Quickie?

In the midst of packing procrastinating, I thought I'd drop in and show off a tiny drawing I did for Holly's 365 Holly Holidays thing she's got going on.  I signed up for two days, and the first one falls on Sunday, which is National Love Your Pet Day.  So there's that.  The first version is what is in my sketchbook, the second is what i submitted to Holly.

Really truly nothing special, but then I haven't been drawing much these days.

Sunday also happens to be Tony's and my 1 year anniversary.  Need more exclamation points?  I thought so.

!!!!!!!!!!!

I got us tickets to see our favorite comedian, Brian Regan, tonight.

Can it get any better than that?  I submit that it cannot!


Also also wik, it looks like we're buying a house.  This also deserves exclamation points!!!  Today,  before everything starts getting shoved into boxes, I snapped a few pictures of our current home, exactly as it looks right now (read: completely messy) not only to share on the blog and to keep as before/after references, but for my own sentimental uses.  This was our first home, after all!  Silly little duplex as it is.  I opened the door to my craft room to start packing and almost burst into tears.

"all changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another"

anatole frances

But I am quickly cheered up by thinking of all the awesome new things I'll get to do to our new home, which will be ours and only ours, and the first thing will be to PAINT THE CABINETS.  You'll see what I mean.

Yay for change?  I'll be back with those pictures.  Hold your breath!

How many types are there?

So, life has been several types of crazy lately.  And my fingers just ain't been up to the plate when it comes to blogging, which is okay.  You know, cause it is. 

I'll probably tell you all about the craziness once it chills a little bit, but lemme say it's along the lines of HOMEOWNERSHIP.  We haven't bought a house yet, but it seems like we're looking.

Hanyways, Cat Power has been keeping me a bit relaxed.  She's probably one of my favorites.  I've had this song on repeat in my car for several days now, cause I just like it so much.  I know she's not for everyone, but I think she's rad,  and cool.



P.S. I'm sick today.  Anyone wanna cook me some oatmeal?

Gameface

I've pretty much been playing matchmaking in Halo ever since I got home from work, and on a potty break I looked in the mirror and realized I looked so ridiculous I needed a picture. 

It's a good thing Tony's not here cause between the earpiece microphone and the mouthful of burrito I'm just not sure he'd be attracted to me anymore.

Random is all I got

I am currently suffering from Shopper's Exhaustion.

Tonight I realized some cardinal rules about shopping that I was going to tell you about, but I forgot what they were.  Bring Tylenol?  Don't go jeans shopping when you're having a fat day?  I dunno.  If you can think of any, put 'em in the comments so I can have something to giggle at.

Tony is outta here for the weekend, so I had all day to myself to do whatever I dang well pleased.  I went snowboarding in the morning, and then I got a machaca burrito from Molca Salsa on the way home because that's just what you do.  And then I went to the mall way across town to go to Forever 21 and you know what?  Forever 21 and I were, for whatever reason, not on the same wavelength today.  I got some jewelery because, hello, $1.50?  Okay.  And then I tried on jeans at American Eagle and the very first pair I tried I liked, and the second pair were a bit too small around so I asked the people for a bigger size, and turns out I was trying on boy jeans.  So they brought me the girl equivalent of the jeans I was trying on without even asking me, and you know what?  I liked the boy jeans better, except they weren't stretchy.  And when you've got to be at kid-level all day, trust me that you NEED some stretchy jeans.  

So there was that.  

Then I went to two (2) Barnes and Nobles because the first one did not have a music section.  Can you believe that?  The second one, fortunately, did (I began to doubt whether it was normal to have one, and suffered brief panic when I thought maybe NONE of the Barnes and Nobles have a music section anymore?) and I finally got my very own Cat Power cd.  I'm listening to it now, and it's doing wonders for my soul.

Target is a fun store.  I got a decorative pillow.  My first!  Which reminds me, we got a chair!  I want to take pictures to show you, because it's so ugly but so comfy and now it has a pillow to pretty it up.

Maya just sighed as though to let me know she didn't appreciate my being gone all day. 

My this post got wordy.  Here's one of our engagement pictures for you to aww at.

Derp.

 Remember, how, sometimes, things have a point?  I do not.  Have a point, that is.  If my brain had a face, this is what it would be looking like lately:

Brains are confusing enough without faces.

I would like to announce, that now I have twenty-one (21) followers.  I'm sorry, I forgot to put enough exclamation points.  This should suffice: !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Why 21 people would want to read my blog, I may never know.  But I think it's dang cool.  If you all were here and we were in a hugging point in our relationships, I would hug each one of you.

I just remembered why my brain is blank.  My good friend Spencer lent me his copy of Dragon Age: Origins.  And there went my sleep.  The good part about getting so into a game that you habitually stay up late to play it, is that it gets beaten fast.  Now I'm done with it and feeling a little lost, like maybe a smoker would feel if they woke up one morning and there were no more cigarettes in the world, anywhere.  Maybe that's a bad example.
Anyway, to counter the sudden re-uprising of adventurousness that game gave me before it cruelly left my life, and since there aren't actually any orcs to slay in the world, I've decided to read The Lord of the Rings for the first time.  
So far, so good, though I'm not sure whether this will actually help or not.  With the adventure cravings.  (Probably it will just make them worse.)

So....yeah.

Oh!  Before I forget, do you remember that Exciting Mixdisc Swap I did a few months back?  Well, the coolest of the cool girls Natalie is doing another one!  Yay!  Go sign up!

The Computer Needs to Put It's Shush On

Reasons I have not been blogging:

1. Typing on the keyboard is very loud.
2. So right now I'm typing extra slowly,
3. because Tony is sleeping. 
4. Dragon Age.

Did you know how tomorrow is Saturday?  That means I can unleash the fury of my typing fingers without worrying about waking the neighborhood.  





That picture up there?  It was taken in the bathroom at work.  I know that sounds weird, but I'm not doing what you think I'm doing.  Some days the only place to get some quiet time is locked away in the bathroom.  Unless you flush the toilet, cause dude that thing is LOUD with a capital LOUD.

I'm noticing a noise level theme going on in here today.   I guess I need some quiet time? 

I am really in a high fantasy adventure mood.

Loving this gorgeous, mystical, whimsical, cute & fun picture (and actually this whole awesome wedding) from Rachel Thurston Photography.