the daily drawing. it doesn't matter how large or small, or which medium/media i use, or how good it is. it just has to be every day (possibly excluding weekends, but we'll see). i'll post today's as soon as i get those dang batteries (sigh). anyway, i need to draw every day. my little bio there to the left says it's what i want to do all day long, but in reality i'm not so good at practicing my "craft". i'm counting on you, dear readers, to keep me accountable. thankee :)
in other news:
1) it's supposed to be in the 90's this weekend and early next week?? oh, goodie.
2) i finished listening to the harry potter series on audiobook earlier today. i found it quite enjoyable. books six and seven were a little too intense for me, but (*spoiler alert*) everything ends happily. yay.
3) b and i are going to pick up some furniture this weekend! and maybe we'll even remove the rest of his belongings from the wesley house, too...finally. ;)
Friday, April 17, 2009
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
three fun things!
1) extremely delicious smoothie:
1 cup milk
3 Tb hot cocoa mix
2 Tb chocolate syrup
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5 ice cubes
Handful spinach leaves (fresh)
2/3 cup frozen blueberries
In a blender, combine milk thru syrup. Blend on low for a few seconds. Add the remaining ingredients and blend ‘til smooth. Makes about two cups. It’ll be a beautiful, deep purple, and it tastes good, too! (I’d take a picture of mine, but my camera is out of batteries, and we currently don’t have any AA batteries to replace them. Booo.)
2) I want to try this!!: From Egg to Art
3) Kittehs. They are funny: Cat Ambush!
1 cup milk
3 Tb hot cocoa mix
2 Tb chocolate syrup
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5 ice cubes
Handful spinach leaves (fresh)
2/3 cup frozen blueberries
In a blender, combine milk thru syrup. Blend on low for a few seconds. Add the remaining ingredients and blend ‘til smooth. Makes about two cups. It’ll be a beautiful, deep purple, and it tastes good, too! (I’d take a picture of mine, but my camera is out of batteries, and we currently don’t have any AA batteries to replace them. Booo.)
2) I want to try this!!: From Egg to Art
3) Kittehs. They are funny: Cat Ambush!
Friday, February 27, 2009
kiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitty!!
here are some pictures of buddy being adorable. i moved his bed into the "office/workroom" so we could keep each others' company while i do computer stuff and he snoozes. i decided to take some pictures of him curled up all cute-like, and then he sort of woke up and indulged me by being cute in several different ways. enjoy :)
yay!
Thursday, February 26, 2009
25 things!
This was all the rage on facebook a couple weeks ago, and I finally have a little bit of time to waste, so I am finally going to indulge in telling all of you 25 random things about ME.
1- I’ve never liked taking showers. I find them incredibly boring and I don't like the unpleasant damp period between being wet/in water and being dry.
2- I have to mix my breakfast cereals. Three different kinds is the fewest number allowable, but I’ve mixed as many as five or six in a single bowl. In high school I’d sometimes mix together frosted mini wheats, total, fiber one, craisins, kashi, plain oatmeal, and possibly honey-nut cherrios. Yum.
3- I’m the kind of person who would happily eat plain brown rice and lentils for dinner, and then have a large bowl of ice cream for dessert.
4- In elementary school I laughed hysterically at one of my friends who had, before my very eyes, broken his arm. I thought he was joking when he fell off the swingset!
5- Also in elementary school, I used to draw my own Street Fighter characters. I still have them. One of them was Flair – she had a long ponytail that she could use as a whip. Regrettably, I knew from personal experience that this could be a painful weapon – I had a long ponytail myself and, sadly, used it on a couple of my snot-nosed male classmates once or twice…
6- I was an audacious child, overall.
7- I’ve never had braces and I don’t have wisdom teeth.
8- To my knowledge, I have never seen a famous person in real life. Except for Bill Nye. And Dan O'Brien. Just remembered that.
9- I was a ninja princess in one of my dreams recently.
10- I am very attached to my highly uncommon “maiden” name and would have secretly been disappointed if my married name were “boring”. Luckily, I have nothing to be disappointed about :)
11- My visual art skillz do not include dressing myself or interior decorating. I’ve asked Bart, “does this match?” on more than one occasion.
12- I never once got detention in middle or high school. I don’t think I ever bought a lunch, either.
13- I have almost no memories of 11th grade English, and I’m not sure why. Here’s what I do remember: Kelly, Susanna, Michael, and Neal sat in front of me in the first row. It was the last class of the day. We watched a film…can’t remember the name. We did some Regents prep. Read the narrative of Frederick Douglass. That is all.
14- If there were a contest to see who had had the worst nightmare(s), I’d win! But I won’t tell it/them to you now.
15- I have been known to eat and enjoy uncooked tofu with ketchup.
16- I am a pack-rat. For example: until very recently, I still had in my possession Valentines from my kindergarten class. I don’t even remember those people- my family moved across the country to Idaho shortly after Valentine’s Day. But I trucked that shoe box all two thousand miles with me anyway…and then did it again when we moved to New York. *sigh*
17- When I was born, the doctors noticed that my tongue was completely attached to the bottom of my mouth. They cut it free, so now I don’t have a speech impediment.
18- I was born in Kentucky, about a stone’s throw from the Ohio River and just south of Cincinnati.
19- This is taking me a really long time to write.
20- I was so disgusted by the lack of recycling at Scripps that for a couple months during my sophomore year I combed the dorm trashcans and some of the outdoor trashcans for cans and bottles, which I was able to redeem for a decent amount of cash. But it was too time-consuming and embarrassing to keep up for long. Looking back, I wish I had been bolder and had persevered.
21- If there are specific memories and places tied to a song, I often can’t listen to it anymore - the nostalgia is too pungent (yes, that’s the word I want).
22- I am a scavenger.
23- I would join this website.
24- I like reading the blogs of people I don’t know.
25- I don’t like sleeping on my back.
It’s over!
1- I’ve never liked taking showers. I find them incredibly boring and I don't like the unpleasant damp period between being wet/in water and being dry.
2- I have to mix my breakfast cereals. Three different kinds is the fewest number allowable, but I’ve mixed as many as five or six in a single bowl. In high school I’d sometimes mix together frosted mini wheats, total, fiber one, craisins, kashi, plain oatmeal, and possibly honey-nut cherrios. Yum.
3- I’m the kind of person who would happily eat plain brown rice and lentils for dinner, and then have a large bowl of ice cream for dessert.
4- In elementary school I laughed hysterically at one of my friends who had, before my very eyes, broken his arm. I thought he was joking when he fell off the swingset!
5- Also in elementary school, I used to draw my own Street Fighter characters. I still have them. One of them was Flair – she had a long ponytail that she could use as a whip. Regrettably, I knew from personal experience that this could be a painful weapon – I had a long ponytail myself and, sadly, used it on a couple of my snot-nosed male classmates once or twice…
6- I was an audacious child, overall.
7- I’ve never had braces and I don’t have wisdom teeth.
8- To my knowledge, I have never seen a famous person in real life. Except for Bill Nye. And Dan O'Brien. Just remembered that.
9- I was a ninja princess in one of my dreams recently.
10- I am very attached to my highly uncommon “maiden” name and would have secretly been disappointed if my married name were “boring”. Luckily, I have nothing to be disappointed about :)
11- My visual art skillz do not include dressing myself or interior decorating. I’ve asked Bart, “does this match?” on more than one occasion.
12- I never once got detention in middle or high school. I don’t think I ever bought a lunch, either.
13- I have almost no memories of 11th grade English, and I’m not sure why. Here’s what I do remember: Kelly, Susanna, Michael, and Neal sat in front of me in the first row. It was the last class of the day. We watched a film…can’t remember the name. We did some Regents prep. Read the narrative of Frederick Douglass. That is all.
14- If there were a contest to see who had had the worst nightmare(s), I’d win! But I won’t tell it/them to you now.
15- I have been known to eat and enjoy uncooked tofu with ketchup.
16- I am a pack-rat. For example: until very recently, I still had in my possession Valentines from my kindergarten class. I don’t even remember those people- my family moved across the country to Idaho shortly after Valentine’s Day. But I trucked that shoe box all two thousand miles with me anyway…and then did it again when we moved to New York. *sigh*
17- When I was born, the doctors noticed that my tongue was completely attached to the bottom of my mouth. They cut it free, so now I don’t have a speech impediment.
18- I was born in Kentucky, about a stone’s throw from the Ohio River and just south of Cincinnati.
19- This is taking me a really long time to write.
20- I was so disgusted by the lack of recycling at Scripps that for a couple months during my sophomore year I combed the dorm trashcans and some of the outdoor trashcans for cans and bottles, which I was able to redeem for a decent amount of cash. But it was too time-consuming and embarrassing to keep up for long. Looking back, I wish I had been bolder and had persevered.
21- If there are specific memories and places tied to a song, I often can’t listen to it anymore - the nostalgia is too pungent (yes, that’s the word I want).
22- I am a scavenger.
23- I would join this website.
24- I like reading the blogs of people I don’t know.
25- I don’t like sleeping on my back.
It’s over!
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Buddy vs. Mollie (the free stuffed horse from Wells Fargo)
Part I: the fateful introduction.
B and I opened a joint checking account yesterday and got a free stuffed animal horse gift. Though we both like W-F very much, this fuzzy, cat-sized stuffy gift was and is of little to no value to us, but we quickly thought of someone who might enjoy it very much. That’s right, Buuuddy the cat. Once home, we presented it to our favorite feline friend and, to our dismay, he promptly fled in terror. To say stark terror would not be an exaggeration. I quickly got over my sad feelings of rejection at this display of ingratitude- if the horse would not entertain buddy (I had visions of him gleefully tearing the thing to shreds), then at least I could easily entertain myself by gleefully terrorizing Buuuddy with unexpected appearances of Mollie the Flying Horse of Doom. :) I did so for a while. Then we left the horse in the middle of the living room floor- an innocent, non-aggressive place- and observed Buuuddy navigating the room pressed up against the walls (as far away from it as he could get) or peering at it from beneath the coffee table. We finally hid it in one of the piles of boxes so that he could have some peace.
Part II: the next day
This morning I used Mollie in place of the Buddy Blaster (a squirt bottle filled with water that is used to discourage misbehaving). She sat on the kitchen table to keep Buddy off it, and when he starts clawing the couch, Mollie comes swooping down to prick his conscience.
B and I opened a joint checking account yesterday and got a free stuffed animal horse gift. Though we both like W-F very much, this fuzzy, cat-sized stuffy gift was and is of little to no value to us, but we quickly thought of someone who might enjoy it very much. That’s right, Buuuddy the cat. Once home, we presented it to our favorite feline friend and, to our dismay, he promptly fled in terror. To say stark terror would not be an exaggeration. I quickly got over my sad feelings of rejection at this display of ingratitude- if the horse would not entertain buddy (I had visions of him gleefully tearing the thing to shreds), then at least I could easily entertain myself by gleefully terrorizing Buuuddy with unexpected appearances of Mollie the Flying Horse of Doom. :) I did so for a while. Then we left the horse in the middle of the living room floor- an innocent, non-aggressive place- and observed Buuuddy navigating the room pressed up against the walls (as far away from it as he could get) or peering at it from beneath the coffee table. We finally hid it in one of the piles of boxes so that he could have some peace.
Part II: the next day
This morning I used Mollie in place of the Buddy Blaster (a squirt bottle filled with water that is used to discourage misbehaving). She sat on the kitchen table to keep Buddy off it, and when he starts clawing the couch, Mollie comes swooping down to prick his conscience.
Mollie, through the eyes of Buuuddy
I find I am of two minds. On the one hand, I do want Buuddy to have and enjoy this new toy- something to wrestle with and claw to death (human flesh is not a good toy, but we don’t have many other options), but it’s also difficult to resist the temptation to send him skittering from the room or watch him do backflips in surprise and fright when Mollie the Death Horse of Doom does something unexpected.
Part III: the tides turn in favor of good-kristin
I pulled out a few hairs from Mollie’s mane for Buuuddy to sniff, which he did. I think this helped a lot for him to way-lay his paralyzing horror of her, because soon after he was taking experimental swipes at her hooves and face, though whenever his claws caught the fur and caused the horse to move, he’d still leap back in fright. We shall see…
d-o-n-e
and home again. the week before the wedding and the wedding itself were fabulous. i'm still processing everything and enjoying the photos people have shared, but wow- it is soooo niiiiiiice to be done with the planning. DONE. SO NICE. the only wedding-related thing i have to figure out now is how to eat about three gallons of leftover ice cream before it goes bad :-D
it's going to take me some time to record every detail i can recall of the past couple weeks, but when that's done, i'll post the interesting bits. like the part about how a seagull almost made off with a ziplock bag full of leftover pizza. and the part where we discover a gallery full of original artwork by one of my favorite artists!
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