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the new work wardrobe

embroidered lavender-grey velvet jacket (looks darker here)

back of embroidered jacket (this is more like the true color)

cobalt blue top (looks more exciting on me)

jade green tie-neck sweater

red mary janes with faux lizard trim

purple suede scalloped pumps

Today was my first (truncated) day of work, just a three-hour orientation day; new boss seems cool and not stick-up-butt-y like old boss so that is a relief. She said that things are generally pretty relaxed around there so i hope that's true. it was COLD in there though (she said that is often the case and she had a space heater at her desk as did the ref desk) so i will have to get some more sweaters and knee socks under my pants!!

i need to think of something to save the week-end. i can't sit at home the whole time. can't drive though. oh yes, i had another seizure last night (at Chipotle; fun).
At least i also picked up my SPO books at Borders so i can read those too.

i think i need some new craft. i haven't done any in a while but i haven't felt very inspired. i have the materials to do wire jig jewelry so maybe that...

dead president day
No work today in honor of Ford's death. So dad and i went for my blood work this morning and then down to Dallas to the new Whole Foods to see if my friend was working at the spa; she wasn't so we just walked around. the place is HUGE. i'll have to go sometime to actually shop, but definitely on a week-day, since it was very quiet. The aisles were so wide. I got pretzles from the bakery and Ricola.

After that we went to Northpark, a mall deep in the heart of Dallas. It used to be smaller and just designer stores so i never had much use for it, but they recently expanded and there is now a Lush, an Anthropologie and some other stuff that makes it worth the trip. So i got a cornflower-colored Beehouse teapot for a friend at Teavana (annoyed though because the clerk kept trying to push cups and coasters etc. etc. on me too), some Rosebud salve at Anthropologie (since i couldn't find mine the other day when in desperate need for some aid for my then-cold-chapped lip/nose area), Christmas cards on super-sale ($3 a set) at Urban Outfitters, and an embarassing amount of stuff at Lush. (I do not get down there very often so when i do i stock up.) Also had crepes for lunch at their food court: ham & cheese, followed by NUTELLA for dessert. yum.

all in all, a good day. well, for me, not as much for Ford.

freaky
i think i just saw a girl i went to high school with in a tv ad for Cold-Eeze.

Current Mood: befuddled

what next?
Okay, i need some new craft ideas. I have most recently been making paper dolls, collages and jewelry and a minor foray into bookmaking.
i have not done much with fiber because i don't sew well (and don't have a machine, and am bad with patterns), and i am very uncoordinated with things involving utensils like knitting crochet etc so that's pretty much out.
any ideas?

Poll #831721 What next?
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what should be the next craft that i take on?

please help a girl try to get her craft mojo back.

May i say that

scarletwench has made my day by posting Weird Al's "White and Nerdy" video from YouTube. :)

Current Mood: ROTFLOL

btw, lots of love and support going to

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btw, lots of love and support going to <lj-user="blue_lotus"> right now. be nice to yourself. and you are not "stupid" about anything. xoxoxo

okay, does anyone have a tried and trusted recipe for lemon poppyseed muffins or bread?
thanks ~

it went down about 30 degrees here between the beginning of the week and the end of it.
i came home for lunch and the air hadn't been switched to Off or Heat, and the temp in here was 69 degrees. Yikes!
Okay, back to work for Part II of my day...

just so you know
Having the theme from the tv show Rawhide stuck in your head is really, really annoying.

thank you.

Current Music: what'd i say?

happy birthday to the coolest Kari on the block (not to be confused with glitter imposters),

astronautical! ;)

and to

lindaquelinda, nifty swap partner and sharer of yummy recipes!

have fun, ladies. :)

woohoo, new BUST!
(I'm gonna like this every-2-months thing)

Exciting to have fun stuff to read! :)
Also, their "Around the World in 80 Girls" feature covers Dallas this time, though sadly it doesn't inform me on anything new (they do have a pic of my favorite veg restaurant, the Cosmic Cafe [nee Cosmic Cup], which is in an old, brightly-painted house).

It's funny to me that they mention so many western/cowboy things (well at least a couple) because after so many years here i just have blinders on to that sort of thing (though it is funny when you see some guy in a huge cowboy hat driving a Honda Civic down the street).

okay, I really hate when you say you're tired and somebody says, "You don't know the meaning of the word tired." Does that mean I have to prove myself? Should I fall asleep in class?

AND the damn woman in charge of grad gear at the TWU bookstore was there, but they're not doing anything until NEXT Tues and Wed. When it will of course be mobbed, since it's apparently only a two day "grad fair." Seriously, this school can go fuck itself at this point. I am so sick of everything about it.

I feel crappy, outlook and health. It's period crap coupled with general exhaustion, mostly related to school. I'm frequently just plain tired (sleep problems will do that to you), but of late i can't even pretend like I have any energy. I need to get done with my final few months here with as few fuck-ups as possible so I can just be finished. I'm doing things related to this tonight, tomorrow night, sometime Friday, some of Saturday and all of Sunday, or until it's done (in the event that it's over with early). My final portfolio is due the 15th, in the midst of a week that I know is going to be generally shitty for unrelated reasons.

If anyone thinks I'm whiny, I just don't care. That's what my journal is for. (I feel angry that I even feel like I have to be defensive about this, but it's something on my mind of late, since it's happened before.)

I think I'm generally pissed at the world today. Not at anyone who may be reading this, so you don't have to worry. But it's one of those times where you'd like to retreat to a cave and never resurface.

one good thing is that we're going out to dinner. I hear a margarita calling my name.

Current Mood: rotten

crab-corn chowder
as it turned out I had some coconut milk, so I made some of the chowder. My tweaked recipe turned out really tasty! if anyone wants the recipe I will happily share :)

bah
i feel like i'm the only one that's online ever on Sundays. It's kind of like what Fred Stoller said about holidays: "Everyone's off doing something i'm not: they're barbecueing, they're leaping, they're hugging, meanwhile I'm walking around going, 'Is there mail today? Is there -- is there mail; it's not a no-mail holiday, i want mail!'"

i am in a generally pissed off mood after this crappy morning. perhaps an infusion of snackiness (hell, lunch! it's noon isn't it...that might explain the headache) would help. Hummus and pita? chocoleet?

The week-end is fast evaporating, as is the month! i realized that things for which i had a lot of time (due early May etc.) are due SOON now!! good thing there's not too much left.

Had a nice time out with Carolyn last night. And the strawberry pie was delicious! My aunt in MI had called on Friday and i'd just been thinking about her b/c i was looking at the Big Boy pie recipe, and there's a BB down the street from her house. She said that when she was a teen her crowd would always go to hang out at Big Boy and order strawberry pie, which then was 50 cents a slice!
I'm really pleased ith how that recipe came out; have to make sure not to lose it!

So now i have one more pie crust to use. Any suggestions?
(oh yeah, the pillsbury crust was great. really flaky and nice)

I've gotta start rolling here because we go to Arts Fest at 11 and before then both mom and i need to get presentable, which can take a while...so i'm off to run some water to wash my hair and to soak the sore shoulder that i slept on weirdly.

hey monkey_thoughts
Hope you didn't have any freaky Neil Young dreams last night. {:S

did i speak too soon
i went in the kitchen after Tabitha had been in there and noticed some spots on the tile; not sure if it was urine or something else (no blood thank god). god i hope nothings wrong with her. is this what i get for mentioning the thing in the previous post? i know she's old and the vet said her kidneys were showing early signs of stress, but i can't deal with it. dear god don't let anything happen to that cat. i can't fucking take it right now.

Current Mood: distressed

gladly i'm doing better this afternoon than i was this morning, and for the past few days; it has been kind of freaky. i think getting out to school was helpful, though i was fairly foggy-feeling driving there.
something weird though: i must have been riding the same wavelengths as a couple of people in class because three times i said the exact same thing as someone else at the same time.
twice it was actually my professor; today we were doing group presentations and so she came out and sat in the room (vs. at the front) and happened to sit next to me. you were allowed to interrupt with questions (this was a casual setup) and while one girl was talking the prof and i asked the same thing at the same moment (it was a simple sentence, something like "For how long?" but the timing and intonation was exactly the same).
Then later the prof was back at the front asking what various people we'd interviewed had said were duties they dealt with, and i mentioned e-journals but said something about it being "ephemeral" and she chimed in with the same word at the same moment again.
THEN it happened with Alissa, the girl who sits next to me: the class was talking about the various titles that the people they'd interviewed had, and one lady in class said how her interviewee had gone by "Director," and specifically NOT "Library Director" (though that was really her job); Alissa and i both said at the same time, "What is she, like Steven Speilberg?"
The fact that this happened 3 times in one class period was more than a little weird. I'm not sure if this is some kind of good or bad omen for this class now...

in other news:
1)i stopped at Cost Plus and got a cool teapot for Teresa, my acupuncturist; i had seen a cool one, kind of rust-colored glazed, with a chinese double happiness emblem on it, and wanted to get it for Xmas for her but she's been so helpful to me of late that i wanted to do it now. the only trouble is that it's rather big and i can't find a gift bag with a big enough bottom to put it in (i don't want to rest it on its side for fear of cracking the spout off or any such thing). i guess i could use a box but i don't want to worry about it rolling over and over in the box as i turn it over and over to wrap, you know? So if you have any ideas, please share!!

2)this is off in a totally other direction, but do any of you know of any YA books (for kids like 8-12?) where the subject is a new kid in school? searches on amazon and google have turned up little of use to me, so if you know one/some offhand and wouldn't mind sharing i would thank you heartily.

okay, need to eat something now. my diet has been really off since we got home. and i think While You Were Out is on; i'll treat myself before the inevitable hours of homework later....