Food and Memes again

Title:Feast Five

Appetizer
Briefly describe your living room.

As you enter from the front door, you walk through a very funky vaguely Moorish archway in the center of the wall. To the left is a curvy Kmart CD stand next to our entertainment center: TV, VCR, stereo, and gigantic 80s speakers on top along with the Direct TV box and a couple of candles and videocassettes. And dust. To the right is my Christmas present from 1988: a pale curved-wood rocking chair. That is the south wall.

The west wall is another archway like the first one that takes you into the dining room; there really isn’t much wall, just enough to eventually hang a couple of pictures if we ever get around to it.

The north wall is made up of a stone fireplace. There are built-in oak cupboards on either side and windows above them. The cupboards run from the stone to the west and east walls. On the top of the west one is a large lamp with simple oriental-esque design that we ‘inherited’ from one of my shut-ins when she died a few years ago. There is also a 20” red platter shaped and painted like the center of a rose. Two pottery candle holders with green candles. The Beast’s blood-pressure machine. The east one has all my Creative Memories albums on top, along with our wall clock--because we can’t agree on where to hang it—and a small 13” Ikea lamp. The mantle over the fireplace is a simple oak slab about 5’ long, 10” deep and 4” high. On it is a candle stand with 4 green 3” candles on it and some decorative floral garland. The hearthstone is about 10” off the ground, which makes it a nice seat for people willing to sit on concrete. There is a small stack of wood to the left of the fireplace, and scented pinecones and the fireplace tools to the right.

The east wall has three large windows across it. Our couch sits in front of it, flanked by a mail-order gate table on one side and a 2-tier pie-crust table. The round table holds a Tiffany/Wright style lamp (also from K-Mart, oddly enough). There is a mostly yellow Mexican serape thrown over the seat and back of the couch, from where I fell asleep yesterday afternoon. Also, there are two unmatched fluffy pillows. The couch is a double recliner, with a fold down table at the center back. The pie-crust table is between the couch and the rocking chair. The rocking chair has a folded quilt on it, waiting to either get packed as a wedding gift or stored away again.

The recliner sits near the archway into the dining room, kind of in front of the western built-in, next to a matching pie-crust table we found by chance in an antique store in Galena. The original is from The Beast’s parents.

Soup
List 3 things you'd like to accomplish before the end of 2004.

1. I would like to get all the paintings and artwork hung on the walls of the house! That would include getting glass for the broken one(s).
2. I would like the get our bedroom painted and rearranged more comfortably.
3. I would like to get my scrapbooks caught up.

Salad
When you're online, what do you spend the most time reading/playing/doing? Suggest a site for us to visit.

I mostly blog. See the links to the left. Otherwise, it’s mostly work-related: my links include OCLC bib formats, FirstSearch, LC Authorities, etc. At home, lots of blogging, some games.

Main Course
What would the title of your autobiography be?

I suspect that would depend on the day I chose it. “Get Offa My Cloud” comes to mind today.

Dessert
What time do you usually go to bed?

{see me bursting into laughter and quoting The Beast: “Sleep is over-rated.” }
OK, normally somewhere between 10 and 11 p.m. on weeknights, 11ish on weekends. This week: midnight.