Does anyone actually read this?

If so, maybe I should find some friends who actually comment on things they read... although now that I think about it, I don't know what I've written that one would actually comment on. Hmm. Fine. Maybe you could just write, "Hi, I read this, how are you?"
(or "I hate you so much! PS. Page me later." hi kk!)
Just a thought. (Someone's found a new place to curl up. Not so convenient for all involved, however. This is directly below my desk. The big-ass printer/scanner/copier is now where the half a tissue box is. Day-Z is monopolizing where my feet and chair normally go.)

Today was Day 1 on the new Eling Scheduling Plan. So far, so good. If it continues to work, I may market it to others. Pictures of cool stuff I got done today and more updates at tr and mini-store tomorrow. Tomorrow there will also be a routine reorganization of the jewelry-making workspace. You'll understand when you see the pictures. Right now, I'm digging on: Hello Yarn, calendars, barley tea, warm slippers, and little watercolor paintings of yummy food.

I did this one yesterday, it's less than an old-school 3 x 5" photograph... haven't decided if I'm going to ink it or not. Any opinions?

Currently hating on: Netflix (so slow... you said by today! and this after you sent me the wrong DVD on FRIDAY! so you wouldn't have to process anything until yesterday), canned food, not getting enough sleep, cold nights, and drafty window. Goodnight!

More attempts at dealing with myself...

Maybe Blogger will be nicer to me tonight?... In an attempt to organize my self-employed self a bit better, I just spent I dunno how long creating personalized weekly, multi-month and yearly calendars. Yup, I'm a freak. But look at the pretty picture I took last week, before the sun went away.

Shows I am finding myself disturbingly addicted to and make a serious effort to watch right now:

America's Next Top Model (that's actually not disturbing or a surprise)

Laguna Beach (I know, what's wrong with me?)

My Super Sweet Sixteen (where do they find these people?)

Will definitely be making an effort to watch Project Runway when it reappears too. Shows I don't search out but definitely don't turn off, either: The Closer, Without A Trace, Todd Oldham's new show on HGTV, Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, any The Fabulous Life of: episode. Okay, there are a lot of things I will watch if the TV's already on, hence my rule of no TV during the day. Am desperately trying not to get sucked into any of the new "must-see" cliffhanger shows like Lost, Desperate Housewives, etc. etc...

Now that I've blabbed about TV for so long, here's the picture I was trying to get up last night:

More KAWAII collectibles for me!

Finally, I noticed that lots of pictures of our lovely wedding are now being featured on our wedding photographer's website, studioatticus. Apparently, one bride-to-be liked our groomsmens' get-up so much that she asked Connie to get the info from me. Yup, we're cool.

Netflix, why hast thou forsaken me?

Hmm... it's 3:22 AM on Sunday night/Monday morning and I am still awake. And we wonder why I have issues getting an early start at the beginning of the week. Though, for the record, I did go to sleep before 3 AM both last night and Friday night, and I got to sleep LATE all weekend too. Yay!

Okay, I won't bore you with what I did all weekend, 'cause it was really work (and it was so cloudy all weekend I got no good pictures) and lame stuff like grocery shopping. Me = Cool. Right. Anyway, I was going to leave you with a picture of yet another random cute thing that I find myself buying, but apparently blogger hates me as much as netflix does and there will be no picture uploading.

This must be a sign that I should go to bed. (It's now 3:35. That was 3 minutes of typing and 11 futile minutes of trying to upload my stupid picture.)

i heart alton brown...

...so I made him my current wallpaper. Really, I'm just here for the food.
hmm, tired. Slow progress today. Made less productive by sloooooooooow dinner at Evil Cheesecake Factory and super sloooooooow EXTRA EVIL Verizon Wireless Customer Service people who were COMPLETELY UNHELPFUL about my evil broken phone. Bastards. Anyway.

Wednesday is supposed to = gym day, but obviously that didn't happen. Tomorrow (or rather 7.5 hours from now) = Maine! with mr. dhl. I swear, I'm going to try to be awake for the ride! Woo hoo, we're going to Freeport! which = outlet shopping and beads! and Brunswick! which = carrot cake and cookies!

In other news, Ms. Daisy has become quite unruly as we've become less able to spend as much time with her :( bad doggy parents!
See? She hates us. I think the weekend will have to be dedicated to Daisy and WORK instead of fun Open Studios... so sad. Damnit, watching Good Eats makes me HUNGRY. Eat or sleep? Hmmm....

So much for earlier bedtimes...

I feel like I talk about trying to get to bed earlier in every other entry. Maybe I should just give up. Last night I couldn't keep my eyes open past 11pm, but tonight I just felt like there was so much to DO. I am excited, 'cause I finally put some things in the etsy shop... somewhere to get things out while the site is still in progress... Here is what I've been entertaining myself with when taking breaks from work...

This is my beloved Sir White Static Cling from the lovely Sarah of the small object, posing on some gorgeous GREEN yarn from Tamara of Houndscroft Farm.

This is the yummy yarn I got from the very sweet Linda of stoneleafmoon and crochetlab (which I didn't know she was responsible for!) while at the Brookline 300 this weekend.

Finally, while we're on the subject of the Brookline 300 again, here is the ADORABLE koh-bee that both k.k. and I wanted to marry! (someone had to remind me that I am now ineligible to marry this charmer...damn. kidding, mr. d) koh-bee was selling his Femonz, seen here, and was quite the little salesman for his creatures. Note: he is sitting at one of those tiny plastic tables. All these monsters had NAMES! Mine is named Creshtan, you can just make out the arrow pointing him out. When I asked if HIS (koh-bee's) name was on his Femonz information cards, he said no, he didn't really have a phone number :), but he wrote his name on the card when I bought my monster!

koh-bee was skillfully giving advice about which would be suitable gifts for girls to the adults, while simultaneously chatting up the kids that were crowded around his table. He packaged each sale up carefully in a white chinese food takeout container, and deftly made change for his customers. He was doing better sales than his mom was! And when we happened to pass by the booth a bit later, koh-bee was running to the back of the tent to grab another tiny plastic chair so the younger boy who was looking at his monsters would be more comfortable. SOOOO cute!!!! ugh, 4:08 am now... c u soon!

Presenting Her Royal Highness...

Queen Daisy says, "Sorry mommy is so crappy about her updates. She is clearly behind on everything 'cause she's neglecting me too."

Seriously, not sure what happened this week! There was soooo much going on... desperately trying to get work done before meeting up with ms. s (soon to be married to mr. v) on Thursday to talk about the flowers for her Philly wedding next month... and I was so distracted by this new friend the entire time:

Twiggy was very snuffly. And licky. The Queen (see above) is not licky (or snuffly for that matter), so this was new for me.

and then there was ms. s' shower Saturday, and the AMAZING PIES... newest obsession = Petsi Pies!

Sunday I wandered the Brookline 300 and PRFM with the lovely ms. k.k.... there was definitely frozen lemonade, pizza, yarn and cute stuff involved. Dinner: MORE cambridge 1 pizza (yes! thanks mr. l for conceding). After dinner: sleep-inducing benefit concert (sorry, mom). Whew! More on street festival purchases and happenings once I get out into the light to take some pictures of the goodies...

Finally, totally in love with these paintings from Bren Bataclan, who is doing the COOLEST project with these happy guys... anyone doing any Christmas shopping for me... hint, hint...

See you later on tonight... :)

Happy Birthday to me!

Even though it's technically over now... what a nice birthday weekend! Thank you, mr. d and friends!

Here's what went down... There was the ekcd BCPpI (Birthday Celebrity Putt-putt Invitational), here. A shot of the course... And guess what? I won first place! To EVERYONE's surprise, I think... it wasn't rigged, though. We still have the scorecards, if you want to check. mr. d had some nice prizes for us... I got a GC for Newbury Comics, 2nd place mr. w got Netflix for a month, and 3rd place mr. n got big-ass ice cream.

Amazingly, he opted for something smaller than this:

I think to save room for this at dinner, after:

Mmm... sushi and noodles. Is there anything better? I think I like the Fugakyu in Sudbury better than Brookline... cozier... and still soooo much food... and then there was this:

"Temptation Apple". Talk about food comas... and bad MSG headache before bed... but, it was worth it.

Yay! Then today, I slept late and woke up to pizzelles, presents, and my two favorite beings in the world, mr. d and daisy. (More on presents and nice friends tomorrow.) After much lounging about, we went to Cambridge 1 for yummy fresh salad (bibb lettuce, grape tomatoes & gorgonzola!) and wood-grilled pizza. Then mr. d patiently let me browse vintage beads and cute things. It was my birthday, after all!

Later we went out to eat AGAIN. Here. "World-famous" clam chowder, rolls, and cajun-grilled bluefish with mashed potatoes and broccoli (I think it may have been an entire head of broccoli).

Oh, and did I mention that there was cake after we got home? Goodnight, fat me. :)

flickr, why do you hate me?

Argh, I guess blogger hates me too. It is now 4:01 and while flickr will not upload my photos, blogger will not recover my post. I should give up now, but I will most likely be stubborn instead and then get 3 hours of sleep and be tired and cranky tomorrow. Since flickr refuses to cooperate, instead of amusing story about my earlier stupidity and coordinating picture, you get this instead:
Sombrero-wearing cactus and frog solar hidamari perpetually moving toys. Zapo Sabo here moves kinda side to side, while Kaeru tilts his head from left to right (and shops, apparently). However, they no longer get to hang out together, as mr. d took Kaeru to his cubicle at school today. Maybe I should make myself a t-shirt with my head on it...

I avoided learning Dreamweaver all day today and instead took photos (that will not upload! grr), drew pictures, made shrinky-dink charms and pins, made pincushion prototypes, and also watched Laguna Beach and Inuyasha.

Does anyone know for sure if Laguna Beach is real or fake people?!

Seriously, flickr, why do you hate me? What did I do to you?!

Busy busy bee...

Wow, the entire day disappeared, and even though I only slept for about 4 hours, from 7-11 am no less, somehow I managed to keep my pajamas on until dinner time. How embarrassing. I imagine that life will only get more crazy as I try to build a REAL site with my REAL program (yay, and thanks, Dane, for my Christmas gift from last year that I just installed tonight) AND continue to MAKE the things that are to go on the site, on top of managing the other stuff from other people that I want to be attached, too... Whew! I am tired just thinking of it. Luckily, I am off to BED! and amazingly before 2 am. Just have to brush my teeth and crawl under the covers... a virtual miracle :)

I'm outta here!

(sigh) moving again

(More sighing....) Where did July and August go, anyway?


I think this moving thing may be something that most people are stuck with until they're at least 30. :P Anyway, this is going to be my new personal home for awhile. Where I get to complain about all sorts of stuff and talk about non (okay, more personal)-crafty, non-business things. Like shoes, and reality TV (ugh, by the way). Yes! Okay, off to tweak some more little details before I move on to the next task.