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Dec. 21st, 2009 11:58 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stormdogI would like either this bed or this bed. I think more the 2nd one with the headboard. Considering the price, neither of these will happen. But I love them so much. And I can't decide on what to do as far as bedding in my room.
See, Moira and I have decided that, in our 2 bedroom apartment, we're each going to get our own room. We'll likely be sleeping in the same one ninety-five percent of the time anyway (Most likely hers since she'll have the bigger room with the walk in closet. I don't have a need for closet space, though the big room would be nice.), but each of us having our own space is really appealing to me. Plus, if we have someone over who stays the night, we have minimal disruption to routine. I'm really very excited about this move. I'm happily giving away and trashing lots of crap that's been sitting around forever. Simplifying is lightening to the heart and mind.
I'm looking forward to decorating and designing. I'm leaning toward tapestries on the walls and fairly minimalist furniture, but I don't know. Part of me very much likes the idea of a traditional Japanese futon that I can fold up and put in the closet during the day. Even those are a bit pricy, but doable. And I'd have the whole room to work in when I'm not sleeping. I wish I really had a good sense of how comfortable those are and how workable they are for people with any back problems. I don't want to be inhospitable now....
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I was sleeping so deeply on the train this morning on the way in that the conductor had to wake me up and tell me to get off the train! Oops! At least I missed the rush. The little shops in the concourse are all alive and well these days and the bustle is invigorating and exciting. The weather has been fairly mild most of the time I've had to be down here (with a few exceptions) and I'm grateful.
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jimcyl and I drove out to the portion of Bensenville that's been bought out and shuttered by the city of Chicago to make room for an O'Hare airport expansion. We only got about twenty minutes to walk around and photograph before a police officer drove up and told us we had to leave. I wish I knew whether the area was still public property. I suppose not anymore, but I don't really know.
We drove from there out to Gary, Indiana for more abandoned buildings. It turns out that a number of things we used to go to have been locked up tight since last we were there. But no biggie; eventually, they will be open again. These things are cyclical, and as I wrote about my photography in Washington, if you are patient and calm, the world will arrange itself around you. We visited the Palace Theatre and got a few shots of the sad, crumbling interior, then went back to his place for a little snack before I drove on to Kenosha and home.
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I'll be posting a bunch of Kiddieland pictures to Flickr. All the descriptions have been written, and all the pictures cropped and touched up since my trip home on Amtrak; I just haven't posted them yet. Now that I am, they'll go quickly. This is one of my favorites; that little steam locomotive in action, whistle a-blowin', coming around a bend.
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The Kiddieland Limited Rounds a Curve
See, Moira and I have decided that, in our 2 bedroom apartment, we're each going to get our own room. We'll likely be sleeping in the same one ninety-five percent of the time anyway (Most likely hers since she'll have the bigger room with the walk in closet. I don't have a need for closet space, though the big room would be nice.), but each of us having our own space is really appealing to me. Plus, if we have someone over who stays the night, we have minimal disruption to routine. I'm really very excited about this move. I'm happily giving away and trashing lots of crap that's been sitting around forever. Simplifying is lightening to the heart and mind.
I'm looking forward to decorating and designing. I'm leaning toward tapestries on the walls and fairly minimalist furniture, but I don't know. Part of me very much likes the idea of a traditional Japanese futon that I can fold up and put in the closet during the day. Even those are a bit pricy, but doable. And I'd have the whole room to work in when I'm not sleeping. I wish I really had a good sense of how comfortable those are and how workable they are for people with any back problems. I don't want to be inhospitable now....
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I was sleeping so deeply on the train this morning on the way in that the conductor had to wake me up and tell me to get off the train! Oops! At least I missed the rush. The little shops in the concourse are all alive and well these days and the bustle is invigorating and exciting. The weather has been fairly mild most of the time I've had to be down here (with a few exceptions) and I'm grateful.
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jimcyl and I drove out to the portion of Bensenville that's been bought out and shuttered by the city of Chicago to make room for an O'Hare airport expansion. We only got about twenty minutes to walk around and photograph before a police officer drove up and told us we had to leave. I wish I knew whether the area was still public property. I suppose not anymore, but I don't really know.We drove from there out to Gary, Indiana for more abandoned buildings. It turns out that a number of things we used to go to have been locked up tight since last we were there. But no biggie; eventually, they will be open again. These things are cyclical, and as I wrote about my photography in Washington, if you are patient and calm, the world will arrange itself around you. We visited the Palace Theatre and got a few shots of the sad, crumbling interior, then went back to his place for a little snack before I drove on to Kenosha and home.
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I'll be posting a bunch of Kiddieland pictures to Flickr. All the descriptions have been written, and all the pictures cropped and touched up since my trip home on Amtrak; I just haven't posted them yet. Now that I am, they'll go quickly. This is one of my favorites; that little steam locomotive in action, whistle a-blowin', coming around a bend.
\The Kiddieland Limited Rounds a Curve
