Not ready

I have been so excited for Halloween this year. I had decorated my place for it. I love the pumpkins, colors, and magic of it. I'm not looking froward to Christmas. It is all ready going up all over the stores and I don't like it. I just want to keep with my Halloween.

Getting cold

Finally getting cold here.

Movie day

Watched France themed movies today

Ready

It is hard to get ready for Halloween and thing about Christmas stuff going up at work when it is still in the 90s to 80s outside. I see all the fall/winter things and want them, but know I will not be wearing them for a while yet. At home I want to make big cabled sweaters and blankets. I worked a little bit on my Hoots cardigan tonight. I got done with all the increases and now I just have to knit 5 or so inches for the back. It really is a fast cardigan to make because the yarn is so big and it will go a faster this time to make because I already have all the yarn that I need and don't have to wait for it to came in.

Apart

Today I took apart my hoops cardigan. It was just too small.

Lately

All I seem to be lately is tired. I almost fell asleep watching a movie this evening and thought about going to sleep at 8, but I ended up staying up. I bought things for baking today at work. I'm going to do some cooking and cleaning tomorrow on my day off. I think I'm going to make pumpkin scones and world peace cookies.

Food

My evening are feeling very long now that the sun is setting earlier. I did a little knitting on my cardigan. I have to the top of the owls heads done, only have a little bit more to go. I finally went on a run when I couldn't knit any more. My legs have been hurting me the last week and they feel better if I go for my runs. After my run I have been sitting on the computer looking at food to make. I have three things that I would like to try pumpkin scones, apple bread, and peace cookies. For the first two I would have to buy things to make them, but I have everything that I would need to make the peace cookies. Have a day off coming soon, I think I am going to make something.

Falling apart

My legs hurt, I'm tired, and still up. I have been rushing around all day. First I wake up this morning when I was to leave for work, so I had to run around real fast and get out of the house in a few minute. I rushed around work doing many different things and staying longer. Came home and went out again to return my movies to Redbox because I left them at home when I want to work. I did get to sit this evening, I have been knitting my Owl cardigan. I had to rework the sleeves 5 times, but they are right know. I have them join with the body of the cardigan and have knitted a few rows. If I keep working on it I will have it done by the end of the this weekend.

My day

Lately things have not been going the way the way that I want them to. Time has been going so fast and nothing has been getting down. Things that I tell myself that I'm going to do just sit there. I have not been keeping up with things, been tired all the time, redoing the sleeves of the cardigan that I am working on like five times, not going for my runs. I need to start getting myself together.

Tired

need sleep

Tired

Fell asleep on the couch watching a movies this evening. I'm still pretty tired and out of it still. I was looking up something on the internet and it lead me to some ones still that they made soap. I thought that would be cool to do so for the last little bit I have been looking in to how much the supplies are. Wish they had a Lush here it would be fun to work at.

Going to a wedding

I'm going to a wedding tomorrow morning. It is a early wedding at 10 in the morning I need to go get some sleep now. I have not been getting to much sleep lately and have been tired alot, but some how always stay up late again. I have been doing some cleaning tonight or else I would already be asleep now.

Need to sleep

took a nap

New things

new book and candy corn

Rainy days

I have had two very lazy days off of doing nothing.

1. I have watched a lot of movies and today I watched two disc of The Big Bang Theory.

2. I have knitted started to knit two different things and have run out of yarn to finish them.

3. Last night I stayed up to 1 on the morning finishing my book which was very good.

4. I want for a run yesterday and was going to go for one today, but we had a lot of rain this evening and the streets are a river still.

5. Just bought a book that I didn't need, but just really wanted to look thought.

Movie night

I had a long day at work yesterday. I ended up staying two and a half hours later because they had a call out at work. After work I watched Beauty and the Breast with my friends while we did crafts. I started working on the second slipper for my mom. I didn't get the far on it.

Long night

this even has go on forever

Dinner with friends

Went out to dinner

New project

Currently making my second slipper

Spoon bending

I was super tired the whole day at work yesterday. I wake up filling like I had a hang over and I had nothing to drink the night before. I need to start watching when I go to sleep all the late nights and early mornings are catching up to me. After work my friend and I went to a spoon bending party.

Some fun

with my friends

Off

I have one more day of my three day weekend left. I fill like I have done nothing.

I'm getting ready

I finished the spider web that I have been working on for the past two days.

Long Day

After five hours sleep I'm still up

Late again

Yesterday like more days lately speed by. I didn't get to nearly to all the things that I wanted to do. I started a little bit of cleaning and them once I found a project to make I forgot about everything else. I am making a spider web out of some black crochet thread that I have. I was thinking of making a few and sewing them together and putting them up in my window for Halloween. After working on that for a good while I went for my run and then stayed up to late with my friends.

To-Do list

Today I finally finished my book, Hot Under the Collar. It was an old book of mine that I had and so I read it again. I'm re-read some of my old books from a few years back to see if I still want to keep them, this one I don't think is making the cut. I also finished that baby jacket that I have been taking my time making. I really like how it came out and I love the color of blue that it is. Now for the list of things for tomorrow

1. Clean, this is on every list of mine and maybe one day it will not be

2. Read more of my new book Millie's Fling

3. Maybe bake something we will see about this one

4. Go for my run and maybe try to do some yoga, the candy jar has come back at work and I'm going to have to do more to make up for all the candy I will be having

5. Start a knitting project that is not a baby item

Late again

It is getting late

Tired

My even has gone

New things

new jeans and books

To-Do list

CLEAN MY HOUSE and sleep

Finished

I finally finished the blanket that I have been working on for a friend tonight.

How Long

I have been trying to keep knitting the baby blanket that I'm currently working on and figure out how long to make it. It is 32 inches wide and right now 34 inches long. I thing I'm going to go for 36, but I still fill like it is to short will see when I get there. I have more yarn and want to make more blankets, but one baby doesn't need that many. I'm going to have to thing on other things to do with the yarn.

Like

I watched some MTV with my friends last night. I feel like I have lost a lot of brain cells. The shows on it just make me feel sad for people.

Getting ready

I think I'm ready for fall.

Need to sleep

Yesterday I wasn't tired while I was at work. I had headache from the night before. I must have been more tired than I thought I was because after 7:30 I just crashed on my couch.

What I did today

knitted

Getting cold

It is getting cool here. I was freezing last night, this morning, and this evening. I have been laying around with my blanket over me. I finally turned down the swamp cooler too because I was just too cold in my place.

Long night

The evenings are feeling like there are so long.

Another day

Work was pretty slow again today. All I wanted to do was get back to my book. I ended up finishing it after work. It only took me two days to finish it, this is the fasts I have finished a book in a long while. Now I am going to have to figure out what I'm going to read next. After reading I watched alot of House and knitted some more on my blanket. It is now way later than I should be up for the third night in a row and I'm going sleep.

Long Day

Today had just been one long day. Work was very slow and bored which is nice in some ways and not in others. I had to fix a problem with my debit card after I got off of work. That took sometime first getting to the bank, then fixing the problem, and then fixing the problem that was caused by this. So by the time I finally got home all I wanted to do was lay on my bed and read my book. It is a retelling of Beauty and the Beast I had read it a long time ago and have really been wanting to reread it again since it came here from home in my box of books. I had some yummy Chinese take-out and have been knitting, listing to my Pandora. While think of what to make next I'm working on a baby blanket that I think I started over two years ago.

Downtown

went downtown and took some photos for my friends jewelry business

Well that was different

Went with my friend to the campus for a Latin Dancing meet-up event that she heard about. We had some fun trying to find the building that neither of use have ever been to. We each dance with this old guy that was there, my friend know how to do salsa was better than me. I was losing track of the court on the steps and just wanted to do my own thing. We didn't say long, it was weird dancing in a classroom late at night.

Not into it

This evening I haven't really being into doing anything.

New hat

just started knitting Capucine

sleep

Movie night

Bollywood

One of those days

Was very lazy today just sat around watching movies and knitting. I have the lower back done on my Owls cardigan, one sleeve, and am started on the second sleeve. As I was working the first sleeve a realized that I was going to need more yarn, I was kind of hoping that I wouldn't, but knew I would. I went to the yarn store and of course they didn't have any of the right color currently. The store took down the color and will call me when it gets in. I was proud of myself for walking out of there with out anything for the second time. They was some beautiful deep plum purple yarn, my current favorite color, and a nice green in the same yarn the I was looking for. I knew I shouldn't buy it because I will not have the needles to work with it till I'm done with Owls. I also think I should work on some little projects for a while like socks. Time to start using up all that sock yarn that I have.

Hoot

cardigan

New project

I was trying to figure out what would be my next project today.

What are we making

Hanged out with my friend tonight. We went to dinner on the campus. After we when back to her place and made some dough for something that she is making for her party tomorrow. We mixed a lot of flour with a lot of butter and a very little bit of water to make this dough. I was doubting that is was going to work, but it looked ok in the end will have to wait and see what it is made into tomorrow. When we were finished we watched a little more a an Bollywood movie that we had started early this week. I think it will take us a week or more to finish the three hour long movie a the rate that we watch it. Lots of laughing and fun tonight.

Yummy

Made scones

Jean shopping

Nothing like jean shopping with your mom.

Movie night

sleep

Scones

Made so strawberry oatmeal scones this evening from Lbrookscooks.

Lazy day

Long week

My week had been pretty long and

Indian food

I was very lazy today. I slept into 10 and then just laid around and watched movies. I started to knit a new octopus, I go the idea for it while I was at work. It is red and white and has a spot on it head.

Board game night

Played board games with my friends last night.

Cupcake night

going to have cupcakes with friends.

Nessie

After finishing up to row 79 of the body last night I have gotten pretty far this evening. My plan was to have it finished by tonight, well that is not going to happen. I had a lot of fun with the kitchener stitch from hell, 66 stitches to sew together. After that I got the two fount fins on. I noticed that it looked a little funny, but didn't thinks to much of it. While working on the first of the back fins I notice that it looked different from front one. They are going two different directions. I need to learn to read the pattern more carefully, like the part where it says to work the pattern the other way for the fin on the other side.

What I did today

1. After waking up I finished an knitted octopus from Amiqurumi Knits that I had started a long while back and never finished.

Pinhole

This lovely pinhole photo was made by Justin Quinnell. It was taken over a 6 month period. I found this image and other long term exposure pinhole photos while using stumble this evening with my dad. More cool photos at the itchyi. All of these make me want to make a pinhole camera again or just take pictures period. I have been looking at the baby prop knitted items on ravelry because my friend that is having the baby. She has always liked the Anne Geddes sleeping baby picture and I like it would fun to try to take photos like that.

Tiny Fun

I staid up late last night knit and them wake-up early this morning and knitted some more. I'm now done with the front of the vest. I followed the pattern and knitted 50 rows before binding-off for the arms, but I ended up pulling back down to 39 rows. I felt it was just too long at 50 rows under the arm. It looks more like a vest now and less like a dress, giving that I don't know the gender of the baby yet.

Knitting bug

I've got the knitting bug again. I finish one project and have to start the next.

Need to sleep

I have been tired the last three nights and I have told myself that I need to go to sleep early. This has not happen once these three nights and here it is late again and I'm still awake.

Annis

My Annis shawl is going good.

How late

I have been watching Burn Notice and knitting and last track of the time.

Shopping day

Did a little bit of shopping today. I got new jeans, two different leggings, and a Wildcat hoodie.

Knitting while tired

Knitting late at night is not a good thing for me to do. I make a lot of mistakes and just end up taking it all out the next day. I'm starting my Annis shawl over for the third time. The first start over was because I mussed up S2KP part and I didn't like the lace weight yarn.

Cookies and rain

I'm making sugar cookies.

Yarn store

I finished my Shalom cardigan.

Story of a sunset

What time is it

It is late and my foot is hurting. My evening has disappeared and have done nothing.

What I did today

Warm

There is something wrong with the air conditioning at the house I am watching right now. It is some where in the mid 80's in here. I'm warm even under a fan. So what do I do when I'm warm, knit. I knit some more on my cardigan. It is midway down my waist right now. I'm guessing I have about another 6 inches to go. The only thing is I'm starting to run out of yarn which is weird there should be more to it. I made two hats out of it, but I don't think there was anything else. I was going to take apart the hats and use them for the sleeves, but it is looking like I may need them to finish the body.

365 days

I'm a few days late on posting this, I decided that for my 26 year I want to do a 365 day project. I'm going to take a photo every day and post it on my flickr account. I'm doing this to make myself take more photo. I love taking them, but sometimes forget that I have a camera. Today's picture it on my birthday henna.

Monsoon love

It has been raining the past three hours, I love it. I love the sound of the pitter-patter of the rain and the cool feel of the drops on me.



I took so nice photos of the storm coming in. All the colors of everything was beautiful, the mountains were a shade of pink that I had never seen them before and the sunset was a gorgeous yellow.



During the monsoon I have been knitting my Shalom cardigan. I have been double checking my work as I go because I don't want to make any mistakes like I did the first few nights I was working on it. I'm to just under the arms, to the easy part of just stockinette stitch.

long day

long day and I'm tired. After having some fun with fire and eating some cake I watched some tv. First a little of American's Funniest Home Videos because there was nothing better on then Futurama. Love that they brought that show back again.

Party time

Happy Birthday day to me, YAY!

tired

What to knit

After finishing my mittens and head band I have been in the mood to knit more. I have been try figure out what I wanted to knit next. I wanted to make something big, not just a little thing like the mittens. I also want to use up the yarn that I have even though I really want to go out and buy some nice expensive yarn. I decide to make a Shalom cardigan from Involving the Senses. I have made one of these before for my mom, but I had done some mods to the pattern and she said the arm hole were too small for her so I have to redo it. I had this bulky multicolored purple that I started to make a cowl with a long time ago and didn't like how it was coming out. I took that apart and started to knit the cardigan with it. I still don't know if I'm going to make it have selves or not yet, I was thinking not.

Books and more books

I went through my books today. I have a few that I have been meaning to get rid of for a while and I felt like this evening would be the night that I went through them. While after a while I had lots of books laying around on the ground and I started to have a really bad headache. I felt like stopping and laying down, but once you start a project like this you can't stop and leave the mess. I thought there would be a lot of books to be gotten rid of. There ended up being a lot of books that I don't remember or that I haven't read yet, so I put them in a drawer together to read through later.

Manny

Manny
Originally uploaded by Keg's Photograph

I had a little green visitor in my garden this afternoon. I spent some time trying to take pictures of him, but he could move pretty fast. I made a little movie of him in action.

Baking day

I really wanted to bake something today. I when through all of my recipes and had about ten that looked good. I knew that I couldn't make everything that I wanted to so I decides on two different cookies and Mexican egg rolls. I didn't cook them yet, I rapped them all up and put them in the freezer for later.


After making the egg rolls I was cleaning up and notice that there was a pool of water on the floor in front of my sink. One of the pipes is not longer connected together and when the sink is draining the water just comes out of it. I called my landlord and she is going try to get some one to come out tomorrow. Since I didn't want to have a lot a dirty dishes laying around tomorrow when they come to work on the sink I only make one thinks of cookies. I was going to make Cinnabon Roll Cookies, but I forgot to write one of the ingredients down. What I ended up with was not going to make a cookie so I added two eggs and some baking powder. So in the end I ended up with my own recipe.

Going to rest

I have been working the past eight days straight and I now have the next two days off. I'm very excited about this. I can finally do things like rest, making things, and baking. I have been wanting to bake something again since I made cookies earlier this week. So far everything that I have try baking has come out good and other people really like them. I'm also going to finish my mittens. I almost have one done. I would like to go to the yarn store and buy some nice yarn for some things that I would like to make, but that could cost a lot of money which I don't currently have much of. I can also take time read my book. I has been hard to get into it with the little reading here and there that I have been doing. Just sitting and reading it would be really nice to do. I also have a few books that I also want to read, so I would like to finish it.

Need a rest

I'm hot and tired and don't have anything.

Think cool thoughts

What do you do when it is a 100+ outside. I decided to knit and bake cookies. I started making fluffy white mittens from Villaelain.



While doing that I made some Chocolave cookies Dabble. The dough was too warm to try to row in to balls even after I put it into the fridge to try to cool it. I ended up getting the dough all over my hands, but I still had enough for all 24 cookie.

Not the normal

Today is no a normal day for me. I'm working a closing shift at work, so I have to change my schedule of what I have to do.

Books and knitting

Started reading The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo today. It took me a while to get into it. I had to get past the per story and then the Swedish names. Now that I'm in farther I'm like it. After reading some I decided to knit something. I know it is weird to want to something in the middle of summer, but I have been wanting to for a while. I am making a headband out of this white fluffy yarn that I have.

Running in the rain

I have been a little lazy about my running this past week, so I'm not going to let little rain stop me tonight. I wanted to finish my book when I came home, I only had 30 pages left. After that I had to eat supper still and I don't like to run right after that. After that it was already raining. I love the rain and it was only a soft rain, not pouring or anything. It was refreshing and quiet with no one else out. I really enjoyed it, I will have to do it again. I made me want to listen to my favorite song I'm Only Happy When it Rains. So now I'm listening to Garbage.

Maybe tomorrow

Martha had a yoga episode today. I watched it on my lunch and it made me want to do yoga which I have not done while I was house sitting. So I came home and I read for a little bit. Then I eat dinner, didn't feel good after, laid down while watching a movie, and fell asleep. So no Yoga tonight it looks like or run because I still don't feel right. Maybe tomorrow morning.

Food

I got an Ice Cream maker for 50% off at work today. It is a little on that makes one quart and doesn't need rock salt. for about the last hour I have been looking at my favorite food site for ice cream recipes and other food.

What I did today

1. watched some old movies with my mom

2. returned two things, a jacket from Forever 21 and a book that I found cheaper some where else

3. did a little shopping and got a really cool present for my friend that I kind want to keep for my self

4. went to the second hand store and founds some books



5. learned that my neighbor moved out when I wasn't home

6. saw some fireworks

Movie day

Went to the cheap theater this afternoon with my mom and saw two movies.

Well

Tonight I'm tired. There has been nothing good on tv lately like there was the first few week I was house sitting. I first few nights I staid up to 12 watching Say Yes to the Dress and Mythbusters. I seem like this week they are never on, this is making the nights kind of boring. There is nothing really for me to do, so I have been reading more to fill time. I'm liking having more time to read, I have not been sitting down and reading so much like I use to and books were taking me a while to get through. I'm currently reading a new book called Bad Things Happen. It sounds like a self help book title to me, but it is a mystery story. Going to go do some reading now.

Sleep

I had a long day of cleaning and am now falling asleep watching Mythbusters.

What I did today

1. I started my day with a nice breakfast at Bruegger's Bagels.

2. Next Worked why too hard at work today, moving things and running around like a chicken with my head cut off.

3. I didn't run today, just didn't feel like it.

4. I finished my book Jane Slayer which was good, but I am ready to start my next book. I have a line up of five or so books to read.

5. I spent my evening watching Dirty Jobs. I learned some new things about camels like they use car oil to help the cuts on their pads on their stomachs and legs and the foam up and let their tongues hang out when the males are turned on.

Cleaning it out

Today was a day of rest and cleaning. First I rested watching my Netflix movies because I didn't feel that great this morning. I also read some more of my current book, Jane Slayer, Jane Eyre with vampires. The redone story is going so much faster that the original because I don't have to get through all the old English. I love this story and am not wanted to stop reading it. After all of this rest I didn't some cleaning in my room. The main problem in my room is the clothes. After all the clothes at work you don't want to come home and dill with your own. So I have let things go and once you do this is hard to get everything back to clean. I went through my clothes getting rid of the things that don't fit me any more. I have a nice pile going. I still have work to do on it, but I feel I am going better at going through things, cleaning, and keeping it that way.

What to do

I have tomorrow off and can't figure out what I want to do with it. I was thinking of going to Trader Joe's and getting food, but I don't really need to do that yet. I could cook something, but I think IO should wait a bit to make something new, I have had too many of the scones that I made. I could just rest and watch my Netflix movies but that is a little boring. There is also cleaning, but again that is boring.

Yummy Scones

I took half of the scones to work today and everyone loved them. I had two people ask me for the recipe. I'm really having fun cooking thinks. I think this is because I just like making anything. The making and creating is fun and it makes me happy the how day after. it would be fun to make the scones and other things and try to sell them some where like a farmers market. When I'm done with my house sitting I'm going to get back into making things to try to sell them, also it just makes me happy.

Going to work on:

1. the coffee filter roses, still love how beautiful they come out

2. book making, I'm trying to think of how to make them more creative

3. my painting and drawing, my main love

Yummy

This afternoon I made some chocolate chip scones. They turned out very good, I want to eat them all. I'm having a lot of fun cooking thinks from scratch, it's not like making thinks from a box. It is more hands on and it comes out better.

Shopping and sun

Today was a day of shopping and sun. After waking up and finishing my movie, I went out shopping. I haven't done much shopping lately, been watching my money. I have been getting good at talking my self out of buying things. I thought that was how today was going to go to, but that didn't happen. I spent the must money I have ever spend at Forever 21 and neatly had a panic attack after. I then went to the book store and almost didn't find anything till I got to the front of the store and saw one of the books that they had on display. It looked very good so I got it. Then I had a nice lunch and when straight home so I wouldn't spend anymore money.

Fireworks

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Originally uploaded by Keg's Photograph

Happy Fourth of July! Here is a little video of the fireworks that I could see from my place. I really like fireworks and think that there should be more holidays celebrated with them. I love there sparkles, there boom, and the feeling there leave in you when they go off close to you. When I was little before the fireworks moved in my home town, we use to be able to sit almost next to were the fireworks were set off from. Also back home there is a private party that sets off their own fireworks at a park and you get close to them too. The feeling that you get feeling that you get sitting so close to them here.

Rest

Right now I feel really restful. I had today off and over all it was a pretty peaceful day. Started with a nice breakfast at Bruger's, a plain bagel toasted with cream cheese and a large ice tea. Next finishing my book, then a little crafting. My dad came to see me and we went to lunch. Now I'm just resting watching tv.

Ghost

Scaring myself watching ghost stories on tv.

Finished

I just finished season 2 of True Blood. That show loves its cliff hangers, now I have to wait till the next season comes out on DVD to find out what happens. Once again I have said up way to late watching something when I should be asleep.

New wiring

Today I had the internet people come out to fix my internet that hasn't been working for the last few days. It turns out the probably the original wiring to the place finally stopped working. So that lady had to re-sting the wiring. I now have internet back up and running and am very happy about this. Another thing that I'm happy about is my house is finally starting to looking like a neat person lives there. I'm slowly cleaning and going through everything, getting rid of what I don't need. I'm also changing how things are set up in the house. The only thing with all of this cleaning is the space is starting to feel a little bit bear. I am going to have to make art for the wall to feel up the place.

Worried

Today is the start of my days off and I'm already worried that they are going to be just as busy as if I was working. My mom is coming down, I still have to go back and froth between the two houses, and I don't thing my internet is working.

My day

1. I'm finally off work for two days after working five in a row.

2. Watching Mythbusters for hours

3. I'm getting better at my running and I love doing it down by the wash, I just wanted to go on forever.

4. Made sun tea for the first time ever while I was on my run tonight.

Oh dear

I just stayed up to late watching True Blood. I'm going to pay for it tomorrow I know, but I couldn't help myself. I just had to know what was going to happen next and last track of time.

Where did it go

With my house sitting I feel like I have no time. I'm running from place to place with a set time table and once I get a chance to sit down at night it is time to go to sleep. Like tonight I got sucked into watching Say Yes to the Dress on TLC. I don't have cable at home, but when I am by it I end up watching hours of it and doing nothing else. I have dvds of True Blood from Netflix that I should be watching so I can get new things, but I'm not doing this.

Falling asleep

Last night I stayed up late watching Mythbuster, I love that show. I learned not to put out a grease fire with water, very bad. The flames were 20 feet high and you would not live. My lack of sleep didn't bug me today, but tonight I'm just zoning out on the couch.

Funny thing of today is, this afternoon the sky was getting dark and I was worried about rain so I went outside. While I was looking to the east were the clouds were coming in a strong gust of wind can bring with it a neon yellow inner tube. It was funny to watch it fly over the homes and I ran around the building next to me to find it.

My day

1. Today starts my house sitting job so for the next few weeks I will be going back and forth from my place and there. Also there is a pool there which will be nice to have now that it is getting warmer.

2. I can't stop eating the cookies that I made the other day, they are so good. I took some to work and tried getting other people to eat some of them, but no body wanted a cookie today.

3. I have seen a lot of wild life this evening. There was a lose little quail in my courtyard, it didn't know how to get out of it. While I was on my run by the wash I saw bunnies, bats, and a coyote.

4. Really liked my run today down by the wash with it being one long starch. Also I am getting really good at running almost to the point were I don't need to walk for a rest once in a while.

5. After seeing this article on tree houses I want one.

Cookies

I did everything I said I was going to do today, just not how I thought I was going to. When I woke-up I feel like knitting, so I made two little stuffed balls for my cats and started another one. After that I spent a lot of the day cleaning my back bedroom. There is a lot of stuff packed in to that little room since it is my art room, spare bedroom, and storage all in one. I'm trying to get rid of things while I clean it and organize what I did have in there to take up less space. While I was cleaning I did a little baking too. I made Cinnamon Sugar Biscotti from If You Give a Girl a Cookie. They come out great and I was worry when the dough looked a little gooey to me when I was putting it on the pans. I think is the best thing that I have cooked from scratch so far.

Today, maybe not my day

This morning I slept in which pushed back my day. I wanted to finish my movie that I had started last night, so I then had to go to a later showing of Toy Story 3. I movie was great, but after wards I so how loss a few hours wandering around. On the way home I stopped at the library and go two movies and have been laying around watching them. The internet has been fighting with me this evening so I am hurrying write this so hopefully it will go through. So for tomorrow because it didn't get done today; cleaning, cooking, and something crafty. I have been seeing these paper rose, where you cut a circle into a spiral and glue it all over the web lately and feel like making some.

Wish/ To-Do list

1. go see Toy Story 3, my friend at work saw it last night and said it was very good

2. do more cleaning, my never ending project

3. bake chocolate scones

4. do something crafty, don't know what yet

Movie day

Today was movie day. I watched High Spirits the movie I was just telling my friends about earlier this week. I fell asleep during it and had to go back and watch it again. It drought my childhood for me, It was a movie that I had watched many times when I was little. The other movie that I watched was In July a German movie which for some reason I remember being a French movie when I was looking at in on netflix. It was different, but good. It was about a guy traveling to go see a girl and falling in love with the one he is traveling with.

Ireland

Just finished watching Leap Year and remembered how much I want to go to Ireland. It is so green and beautiful. One day hopefully soon I will go there.

What I did today

1. cleaned a little bit

2. watched 3 movies; one hindi, one new, and one old

3. went searching on netflix for movies to rent, including an old one that my friends thought I was just thinking of an old nightmare that I had when I was little

4. danced around in my living room to some music turned up loud

5. went to the library and got 5 movies and a book

6. wish I had made chocolate scones from here, maybe tomorrow

Out with friends

Went out last night to Ethiopia food last night for friend's birthday dinner. The food may look different, but it is good and spicy. After dinner just made it time for frozen yogurt before they closed. Then a few of us came over to my friend's place to play rock band. I did ok on it even though I have not played it in a really long time. Now I have two days off and it is time for some rest. I love having friends back in town and hanging out all the time, but it messes with my exercising and eating right. With going out after work I only have time to do either run or do yoga not both, they take half an hour each. Then like yesterday you get tired from going out the last few nights that you take a nap and don't do either.

Birthday

It's one of my friends birthday and we are going out to karaoke.

Lost on the internet

Today was a good stumbling day on the internet found lots of cool thinks so I'm going to share.



Crayons make me think of first grade, but nothing I ever made then looked like this. Artist Christian Faur makes his own crayons and takes a digitized photo makes art from them.



Pictures of beautiful yet creepy abandoned places.



Just a beautiful picture.



Work by, Voss, a creative studio founded by Etienne Rey and Laurent Le Bourhis who work in resins, paper, acrylic, glass and polymers.




Bookshelf Porn a site for book lovers.

What I did today

1. I got up and watched one of my favorite Hindi movies, Kuch Kuch Hata Hai.

2. made myself an nice breakfast burrito for lunch

3. made another flower ball, this time attaching the two sides together the correct way which is what I get for not looking at the instructions t the first time

4. a little cleaning, I feel like it would be a full time job to keep anything clean

5. watched Practical Magic which has one of my favorite houses in it, I would love to have that house

6. did my yoga dvd, which I wonder if it will ever get easier

7. lost my shoe going up the stairs to see my friend and had to go back down to get it

Fun with catalogs

Today I made a paper flower ball, it came out pretty well for the first time making one. There is one spot where the thin paper tore because it got too wet from the glue.



I cut up an Urban Outfitters catalog into 2 and a half inch squares.



Finished gluing all the flowers together and getting ready to make the ball.



Finished!

To-Do list

I have the next two days off, here is what I'm planning on doing

1. cleaning every where, I always tell myself I will do this and then only pick up a few things and stop

2. finish the drawing that I'm doing for my friend

3. make paper flowers

4. hang out with friends

5. grocery shopping to maybe cook something

It's getting hot

Things are getting hot here in the desert. I'm mostly inside all day so I don't have to deal with the heat to much, but I still notice it. When I come home from work and walk into my house that has been shut up while I was gone, having to walk till it gets dark to do my run, coming home from my run with my clothes sticking to me, and doing my yoga with the fan blowing on me. As it gets warmer here I think I'm going to have a harder time making myself exercise. I am already seeing it happen. I don't want to eat my dinner to late, but with having to wait to take my run now I'm having problems. I have to know eat before my run, which sometime depending on what you have to eat you still fill very full while running and it makes me fill sick. Also I'm now trying to add the yoga in so I'm working on when to do that too.

Board game night

Going to play board games with friends after a hot day.

What I did today

1. wake-up and watched a Hindi movie

2. Went food shopping, but didn't know what I wanted so really didn't get anything. I need to start making list before I go.

3. Did yoga meltdown for my third time this week

4. Went with my friend to help our other friend move-in to her new place, so happy that she is moving back home.

5. Made blueberry cakes from here, but had to convert the recipe and don't think they came out right.

6. Went for a run

Food links

blueberry pie ice cream from Grin and Bake it

peanut butter cup brownies from dassant

sugar cookie bars from Annie's Eats

banana-maple upside-down pudding from Gourmet Traveller

100 days

Just thought I would first note that this is my 100th day of keeping my blog. While it may not be how I want it and need work still, I'm very proud of myself for sticking with it. It is a good exercise for sticking with something. I'm trying to carry this over into the other things that I do such as my yoga no matter how hard it is. Today was my second day of doing Jillian Micheals Yoga Meltdown and it really didn't feel any easier today, but what can I expected from only my second day. It is not like my running. I have been running since February and it is still hard, but this makes me sweat and tired. My hands still hurt from the plank poses and I have learned that I can't do push-ups. I'm bad even on the girlie ones.

Out of practice

This afternoon I did Jillian Micheals Yoga Meltdown DVD for the first time, it kicked my butt. A few months back when I first got my yoga mat I got really into for a few weeks, but stopped and didn't get back to doing it. I have been meaning to start doing yoga again because I really enjoyed the stretching and movement of it. I have also had the DVD for awhile, once I saw that Jillian Micheals had a yoga dvd I knew it would be good. So today was the day that I started back up. It is going to take me a while to get good at it. My hands were really hurting from all the downward facing dog and plank poses. I'm going to try to stick with it this time. I need something else to do besides my running.

Easy

I'm finding easier and easier to do nothing all day. Time just seems to pass me by. I also am tired a lot the last few days and don't feel like doing anything because of this. I have been able to watch several movies. This afternoon I sat down and read more of Jane Eyre, I'm now to about page 300. I love the book, even thou I have seen the movie may times and know the plot there is something about the book that has me hooked. I also want to get thought it because I what to start the four other books that I have gotten, including Jane Slayer a remake of Jane Eyre.

Needed rest

After a hard, long day at work I needed some rest. Came home and have been watching movie since. I also fell asleep for a little bit. My mom brought down her Mel Brooks DVD set. We watched three of them. After that I have been goofing around on the internet. Found PhotoFunia and been having some fun with pictures of me.

What I'm doing

1. Not cleaning my house like I should for my mom visiting tomorrow

2. Watching too many Hindi films then are probably good for you

3. Going to sleep even thou I want to stay up and read more of Jane Eyre, my current book.

Sleeping

I guess I was tired this evening. I came home from work watched the end of the movie that I had started yesterday and made myself dinner. Then after starting Alice in Wonderland that I rented from redbox I fell asleep. I have been going to bed late and getting little sleep lately, but I have not felt tired and was only a little bit this afternoon when I came home from work. It took me several times to actually watch the end of Alice, kept falling asleep. Now I'm up for a bit as long as I keep upright so I can get done a few things that need to be done for tomorrow before I go to bed.

Blog found today to go with the Wonderland theme, A Fanciful Twist, full of lots of pictures to get lost in.

Start of summer

This morning I went to the grocery store with the plan to have a start of summer meal. I got hamburger, corn, potato salad, and firecracker Popsicle. When I got home I made my hamburgers and cooked my corn. Then I put it all on a plate and dug in. I loved it.

Food links

Teriyaki burgers from White on Rice Couple

Mango puree from Coconut Raita

Brown sugar cake from Cafe Zupas

Chocolate angel food cake from Dine and Dish

Mango Kulfi, Indian Ice cream from Chef in You

Time

Time has been flying away from me this week. It seems that it is moving fast and I am at a stand still. I come home and before I know it is 10 or later. I can't seem to get anything done with this problem and projects just lay around my house.

Lazy day

Today was a lazy day. After sleeping in a little I just could seem to get worked up to do any thing. I finished my one book that I had started last night. After that I just laid around watching Hindi movies. They make me want to dance and go there. My friend is going to two weddings in December in India and invited me to go with her. I really want to, but my mom is thinking about us doing a trip in the fall so I don't think I will be able to do both.

from designldg on flickr

Life

Yesterday I got to spend some good guilty time with my two best friends, which has been hard to do the last four years with one of them living out of town and sometimes out of the country. First we drove around town looking for a place for my one friend. Then we went to feed my friends horse and try to catch bunnies. Then we made dinner and watched a movie while trying to do crafts. I worked on a new book for a while, but due to an eye problem I didn't get much sleep the night before and fell asleep. I was later woken up to some very weird late night shopping channel.

Busy

Been working on more book making this even and the time just seems to disappear when I do. I made covers for two books and have the paper fold, half with holes punched in them ready to make one book. Now I'm tired and going to go to bed, here are some sites for tonight.

woven rag rug on craft passion

peppermint body powder on associated content

hard candy jewels on chica and jo

birds on apartment therapy

The cookie tells me

I got two fortune cookies with dinner tonight and I get the same fortune with both of them. 'When you awaken tomorrow solutions to your problems will become clear.' I didn't know that I had problems, but if my two cookies tell me so I must. Maybe my problem is spending money. The last two days I have spent a lot of money. I got three books from the second hand store when I was just stopping there on my to another store. Then I spent more money at the art store on paper and bookmaking supplies. I got some nice fancy paper, a roll of heavy weight sketch paper, bees wax, and an awl. I have spent my evening making a book for my friend.

New things

1. cute sandals

2. two fun stamps

3. embossing powder and ink

Thing I have done today

1. a little cleaning

2. put together two mini books

3. shopping for above listed new things

4. playing with new stamps and embossing

Mini books

I really liked making my book yesterday and didn't want to stop so I made a mini book for my friend. It is about 2 x 3 inches big, just big enough for the violet stamp the is on the covers. It is so cute that I'm making more; one for my other friend, one for me, and one out of a trader joe's bag because it is a recycling project. I'm having lots of fun making books that I'm forgetting my other projects.

Book making

I have been wanting to make a book for awhile now and that is what I did today. I checked out Eco Books from the library a few months back and loved the coptic binding. However I didn't like the instructions in the book on how to do coptic stitch, it was written out with little pictures. This afternoon I searching and found a good picture tutorial on how to do coptic stitch.

Need a rest

After working the last 4 days strait I need a rest, so I'm so happy that I have tomorrow off. My plans on my day off are to go food shopping, cleaning, and working on my projects. I did some work on both of my projects today. I worked on the pillow in my drawing today and made two roses. I am also thinking of making one of the many recipes that I'm looking at one TasteSpotting.

Cooking

I must still be hungry because I just spent the last 10 minutes looking at food on the TasteSpotting and everything looked good. Most of my favorites from the site are desserts, but I'm trying to find more meal ideas. Here are a few of the ones that I liked today.

garlic cheese biscuits
pumpkin, garlic, and chili bread
teriyaki chicken strips
gingerspice bread
chocolate souffle cookies

Standstill

Things right now at my place are at a standstill. My drawing which I had great plans to work on this evening, just sits on my easel. It just keeps staring at me, wanting me to work on it. ry rose petals lay scattered on my floor. The cats are having great fun playing on them. Books and other craft items are just left around my living room. My coffee table is moved for floor space. It is all just sitting there waiting for me.

Light show

Today was a long day and then I went out with friends.

ENVISION : Step into the sensory box from SUPERBIEN on Vimeo.

Drawing Time

I have been drawing some today, here is some of the evolution of it through the day. It is a long ago promised drawing for a friend. I just did the face, but I'm not to happy with it. There is not much more to do on the body and then I only have to do the background which I know is going to be messy because it is dark.

What I did today

I got some pretty new fabric to make turtles with. It took me a while to figure out which print and colors that I wanted to go with. There were three others that I was thinking about, but I can always go back and get mote.



I got triple A batteries for my new, very bright led flashlights.



I ran in to an old friend at the second hand bookstore while getting two new books, Four to Score and Jane Eyre. I finished Eat, Prey, Love so now I have to figure out which of my two books I want to start first.