Long time, no type! I didn't see a point to updating this thing, but I really wanted to check out the egl community, so why not update? What's changed since my last post? In my last post, I had dreads. After 7 months or so, I said to hack with them and am no sporting a cute pixie cut. We've moved to a new, and much nicer, apartment. Other then that ( Read more... )

I've had my locks for a week now. Yep. I got dreadlocks. 9 hours of backcombing and hours of palm-rolling over the past week, and it still looks like I just woke up the day after a punk show. They aren't locking up as quickly as I had hoped. If they're still this loose after a month, I may undo them and start over. I think it was because we didn't ( Read more... )

So for the past few months, I've been missing my I/9 crochet hook. I had to find or alter different patterns because I couldn't find the darned thing. I checked anywhere I had yarn stashed (so basically, my entire apartment). No sign of it. And I didn't bother buying a new one, because I knew as soon as I did, I'd find the stupid thing, and it ( Read more... )

So it's sort of a New Year's tradition in my family to clean the heck out of our homes. I've been putting it off for a while, and the apartment is looking pretty awful. So I've been catching up on dishes and have fully sanitized the bathroom. The nest few days will require some heavy attention to throwing old crap out an making things livable. I ( Read more... )

Ah! The year is finally over! Thank God! 2009 has been such a let down. No progress of any kind. In fact, I think this has been a year of a few steps back. I though 2008 was a pain! As with any year, there are a few bright spots. Gwen being born is one. Let's hope 2010 is a big ol' bright spot. I'm excited for it. It's going to be year of the Tiger ( Read more... )

So I sold one of the dolls from my collection. I sold my ResinSoul Jun. I never really did much with him. He always sat on the book shelf collecting dust. So I sold him to a gal who really wanted him. She didn't even mind the slight damage to his ear. She was planning on modding him anyways. So I sold him at a good price. I figured I was done ( Read more... )

This will be the first year I'll be missing out on Thanksgiving. I work from 12:30-6, and Matt is working from 12-8:30! And Matt's family wraps things up pretty early. Ah well. I sort of planned ahead for this. On tuesday, I made my first turkey, which turned out well. We had some friends over, watched bad movies. It was a lot of fun. Sadly, a ( Read more... )

I don't know why, but I keep thinking about what happened around this time a few years ago. I was still living with my mom and sisters. Money was pretty tight back then, but we managed. I went to the grocery store with her. We parked a few spaces down from a beat-up old van. Windows broken in, covered with plastic wrap and duct tape. It was a mom ( Read more... )

I'm suffering through a cold right now, though I think I'm finally getting past it. I spent all of yesterday on the couch watching episodes of Dr. Who. I don't like being a couch potato, but I was so dang weak and lethargic. It was all I could do to click to the next episode on the xbox. I tried thinking of projects/foods I wanted to make when I ( Read more... )

So I look back to all the mean things I've said about my manager, and now I feel like a jerk. Because we just found out that her cancer came back, and she'll probably be gone by Christmas. So I feel awful. I never really got along with her, but I certainly never wanted her to relapse. I can't imagine a worse thing to go through. It's odd. She's ( Read more... )