http://kirstiecat.com/blog/archives/55 Tue, 14 Dec 2010 16:20:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 http://kirstiecat.com/blog/archives/55/comment-page-1#comment-140 Kirstie » Blog Archive » I think I might just be underdressed for the *gym* Thu, 01 Dec 2005 00:55:39 +0000 http://euclid.homelinux.net/~kirstiecat/blog/?p=55#comment-140 [...] But, recently, I went to the Cheetah gym in Wicker Park on North Avenue because I was working in the area and my parents were flying in at O’Hare so it would have been impossible to drive all the way back home and then back that way in time. It was a whole new experience. Instead of the metal lockers in the locker room, there were these beautiful wooden ones. The locker room sinks were a cross between woks and silver lily pads and there was a little dish by the sinks dotted with peppermint candies. The shower door looked like a door to a sauna and on the stairwell there hung a brown furry thing which I wasn’t sure was a rug or a modern art piece. [...] [...] But, recently, I went to the Cheetah gym in Wicker Park on North Avenue because I was working in the area and my parents were flying in at O’Hare so it would have been impossible to drive all the way back home and then back that way in time. It was a whole new experience. Instead of the metal lockers in the locker room, there were these beautiful wooden ones. The locker room sinks were a cross between woks and silver lily pads and there was a little dish by the sinks dotted with peppermint candies. The shower door looked like a door to a sauna and on the stairwell there hung a brown furry thing which I wasn’t sure was a rug or a modern art piece. [...]

]]> http://kirstiecat.com/blog/archives/55/comment-page-1#comment-35 Kirstie » Blog Archive » One day I know there’ll be a place called home. Tue, 11 Oct 2005 01:09:25 +0000 http://euclid.homelinux.net/~kirstiecat/blog/?p=55#comment-35 [...] 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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