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Monday! Jun 30 2003 // 3:14 pm // permalink life in the slow laneI’ve finally done it. This may not seem like a huge feat to you, but i’ve actually lived in one apartment for a full year. The anniversary was technically about a month ago, but i didn’t want to jinx our lease being renewed by yapping about it all over the place. So. Yay me. I’ve lived in one apartment for a full year, for the first time since 1998. Guess how many times i’ve moved in that time. Give up? Eleven. Guess how many times I’ve moved in my whole life. Twenty-one. I think. I don’t have a clear memory of each and every one before age six. ::::: Vague memories of the different homes I lived in before age six (in no particular order - mostly because I can’t remember the order): Married Housing, Central Michigan University, Mt. Pleasant, MI The buildings were set up in fours, with playgrounds in the center courtyards. The play areas were ringed by sidewalks that ran along the buildings. We would ride our big-wheels around, and around, and around the square for what must have seemed like entire days to the overtired parents inside. First Halloween: I insisted that I would be a raisin box. I’m pretty sure I only went to one house. My brother, 8 months old, was sitting in his high-chair next to the counter. He got a hold of the cord for the crock-pot and pulled the hole dang thing over on himself. I was pissed because nobody was paying attention to the little speck of gravy that had landed on my knee. That little kid got all the attention all the time. Uncle Larry took me upstairs to clean off my knee, and probably to get me away from the horrific scene my young brain could not comprehend taking place in the kitchen. My dad came home from a softball or baseball game. I was sitting on the floor. I looked up, and realized just how tall he was. Six foot six is a lot of dad standing over you. I remember wondering how he could hear me if I was so far away on the floor.
My brother celebrated his first birthday and got a Bert and Ernie cake that I was fiercely jealous of. Flew my first kite, got lost in my first cornfield, and found potatoes growing in the driveway. Dissuaded my brother from sticking something in the light socket that one time, too. I don’t know why I remember it so well, but he was standing up in his crib in his footie pajamas and I was like, “hey man, that’s like a totally stupid idea. Let’s play blocks instead.”
Uncle Larry was home from university for the summer. We were only there for a few weeks, I think. I would get up early probably every day, and sneak in his room and make him play hide-n-seek with me. Being a university student, I doubt he was interested in getting up early, but he would tell me to go hide anyway. For the next few hours, I would give up waiting for him to find me - believing that I was just too good at hiding - and go back to his room to start a new game. Somehow, I never put two-and-two together to realize that the reason he was always asleep when I went back was because he had never gotten up to begin with. Ha, ha, ha, Uncle Larry.
Hail the size of softballs. We put one in the freezer for a snowball fight at a later date. Holly Hobby bedspread. *sigh* I still love Holly Hobby. There was this weird fireplace/furnace/stove thing in the living room area. One time when we had a babysitter, my brother drew all over the stove thing with crayons. I don’t know how the babysitter didn’t notice what he was doing. But I guess all babysitters weren’t as cool as I was when I was a babysitter. Maybe it wasn’t even when a babysitter was there. Maybe my mom was just in the kitchen or something. Anyway, he was in super big trouble.
Friday! Jun 27 2003 // 11:04 pm // permalink the current cut i took this photo with jeremy’s camera yesterday. i’m such a cheesy dork. Thursday! Jun 19 2003 // 10:48 am // permalink it’s better than watching tvkevan has thought up another way for me to category is you can even play competitively. i can tell this is going to suck a lot of my day away, just like 20 questions did (and still does!) when kevan brought it up a few weeks back. now all i have to do is coordinate with bushnell and i’ll be handing over the rest of my day to blognomic. we have an “i will if you will” agreement, but somebody has to make the first move. Wednesday! Jun 18 2003 // 2:32 pm // permalink dr. who!me: *sigh* i am officially in over my head with the knitting thing. you: what? wasn’t it mere hours ago that you said you were going to buy yarn one project at a time? me: yes. and now that i’ve bought yarn for one project, i have my eye on a way better project. you: well? you: can i have one? me: sure. tell all your friends. i’m making dr. who scarves for everyone. i’m going to make at least one of each version. let me know which one you prefer. Tuesday! Jun 17 2003 // 1:13 pm // permalink It’s All Good vs. It Is What It Isat flakmag
Tuesday! Jun 17 2003 // 11:29 am // permalink vintage cable knits etc.“I have never known a really chic woman whose appearance was not, in large part, an outward reflection of her inner self.” I found this quotation floating above a dress at vintageous. I’m in love with pretty much everything on this site. Chicago born Mainbocher designed the dress (called Blithe Spirit) for the Duchess of Winsdor’s wedding, and some of the uniforms for WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service - of which my grandmother was a woman accepted). Horst P. Horst, the fashion photographer, took a famous photo of one of Mainbocher’s corsets called, *ahem* Mainbocher Corset. I stumbled across vintageous while trolling around for cable knit patterns. I know what you’re thinking. You’re thinking that I’m crazy if I think I can make something like that after only one week of knitting. Well obviously you haven’t heard my new song. It’s called Born to Knit. You should stop by my house for a performance some time. Actually, if you stood on my front sidewalk for long enough, you’d probably hear me singing it. Anyway, I found this fabu pattern at vintageous. Monday! Jun 16 2003 // 6:11 pm // permalink More Moon MaidFrom tarzan.org, the official Edgar Rice Burroughs website…
Monday! Jun 16 2003 // 4:16 pm // permalink new tattoo ideawhen i first found this at violet books, i thought it would make a lovely tattoo. it will probably look more like this, as i’m kind of partial to b/w tattoos over color ones. but her red dress is soooo pretty. can’t decide. but now i’m curious about the moon maid, so now i’m going to read it. does anyone know anything about it? i’m going to research it a little more, but…off the top of your heads, any thoughts? in the meantime, check out all the weird cover art it has had over the years. she looks a little, um…sedated Sunday! Jun 15 2003 // 12:12 pm // permalink Your Brain Usage ProfileAuditory : 47%
Your tendency to be organized and logical and attend to details is reasonably well-established which should afford you success regardless of your chosen field of endeavor, unless it requires total spontaneity and ability to improvise, your weaker traits. However, you are far from rigid or overcontrolled. You possess a degree of individuality, perceptiveness, and trust in your intuition to function at much more sophisticated levels than most. Having given sufficient attention to detail, you can readily perceive the larger aspects and implications of a situation or of learning. You are functional and practical, but can blend abstraction and theory into your framework readily. The equivalence of your auditory and visual learning orientation gives you two equally effective sensory input systems, each with distinctive features. You can process both unidimensionally and multidimen- sionally with equal facility. When needed, you sequence material while at other times you “intake it all” and store it for processing later. Your natural ability to use your senses is also synthesized in your way of learning. You can be reflective in your approach, absorbing material in a non-aggressive manner, and at other times voracious in seeking out stimulation and experience. Overall you tend to be somewhat more critical of yourself than is necessary and avoid enjoying life too much because of a sense of duty. You feel somewhat constrained and tend to sometimes restrict your expressiveness. In any given situation, you will opt for the rational, and learning of almost any type should be easy for you. You might need certain ideas explained to you in order to fit them into your scheme of things, but you’re at least open to that! |
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