a *sigh* blog.

we'll start this blog with awesomeness.

just had an awesome three-ish days with my dude, even if i had to work two of them.  did a lot of cuddly things, crafty things, shopping things, gaming things and generally hanging out with my husband-to-be kind of things.  it was totally awesome, and yes, i will  keep saying awesome because you just can't have too much awesome.

in other awesome news, my mixed media glass is going pretty well, except for the fact that i'm already tired of drawing tea sets but still has several more tea set drawings looming on the horizon.

i mean, for realsies?  do i need this many
tea sets to choose from?

i'm going to be picking thumbnails from this sheet to use for the rest of this class.  one week down, four and a half more to go.  sigh!  i'm guessing if we continue at three a week i have nine more plus a final.  sigh again.  D:

but now to the real sigh part of my blog.

i'm feeling very torn about my job.  and here's the reason.  i fucking love this job.  i love it.  i do.  the problem here is this:  the manager that hired me was training me to be a key holder so that i could help them out with closing some nights.  the manager that hired me is gone.  i think she transfered to another store, but i'm not sure.  and no more of this training has gone on since she left, so i figure it's not gonna happen now.  and since it's not gonna happen, i've been off about four days a week.  i actually have the next *five* days off this week.

but what i'm really afraid of is this:  the manager that hired me promised to keep me after the holidays as a regular part timer.  i don't think the new manager we get will necessarily have to live up to that.  especially considering now that the holidays are over, this store is *dead*.  i spend a lot of time reading the books in the store because there is nothing going on.  even when the store is full, people just aren't buying anything.  so part of me is afraid that when we do get a new manager i may not even be able to keep my job.

this really sucks for somebody who just got engaged, is trying to move out and also tentatively planning a wedding.

i wonder if all my papa john's phone answering experience would get me points toward a secretarial job.  i can't keep taking these part time retail jobs that make promises to me that they can't keep.  i've taken lots of courses on the most commonly used computer programs, i can make a spread sheet, i can type pretty fast (and with correct capital letters, contrary to the look of my blog), i can answer phones. . .that sounds secretary-ish to me.  anyway, i'm gonna get a resume together and those are the jobs i'm going to apply for.  hopefully that will go well.

oh well.  we'll just have to see.  i'm off now to call my dude and then try to crochet a hat.

peace.

a crafty blog.

since i'm still training at spencer's and also waiting to hear back from some other places i put applications in at the mall, i've had a few days of free time (and a few more to come!), so i've been doing a lot of creative crafty things to fill my empty days.

first is the knives scarf i mentioned a few posts back. i had actually made pieces of it that i was going to sew together at the end, and i had made them really wide since i figured i'm a big girl and i need a big scarf. well, those pieces were really heavy and since i wanted this scarf to hit over 100 inches, i figured it wasn't very practical. so i unraveled those pieces and started a skinny scarf. it's about half the width of the first pieces i made and more true to the style in the movie. i'm already at 55 inches, but i ran out of black in the middle of a segment so i had to stop for the night.

i think it looks pretty good, it's already as long as some scarves that i own, but if you've seen scott pilgrim vs. the world (the knives vs. ramona fight, specifically), her scarf is WAY LONG. 100 inches still might not be the exact length of hers, but i think if i go any longer it'll just be annoying to wear.

trying to show the length. it's laid out over the armchair in my room. my hook is still attached to the end so i don't lose it. :P

i've also started a new painting. it actually happened by accident. i was actually painting on a pink and purple striped background i had made, and i thought i could freehand a cartoon kitty in that blue color. and guess what? couldn't do it. so i just repainted the whole thing blue. that's when i decided on the random sky/cloud theme.

there's the girly owl. when it was just the light purple base with none of the details, chris asked me if i was painting a fat batman and it hurt my feelings. D:

close up of the owl. yes, she looks very soul-less and dead at the moment. her eyes will be painted slightly smaller than the purple circles marking them so they'll have that dark outline. and yes, she'll have feet in the future. i also have this awesome glow in the dark paint that chris gave me, so it may have random glowing things. and possibly a rainbow. it's kiddy-style storybook type scene, so i think a rainbow is perfectly acceptable. but we'll see.

so yeah. crafty stuff.

peace.

a post-thanksgiving blog.

so as i'm sure you can tell, i'm late again in reporting anything of value. thanksgiving came and went, it was awesome but made my tummy hurt with all the food-ness.

my awesome thanksgiving crimp. :D

following thanksgiving was BLACK FRIDAY MADNESS, in which myself, my dude and his mom decided it would be a good idea to freeze our collective asses off outside of sam's club at 3:30 am to get my baby a new laptop. luckily, we did get our frozen fingers on a pretty sweet laptop, but we only got to warm up for about ten minutes before we were off again.

standing in line outside in the cold. we look like snow monsters.

but let us back up for a moment, and relive my SNOW TERRORS.

my dude picked me up at my house at about 10-ish, and we actually left at about 11-ish (had to fill himself with our tasty thanksgiving leftovers, om nom nom!) and as we were leaving there was definitely something invisible and frozen falling from the sky. as we traveled, these invisible frozen somethings grew and grew until they were giant fat snowflakes. these snow flakes were already freaking me out, since when you drive through giant snow it looks like what i call (and what chris called also, which surprised me) 'warp speed', where it looks like white lines coming at you as you travel through SPACE.

now my dude already knows how i just can't see things the way he does (literally, due to extremely fucked-up vision), so he checked on me to make sure i wasn't going to turn into 'a big ball of OH NOES!' i told him i was probably fine. as we traveled down the interstate and street lights became more and more scarce, i became more and more afraid. we were traveling slower than normal, which seem perfectly logical to me due to the conditions, but everyone else around us thought it was a bright sunny day and proceeded to zoom around us. which was fine by me. as long as they crashed far enough ahead of us that chris could stop.

so we're traveling down the interstate at about 40 miles per hour. closer to shelbyville, we hit a construction area (that has been there for like a million years and is still apparently being worked on) and were forced into one lane with these barriers on either side of us. again with no street lights. so all i can see is snow and darkness. if i could have rolled into a comfy fetal position i would have done so. we slowed down to like, 25 miles per hour though here. if the car behind us was pissed he didn't show it. but i'm sure he was. chris is trying to talk to me to calm me down, i guess. i wasn't outwardly freaking out, but had successfully turned into that big ball of OH NOES. all i could do was stare wide-eyed at the giant frozen snow coming at me at warp speed with no idea if there was anything else around us at all.

once we made it back into civilization i was fine. we did have to fight the giant snows through the wal-mart parking lot. it was like the snow was punching us right in the face. punching us with it's frozen crystals of fury. i was all sad panda. for reals.

and of course after that it never snowed again and all traces of the snow were gone by morning.

my dude and i spent way to much money, but i got quite a bit of christmas done, so it's all good. even a special christmas surprise for the buglette, we found and awesome zhu zhu pets castle for her that apparently wasn't even supposed to be on the floor yet, but we got one so yay! got mandy an awsome waffle maker which makes the most awesome fat-ass waffles in EVER. have you ever had a fat-ass chocolate chip waffle? if you haven't then you haven't lived.

that's about all the thanksgiving stuff. in other news i spent the most awesome lazy day ever yesterday with chris. it was spent doing nothing while waiting to be able to play video games. then playing video games. then doing some more nothing. there was also a lot of snuggling thrown in there. nothing better than a good winter time snuggle. :3

also, i'm painting a large and rather cartoon-y painting of an owl and some clouds. more info as that gets more painted.

some clouds. an owl outline has since been added.

and i guess that's all for now. get on that christmas shopping if you haven't already, you're running out of time.

peace.