Does someone want to be a super-secret super-spy with me? I am “secret-shopping” Big Bowl (at South point) Friday and I’d love to recruit a second super-sleuth to go with me… and dinner’s on me!
Any takers?
:-)
garden-party
The latest polar-fleece expedition…
Quick update
I have been much slack in updating of late. Oops.
As an excuse I offer: busyness! (surprise! ;-)
Ok, so last weekend I:
- Met Heather and Debra at Carrburritos (I think I might’ve put too many “rrrrrr”s in there) for Burritos as Big as Our Heads (BaBaOH) tm followed by Tift Merritt‘s album release party at the Cat’s Cradle. The Super Double Bonus was that Gary Louris (of The Jayhawks), who sings backup for some of the songs on this album, played as well. In fact, he sang one of my Most Favorite songs — All the Right Reasons — solo accousitc. Mmmmmm! I gushed at him a bit afterwards…
- Saturday was the Day of Organization. Jeff & I went to several stores with multiple sets of measurements in hand in order to find a storage solution for my fabric and yarn. This is not an insubstantial problem.Some sewers/knitters, you see, find a pattern they like, then buy the fabric/yarn to complete it, then make the thing. Not me. Nope. I find fabric/yarn I like, then visit it on a regular basis, so as to be able to hear it when it tells me what it wants to be when it grows up. This means I have *lots* of fabric and *lots* of yarn. The sad thing was that my storage capacity was so limited that the materials were all squashed up, so some of them weren’t being heard properly (I mean, really, how could a nice little piece of quilting cotton in yellow expect to be heard over lime green polarfleece?).
So now I have four little Target cabinets (with doors! on sale! $23.99/ea.!) that all the fabric can safely live in and two little shoe cabinets with 25 compartments each where all my yarn can live. Needless to say, the fabric and yarn are quite happy to be grouped by weight and color. And it makes me really happy to be able to go upstairs (the shelves line the catwalk that connects the stairs with the loft area of my house) and see all my pretties all nice and neat!
- Saturday night, Jeff and I met ferociousbcycad, one of my significant ex-others (ex-significant others?) for dinner at Babymoon Cafe. Potentially awkward, yet decidedly not in reality (yah!). We had a blast (they actually have quite a bit in common… INTP’s [I’m listening to you all gape in surprise at that one! ;-)] who ride motorcycles, etc.) and ended up talking until nearly ten.
- Sunday I decided that if I could finish a big (and very long-in-the-making project), I could clear off one of the tables upstairs, which would give me space to cut fabric (which would be far more ergonomically correct and far less backache-inducing than the current system of cutting it on the floor). So I spent Sunday afternoon (and evening and part of Monday night) reacquainting myself with how to do this craft that I’d not done in, oh, I dunno, 7 years? (geep). Only minor injuries were sustained and The Project (which is not being detailed here for a pretty good reason) is completed!
- Tuesday night I met Greta for dinner at Rocky Mountain Firebird Grill Thing at my mall. Greta is one amazing person, and this time, just like last time, we managed not to do a stitch of knitting, but instead gabbed for three hours. :)
- Wednesday night, thebroomecloset (surprisingly, another significant ex-other or ex-significant other, take your pick) and I met for dinner at Rockfish (and also gabbed for going on four hours*). Pretty amazing … I’ve known him for eighteen years (I think we figured out?…) and he’s still one of my favorite people on the planet.
Whew.
* OK. That’s not all that amazing. I talk. A lot. I get it. ;-)
Atkins Kills Twinkies
Well, not quite, but America’s disenchantment with sugary goodness* is spelling trouble for the manufacturer (and possibly bankruptcy).
* Note: I don’t actually like Twinkies…too “yellow”-tasting. Now if Peeps were to become financially unstable *that* would make me really sad.
The funniest product rebate bundle ever:
From SlickDeals:
OfficeMax has Quicken Deluxe 2005 + Tech Solutions TS-4500 Confetti-Cut Shredder + 10-Ream Case of Multi-Purpose + $20 gift certificate for $60 – $20 rebate (in box) = $40 w/ free shipping.*
Cook your books, print the new versions *and* shred the old evidence! Excellent!
*The deal is over, sorry… I just found out about it yesterday (too late). Still funny, though.
Stragely pleased with myself
So, Mimi Smartypants posted a link to a site of Self-Referential Songs, which is in a WIKI format. I’d known of WIKIs, of course, and see them and whatnot, but I’d never tried to actually add anything to one.
I plunged on anyway, and edited the page by copying and pasting and making changes to the pasted stuff. And it worked! Yah me! Yes, there was a tutorial, and yes, perhaps I should’ve started there, but I’m pleased I figured it out myself. (And yes, I’m aware this is not rocket science).
BTW, I added “Lonely People” by America. :-)
The cutest thing ever
Yesterday morning while we were spending a few hours on the beach prior to heading home, we got incredibly luckily and got to see thecutestlittlethingever.
Normally sea turtle eggs (which are laid in the sand dunes) hatch in the middle of the night and then the little guys crawl from the nest to the brightest spot on the horizon, which is normally the sea, due to the light of the stars and moon reflecting off the horizon (in fact, many beachfront communities have a curfew on lights so that the lights on the houses don’t confuse the little guys).
Apparently yesterday there was one little guy who’d gotten stuck trying to climb over a root and hadn’t made it out to the ocean before morning. The volunteers left him alone as long as possible, since they’d rather not interfere, but eventually it got hot enough and late enough in the morning that they decided a little assistance was in order.
I was out swimming (and Jeff was “sunning,” having actually lowered the umbrella under which he’d hidden most of the weekend!), when Mary Jean hollered that I needed to come over and see. So I slogged back to shore (somehow the last 20 feet of getting to the beach are always the hardest) and joined the group of about 15 people who had gathered around and were staring at the sand.
A tiny little turtle was painstakingly making his way seaward. His little flippers are ill-suited for land maneuver, so it was sort of a scooting thing, rather than a walking one. And oh so sloooooooowwww. We all cheered when he made it to his first wavelet, which, of course, carried him forward a foot and a half…before washing him back two and a half feet. So he struggled forward again, this time catching a wave (yes, we all thought of Finding Nemo) that carried him into deeper (three inch!) water, where he could properly swim.
Sadly, I didn’t have my camera, but he looked like the one on this page (scroll down a bit). Maybe as big as the palm of my hand (and much cuter).
It was truly nifty getting to see something that I’d read about since I was small (we used to rent a house at the same beach when I was a child). So tiny. So determined. And soooooo cute!
Heading to beach
I’m quite excited as I’m heading down to the beach for a three-day weekend tonight! I’m going down to DeBordieu to visit my roommate from high school and her husband (and two kids). Sun! Fun!! NOT WORK!!!!
Two things:
(1) This is very true:
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So anyway, I’m working with my bedroom window slightly open (the better to water gun them with my dear) and I almost knock over the little glass votive I have on the window ledge. At that point, I actually think to myself “Gee, Gina, you’re going to knock that over ’cause you’re soooo focused on this petty activity of squirrel squirting.” And, yes, you can see where this is going.
After spending some quality-time with the vacuum, I am trying to seek a more “Zen-like” approach to the squirrels.
(BUT DAMN THEY PISS ME OFF!!!!)
Europe recap, pt. 1
Some thoughts from Europe (yes, I know I should write a proper travelogue and that someday when I’m trying to remember the name of the cute little restaurant where we had the really good pancakes with the cheese and bacon and powdered sugar (no, I swear) that I’ll regret it, but at the rate I’m going, I figure I’d better get down the interesting bits before they’re gone altogether).
Realm of the Lint Queen 