10.31.2007

10.17.2007

Tenugui In Hell

Holy Flying Crapsicle, people.
This is getting rediculous. Is there an end to all the cute Japanese stuff for me to crave?!

Tenugui

Amigurumi In Hell

Holy Christmas Crap!!! I just discovered Amigurumi. I think this is the start of a long and beautiful friendship. Turns out that this is what those White Stripes and Zombie figures I spilled about earlier are. Just what I need; another hobby.

10.16.2007

What's Fat and Orange and Grows In Hell?

(Okay, so who knows if pumpkins really grow in Hell. I just had to include that somewhere in the title.)

It's fall here in this city and the weather has turned, along with the leaves. It's true that I hate the cold weather, but I'd forgotten just how nice the season can be. The air gets a little chilly - enough to pull out the heavier sweaters and long pants. But, it's not winter jacket weather yet. Fall also marks the approach of my all-time favorite holiday. Halloween!!!

One of my top favorite things about Autumn is pumpkin. Pumpkin pie, pumpkin bread, pumpkin muffins, pumpkin seeds, pumpkin cheesecake, pumpkin carving, pumpkin scented candles, and the ever-so-irresistable Starbucks pumpkin spice latte. I have a powerful urge to run to the store and find ingredients to bake something pumpkiney with. Maybe something with raisins and molasses. Mmmm. Cloves, nutmeg...

Autumn is also time to break out the knitting needles. I'm most of the way through an orange, yellow and brown scarf for the bf. Mom put in her request and I'm making her a dragon scarf next. The kit just came in the mail over the weekend and I was purusing the instructions over dinner tonight. I can't really figure out how all the pieces join up, but I'm sure I'll get it once I start working. After that, I've got a hat for the bf that I need to make. Forget all the Xmas gifts I need to start on. Sometimes I wish I could just quit my job and make things all day long. As independent as I am, and as much as I champion the women's rights cause, I can't help but think it would be nice to have a guy pay all the bills while I stay home and do my thing.

Oh shit....I forgot to pick up my damn meds again! Looks like I'll have to cut this short.

10.12.2007

Hell is 451 Degrees

I love books. I just went and spent $50 that I don't have at Barnes & Noble. I can't help it; it's like an addiction. Maybe if it took longer than 10 minutes to walk to a bookstore, I could restrain myself. However, there are 3 bookstores I can walk to on my lunch hour. My mother tells me, "I'm going to pay off your fine at the library, so you can quit spending all your money at B&N." I tell her that I don't want to borrow books, I want to own them - I want my own library. To begin with, library books have been handled by who knows how many who-knows-whos. Ick! I don't know where those books have been! Secondly, the kind of books I buy are almost always off the wall reference books (The Encyclopedia of Guilty Pleasures) or neat-o craft how-to books (Heart Felt). So, it isn't like I'll give the book a once over and be done with it. They're the kinds of lovely volumes that can be reached for again and again and may produce useful crafts (if I ever get around to it). So, throw the library idea out the window.

Here's what I walked away with today:

The Crafter's Companion: tips, tales and patterns from a community of creative minds

Wreck This Journal by Keri Smith

Craft Inc.: Turn your creative hobby into a business by Meg Mateo Ilasco

I just want to hole up somewhere and create things. I spend too much time at the BF's house, not doing much but getting drunk and watching movies. I want to breathe new life, dammit!!

10.11.2007

People In Hell Want Ice Water

Lately, this blog has become a storage facility for all the cool links I find online. There hasn't been much actual "blogging". Today, I was looking at pictures of zombies, in an attempt to formulate costume plans for the coming holiday. I came across one girl's blog. She makes knitted zombies. I think I want to have sex with her, just for that. I added her as Cakeyvoice at right. She made knitted White Stripes too. Where does this chick live, because I'm going to find her and rip her clothes off?

Hey, did you know Runts candy now has pineapple? Freakin' weird. No wonder I'm so hyper.

Oh, "what's been going on?" you ask. Long story short - work sucks major league ass, the relationship is topsy turvy, I haven't been home much, and I'm just as broke as I ever am. Going back to NYC in December.

Ta for now. Got to go get my smoke on (yeah, I fucked up the quitting thing again).