Melodifestivalen 2015

Hello again-

Just realized that my last post was on Christmas. Well I am about to change that. Melodifestivalen just got done, and Sweden has it's pick for Eurovision! If you have never heard of Eurovision, google it. If Sweden does not win this year, the system is rigged. Below, I added videos of my three favorite contestants. I only have one word to describe winner Måns Zelmerlöv and runner up Jon Henrik Fjällgren. That word is SEXY!

Måns Zelmerlöw - Heroes *WINNER

Jon Henrik Fjällgren - Jag är fri (manne leam frijje)

Mariette - Don't Stop Believing 

Which one do you like best?

Christmas Day in Boystown

Took an evening walk today through the neighborhood. The streets of Boystown, Chicago, have never felt more deserted. Merry Christmas to all and it is now time for a goodnight! 

A Merry Chicago Christmas

Photo cred: Andrew H.

Christmas present from the boo. Socks to go with my Hunter boots

Nikon

Chicago

Camera Lovin'

Got a new camera! Let's see what this bad boy can do...

Intelligentsia

Oolong Loose Leaf Tea

With its industrial look and creative menu, Intelligentsia Coffee on Broadway is one of many treasures in East Lakeview. If you are a coffee enthusiast or a teafanatic (like me), you have to stop in for a cup. My favorites are the white teas and oolongs. So grab your computer or that book that you never seem to have time to read, and stop in at Intelligentsia for a delicious drink. If anything, the cool presentation of a drink, pays for itself.

"In October of 1995 Doug Zell and Emily Mange left San Francisco to open an in-store coffee roaster-retailer on Broadway Avenue on the north side of Chicago. At that time they were simply hoping to bring great, fresh-roasted coffee to their own coffeebar with the help of a charming, but perhaps too often erratic 12-kilo roaster. Since then Intelligentsia has evolved considerably.

Intelligentsia now has three cities it calls home: Chicago—a city that is brooding, practical and reluctantly beautiful; Los Angeles—a city that views creativity as a birthright, is immensely vast, decidedly impractical and equally messy and marvelous; and New York—a city of paradoxes, hulking but chock full of intimate corners, timeless but achingly current, polished but decaying, worldly yet oddly provincial, all crashing together in perfect cacophony (or is it harmony?)."(Retrieved from website)