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MURDER! IN THE LIBRARY!! i was taking the picture of my twirly skirt (one of my mom's) and lisa was all, "can i be in your self portrait today?" and of course i never say no to that, so she laid down. and then of course, we needed props. and then a better setting. and suddenly i was mz. black, in the library, with the carving knife.

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and finally here are the top ones! i really went all out for the frosted glass and stainless steel. we have such a grown up kitchen now! i need to organize the cupbords now, though, so they look all pretty behind the doors.

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today's kitchen task- the drawers! they were much harder, but don't they look amazing? it makes me really compelled to clean the floor now, since it's all reflected in the cupboards. i cant' wait for the missing teeth to be filled in!

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there is still the unending bits of icord left to do, but the bulk of the knitting is done. i really want something amazing to line it with, i'm not sure what. maybe green velvet. once it dries i'll unpin it and sew it together, and hopefully take more pictures. i am so excited to start carrying it around everywhere i go.

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the first of the cabinets from ikea! i'm so glad the cupboards were already ikea. it makes it so much easier to just pop the old doors off their hinges. and put them in the new ones! the kitchen will look so good- although i forgot to buy a couple, so we're gonna have to go back someday to finish the project!

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hej from ikea! when lisa! drove my mom's car back from PA it had 4 boxes of children's books in it, so i needed a bookcase so IKEA! dad gave me a check to spend on home repair for xmas and i was gonna get a ceiling fan, but i'm glad he didn't get me a gift card cause i bought cabinets for the kitchen instead! ikea kitchens are serious business, but i feel so grown up. half of them we had to order, but i've got plenty to work on before they come in. i'm so excited! it will look so nice! i'm so glad our kitchen already has ikea cabinets (they bought the $1-2 version) so i can keep the hinges and we just need to change the fronts. hej!

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went out for justin's birthday to a fancy french restaurant in old town. it was fun and nice, although french sucks for vegetarians. afterwards they stopped to buy wine and we went back to justin's to eat the cheesecake stephanie made him for his birthday. i had drunk just enough i could summarize the reader's article on the senate candidates. don't know who to vote for in the primary? let me know, i'll tell you not who to vote for but how to tell them apart.

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rying to get a photo of being streetlamp level at work wasn't working well, so i tried the interesting stairwell instead, without much more success. they are old and wooden and creaky and remind me of outlet shopping when i was little. i thnink the creakiest outlets in reading aren't open anymore.

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what the dumpster sees of my apartment. i've been doing a lot of steps tonight- laundry, trash, and corner store. i try and carefully plan it so i'm never going up or down emptyhanded... but then i usually forget the soap or something and muck it all up.

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stayed home sick. i don't feel that bad, but i sound like an 87 year old smoker. and have a nasty cough. i got my thank yous written though. and watched auntie mame. go me.

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my dad gave me this for xmas. it's a maze in a ball, you have to get the little ball bearing the whole way through. it's incredibly frustrating, i tried to leave it there, but he mailed it to me. stupid toys.

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lisa drove my mom's car back from michigan today. we don't have to keep our scarves and hats and mittens in boxes in the hallway anymore- we brough my mom's drysink. it's the only other piece of furnature of hers. it works so well in our hallway. i don't know what we'll do with it in the summer. use it for swimsuits or something.

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guess where i'm coming from? not the beach or the hairdresser or swimming or wearing false eyelashes. it's the other contact lens-worthy occasion- dentist! the hygenist is always so interested in what i'm knitting so i always try and come with, oh, scarf, hat, socks, etc. i couldn't even begin to explain the bobbin mess, though. it's crazy- so many colors. and i even cut out 3 of them, i'll be adding duplicate stitch later instead. poor lisa!- i haven't finished her christmas gift scarf yet, but i'm all distracted by this big project.

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on the way to knit night. am i even ready for the intarsia chart? i have my bobbins wound, we'll see....

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this is the east west satchel kit mom gave me for my birthday! i've finished the strap and bottom, and today i finished the front and back! all i have left to knit are the flap and the edging... and of course, i have to put it all together, make a lining, etc. i now comes the scary part. CUTTING THE STEEK! those non patterned stripes down the middle? i'm going to CUT them. with SCISSORS. down the middle of my KNITTING. i'll reinforce them tomorrow on the bus, and then actually do the cutting at my knitting group for moral support.

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in the stairwell on the way home from work. in the mornings i usually leave out the back so i can drop the cat litter in the dumpster. as a result i never ever see the front stairwell all lit and bright from the skylight. winter is so long and dark, and it's only january. still 4 1/2 months to go.

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lisa! and i are so lucky to have so many awesome restaurants right in our neighborhood. but we do end up not venturing more than a block or 2 away. this was at a yummy italian place up on jarvis- we ended up walking almost a mile in the snow. it seemed like an endless trek on the way there, hungry, but it was just a pleasant walk on the way back.

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that other picture that was up on my blog with no caption would have been a much better one, but i didn't take it so it doesn't count. mom's big request for her funeral was "more singing less talking" so there were hymns and the choir and the sacred harp singers. and of course sacred harp blew them all out of the water. no one does happy death songs like the puritans. i think modern music is like modern life- too separated from death. and as soon as i came back to chicago was the chicago anniversary sing, so i thought i should go. i ended up leading a song which i Never Ever do. it was this one, which was sung at mom's funeral and was very emotional.

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i have really gotten bad at this whole Every Day thing. this is basically what my phone sees when i plug it in every night. what can i say? isn't it nice how we taped the ceiling of this room and got so little paint on the ceiling? i guess there's the cleverness of the paint color being saturday night and the photo being taken saturday night.

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Don Draper on the BIG SCREEN! lisa and i see no need to buy cable or anything when we live in the the lovely big city of chicago and get twenty-some odd channels for free with our antenna. even in HD. we can rent DVDs of anything else we want to see, or watch it on the roku if it's available. and lisa! used to download everything else from the internet and move it to my computer via iPod and we'd watch it on my computer cause there's a couch. BUT! I've been spending the past month or so ordering cables and adapters online. and now we can hook lisa!'s computer up to the tv! it's kinda amazing. i need a few more feet of cable (the tv's right against the wall and the computer had to move away from the window) but now we can watch mad men in the living room to our hearts content.

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"oh shit, i forgot to take a self portrait again today."
"so take one now"
"you want to be in it?"
"sure!"
"ok, smile!" (flip over camera, look at picture) "you didn't smile!"
"yes i did, you just can't see it!"

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hat head. my bangs are too long and are getting in my eyes. so i thought it was time to wear my hair up. it was smart, but i forgot about how i have to wear a hat everywhere i go. instantly smashed. and never puffed up again in anywhere near the original style. oh well. and yes, i am in the closet. giving up backround in search of better light. i will be so happy when there is finally some sun when i get home from work.

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t's been a bad couple of days. i just go through phases of being down with living my life and then suddenly it's like i just realize i will never see mom again. i just keep going back and forth between being ok and really rather depressed. in response i had insomnia last night and so got up and removed all my hair from the neck down. this is a family blog (or at least, at the funeral i learned how much my family reads it!) so much of it is from censored parts (or do you really wanna see my armpit?) but as you can see, no more hair below my bellybutton. although since i took this picture looking down, it's actually above...

Caitlin Keeler, 1-10-10

Caitlin Keeler, 1-10-10
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mom didn't have a will. it was a supremely stupid thing to do, but i guess understandable. it's so hard to even know what needs to be taken care of, and what's who's responsibility. her work gave us each info and i've been trying to be responsible about getting death certificates to the right people as soon as i can. they are very precious, though. the price on the top says $6 and we only have 10 of them. i know if i'm lucky what i get inreturn will be worth more than that, but it all seems like gambling and taxes and forms and sadness right now

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overpass cowl! this is charles' xmas gift. it's warm and soft. yes i know i've worn the same sweater all weekend. and it's a 4 day weekend. i got it for xmas from lisa and it's nice, and i'm having a not-leave-the-house sort of time. i think it's good for me.

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laundry. this was the day i had to get something done. and all i got was 4 loads of laundry, but that's pretty impressive, right?

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nasty aerogarden light! but at least i replanted it and it's growing things now. lisa made amazing nachos for me for dinner. i can't believe i spent another day doing absolutely nothing. it's not even that i was wasted from some party last night. lisa and i went out for thai and then home to drink in bed. but i can't seem to move from the couch.