Terrible at Nothing

Terrible at Nothing

I just can't sit around for very long. I bought a refill calendar for my dayrunner a few weeks ago, and suddenly, it's almost full. For example: this weekend I'm

1.Altering a wedding dress for a second fitting on Monday.
2. Working today for a co-worker who's going to a wedding.
3. Meeting Kevin for dinner and the latest WTC production.
4.Going to Lunch with my friend Jeff who I haven't seen since I moved Even though we only live half an hour apart.

Then I'm working 15 extra hours in the next two weeks to make up for my trip to Texas. Going to Portland to help with costumes for Wycliffe's latest drama. Auditioning for the fall play at the Warehouse. Helping set up for a friend's wedding one day, then going to the wedding the next. Trying to squeeze in a visit with Teri, who's coming into town right before I leave again. Hoping to see Kristina when she's here. Going to Texas and back in six days to finally move out of Waco. Two days of teacher In-service the day after I get back. Several weeks of just work until I begin teaching after Labor Day. Hopefully I'll be in the fall play. Coordinating Wycliffe Dinner Theater's show at my church in September....and that's my last formal engagement until spring when I begin production meetings for the WTC spring play. I'm helping with costumes.

Let it never be said I don't get involved.

Last night, on an unrelated note, I made pasta. It tasted almost entirely unlike tortellini. It did taste remarkably like play-dough. I tried boiling it in salt water and garlic, and then (in the absence of marinara) covered it in ranch dressing. I gagged three bites down and then went for grapes. They were safe and non-toxic. I suppose, for that matter, playdough is non-toxic.

A man just walked in and was talking about fox finishing. Do you suppose he meant faux?

And that's it for me. I'm not even going to begin to think about my curriculum until it is officially August. In my head that gives me plenty of time. In reality, that's like, two days.

And somewhere in here I'm going to rearrange my rooms to make room for the rest of my furniture. I'm so excited about my big comfy wingback chair. It's big enough I can sit cross legged in it. And my lovely victorian loveseat.

I'm going to kill Cai. That stupid cat has started mewing at 6:30am three mornings in a row. He wanted to go wander the halls. I wanted to sleep. Throwing things at him didn't work. Today I got fed up and spanked him. Are you allowed to spank a cat? The SPCA is probably going to hunt me down. It did shut him up. If it happens again tomorrow there's going to be a cat-acide.

And that's my hodgepodge for today...

Freaky Deja Vu

You know you're getting old when..

Your mom sees you from behind and freaks out because you look just like her mother.

Actually, I'd been noticing for a while that I look a lot like Grandma in the pictures when Mom was little. And Mom would have been 8 or 9 when Grandma was as old as I am now. So, I guess it's not that far-fetched.

You have to be careful

You have to be careful around here.

I took my shoes off to sort some boxes in the stock room, and they were taken away to a pile of clothes that were being sold.

On the plus side, had I lost my favorite Doc's, I got a pair of Franco Sarto's in my size.

I don't care what bee Harry has in his bonnet

I don't care what bee Harry has in his bonnet...

I still trust Snape. "Professor Snape, Harry."

Oh, I forgot

Oh, I forgot

I got a second job. I've been interviewing and working on things for a while, but everything is done now.

This fall I'll be teaching Elementary Music at a local Private school a few hours a week.

My parents are only rubbing it in every half hour or so.

Mutual Insanity by Telepathy

Mutual Insanity by Telepathy

Highlight of the weekend while playing Catch Phrase:

"Ok! The ruler during the time of Aladdin."
"The Russian Tzar!"

And you know, it was the right answer.

Finally. A weekend

Finally. A weekend. My first real vacation since tour ended. And I'm going to relax. Unfortunatly I'm not going to relax with the new Harry Potter book because Allie got to it before I did and I couldn't wrestle it out of her grasp.

Ok who done it?

Ok who submitted my name to the muscular dystrophy lock up? I'm not mad. Just curious.

Being productive Regardless

Being Productive Regardless

My back is feeling well enough that I'm attempting to do some cleaning and sewing for my apartment, and a lot of sewing and crafting for our guest room, which will be in use for the first official time this Thursday night and Nancy and I are trying to get it in order.

Being females and relatively crafty, we've compiled pages of magazines pictures of "this is what we want" and "avoid this at all costs." We've been hauling furniture upstairs from the shop. The bed is still is cute as long as you put the broken spindles against the wall. A vanity with fabric long past its prime. A chair with such ugly brocade no one's even attempted to buy it. Extra paint. A coffee maker. A big cappuccino cup (Excuse me? I believe I ordered a large! HE-llo.) And a few hotel amenities that someone has been stealing en masse.

Last night I finished painting. I done one wall a few weeks ago in the rich hot chocolate color. Then I hurt myself. Then we had the half off sale. Then I hurt myself again. So the project was dragging on. And nothing else could be done (The decorating is the fun part). I kept hinting that Nancy ought to have some volunteers finish it, but she didn't take the hint.

So now we're trying to pull together bedding and *ergh* clean the bathroom that hasn't been used in years.

Allie's coming tomorrow to paint the bathroom Robin's Egg Blue.

E.L.F.

E.L.F.

A friend of mine heard about a makeup company that's online and in some department stores now that sells all of their products for one dollar. Why are they so cheap? They don't advertise and they have minimal packaging, which cuts down on overhead. I went online and ordered base, eyeshadow, eyeliner and they added in a lipgloss as the promotional item of the week.

It just arrived and I'm really happy. It looks like stuff you'd buy in a drugstore (back to the cheap packaging) but the makeup is good quality. The only downside is it isn't a huge quantity (Like those Este Lauder mega pressed powder squares). Even so, for $1 you can't afford to go to the drug store and buy it. Shipping was $4.85 and it came in a bubble envelope. Give me a few days to see how the base reacts with my skin (In California I had to buy some really expensive makeup non-everything, and mascara made of seaweed) but for everything else I'd say, I'd recommend it.

They don't have an extensive range of colors and products yet-though what they have isn't shabb. Even their makeup brushes and eyelash curlers are $1. That's way less than you'd pay at Walmart or Sephora. So go check them out here. I think it's worth it. And I ordered it thursday and it arrived today.