Useful Midget Is Useful
So Sunday is apparently now '
masterofmidgets is Useful' Day, because by some miracle I actually GOT SHIT DONE today. I know, I know, I'm as shocked as you are.
My dad needed some mint, so we visited my grandparents this afternoon. We got there right as they were walking out the door for a dinner at Popejoy, but I had a few minutes to talk to my grandma. She laid the guilt on for not calling her all week, and I acted properly contrite. She also told me that my birthday present is taking the train to Santa Fe so we can go to the new history museum up there. Needless to say, I am tremendously excited. Because museums are AWESOME. *wears geek hat* After she left, I spent the rest of the time playing with CD and talking my ...aunt? Step-aunt? I don't know how we are choosing to qualify this relationship. But she's cool.
I am endeavoring to turn
colourofsaying into at least as much of an opera fan as I am, so after I got home I spent the rest of the afternoon sending her links to clips of my favorite operas on youtube. I think my effusive enthusiasm about Turandot and Eugene Onegin sunk in, and I may have made a convert out of her. *evil laughs* And I ended up downloading Song to the Moon from Rusalka and Au Fond du Temple Saint from The Pearl Fishers, so it was totally worth it. :D
After dinner (lettuce-wrapped meatballs and rice noodles with chile-lime sauce, so messy but so good!) I learned how to use an electric sander. Yeah. And I didn't hurt myself, astonishingly enough. My dad showed me how. I used it to sand down the ends of some 1/4' diameter wooden dowels to make hairsticks out of. I'm waiting now for the polyurethane stain on them to finish drying, but I think they are going to turn out really well. I wouldn't try to sell them for actual money, maybe, but they should look fine in my hair. I'm meeting up with my mom and Lisa on Tuesday to do a craft day, and I'll finish them then, at which point there will be pictures.
Tomorrow I'm back to doing fuck all and watching TV. Go me.
masterofmidgets is Useful' Day, because by some miracle I actually GOT SHIT DONE today. I know, I know, I'm as shocked as you are.
My dad needed some mint, so we visited my grandparents this afternoon. We got there right as they were walking out the door for a dinner at Popejoy, but I had a few minutes to talk to my grandma. She laid the guilt on for not calling her all week, and I acted properly contrite. She also told me that my birthday present is taking the train to Santa Fe so we can go to the new history museum up there. Needless to say, I am tremendously excited. Because museums are AWESOME. *wears geek hat* After she left, I spent the rest of the time playing with CD and talking my ...aunt? Step-aunt? I don't know how we are choosing to qualify this relationship. But she's cool.
I am endeavoring to turn
colourofsaying into at least as much of an opera fan as I am, so after I got home I spent the rest of the afternoon sending her links to clips of my favorite operas on youtube. I think my effusive enthusiasm about Turandot and Eugene Onegin sunk in, and I may have made a convert out of her. *evil laughs* And I ended up downloading Song to the Moon from Rusalka and Au Fond du Temple Saint from The Pearl Fishers, so it was totally worth it. :D
After dinner (lettuce-wrapped meatballs and rice noodles with chile-lime sauce, so messy but so good!) I learned how to use an electric sander. Yeah. And I didn't hurt myself, astonishingly enough. My dad showed me how. I used it to sand down the ends of some 1/4' diameter wooden dowels to make hairsticks out of. I'm waiting now for the polyurethane stain on them to finish drying, but I think they are going to turn out really well. I wouldn't try to sell them for actual money, maybe, but they should look fine in my hair. I'm meeting up with my mom and Lisa on Tuesday to do a craft day, and I'll finish them then, at which point there will be pictures.
Tomorrow I'm back to doing fuck all and watching TV. Go me.