THREE YEARS ago! Yeeeeaaaaa!

In other news, we went to Como Zoo on Saturday, where it was apparently sleepy kitty day.

Also we saw the polar bears and the cheeky monkeys (that are really great apes, not monkeys because they don't have any tails).

That would be an orangutan with a sheet on it's head. They like to put things on their heads for some reason.

On Thursday we are going to the lake for a long weekend, which we are both looking forward to. It has been a long week since James got fired. Time to wind down and not think about it will be lovely. He does have a few resumes out, and will have a second phone interview with Target tomorrow. It would be neat if he got a job right off the bat. Fingers crossed and all, we'll just have to wait and see what happens.