Friday Means Fries Day

Or it could mean Cheeseburger-and-fries Day. Some co-workers and I headed down to Northpoint Custard near Bradford Beach to partake of some lunchtime deliciousness. It's a true blue Milwaukee place, owned by Bartolotta's restaurants and catering to the burger and custard crowd. All the benches and picnic tables are painted like black and white spotted dairy cows, and named accordingly. Today, we enjoyed our grub while sitting on Dixie, one of the picnic tables.

I like that we eat hamburger while sitting on tables named after cows. Seems either really mean, or really fitting. Or both.

The New Office-mate

Ale decided our office-space needed some sprucing up...so she bought us a plant of indeterminate type, and named him Edward (yes, after the Twilight character....). Being quite the crafty soul, she promptly added some decorations for her Edward, including marbles and a name-tag. She then watered him and wondered aloud, "Do you think I'm at the age where my mothering instincts are kicking in?" Yes, Ale, they are. If you can't have kids, you can always have a houseplant. Just be sure to tell the houseplant it can be anything it wants when it grows up.

Ale's Shoe-Mania

Since we did a snap-shot of co-worker Annie's cubicle personality, I'm bringing you a slice of co-worker Ale (of Joey and Ale do Milwaukee!) and her cubicle life. What's most impressive about Ale's desk is not her pics of her cute dog Rosie or very well coordinated office storage. It's her insane pile of shoes that she keeps under her desk, ready at a moment's notice. The six pairs pictured here are an average amount for any given day, and Ale regularly walks to work in sandals or Uggs (depending on the season) and then matches her shoes up to her outfit once she's at the office. Favorites are anything that looks like Christian Laboutin or anything by Jessica Simpson's fashion line.

What to do with the O'Keefe?

There's a rather unfortunate looking print of a Georgia O'Keefe painting floating around my office building- no one seems to want it in their office. So, as a joke for someone's birthday, my co-workers Annie and Ale added a picture of the lucky birthday girl to the painting and brought it down to surprise her with. Here's a picture of the co-conspirators going down our staircase with the very discomfiting looking painting.

Ale and the (Ugly) Lighthouse

Sailboating yet again: Here, my coworker Ale muses over the lighthouse that sits on Milwaukee's breakwater between the harbor and the rest of the lake. She let me know that she used to want to see this thing up close, but now she thinks it's pretty ugly.