I was feeling kind of homesick for the desert this week, so in a weird midnight stupor I started looking for desert-inspired baby bedding and stuff like that to decorate my baby-to-be's nursery. I figured I'd find a bunch of Aztec-print stuff on etsy, and I did. But I feel like Aztec-print went out of style a long time ago, though the commercial fashion industry doesn't seem to know it yet (I have a knack for knowing things that even top industry executives don't know yet, no matter the industry - call me a trend forecaster, or even a life forecaster, if you must; I'll answer to either), so I tried looking for, like, "desert sunset" sheets and stuff, thinking I'd find a nice watercolor-inspired blue-ish orange-ish night sky-looking bedding (which maybe I should make myself), and then I could get a mobile with suns and stars or something; but that design idea wasn't panning out.
What I found instead was a website called Spoonflower that has all sorts of obscure printed fabrics with CACTI. If you followed my previous blog at all, then you know I love cacti and joshua trees and sparse desert plants... (sniffle). I'd still have to figure out how to get the fabric into the structure of a crib bed sheet, but in all honesty I'd probably just wrap it tight as hell around the crib mattress and then staple gun it in place on the underside of the mattress. Whatever, right? My son won't be sleeping on the stapled side anyway. And to baby it up some more in his nursery, I'll buy Sheriff Callie's Wild West toys. If you're not familiar with the Disney cartoon, one of the characters is an actual cactus. I don't know why. But I'm thinking it's because that would be perfect for my son's room.
Chicken and Waffles
Every time I'm pregnant I crave Southern comfort food. Mac and cheese, fried chicken, fried catfish, fried okra, fried pickles... So we've been scouring Key West for these items but can't find them all in one place (surprise, surprise, as this seems to be de rigeur for Key West). We found an upscale place that serves lobster mac and cheese, a bbq place that serves fried pickles, and a Southern restaurant that serves chicken and waffles and fried okra but we haven't found the right time to go there - with two kids we tend to go out to dinner around 5 or 6, but only serves a skimpy happy hour menu (with no chicken and waffles or mac and cheese) from 3-7 and sometimes isn't open for lunch, so this craving of mine has been a real struggle.
(picture from Hash House a Go Go's website)
Podcasts
I was looking into podcasts because I might be having an idea for one... And I discovered a plethora of interesting-looking ones. So far I've mostly only listened to The Jealous Curator's Art for Your Ear series, where she interviews artists, but I'm digging the medium. Do people really listen to these things, though? And, if so, when? I listen while I'm cooking. I put it on speaker and try paying attention as I'm rolling up enchiladas and my kids are singing or complaining about being hungry. So, I do feel like I miss a bunch of snippets of conversation. And what if they're key snippets? What if I missed something that could have been inspiring enough to change my life?! Like, does everyone have this problem with podcasts? I'm not inclined to listen to them in silence somewhere. If I ever get any silence around here I work, write, or read. So before I let my own podcast idea get ahead of itself...are podcasts a feasible form of media/entertainment?
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