This new year brings quite a lot to the table and I think I'm going to need one of those enormous wall calenders to keep track.  Basically K and I will say our goodbyes over breakfast before 8:30 am and see each other around 10 pm.  Bummer.  We actually plan out dates now so that we can spend some quality time together.  So it looks like I'll be ( Read more... )

Thanks to some help from Reginleif I've got a coat plus liner all cut out and ready to sew together.  It was a bit difficult finding 4 yards of wool fabric considering the sale currently happening at fabric store.  So it took much debating about multiple colours and types of liners, but finally I found what I needed and spent more than I wanted. It ( Read more... )

Been learning a lot recently about organizing myself better and learning how to manage projects. Getting the proper information in a timely manner seems to be the key to success.  I have a couple of things I've been working on for other people and I realized in this zero hour that one of them is completely the wrong size.  This was discovered when ( Read more... )

Oh yes...it is that time of year again where the gym fills up with the resolution types.  Loose weight, eat right, and hit the gym with not no sense of etiquette.  While I admire your fortitude to make a positive change in your life please remember the following:

1) Wipe down your machines.  While trying to expel months of cheese burgers from your ( Read more... )

Alright, how much bigger than your normal dress measurements do you make a coat?  (i.e sleeves, shoulders, bust,...)

The roots of Occcupy Wall Street are radical and anarchist, by which I mean that the people who organized it and who are at the heart of the occupation of Zuccotti Park are of that persuasion. Relatedly, the “aims” of the occupation are fairly diffuse. Anarchists don’t just think that corporate greed is bad or that the bailouts were wrong; they ( Read more... )

Been spending a lot of time power cleaning the apartment after a long long winter up here in Portland.  When it is too cold to open your windows it makes you not really want to douse the living space with cleaner.  Kinda like hot boxing fumes at that point.  Am looking forward to camping over the 4th of July weekend and then heading back into town ( Read more... )

After a pretty hard round of classes I finished up my finals this week at long last.    Instead of sitting around relaxing I jumped head first in to the storage room and have been tearing up our gear ever since.  I'm excited about the prospect of heading back to practices with more regularity.  There is only so much gym time, pel work, and video ( Read more... )

I pulled my bike out of storage today on account of the nice weather, and realized as I was peddling along, that riding around outside is nothing like riding the bike in the gym.  Only had to stop twice to tighten down the gears since a bolt was loose, but over all the repairs are working out nicely.  Also dragging a bike up and down a flight of ( Read more... )

Stress Stress Stress!  had two exams back to back today.  Lecture exam on bone, bone structure, joints, and basic nervous system.   The Lab exam included all the skeletal bones.. I know subtle, but like seriously they were all on the exam.  Even the fetal skull bones..which for some reason I found super creepy.  Nothing like holding an infant skull ( Read more... )