birthdays.

david sedaris, picnics, cupcakes, and thai. yummm.

more pictures on flickr.

guts.

i handled an excessive amount of 15th century sheep intestine today. and then came home to a big box of homemade cookies from my (mind reading) sister.

beat that.

breakin' out the hoodie.

it is currently 57 degrees in houston. it has been overcast and rainy and windy all day, and this awesome cold front looks like it'll linger for at least a week. i wore a sweater today. it's ridiculous how giddy i am, but i am a girl that needs seasons. i know it's not gonna last long, so i'm enjoying every second of it and am forever grateful that this is the week it turned.

weather obsessed. oklahoman at heart.

stephen colbert for president of south carolina!

well, i finally finished the curtains for our bedroom. whew! i spent most of yesterday doing that since i was basically stuck at home waiting to hear about my car (which is fine, by the way. the check engine light just didn't get reset last time.). i also got a bunch of birthday cards made.

today jeff is at school taking his 5 hour (bleh) algorithms mid-term. it really almost gives me a headache to even think about it. so i went to hobby lobby. there were two pretty exciting things about this trip in particular: first, i figured out how to get there using the highways (gasp!). it really wasn't that much faster, but i avoided about 200 sinkholes, so i think it's worth it. secondly, i bought so much crap that i'll be busy crafting well into next year. happy early birthday to me.

and, this has nothing to do with anything, but when we were listening to our saturday morning npr shows, they were doing the pledge drive- i can't believe how much money they get people to give for such a crappy station!! i think the KGOU drives raise around 130k biannually. the station here, where if you want to listen to anything but classical music you have to buy an HD radio, raised 23,000 just during ONE show this morning. i was shocked. jeff and i were both loyal members of the station in OK. but, i'm sorry, if i have to spend $200 on a radio just to listen to PUBLIC radio...

i don't know what we'd do without podcasts.

oh oh! and i am super excited that starting this monday we have a forecast with highs in the 70's!!! for at least 3 days!! i may see fall yet.

1646

everything in the world should be matted with #1646 (sky blue). it's the most wonderful color. you should check it out. i wish there was an equivalent to this color in green, but sadly there is not. therefore, from this point on, everything i frame (ever) will be matted with 1646.

i wish.

they bought me a new mat cutter at work. it is divine, and currently at the top of the official list of unreasonable ways to cheer me up.

so i have this routine at work where i read on all my breaks. it adds up to about an hour a day, which is usually not enough, but the book i just started (gravity's rainbow)... for some reason i can't get into it. which is weird cause i love thomas pynchon. but i started it 4 days ago and i'm only 30 pages in. ugh. so on my lunchbreak today, instead of reading, i started making lists of projects and art supplies, and one of these days i will be a whirlwind of felt and findings and glass and glue at hobby lobby. money money money. wouldn't it be nice?

my car is sick again. i think i've driven roughly 50 miles in the last month (since the last time i took it to the shop), yet here she goes again. i guess it's good that i'm used to not needing it.

quickbooks sucks.

one of my new jobs at work is to get our invoices into the computer for a christmas mailing they want to do. trouble is, someone stopped doing it in march. so, i'm discovering the many reasons why i'm not a secretary. also, some of my coworkers are apparently really bad at math (all sales are done by hand).

we have a new neighbor upstairs. he was stomping around until 5 this morning, though generally it hasn't been too bad so far.

we got tickets to see david sedaris on the 25th (my birthday present from the boy). very very excited about that :) i also strongly hinted to jeff how great it would be to have a picnic on my birthday...

it's best to start days with this.

yesterday was the first day that it didn't feel like the middle of summer. it stayed below 90 and there was even a nice breeze! it was great. we even ate dinner outside.

jeff is heading to austin this evening with the outdoor club to go climbing. finally. he hasn't been since before we moved and i know that's been driving him a little crazy. he has fall break monday and tuesday, and then finals the rest of the week. i think we are both glad to see the semester half over.

it just does.

why does a fresh haircut always lift my spirits?

pepper spray vs. stun gun

i had a fairly creepy experience the other day on my walk home. luckily i was only a few blocks from the apartment, but it has me doing research on self defense equipment. just in case. i already take as many precautions as possible- i don't carry any money and stay on well traveled streets, but still...

the 5 pounds of chex mix we got in the mail from jeff's mom sure helped though :) yum yum yum.