Look, I'm a Rasta

As promised, here is a photo of my new Rasta Hat

So much for making up my own patterns, that is unless I start selling my wares on Haight Street. At least this one won't matte down my new haircut!

We also finished our wedding invitations today, or at least the printing part. We had started before but we had a little mishap with the placement of the design on the paper so we had to do it over again. I'm relieved to have this taken care of...but we have a lot more work to do! We've still got to mount the cream-colored cards onto a green card, line the envelopes with paper that we haven't bought yet, write and print the inserts, and address them. No problem! I can't wait to address 150 envelopes!

Here is a nice little photo of the invites

Done and Done!

Yay! I'm finally done with my project after four whole days of drafting, gluing, typing, and drafting and drafting. I finished ten minutes before I had to leave for class, wonderful.

This is my elevation, I named the house "Hale Pa'ina" which might mean Party House in Hawaiian but I highly doubt it...but my teacher will never know the difference anyways.

This is my plan


Now I am going to go watch the Amazing Race, drink a glass of wine, and get some sleep so that I can spend all day tomorrow Print Gocco-ing our wedding invitations.
Ciao.

The Current State of Affairs

My procrastinating has reached its highest point this weekend, and the accelerated heartbeat has set in. I have a big project due on Tuesday night (tomorrow) for my Interior Design class and I have a LOT left to do. That probably means that I shouldn't be blogging, but staying on focus has never been my strong suit. Here I am.
The biggest problem so far is that part of the project is a two-point perspective drawing of the living room interior of my "dream house". Who the hell thinks that you can teach two-point perspective in an hour? This is completely ridiculous and I have no problem blaming all of my frustration on my teacher..because I'm convinced that she's in a walking coma and she lives in a dream world herself.
What I have left to do:
1. An elevation of the exterior view of the house.
2. Finish the 2 pt. perspective drawing (which I've already spent two days on and it doesn't even look that good)
3. Write a little ditty about the house and who's going to use it, what for, etc.
4. Mount all drawings onto Mat board with spray glue, which is an event in itself if you're familiar with spray glue.
5. Type up room names and apply them to the plan drawing.
6. Make it pretty so that I'm not embarrassed when I have to hold it up in front of the class.
Plus, I have school tonight and tomorrow morning.
This is what my 2 pt. perspective drawing looks like right now:

Wish me luck!

In other news, Matt apparently doesn't read my blog which means that I now have free reign to write anything I want to about him and he'll have no clue. I find this power very exciting. I waited all day yesterday to recieve some kind of punishment for posting a picture of him hugging a stuffed dog, but nothing happened.

Also, I've recently learned that I have some daily readers that aren't stepping up to the plate and commenting....Matt Grace, that's you. Get your Sushi-eating ass together and write me a note sometime, will ya?

Okay, if I'm gonna watch Oprah at Four I'd better get back to work.

Sorry Matt, but I had to...

Matt loves anything that's soft. His mom says that when he was little she would find him rubbing the panty-hose legged manican's at the department store because he thought they were soft. (He's not going to be happy that I shared that story.) He doesn't do that anymore, which would be creepy, but he does still have an appreciation for soft things. Last year someone gave our house-mate, Jessica, a stuffed animal dog for her birthday. It's no surprise that Matt loves that thing because it is, I admit, very soft and he insists on calling it by the name printed on the tag around it's neck "Xander". I hate that thing, and I just want it out of the living room. Last night I found him cuddling it when he fell asleep on the couch.

Chop Chop

It's been forever since I posted last! I need to round up some pictures so that I can liven this up a bit but I've been so busy for the past few days. I spent a great weekend at Matt's parent's house in Orange County for my second bridal shower. My friend Faith and I haven't spent that much time together in years, so it was really great to have her to myself for a whole three days. I also got to see Kelly and my friend Courtney, whom I hadn't seen in about two years.
This is going to sound really cheesy, but I have to say that it is so warm and fuzzy to have all of these people going out of their way for me and Matt this year. It has really made me realize how many great people we have around us. I thought I would be really uncomfortable being the center of attention, but it actually feels really good to have people cheering me on because I really feel great about getting married to Matt and I'm excited. We have so much more to do to plan the wedding though, and I'm beginning to feel the pressure to make some major progress. Not this weekend though, I have too much homework!

24

Matt and I are a little late to catch on to some things, and 24 is one of them. Thanks to Netflix we've just finished the second disk of the first season...which is only 8 episodes. If you haven't seen this show, it's like crack, I'm telling you! I really honestly think that Matt and I could spend days watching it nonstop. He's already told me to go and move the other episodes up on our queue so that we can get on with it and see what happens.
On the knitting front, I've officially turned into a hat factory. In trying to use up some of my yarn stash I've just been knitting hats like crazy. My latest creation was supposed to be ribbed around the base and poof out sort of (but not totally) like a beret. It is now fit for someone who has a whole head of dreadlocks...which I do not. It's super cute if you know somebody though, I think I'll be on the lookout for a deserving dreaded person. I'll post pictures when I'm done with it. I'm dying for a real project though, and i think I'm going to attempt the shrug from Joelene's post today. It's too cute to pass up...plus i hate finishing.
About the milkmen thing, sorry if you were grossed out by it! It's just unbelievable to me and I couldn't pass up the chance to comment on it.

Milkmen

So after several days of procrastinating, I started to deal with my homework situation today...leaving myself only two days to write a 4 page research paper that I had yet to research and to study for a test that I have yet to study for. I also need to read "Go Down, Moses" by William Faulkner so that I can write a paper that's due in a week but I'll be out of town all weekend so I'll have to write it by Thursday (yeah, right). At this moment I really want to have a drink, but I'm thinking that maybe I should hold off so that I can come back to my paper-writing after I watch Grey's Anatomy at 10 o'clock.
Anyways, my research paper is about Intercountry adoption as it relates to Chinese and Korean girls who have been adopted into white families. It's a very interesting topic and my online research has led me to many kinds of information, some of which is really wierd. I was lured into a world that I really didn't want to be a part of when I found this site, but I just couldn't prevent myself from reading it. Gross, is all I have to say. As if kids nowadays don't have enough to deal with, people have to go and confuse them even more.

Mom, don't look!

I learned how to crotchet for my mom, so she better like this.

So it's not the best photo of me, but hopefully it shows the hat okay. I'm just going to kiss my own ass for a minute and say that I'm so impressed with myself for figuring out how to make it all by myself. When I first came home and tried to figure it out I got so frustrated! I became completely obsessed with understanding the pattern and once I got the hang of it I couldn't stop. I think it's probably fair to say that this is a pretty easy pattern, but still. The internet is a wonderful thing, I never would have thought that it would be such a great tool for crafting, but it is such a great resource. Thanks to Joelene at misocrafty for introducing me to
craftsterbecause it was so helpful.
Now I want to crotchet more hats. I think I'm going to try and come up with my own pattern next time. I like that it gives you more flexibility as you're going along but the hat is a little more solid than a knitted hat.

In other news, I actually started working on my resume today. This just might be the end of my free life, it's back into the world of employment. I'm having a bit of a hard time thinking of my good qualities and accomplishments, but I'm almost there. I promised someone that I would send them my resume by the end of the week, so that's what got me to do it. I've been really worried about how I'm going to ask for a lot of time off this summer when I get married, but I can't let that stop me from working at all. We'll see what happens.

I also bought a Bust magazine today, despite the fact that it's $5. The price was always what stopped me before, but I've decided that it's worth it. Haven't finished reading it yet, but I'm enjoying it thoroughly so far. Other newly discovered enjoyment: Grey's Anatomy. Have you seen it? Matt and I really like watching it. It's become our second-favorite show, after The Amazing Race of course.

Got it!

Nevermind, I think I figured it out. I'll post pictures tomorrow!

Crafty Crochet Question

Okay, so I got a little cocky at the yarn store yesterday and I bought a crochet pattern and yarn to make a hat for my mom's birthday, despite the fact that I have no idea how to read a crochet pattern. I think I might have the right idea as to how to do it, but my pattern uses an abbreviation that I can't find in my book or in any of the online tutorials about crocheting in the round. Does anyone know how to crochet? If so, here is a sample:

After making the initial chain...
Rnd 1: *sc 1 st, 2 sc in next st*, rep. *-*.
Now, the part I don't get is the "2 sc in next st" part. Is this the same as a "dc" or double-crochet?

Help!!!!

I just can't bring myself to walk into the yarn store with my tail between my legs and figure this out for myself, my ego is too big.

Goodies

Daffodils from Trader Joes
Every time I go to Trader Joe's (which is quite often)I think about buying a bunch of Daffodils but I never do. I don't know why, because they're only 99 cents...but I finally gave in a few days ago and I'm addicted. When I bought them they were just buds but they've all opened up now and they're so pretty on the kitchen table. Now you can enjoy them too.
My other most favorite thing from this weekend is my new Amos Lee Album. He opened for a Norah Jones show we saw a few months ago and Matt and I both loved him. He has a great voice, and I especially like his song "Arms of a Woman". I highly recommend, I've already listened to it six times today.

Pushing it

When I was growing up my mom would always make me stay home for one extra day after I'd been sick, just so that I would be sure to get better. If she would have seen me yesterday she would have told me I was "pushing it". After spending four days as a sick pajama-wearing-noseblowing wreck, I spent my first day in the outside world shopping at Target and Trader Joe's and then had a dinner party for eight people. I did okay except for the fact that I had to carry a pack of tissues around with me and my nose was all red and chapped. There was a point though at Trader Joe's that my eyes were so watery and my nose so runny that I thought I'd have to abort my mission, but I made it through.
Our dinner was a success too, which was good. We had a bunch of Matt's friends from growing up over with their girlfriends. We made lasagna from scratch, which seems really fancy but it's not, salad, and Jessica made an apple crisp for dessert. It was the perfect dinner for a party because it didn't require any preparation while the guests were here and it didn't get cold while we waited for everyone to arrive. Our other attempts at dinner parties have been a little bumpy, so we were pleased with the outcome of this one. We get really into setting the table all pretty and making it nice for people and I really wish I would have taken a picture of our cute setup, but I forgot. I'm such an irresponsible blogger. I really do wonder how KB manages to have a camera in her hand at every opportune moment.
I think that's enough for now. I've got a big day of shopping and lunch ahead of me...