http://kirstiecat.com/blog/archives/36 Sun, 23 Nov 2008 14:52:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 http://kirstiecat.com/blog/archives/36#comment-149 Kirstie » Blog Archive » Happy Swedish Shopping Sun, 11 Dec 2005 18:10:04 +0000 http://euclid.homelinux.net/~kirstiecat/blog/?p=36#comment-149 [...] I had a fun time shopping yesterday in my nearby neighborhood of Andersonville or as I like to call it Pretend Sweden. Despite the snow and cold, the stores and restaurants were crowded but most people seemed filled with holiday cheer. [...] [...] I had a fun time shopping yesterday in my nearby neighborhood of Andersonville or as I like to call it Pretend Sweden. Despite the snow and cold, the stores and restaurants were crowded but most people seemed filled with holiday cheer. [...]

]]> http://kirstiecat.com/blog/archives/36#comment-139 Kirstie » Blog Archive » I think I might just be underdressed for the *gym* Thu, 01 Dec 2005 00:54:24 +0000 http://euclid.homelinux.net/~kirstiecat/blog/?p=36#comment-139 [...] I’ve gone to the same gym for about three years and work out so regularly people I don’t recognize have recognized me from the gym. (Which is always kind of awkward, I might add) Anyhow, I belong to an independent gym known as Cheetah which I feel really comfotable at. The one I go to is in Andersonville so I can work out and buy lingonberries. There’s some great things about it, namely that the people who work there are so incredibly nice (I literally think it’s a requirement that you are just extremely nice when you get hired.) They also have book holders so I can read at the same time and ice water that they often put cucumber or lime slices in. Best of all is a lovely little pool by the stairwell has coi and these two turtles who often climb up on a big rock and gaze at the ceiling as if they were gazing at a nighttime sky full of stars. [...] [...] I’ve gone to the same gym for about three years and work out so regularly people I don’t recognize have recognized me from the gym. (Which is always kind of awkward, I might add) Anyhow, I belong to an independent gym known as Cheetah which I feel really comfotable at. The one I go to is in Andersonville so I can work out and buy lingonberries. There’s some great things about it, namely that the people who work there are so incredibly nice (I literally think it’s a requirement that you are just extremely nice when you get hired.) They also have book holders so I can read at the same time and ice water that they often put cucumber or lime slices in. Best of all is a lovely little pool by the stairwell has coi and these two turtles who often climb up on a big rock and gaze at the ceiling as if they were gazing at a nighttime sky full of stars. [...]

]]> http://kirstiecat.com/blog/archives/36#comment-107 Kirstie » Blog Archive » The Shout Out Louds/Essex Green Fri, 11 Nov 2005 05:30:59 +0000 http://euclid.homelinux.net/~kirstiecat/blog/?p=36#comment-107 [...] When people talk about their cultural heritage, I always slink back a bit because, truth to be told, I am a little bit of everything really-German, Welsh, Native American, I think even a bit of French on my mom’s side. Being a bit of everything, I feel sort of like my genetic structure is really just a sort of postmordial soup sometimes. But I will say that if I had to pick one nationality that I am probably the most or atleast that culturally I have some semblance of, it is Sweden. I am not sure exactly why the relatives on my father’s side left Sweden but I still remember Great Grandma Hayes with her fair skin and her long white hair gently talking to me as a child (she passed on when I was pretty young) and giving me combs for my long ragamuffin hair (nothing much has changed). I live near the Swedish cultural section of the city in Andersonville and the Swedes that work in the Swedish specialty shops look a great deal like my grandmother (who is still alive) does, which is comforting to me. I also probably resemble someone from Sweden the most out of them all with my very fair (or deathly pale) complexion and skin with my light freckles. I don’t know Swedish and have never been to Sweden but I must say that I love several bands coming out of there at the moment, The Shout Out Louds being only one of them. Jens Lekman is another one as well as The Concretes and a couple of new ones a very well informed individual turned me onto-The Wannadies and The Moonbabies. [...] [...] When people talk about their cultural heritage, I always slink back a bit because, truth to be told, I am a little bit of everything really-German, Welsh, Native American, I think even a bit of French on my mom’s side. Being a bit of everything, I feel sort of like my genetic structure is really just a sort of postmordial soup sometimes. But I will say that if I had to pick one nationality that I am probably the most or atleast that culturally I have some semblance of, it is Sweden. I am not sure exactly why the relatives on my father’s side left Sweden but I still remember Great Grandma Hayes with her fair skin and her long white hair gently talking to me as a child (she passed on when I was pretty young) and giving me combs for my long ragamuffin hair (nothing much has changed). I live near the Swedish cultural section of the city in Andersonville and the Swedes that work in the Swedish specialty shops look a great deal like my grandmother (who is still alive) does, which is comforting to me. I also probably resemble someone from Sweden the most out of them all with my very fair (or deathly pale) complexion and skin with my light freckles. I don’t know Swedish and have never been to Sweden but I must say that I love several bands coming out of there at the moment, The Shout Out Louds being only one of them. Jens Lekman is another one as well as The Concretes and a couple of new ones a very well informed individual turned me onto-The Wannadies and The Moonbabies. [...]

]]> http://kirstiecat.com/blog/archives/36#comment-34 Kirstie » Blog Archive » One day I know there’ll be a place called home. Tue, 11 Oct 2005 01:08:45 +0000 http://euclid.homelinux.net/~kirstiecat/blog/?p=36#comment-34 [...] When people think of Chicago, they usually tend to think of the high rises and skyscrapers. Because, when you visit and stay downtown, that is all you see. But there’s another side of Chicago and that is it’s neighborhoods. I’ve posted a few pictures of neighborhoods already: Andersonville (the Swedish area of the city that is only a couple of miles away), and Wicker Park and here’s truly what I see when I walk around the few blocks of my own neighborhood-north,south, and west. If I go East, I see skyscrapers because I live close to the lake and the beach. [...] [...] When people think of Chicago, they usually tend to think of the high rises and skyscrapers. Because, when you visit and stay downtown, that is all you see. But there’s another side of Chicago and that is it’s neighborhoods. I’ve posted a few pictures of neighborhoods already: Andersonville (the Swedish area of the city that is only a couple of miles away), and Wicker Park and here’s truly what I see when I walk around the few blocks of my own neighborhood-north,south, and west. If I go East, I see skyscrapers because I live close to the lake and the beach. [...]

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