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AUGUST 2005
SUNDAY,
AUGUST 28
Last
Sunday, a good friend of mine organized an afternoon of embroidery
and cake to celebrate her 30th birthday. With some help from Carol
of Sublime Stiching,
we all arrived to find little patterns with needle and thread, ready
to roll. (I improvised a bit on the flowers and the skull.) I have
tried some embroidery in the past but was never sure i was doing
it "correctly" and Carol pointed out several helpful tips
and tricks.
It was quite a nice afteroon, chatting with other gals, being crafty
and having cake.
I was inspired (ok, and a little bored ) to start a small project
of my own today. Additionally, i was hell bent on learning the french
knot, which you can see below, I have mastered!!!! Hurray! Now,
whether or not I keep this up, is another question entirely. But
I DO hope to finish what I started below.
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These watermelon
carvings (along with other fruits) are nuts!
>>link from Saelee Oh)
Hard to believe that August is over and done with.
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SATURDAY,
AUGUST 27
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I got sick with a head cold starting Tuesday and spent the last
several days in bed. (don't you love when people blog about illness?)
Anyway, i was certain beyond certainty that I would be back
to my old self today. Most of my symptoms are gone, but I feel dreadfully
lethargic, I don't have a new harry potter book to read and what
am I going to do all day?
I guess i'm going to nap some...even though I just got up at 11
friggin a m. I don't want to lay around anymore but I don't want
to do anything either.
There's a full working week left before we leave for vacation to
the Seattle area. The thought of it all makes me tired too.
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MONDAY,
AUGUST 22
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For bad movie watching after good mexican eating friday night, our
friends brought over Parts:
THE CLONUS HORROR (1979), which easily topped all bad movies
in recent memory. The tag line: "The
only thing they don't use... is the scream" Basically
the government has set up a camp of human clones for the purpose
of organ parts. As the clones are growing up (lots of slow blinking)
and watching training videos, they are being prepared to go to "America."
This "America" is the place where the clones go when they
are ready. The clones get injected with green stuff and get hung
on a meat hook in a plastic bag, in the basement.
I have tried, but you really can't beat a late 70's horror film.
I kinda wish I still had my old Movie Night page still up.
+We ate dinner tonight at PEI WEI
and I made some final decisions about their food. I guess that
was our 4/5th meal there. I would say that the food there looks
better than it tastes and it all looks fantastic. It doesn't taste
that bad but when you bite in you're a little let down. The honey-toned
interior, strategic lighting and fancy open kitchen is tough competition--
not to mention their luxurious paper napkins. You have to go there
for the napkins. I told Snail that I was going to use mine for the
rest of the week and he said he would make some shorts out of his.
I am no tree hugger but those damn napkins are stupid.
I should note that they offer a gluten free menu.
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SUNDAY,
AUGUST 21
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Back problems started about 2 weeks ago. Could it be because I spend
50 hours a week hunched over a computer and 7 hours a week in my
car and 16 hours a weekend hunched over painting and the rest of
the time on the couch? Nah, probably not related.
+ I was excited to pick up Domino
magazine last night but after looking at it, i am not excited. I
was hoping it would be a little more down to earth, a little more
readymade (except with less stories about how to turn some peice
of trash into a light fixture) and a little less of a fancy design
mag. It IS called, after all, "The Shopping Magazine for YOUR
home."
One of the stories was an office makeover to inspire creativity,
featuring the office of creative directors for Banana Republic and
COACH. Great but what about my brown cube hole?? How can I spice
IT up??
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FRIDAY,
AUGUST 19
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I work all of the time.
+Tonight we are headed to Mexican food and perhaps bad movie viewing.
The sky is clouding up just in time for friday evening.....nice.
+The image above is from this
and you can thank DRAWN!
for the link.
I love Drawn! Everytime I come to my blog, i am going to love that
image all over again.
+Tomorrow morning i am meeting a friend for blueberry pancakes and
then i'm going to come home and paint.
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TUESDAY,
AUGUST 16
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Yesterday a plumber had to come out to the house and while he was
here, we had him install new faucets in the two bathrooms. Gone
are the 20-some year old ones. Holy crap what a difference!! Yeehaw!
I had it in my mind to replace those since we purchased our estate,
but it just kept getting put off.
I only wish I had picked the new faucets with equal footprints to
the old ones. Ahhhh well, at least one of them accidentally worked
out nicely and the other one has a stain around it that doesn't
look like its coming off.
New faucets!!!!!!! WOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!
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MONDAY,
AUGUST 15
Translation
----" Tiger and Anteater: Savage Beast. However whenever
this small animal called anteater enouters a tiger looking for prey
it turns on its back and throws itself on the tiger's neck and pierces
its throat with its snout and claws and does not release him until
he is dead on that spot."
I bought this book, Histoire
Naturelle Des Indes: The Drake Manuscript (the Natuaral History
of the Indies), from half price books about a year ago. It's a book
of illustrations and captions from 16th century discoverers documenting
west indian plants, animals and indian life. I haven't exactly read
the introduction, but it seems like something I am lucky to have
a copy of.
What i love about this book is everything. It was created for the
purpose of record-keeping, so the quality is somewhat amateur and
folksy (which is maybe my favorite thing). I love the hand lettering.
I love that the animals all look a little bit mean. Grrrrr!!
"Patonne
Fish: This is a fish very excellend for eating having the taste
of sturgeon and often living in fresh water rivers."
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SUNDAY,
AUGUST 14
+Get on over to Saelee Oh's
gift shop, Lemonade
Maid and buy yourself something cute. I'm getting a tshirt if
I can borrow snail's paypal account.
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Friday night, I got to pick the bad movie and I picked BUG
(1975). (I have decided that I like late 70's horror films.) "An
earthquake releases a strain of mutant cockroaches with the ability
to start fires, which proceed to cause destructive chaos in a small
town"
You read it right...Cockroaches that start fires with their rear
end.
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TUESDAY,
AUGUST 9
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I was laughing to myself as I made a lazy dinner-- at the variety
of our meal. There was frozen, canned, instant, processed and carbonated.
+ Sunday i was up late reading Harry Potter: Order of the P and
last night I was up late playing laser tag. I should probably stay
up tonight and do some shots before I turn into a 13 year old.
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SUNDAY,
AUGUST 7
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On the menu tonight is cheeseburgers on the grill with homemade
potato crisps and cole slaw. For dessert, I have nothing.
Wearing my apron today, i tried AGAIN to make those chewy chocolate
cookies with black walnuts for Snail. They came out equally horrible
as last time. THIS TIME i followed the directions to the letter
and I have decided that the recipe is at fault -- because its obvious
that the flavor is off and they are flat as pancakes. The ingredients
of these cookies are egg whites, loads of confect. sugar, 1 cup
of cocoa, 2tb flour and little else. Shouldn't there be some salt
or baking powder? the thing is that they don't taste very sweet
and the other thing is that i don't think these cookies have an
official name and/or following for which to find another recipe.
For now, I give up.
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 THURSDAY
AUGUST 4
+ The
American Hostess apron
that Snail found and I ordered finally came in the mail today. Its
as cute as I knew it would be with the lemon and cherry print and
the scalloped edges. I like the more vintagey-retro look of these
over the frilly ones at Anthropologie.
I reckon i'll have to do some baking this weekend and break it in.
It'll either be another apple pie, snail's favorite cookies that
i still haven't made or some bundt cake so that I can use my super
cool decorative mini bundt pan.
+ I started the Crest Whitestrips on Tuesday and I think I can see
a slight slight difference. Anyway, its the perfect thing to do
during my commute cause it has to stay on there for 30 minutes.
I haven't yet mustered up the appetite for doing top and bottom
sets at once. That's just too much going on in my mouth. I mean,
its not hard or anything but its odd and 30 minutes is 30 minutes.
you know? So, i reckon it'll take me 2 weeks as opposed to the 7
days that it should.
 +If
you live in LA, go see the new
Dave Cooper work at Billy Shire Fine arts. I seriously love
this stuff. It's hazy and glowy and fun and all that.
+ ok, back to the Harry Potter grindstone. I'm halfway through.
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MONDAY,
AUGUST 1
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I have put in my blog hours for the night. Time to go water the
dogs, feed the kids, milk the cows and hit the sack.
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