hey y'all,

i haven't posted here in forever. however, i still read my FL to keep up with you! i've been blogging over here:

smartassbride.blogspot.com

it's mostly wedding stuff... and by that i mean it's supposed to be mostly wedding stuff, but my most commonly-used tag so far is "non-wedding". follow me over there, if you like! (and leave me comments... i love that.)

Current Mood: up too early

thanks to an unexpected week off from work, i just got back yesterday from an extended seattle trip. i was only planning on staying till sunday night, so this was a nice (although financial woe-inducing) surprise! it was a really good trip. saturday one of tommy's friends drove him and his stuff down in his van, and then he took us both back up. we went to mt. rainier on the way, which is incredible and huge. you're marveling over how huge it is, thinking it's a 1/2 mile away... and then greg tells you it's still 10 miles away. i can't wait to go back! other notable happenings: getting to hang out with geoff and lisa one last time, burritos at bimbos, the conservatory at volunteer park, hanging with shiloah and holding baby maia for an hour, picnic at gasworks park with an unexpected dress rehearsal for an awesome play involving huge animal heads and a tugboat pulling a bed, ice cream at mollie moon, watching the sun set over seattle from fremont peak park and an impromptu happy hour afterward in fremont. i'm going to miss seattle a lot. but in the meantime, i'm going to miss tommy... and be a little relieved that the traveling and the worry about the cat being alone and eating too much because we want to go to all the good spots that we love, are over. oh, and sleeping on a futon... that's over too. i'm exhausted and just want him home! yesterday when i got home i laid around for awhile, and then put some of tommy's stuff away. he'll be here for good in 8 days, but i wanted to get rid of the pile of boxes.

today i was more productive. i have a (cute! from goodwill!) strapless dress to wear to my cousin's wedding next month, and when i tried it on at home to take pictures, the zipper split. so i'm installing a new one. this morning i tore the broken one out and pinned in the new one... and realizing i don't actually have an invisible zipper foot for my machine! here are the other things i did today: mailed another etsy package (that's 4 in the past 2 weeks!), drank coffee and worked on mine and tommy's resumes at the Cellar Door, bought the needed zipper foot at cool cottons, and went to the eastbank farmer's market, where i ran into theresa and then gillian and the toddler she nannies! i bought celery, pattypan squash, a walla walla onion, a couple purple potatoes, dino kale, and some garlic - for $11.25. then we went to the community garden and looked at all the fabulous things that are growing. it's really nice to be back on my bike, despite the bad, bad wrist pain i'm dealing with. i think i'll go for another ride later tonight, as well, without hauling around my computer and a ton of veggies! but first i need to figure out something for dinner. and work on the zipper project. i also have yarn that i need to start turning into a shrug to wear with the dress for the wedding.

i'm feeling really glad to be alive today.

Current Location: home
Current Mood: relaxed
Current Music: cat stevens

i'm now determined to get a dress made by chrissy at wai-ching. omg! if money was no issue, i'd be all over the athena dress or the eucyliptus dress. however, i also really love the pandereta dress, and it's down closer to my price range! and i could get the embroidery and trim in a different color if i want! she works out of seattle, which means i can go look at stuff in person and get fitted and all of that.
( pics! )</div>it seems that the d-bag upstairs has finally calmed his need for LOUD music, and so i'm going to bed!

Tags: dresses, wedding

i'm working on an online application for my most-preferred district, which has about a million steps. i still need to do 3 essay questions and put down 3 references. one problem though: my first cooperating teacher has failed to send me my letter of recommendation. my second cooperating teacher gave me one, but i can't find it! and i still haven't sent the vice-principal my resume, which she wanted so she could write me a letter. i am so irresponsible! trying to get my shit together now, but a job i want has its closing date tomorrow and i don't think i'm going to make it - not at this rate.

and in other self-sabotage, my library books are overdue again.

but on the other hand, i've paid my credit card bill on-time for the past 5 months - which is a record for me lately.


in other news, i'm about to buy train tickets for me and tommy to california for the beginning of august!

this visit was fantastic from start to finish. it was really hectic in the seattle portion, but we slowed down a lot once we got to portland. we hung out at home, went for some long walks, cooked good food, and talked a lot. 26 days till he moves down. i can last 26 days... especially since it has been nearly 9 months that we've been this far apart.

i start back at work as a camp counselor tomorrow morning. i'm in charge of after-care next week - which means i'm there till 6ish. i've got plans for one evening this week - a bike potluck and karaoke on tuesday, and have a lot of random stuff i need to do (like apply for jobs! and do laundry!) the other evenings. i should be able to stay somewhat busy. i'm trying to get all this bank stuff worked out, which is affecting everything else financial in my life and is making me bite my nails a lot. it's going to be ok. i've got a supportive partner, steady work (for now) and next month my rent gets cut in half. i can get through the next 26 days.

Current Mood: hopeful

this is my last full day visiting tommy in seattle, ever. besides knowing the end of sleeping on this futon is coming, i'm actually really sad about it. even though i don't want to live here for a number of reasons, i still really love being here. but i'm also excited, because the next time i come up here it'll be because we're moving tommy's stuff down. and then the next time will be because we're coming up together to visit friends.

my sweater is at a standstill. i'm afraid i've made a bad, bad mistake.

when a pattern says to "decrease at each end of next 4 rows", do they mean "end" to mean "each side"? as in, i'm decreasing at the BEGINNING and the END of each row? or just at the very end?


also, wtf does "increase each end of 7th row and every following 8th row to 135 stitches mean??

knitters, help meeeee!

Current Location: seattle, washington
Current Mood: frustrated

i am currently working on the last assignment of my master's degree. you'd think that i wouldn't procrastinate, that i'd know exactly what to do, and that i'd be done by now. right?

wrong. this is such a bullshit assignment that i'm a bit freaked out over the expectations for it. am i interpreting it as bullshit when i actually need to be writing something super-academic? right now i'm trying to figure out how to write a bibliography for a project that didn't really do any reading for. most of my research consisted of asking people a question and then writing out their responses in an annotated list. when i have this kind of doubt it leaves me completely unsure of what kind of work i need to do.

so it looks like i'll be taking amtrak to seattle tomorrow evening. i realized that with my student advantage card (which was a total deal by-the-way), i'll be paying like $3 more for the train than to ride with some stranger from craigslist.

i want to go home. i need the internet access that sweetpea is providing me with, though! debating another latte... it IS the last day of graduate work after all.

time for a fresh start! i'm thinking this will mostly be public, but we'll see.