West of the Moon

Archive for August, 2010

a very safe colander.

You may know this: when Crate and Barrel ships things, they wrap them up in this packing material, it’s one layer of tissue paper and one layer of this stiff paper netting.  It all comes in one continuous sheet, wrapped several times around the object in question to protect it in transit. The brushed-stainless-steel colander [...]

summer reading.

My summer is basically over!  People keep asking what I did with my summer, and honestly, I’m not quite sure.  Took a pie class, took a bread class, adopted a sourdough starter, made most of a quilt, rearranged the apartment to accommodate wedding presents, spent about six years of my life driving back and forth [...]

weddings.

When we started wedding planning, Matt and I signed up on one of those wedding-planning-helper websites.  (The Knot, if you care, although I can’t imagine why you would.)  It’s been helpful–it’s got a guest-list database for us to use, and a checklist that reminds us when we’re supposed to do all of those eight million [...]

minor league.

I’m having some trouble deciding what my favorite thing about last night’s Brooklyn Cyclones game was.  Was it the fact that they combined the Armed Services Night, Medieval Times Night, and Ike Davis Bobblehead Night promotions all in the same game?  The moment where the Medieval Times king and queen knighted the Marine officer who [...]