June 2009 ArchiveJune 29, 2009
Everybody enjoy the weekend? I'd like a do-over on mine, please. *snort*
But enough about that. New week.
I did manage to finish a stitchery project, so that's nice. I loved this pattern by Blackbird Designs when I first saw it but I never really looked at
it as far actually stitching it, if you know what I mean. That big ole
plaid hand was a big ole boring pain in the ass, let me tell YOU. Just
day after day of little green and gold squares. Gah! It didn't feel
like I would ever finish it!
Now I just have to dig up some small
white buttons to put at each corner and beg the hubby to make me a
frame. (Though Michaels has been throwing the 60% off framing coupons
lately so maybe I'll go that route.)
June 23, 2009
I just saw in the paper today that April/May had a combined total of SIX clear days and that June hasn't had even ONE clear day so far. (Clear day meaning not cloudy/overcast and/or raining.)
When I say it's been gloomy out this spring - I mean it's been effin' GLOOMY! lolol
June 22, 2009
New beadies are up! Finally!
Just
haven't been into doing up anything new the past couple of weeks.
That's the bad part of doing a lot of custom orders - it makes your
brain lazy. I should do one new thing up every time I torch before I
move on to anything else but that would be too much like, *GASP*, work
or something so forget that. lol I don't want to do anything that
screams of WORK. :)
Or
maybe it's just the weather that is starting to get to me. It's been
cloudy, chilly and/or rainy every day since the dawn of time and, man,
am I tired of it. It's just sooooooooooooooooooooooo freaking
depressing after awhile.
It's been like this week after week for
sooooooo long now. Not funny anymore. IT'S BRINGING ME DOWN. Send some
sun my way, eh? (But not too much sun because then I'll be complaining
about how HOT it is. lol)
June 19, 2009
Will have new beadies up on Monday!!! I
was hoping to get them up this week but I swear to god I just don't
know where this week went. *POOF* It's now Friday and I'm left thinking
- WHAT DID I DO ALL WEEK?? That's summer for ya, I guess. I know I
tried to enjoy the couple sunny days we had, seeing as it's been rainy,
gloomy, and a little chilly every day since, ohhhhhhhhhhhh, I don't
know.......SOMETIME LAST YEAR. (Or so it seems.) I feel like I'm stuck
in my own personal Groundhog movie: every day I wake up to grey skies
and a few rain sprinkles. Over and over and over again.
Anyhoo, here's something that's decidely NOT gloomy: Rebecca's newest knitting pattern,
Tofu the Hot Dog. Soooooooo cute! I don't hoard worsted weight yarn
though, just sock yarn for the most part, or I would start whipping him
up immediately. Woof!
Photo courtesy of http://rebeccadanger.typepad.com
June 16, 2009
Bakerella/Flickr
Anyone else catch this post by Bakerella
this weekend? These are sooooooooo freaking adorable I'm tempted to try
this out. (With the exception of trying to print my own tissue paper,
mind you. I can see that going horribly horribly wrong and have visions
of me trying to pull small bits of tissue paper out of my printer with
tweezers in an attempt to unjam it. Just saying. REGULAR OLE TISSUE
PAPER FOR ME, THANKS.) I would have to make my own frosting though - I
can't STAND that stuff that comes out of a can. BLECH. Boxed mixes for
brownies, etc. are fine but canned frosting is N to the A to the
STEEEEEEEEE. (And really - how hard is it to make frosting? It's just
butter and powdered sugar mixed together. Easy, easy.)
June 15, 2009 Are
Netbooks the new thing? I wanted to replace the hubby's outdated (and
just plain *OLD*) laptop because, wooo, that bad boy is a clunker.
(The laptop not the husband..hmm......well........) And all I kept
seeing was netbook, netbook, netbook and I'm behind on the times here
because I just didn't know WTF a netbook was? Turns out it's like a
laptop only a 1/2- 1/3 cheaper than what would you pay for a good
laptop, awesome battery usage, nice and light and easy to carry. What's
not to love? Ok so the monitor is smaller too but that ain't no big
thing. We've been playing around with it since Friday and this baby
is a keeper. I watched a movie off of Netflix on it on the deck and
then we hung out there with company for a while and even after being on
all that time, with heavy use, it still had like 70% battery power
left. *AWESOME* So if you're looking for something to tote around
easy-peasy, get yourself one of these. I literally took it out of the
box, turned it on, pointed my clicker at my wireless network (cuz all
my neighbors use wireless too) and that was that. No installing
anything or figuring out connections. Just bing, bang boom - up and
running in less than 5 minutes! *LOVES IT*
June 8, 2009
Haven't
updated because the web site has been fraught with problems as the
provider got hacked, etc. As of right now, you still can't 'see' the
site if you go to the .com address but it is accessible by the
index.php address. Very annoying. I hope they fix it, like, TODAY
because I'm tired of seeing a blank page for a site. *three days and
counting* I'MMA GETTING KINDA PISSED NOW. Grrrr.
I think it just
caps off what turned out to be an annoying week. We went on the road
trip from HELL on Thursday and everything was downhill from there. We
hit a lot of unexpected traffic which made the trip take twice as long,
SOMEone (not me) accidentally blew through a toll booth without paying
so I'm now waiting for THAT little
goodie to show up in the mail (I'm afraid to look up how much the fine
is going to be DENIAL*DENIAL*DENIAL) and, to top things off, a rock
cracked my windshield on the way home while we were on the Pike.
(Though I'm feeling better about that now that I know the insurance is
going to cover it. I've never had a car with full coverage before -
it's kinda nice! I've never cracked a windshield before but I have paid
for 4-5 very expensive driver side windows over the years due to
thieves and it's no fun for your wallet, let me tell ya.) And a stupid
squirrel on the deck knocked over one of my grumpy face stones and it
fell down and split one of my blueberry bushes in half. Grrr. See? This
is why I hate the squirrels. They just can't NOT get into trouble by
ruining stuff, sucking down my hummingbird feeder syrup, taking my suet
feeder off the hook and DRAGGING IT AWAY TO PARTS UNKNOWN. (Seriously -
it's been like 3 months and we *still* can't figure out where they
dragged that off too. A whole metal suet cage!) The hubby has started
shooting them off the deck again with the BB gun and I don't feel badly
about it either. Gotta learns them to stay off my deck somehow. lol
June 1, 2009Well,
there is no doubt my beloved kousa dogwood that dominates my front yard
is 'sick' again this year. Makes me very sad. :( It's usually covered
in beautiful white blooms this time of the year, almost blindingly so.
This year it's got only a handful of blooms and lots of wrinkly, almost
withered looking leaves. The first 4 summers we were here, it was fine
and then we had one bad year, seemed like we had it kicked last year,
and now it's back again, whatever it is. I've done lots of research on
the problem but have never nailed down what might be causing it, other
than maybe it possibly being a long/cold winter combined with a
cold/wet spring. So, no blooms this year. (Which also means less fruit
in the fall for the birds and squirrels to fatten up on.) I'll have to
make do with pictures instead and keep my fingers cross that Spring
2010 will be better. *sniff*  Back to Articles |
