Uncreated Conscience

I have discovered Pixlr‘s retro/vintage effects maker and it has rather taken over my life, as I’m not obsessed with turning my photos into Instagram/Hipstamatic-type thingies.

This is a picture of a little shop I found on a random side street in Vienna on my way to the Brunnenmarkt.

I realise I’ve been rather remiss about blogging lately, and I know I ought to remedy this (because I have, uh, news? Nothing too major, no worries!) but honestly, I don’t have time to update during the day anymore, and when I come home, the last I thing I want to do is turn on the internet for reasons other than binge-watching British TV shows on instant Netflix. (Which I haven’t done much of lately either, being as I’ve been swamped reading for work.)

At some point I might return to form, but in the mean time, I will admit I am enjoying the blogging hiatus.

Bear came into the city this weekend and we spent Saturday wandering around the Hell’s Kitchen Flea Market before getting Korean barbeque dinner with some friends. I love flea markets, mostly because I have to wonder at the story behind some of the objects on sale. For instance, Bear and I found a Victorian diver’s helmet. Yes. The suit you’d expect to see in 1000 Leagues Under The Sea by Jules Verne. I mean, whose grandparents had that sitting in their attic?

After walking the Hudson River Greenway, we came back to Korea Way and got some warm drinks to relax and wait for our friends. Bear got an Aztec hot chocolate (which wasn’t what we were expecting–we were hoping for pure unadulerated bitter dark chocolate with a sprinkling of cayenne, but instead we got a regular old hot chocolate) and I got a sweet potato latte. The sweet potato latte was the winner; it actually tasted like sweet potato.

I love it when my Teddy Bear is in the city. It’s hard to find pockets of free time when your significant other is a medical student, but every moment is made all the more precious because of the scarcity. ♥

This is what Saturday looked like. Thankfully my Halloween costume includes a long brown wool coat.

This is what I woke to. It’s not even November. Where the hell did autumn go?

Can I just say that Baby T-Rex has got some mad Photoshopping skills? A whole bunch of publishing people came over to my apartment a couple of weeks ago and we had a steampunk photoshoot for Kathleen’s Photoshop class. TOTALLY AWESOME. I’m totally going to climb in through my living room mirror and hitch a ride on that ship.