(day-glo) tabula rasa(s)


My Rowenta. Just look at her. Ain't she purdy? Two paintings my Matt Murphy.
Important plant. Lamp with silk shade I made. Found on the curb in Jamaica Plain
(Boston). Matching chair found on the curb in (on?) Beacon Hill.
Orange chair from Brimfield.


My beautiful Kenmore workhorse. And 2 serger friends. And "Lucky E" shrine.
And my diploma. It's in Latin. Desk from Harriet ♥. Art from Sandy. Thread scissors.

And here are the *Outfit Flashcards* which I've been working on for 2 days.

For my two days off from work (our office was closed for the holiday), I decided it was time to get my wardrobe super-organized. It was time to wear more than 10% of what I owned. It was time to make *outfit flashcards* and take the mystery/confusion out of getting dressed in the morning.

As it turns out, I am very pants-centric. So each pair of pants gets its own card. Pants in pen. Outfit options below in pencil. I haven't even thought about skinny belts, shoes, sparkle barrettes, necklaces, cardigans. Just the core stuff. Accessorizing, I have determined, can be whim-based.

[images via yotel.com]

Today, I got invited to a lunch at Yotel, unfamiliar to me, yet somehow enticing. Or maybe we walked past it recently and I noticed the font. I wouldn't say it's fontastic, but it certainly catches your eye. So anyway, Yotel is a new hotel on 10th & 42nd (new as of mid-June, 2011). I checked out their Website, and I have to say, the place is right up my aesthetic alley. Futuristic, Japanese-ish, clean and modern.

Color me excited when I found out their restaurant, Dohyo, is designed after a sumo wrestling ring. Excellent. Seating is communal yet spacious. And color me even more excited when I found out the chef is Richard Sandoval of Zengo (my current absolute favorite restaurant in NYC)! Latin American-Asian fusion. Yes and yes.

Check out this quote:

DohYO is part of FOUR, YOTEL New York's 18,000 square foot series of dynamic, connective spaces, that fulfills YOTEL's vision of a flexible meeting and entertainment space where guests and locals can interact, lounge and dine.

The space is apparently modular too! I must pay a pre-visit with my camera. The lunch isn't until Thursday, September 22.

You can learn a lot about a company's fit by altering their garment. Like I am doing now. I bought a shirt dress that was totally frumpy and couldn't figure out why, until I starting taking in the darts. The apex of the darts are too low! At waist level. No dart's apex should be at waist level. They should be at empire waist level. Okay, back to redarting.

So yes, I did a triathlon today. I do it most days a week, in fact. Here were my splits.* Nothing strenuous. It is Friday after all.


18:00 WALKed 6 1/2 "avenue blocks" & 8 "street blocks" (that's 1.134 miles, 2000 steps)
11:46 RAN 1 mile on the treadmill
8:30 SWAM 1/4 mile

transition 1: 10 minutes**
transition 2: 6 minutes



*Note: some negative splitting in the pool
**Gotta work on this

Fryday Tee, $24.50 from delia*s [image via delias.com]

They just played that "Friday Friday" song on the radio. Yup, I bought the shirt. But I'm waiting until Fall to wear it more ironically with a suit jacket. :-)