Cleaning homes cleans brains. mmmm braaaaains...
I fit an increadible amount of stuff on one book shelf.
I spent the day cleaning the corner of my "dinning room" which holds the majority of my supplies for various projects and hobbies. The shelf is unassuming; four slots of a sloppy 11 inch depth, 3'11" long, and each nearly 13" high. its low to the ground compared to my book shelf, and when you can actually see through it, theres no backing on the top shelf. looks a lot like someone's garage project.
It hold all of my sewing supplies except the machine itself (two stacks of fabric, one bag of pillow fluff, buttong and misc, box of machine parts, ribbons, needles, threads, and measuring and marking impliments) 6 board games, two large boxes of dyes for eggs, still life artifacts, a bucket-o-acrylics, a kaboodle of other ink media (watercolor, guache, caligraphy, illumination items) the entirety of my at-home beadwork supplies and the remnants of school supplies that have traveled home somehow, three feet of reference books and sketchbooks, a box full of pencil media on top of a box of charcoals, pastels, and office supplies, and on top of the whole shelf is a ragged collection of dragon figurines and picture frames waiting for pictures to be chopped to the right size. All of that got taken out and down and repacked and purged and cleaned and put back today.
I clean things when i get bored.
Thanks to all for the birthday well wishes, it was, in fact, awesome. There was a full moon on my birthday too, a good sign for the year as a whole.
I enjoyed visiting dad and thee new kitties, and will be posting pictures as soon as i can use school computers again.
Josh, my army boy, gave me really nice earings. They are circles, but look like elongated crecent moons with the thickest part at the bottom, about the size of a dime, with three tinsy diamonds int he crecent and a larger blue stone (maybe sapphire) sitting atop the crecent within the circles. By chance, they match marvelously with a sapphire pendant mom bought for me years ago (for my 18th birthday?) which i havn't worn much due to gnerally wearing heavier and chunkier jewelry. In the 5 days since getting the earings i've worn them with the pendant twice, so yay for resurected jewelry! Josh also took me out to Cold Stone Creamery for fancy ice cream on my birthday.
Kirsten, my best buddy right now at work, tried verey hard to make a cake for me since i worked the friday of my birthday. Since getting hired at this theater i've made cakes for just about evereyone's birthdays, sometimes in layers and sometimes in mini-cupcakes, and sometimes brought in food for no particular reason. It was really awesome to have someone else try it, though she felt really bad about the side collapsing when she took it out of the pan too soon, and burnt herself a little bit. It was tasty cake though.
I'm only just now, at 8 at night on a monday, remembering that Kirsten and I and someone else from work were supposed to go see Ponyo (new myazaki movie!!) yesterday....oops! well, i never got a note so i guess they forgot too!
I bought myself a new book of a new series too. Its the Age of Fire series by E. E. Knight, and i've been drooling over it in book stores for a long while now. Only bought the first book but all four are out in large-size soft covers. Thing is, i need to finish reading my Ricardo Pinto series first, and the book i'm on was accidentally left at work this weekend, and i need to order the third book of the series off of amazon because they aren't in any bookstores that i've ever seen. The third one only just came out last april too, i think, so i'm not sure that the softback is even out yet. 'Course i thought i was buying the second in softcovere and ended up with a hardback, so i guess it doesn't matter which type i get...
Really, the best parts of the week so far have been less substantial. Sky is comming to terms with being friends, and the emotional roller coaster is finally winding down. I spent the greater parts of the last three days non-stop with Josh, and was there to say goodbye last night when he suited up and left for the plane to Afganistan. Work has been peaceful, school is in break, and i don't have to worry about bills or cars or hurricanes.
And now my apartment is almost completely clean!
Tomorrow; the bathroom!! *dun dun dunnnnn*
I spent the day cleaning the corner of my "dinning room" which holds the majority of my supplies for various projects and hobbies. The shelf is unassuming; four slots of a sloppy 11 inch depth, 3'11" long, and each nearly 13" high. its low to the ground compared to my book shelf, and when you can actually see through it, theres no backing on the top shelf. looks a lot like someone's garage project.
It hold all of my sewing supplies except the machine itself (two stacks of fabric, one bag of pillow fluff, buttong and misc, box of machine parts, ribbons, needles, threads, and measuring and marking impliments) 6 board games, two large boxes of dyes for eggs, still life artifacts, a bucket-o-acrylics, a kaboodle of other ink media (watercolor, guache, caligraphy, illumination items) the entirety of my at-home beadwork supplies and the remnants of school supplies that have traveled home somehow, three feet of reference books and sketchbooks, a box full of pencil media on top of a box of charcoals, pastels, and office supplies, and on top of the whole shelf is a ragged collection of dragon figurines and picture frames waiting for pictures to be chopped to the right size. All of that got taken out and down and repacked and purged and cleaned and put back today.
I clean things when i get bored.
Thanks to all for the birthday well wishes, it was, in fact, awesome. There was a full moon on my birthday too, a good sign for the year as a whole.
I enjoyed visiting dad and thee new kitties, and will be posting pictures as soon as i can use school computers again.
Josh, my army boy, gave me really nice earings. They are circles, but look like elongated crecent moons with the thickest part at the bottom, about the size of a dime, with three tinsy diamonds int he crecent and a larger blue stone (maybe sapphire) sitting atop the crecent within the circles. By chance, they match marvelously with a sapphire pendant mom bought for me years ago (for my 18th birthday?) which i havn't worn much due to gnerally wearing heavier and chunkier jewelry. In the 5 days since getting the earings i've worn them with the pendant twice, so yay for resurected jewelry! Josh also took me out to Cold Stone Creamery for fancy ice cream on my birthday.
Kirsten, my best buddy right now at work, tried verey hard to make a cake for me since i worked the friday of my birthday. Since getting hired at this theater i've made cakes for just about evereyone's birthdays, sometimes in layers and sometimes in mini-cupcakes, and sometimes brought in food for no particular reason. It was really awesome to have someone else try it, though she felt really bad about the side collapsing when she took it out of the pan too soon, and burnt herself a little bit. It was tasty cake though.
I'm only just now, at 8 at night on a monday, remembering that Kirsten and I and someone else from work were supposed to go see Ponyo (new myazaki movie!!) yesterday....oops! well, i never got a note so i guess they forgot too!
I bought myself a new book of a new series too. Its the Age of Fire series by E. E. Knight, and i've been drooling over it in book stores for a long while now. Only bought the first book but all four are out in large-size soft covers. Thing is, i need to finish reading my Ricardo Pinto series first, and the book i'm on was accidentally left at work this weekend, and i need to order the third book of the series off of amazon because they aren't in any bookstores that i've ever seen. The third one only just came out last april too, i think, so i'm not sure that the softback is even out yet. 'Course i thought i was buying the second in softcovere and ended up with a hardback, so i guess it doesn't matter which type i get...
Really, the best parts of the week so far have been less substantial. Sky is comming to terms with being friends, and the emotional roller coaster is finally winding down. I spent the greater parts of the last three days non-stop with Josh, and was there to say goodbye last night when he suited up and left for the plane to Afganistan. Work has been peaceful, school is in break, and i don't have to worry about bills or cars or hurricanes.
And now my apartment is almost completely clean!
Tomorrow; the bathroom!! *dun dun dunnnnn*