All Mirth and No Matter

There is no way I could be your first friend to post this so I will not bore you with the details or tag you.

1. I like making stuff. At my desk at work alone, I have a pencil cup that I decorated with freeform crochet, a coffee mug I painted at Purple Glaze, and 3 butterflies (well really 2 butterflies and a Luna moth) that Jenny helped me fold - Hi Jenny :) This is in addition to the hand knit scarf (which includes handspun yarn) and a hand knit hat that I wore in today. I also make stuff with beads and wire and sometimes with paper and over priced art supplies.
2. I have subscribed to dictionary.com 's word of the day for at least the last 4 years. I don't know how much it has actually helped my vocabulary. It certainly hasn't helped my spelling…or my productivity.
3. My favorite tapes in high school were the Phantom of the Opera soundtrack and a tape of "Irish Drinking Songs". My friends only liked "the Buzz" which was kind of sad for us all.
4. Ever since I got a phone with a qwerty keypad my cell phone bill has been higher. Correlation does not always indicate causation…right?
5. I love the word "qwerty".
6. Google and I are practically involved.
7. The song "Mad World" always cheers me up when I feel the worst.
8. I have described myself as pathologically social. It is probably true.
9. I am working on being kinder to myself.
10. Paisley is awesome.
11. My dad was an eagle scout and had all of these scouting books that I liked to read when I was a kid. Because of this (or possibly in spite of this), I had some kind of bizarre romantic notion that I would enjoy camping. I bugged my parents until we all stayed in this little cabin with no electricity and a grill to cook on. A raccoon stole the potatoes that were wrapped in foil and sitting over the coals all night and we had to WALK to the bathroom. I had enough roughing it for life. Later, I found out that when people say "let's go camping" that is totally not what they mean. Now I camp out at the Double Tree where they have air-conditioning and free (AWESOME) cookies! Being honest with yourself is a good thing.
12. Blue Valkyrie needs food badly.
13. Sleep is something I am slowly starting to value, but we have always had a complicated relationship. Even as a baby, I would apparently spend too much time looking around and trying to figure out what was going on to get any proper sleep.
14. I wear comfortable shoes and snicker/blush when people point this out. Am I the only one who saw "Good Morning Vietnam"?
15. Oh, and some people seem to think I blush a lot about seemingly random stuff.
16. …and some people like to try to make me blush a lot…
17. I lived overseas during my senior year in high school. I was a total brat about it, but it was awesome and changed my life forever.
18. I take the bus to work, and actually enjoy it - even if there is ice on the ground and even when that weird guy was asking people if he could use a cell phone.
19. I sing Alto 2 (or tenor), but I talk rather high (or so I hear). Singing has been a constant my entire life. I was singing before I was saying real words, and it still remains my most important comfort (followed closely by the magical combination of eggs and potatoes).
20. I am 100% on the "my 30's will be awesome" bandwagon.
21. Sometimes I am very random, and sometimes I feel the need to state the obvious.
22. My bumper sticker is not trendy. But even if it was trendy, I would still have chosen it.
23. I'm a "geek" because I know why Vulcan blood is green, not because I know how to work your microwave or the new version of Windows Media Player. I'm a "nerd" because I know the difference between "geek" and "nerd" :)
24. I tried not complaining in January, and I complained plenty. What I have learned is that complain-y patterns often mean that change is supposed to happen. Learning was the point anyway, so I don't think I failed at all.
25. I have amazing, smart, talented and supportive friends. I would not be the person I am right now if I didn't have all of you in my life.
26. I like talking about myself and dislike rules that have no readily apparent reason for existing, hence, 26.

You can buy tickets online or just show up at Unity Church on Tuesday night at 7:30pm and buy them at the window
2929 Unity Drive
look for the pyramid

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----last edit 8/11/08 6:12pm----I got my pottery back from last weekend. Even though the photo features my tight jeans clad legs, it is still work safe... and worth the time to check it out if I do say so my self.
If you don't believe me, believe Purple Glaze - me and my date made the "masterpiece table".
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"How can you tell?"
"Well, it's so shiny."
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I painted my toes all whacky for an art opening that was awesome. I'm going to count this as a creative post because yeah...


Photo credit to chibisven

I made these on father's day
My brother was ranting and my dad was fixing the computer so my mom and I played with beads

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Look
I added nails with beads glued to them (strangely I have no finger prints as a result) so I can drape random things like the rainbow book thong over them and use as part of the decor but without any annoying commitment.
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more cat pictures


On another note, am I insane for signing up for ballet?
I mean I have already tried and found it challenging but fun so its not gonna be like "wow, ballet is the new knitting!"

I have not been posting much because I'm really hung up on this sweater. I know, I'm not used to this knitting monogamy streak I have fallen prey to either. Very strange. I decided that I have lots of pretty junk and needed a curio cabinet or 10, but only found this one at Michael's.
On the top is a lizard (cut off) and a spaceship. Two angel aliens (one on each side), terminator alien and spock alien. A star that I will probably paint some more and glue to the point, a pink elephant, bat, serenity stone, a sun belt buckle that never worked right but sure is pretty, a resin(esque) bottle cap art piece, and an hour's worth of origami stars in a votive holder (lots of stars to go). What I need are some origami flowers to arrange in the votive :)


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picture by tacemus

more to come

Made this for a gift.

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Its a lot like that last chapter of a book...
I have been so antsy since I got to that last 40 rows of the last sleeve. It was one thing to be one sleeve short of a sweater(which is an expression I hope makes it into common usage), but to be a cuff short of a sweater was just driving me crazy. In a good way, of course.
It still needs buttons, weaving in and a bit of blocking. I count it as done for now so I can get some sleep!

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I made yarn out of white, beige and more beige with bits of colorful silk in it. ( yarn )
Then I used it in this( scarf )
I should take a picture of it on because it really has a different look completely. then I randomly made this( yarn )

out of some leftover plying yarn and novelty yarn I given by cawingcrow and tygerr

It is kind of ironic that my camera is usually incapable of doing anything other than displaying this message: "vivitar, we make it easy" just before it remembers that the batteries are secretly dead. I will try taking the batteries out so I don't have to replace them every time I take a picture... It should work, because I can't think of any reason it wouldn't work.

Also, this song is so about xmucane.