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challenge #10 - five things!

why go for one five when you can have five fives? right?

five comfort watches
raiders of the lost ark yes, i'm sure you're all surprised :D
captain america: the winter soldier
a new hope
return of the king
crazy rich asians

five frank lloyd wright buildings
ennis house (los angeles)
unity temple (oak park, il)
the cabin on the rocks, aka the mrs clinton walker house (carmel-by-the-sea, ca)
johnson wax administrative building (racine, wi)
imperial hotel (tokyo) (demolished) [1]
honorable mention: eddie's house (san anselmo, ca) (demolished) [2]

five buildings that weren't designed by frank lloyd wright
the chrysler building (nyc)
my beloved. it used to have apartments on the upper floors. photographer margaret bourke-white lived in one and time magazine which she worked for at the time had to cosign her lease because building management wouldn't rent to a woman.
palau de la musica catalana (barcelona)
an astonishingly beautiful building with so much gorgeous tile and stained glass.
nakagin capsule tower (tokyo) (demolished)
i don't know if it was ever really practical (the capsules didn't even have kitchenettes) but it looked so neat.
sydney opera house (sydney)
i want to visit sydney to see this building and climb the bridge over the harbor. i mean, look at that roof. just look at it.
the gherkin (london)
aka 30 st mary axe, aka god's own bullet vibe. i mean, come on.

five house museums
the gibson house (boston, ma)
fallingwater (bear run, pa)
casa batllo (barcelona)
yin yu tang house (salem, ma)
shangri la (honolulu)

five web comics
phantomarine by claire niebergall
A spooky-but-sweet fantasy webcomic about a ghostly princess and her perilous journey across a haunted sea, hoping to save her soul from a devious, shapeshifting death god known as the Red Tide King. Expect all manner of maritime mysteries – monstrous sea creatures, sacred lighthouses, strange afflictions, accursed marauders, feuding gods, grand sea battles, and a heaping helping of humor in-between!

tiger, tiger by petra erika nordlund
The story of a young noble lady, who steals her brother's identity and his ship to sail across the world to find love and adventure, and to write a book about her favourite subject: the fascinating life cycle of sea sponges!

the hazards of love by stan stanley
After trusting the wrong talking cat, a nonbinary latinx teen gets dragged into a surreal underworld and has to claw their way back home.

the witch door by anni k
Katariina Lehto and Jousia Muotka are neighbors. They haven't talked to each other, until one day a mischievous cat leads Katariina into Jousia's apartment. Katariina tells Jousia that she's a nurse, but not that she's on a sick leave because of burnout. Jousia tells her that he's a clairvoyant, but not that he's actually a witch. However, they find out about each other's secrets, and Jousia decides to help Katariina by introducing her to the many wondrous places behind a mysterious witch door.

going to weather by silas j costello
A nautical ghost story set on the stage of a New England whaleship, spanning three acts.

challenge #12 - personal win!

well, i still haven't killed my roommate. i have a feeling every snowflake from now until i move will be "i didn't commit homicide...." but i have made a, uh, move towards moving. (by which i mean i sent in an application for the inclusionary housing program. which i qualify for because i make a bit over 60% of the average median income for the city where i live and otherwise would not be able to afford a place by myself.)

so there's that. i finally finished the wretched cross stitch of scum and villainy. (yay!) i finished nano altho i ended the story kind of in the middle because i took the scenic route and ran out of november before i ran out of story. oops. i picked a pie at random from my pie cookbook and baked it with no idea what it was going to be like and it came out well. (raisin pie. i wanted to try a water pie but i was taking it to my cousins' house and i didn't want to inflict a weird depression-era pie on them without trying it myself first. whereas we all know what raisins taste like.) one of my pi's at work runs a seminar series and while he does the work of finding speakers i do everything else. successfully. for three and a half years so far. and i joined a gym! and went! and then... did not. but i didn't give up the membership and just need to motivate myself again. and my curling team has won both games we've played so far, holy crap. i count that as a win even tho i don't know how much i contributed to it personally.

in non snowflake news tomorrow at work we're having what one of the admins refers to as crappy christmas - you bring a christmas gift you don't want and exchange it for a christmas gift someone else didn't want. and since i don't celebrate christmas i'm going to bring cookies. right now i'm waiting for the butter to soften and the egg yolks to thaw (they were in the freezer and why didn't i put them in the fridge last night) and if i end up baking cookies at 10:30 at night i guess i'll be baking cookies at 10:30 at night. oy. this is my own fault.

and did i mention my curling team won on sunday? we did. :D it was a close game, too.

on saturday i had a dentist appointment and aside from a full raft of x-rays it was fine. no cavities. :D it was so cold out i went home and stayed there until sunday afternoon when i went to the grocery store. and it was still cold!

[1] the front entrance and the lobby were saved and installed at meiji mura which is an outdoor architectural museum near nagoya.

[2] eddie the dog belonged to jim berger, who was the son of robert berger, who commissioned a house from wright. jim felt bad that eddie had to be outside in the cold and so asked wright to design a doghouse, which a year later he did. it leaked. try to contain your shock.