Good day
ursulav has a very funny story about getting her Birkenstocks repaired.
If you read catvincent then you may have seen this already but I'm linking it too because it made me laugh so much that I had to watch it three or four times (it's short). I'm very excited to find out that Life On Mars is back next month. All this and Battlestar Galactica, Waking the Dead and Jericho too, surely my TV cup runneth over.
I've had a remarkably good day today. Had a useful and fun tutorial at jewellery this morning: I like my tutor more and more as the course goes on and I'll certainly be signing up for her class again in September. Whilst talking to her, I got clear on what I'm doing in jewellery at the moment and I feel I have more direction and focus now.
After that I went to the bank, then to Borders where I bought a couple of postcards and two books. I'd spent half my gift card a couple of weeks ago (I got a cool book on English design through the ages in the sale and a 3 CD set of The Sun Recordings by Johnny Cash) but I still had £15 left. Today I was very happy to find a half price book on paper making and book making and a book called Zen and the Art of Needlecraft, which I'm enjoying so far. Unfortunately when I got to the till I realised that the gift card was in my other bag so I still have £15 of birthday present left. Oh, and I bought an art magazine too. I've been crazy mad for buying books and magazines this month, clearly I've been feeling a bit deprived of reading matter or something.
I also picked up some food shopping and got some cool decorative stuff in the Habitat and Pier sales. I'm going to do a Chinese New Year altar to replace the Christmas one, which is looking very bedraggled so I was thrilled to find a red Chinese patterned candle, a dragon candle holder, a set of Chinese lantern fairy lights and a wooden dragon (one of the ones that come flat and you put them together yourself). They were all on sale too! I'm planning a trip to the Chinese supermarket in the next few days because we need rice noodles and I'm hoping to pick up some good paper decorations and maybe some nice fabric. I will also need some sort of pig imagery because we're moving into The Year Of The Pig. I was speaking to astvinr earlier and he was telling me some crazy stories about spontaneously combusting Chinese firecrackers. Apparently the Chinese authorities have huge problems every year with people accidentally blowing themselves up because the things just go off in their bags. Freaky.
Other good stuff:
Picking up my cute new glasses
Going to the art shop and the craft store and getting what I needed without spending too much money
Getting some tidying and cleaning done and making a delicious dinner (It's amazing how much domestic stuff you get done when you're trying to avoid doing your taxes!)
Watching Battlestar Galactica with Cat and going 'woah' a lot
Making a really involved object to go inside today's Diary Project envelope and having it turn out well
Now I'm going out to post the envelope, have a last cup of herbal tea and then fall down in an exhausted heap - er, I may have overdone it a tad.
If you read catvincent then you may have seen this already but I'm linking it too because it made me laugh so much that I had to watch it three or four times (it's short). I'm very excited to find out that Life On Mars is back next month. All this and Battlestar Galactica, Waking the Dead and Jericho too, surely my TV cup runneth over.
I've had a remarkably good day today. Had a useful and fun tutorial at jewellery this morning: I like my tutor more and more as the course goes on and I'll certainly be signing up for her class again in September. Whilst talking to her, I got clear on what I'm doing in jewellery at the moment and I feel I have more direction and focus now.
After that I went to the bank, then to Borders where I bought a couple of postcards and two books. I'd spent half my gift card a couple of weeks ago (I got a cool book on English design through the ages in the sale and a 3 CD set of The Sun Recordings by Johnny Cash) but I still had £15 left. Today I was very happy to find a half price book on paper making and book making and a book called Zen and the Art of Needlecraft, which I'm enjoying so far. Unfortunately when I got to the till I realised that the gift card was in my other bag so I still have £15 of birthday present left. Oh, and I bought an art magazine too. I've been crazy mad for buying books and magazines this month, clearly I've been feeling a bit deprived of reading matter or something.
I also picked up some food shopping and got some cool decorative stuff in the Habitat and Pier sales. I'm going to do a Chinese New Year altar to replace the Christmas one, which is looking very bedraggled so I was thrilled to find a red Chinese patterned candle, a dragon candle holder, a set of Chinese lantern fairy lights and a wooden dragon (one of the ones that come flat and you put them together yourself). They were all on sale too! I'm planning a trip to the Chinese supermarket in the next few days because we need rice noodles and I'm hoping to pick up some good paper decorations and maybe some nice fabric. I will also need some sort of pig imagery because we're moving into The Year Of The Pig. I was speaking to astvinr earlier and he was telling me some crazy stories about spontaneously combusting Chinese firecrackers. Apparently the Chinese authorities have huge problems every year with people accidentally blowing themselves up because the things just go off in their bags. Freaky.
Other good stuff:
Picking up my cute new glasses
Going to the art shop and the craft store and getting what I needed without spending too much money
Getting some tidying and cleaning done and making a delicious dinner (It's amazing how much domestic stuff you get done when you're trying to avoid doing your taxes!)
Watching Battlestar Galactica with Cat and going 'woah' a lot
Making a really involved object to go inside today's Diary Project envelope and having it turn out well
Now I'm going out to post the envelope, have a last cup of herbal tea and then fall down in an exhausted heap - er, I may have overdone it a tad.