beads – Imaginary Sunshine

Things that I’ve learned in the last 24 hours

Michelle — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 22:39:19 +0000

I get easily annoyed when people say they’ll do one thing, but then don’t.
I also get easily annoyed when I get woken up and I will promptly fall back asleep, regardless of my best (or worse) intentions.
People on the internet are weird. Proof 1: Making cozies for eggs. Proof 2: Making cozies for thermoses. Pointless and overpriced.
I’ve gotten a lot better at knitting while doing something else (i.e. texting, watching Dollhouse, reading articles online).
My psychology professor purposely puts giant photos that not resized on the slides on purpose in order to make the download time for set of slides be as long as humanly possible. 43mb is not an appropriate size for a Powerpoint presentation that only has 25 slides.
When in doubt, ask. When that doesn’t work, throw a fit. (Thanks to my sister for that lesson.)
My sister, because she is ill, plays a lot on her Nintendo DS while she stays home from work. This also means that she can go ‘OMG, it’s [insert Pokemon name here]!!’ when I show her a new pattern I find. I can’t even pronounce it and she can a) name it, b) tell me what it does and c) tell me what level hers is at.
People will make crochet and knit patterns for just about anything (read the one about the egg cozies, mmkay?). This includes swimwear. Even if it’s a really bad idea given that knitted and crocheted swimwear, when wet, won’t be doing a whole lot anymore.
If you do something with beads and a needle two nights ago (Thursday) and you’re pretty sure that you cleaned up everything and you don’t get a beading needle jabbed in yourself anywhere at all when you wake up Friday morning – this does not mean that you won’t wake up, in pain, on Saturday with a beading needle underneath a finger nail. Just saying.
Yarn needles are cheap for a reason. You buy a package of 3 and you will one day lose all three – even if you never take them out of your house and they always travel between two rooms and you’re absolutely sure you know exactly where they used to be… You will lose them. And you will try to ‘make’ one out of what you have a home to avoid leaving the house since you’re untangling a mess of yarn.
Some things are not appropriate to say on Twitter. Even if it’s really damn funny and you’ll go and read your TweetFeed and end up choking on your tea.
When a family member asks you if you want a kitten and then you eagerly say yes, the appropriate thing for that family member to say is “Oh, well So-and-so’s cat is having kittens, I’ll get one for you!” not “Why don’t you go to the pound then?”
Waiting for people to have time to talk to you is a waste of time, overall. And I’m not going to do it again.

Delirious crafting is not fun

Michelle — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 21:35:22 +0000

Thanks to everyone who wished that I get well soon. Last night, I think I went to bed at around 11pm-ish, and then woke up briefly around 4am and didn’t get back to sleep until around 6am-ish. Then I woke up again (because someone woke up me for lunch near noon). Oh, and having to move clocks forward an hour really screwed me up this morning because I needed to turn my cell phone off and then back on again in order to get the time change, but I had my laptop on before I did that, so I was looking at the laptop time and getting so confused.

And just a few things that I’ve learned while being sick this weekend:

It is not a good idea to do any form of bead crafting as you will leave beading needles on your bed and you will end up with one in your leg (or arm, or hand) while sleeping and wake up in pain because you just jabbed one into your leg.
It is also not a good idea to crochet anything, because when you’re slightly loopy (or more than usual, whatever), you end up with horrible tension and have to take out the last five rows that you did.

In other words: crafting in general is a bad idea. Even if you’re absolutely sure that you’re perfectly well enough to handle it. Because you’re not. Because you end up with beading needles in your leg, or a few rows of single crochet to undo.

That being said, I also got some great life lessons today from my mom. I’ll type them up later when I can actually think about it without laughing too hard.

Post V-Day

Michelle — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 04:34:23 +0000

So Valentine’s Day went well. I wore a black dress that I bought last summer (and never gotten around to wearing) and I’d mentioned it to Clay that I was probably going to be a little dressy, so he dressed up as well. I gave him sugar cookies (as mentioned in my last entry) and he gave me chocolate-covered marshmallows and a book (Dream Warrior by Sherrilyn Kenyon). Yay, chocolate, marshmallows and smutty romance. He knows me so well, hehe.

We had to drive around to find a restaurant. It took a while to find someplace that didn’t have a minimum hour wait or had a set Valentine’s Day menu. I was so ready to give up that I even told him that we should just consider a drive thru or something and then he says that we should just check one more restaurant. Of course, this happens to be a restaurant with a very short wait and we’re seated within about 5 minutes and had an excellent time. They had really good service as well we kept on getting more bread and I kept on getting more soup (which came with the dish that I ordered). And he was impressed because he found something on the menu that he loved and would actually consider going back to the restaurant for.

It was pretty good. We hung out in his car and talked for a really long time. It’d been a long while seen we’d seen each other, and despite daily texting and phone calls every few days, there’s a lot that we don’t get to talk about. So we did that. I got home by 12:08am today and… yeah, it was a good night.

Today I was woken up at 10am because I was supposed to be up already to go shopping with my friend C. I ended up getting picked up close to 11am is and we headed out to go shopping. We went to an awesome bead shop. I picked out approximately $18 worth of beads. Her total was a tad higher than mine… I bet the bead shop people just loved her by the time her total was calculated. We caught a bus to head somewhere further into the city and we eventually ended up just walking and we ended up getting hot dogs from a street vendor (licensed and all, right on the side of the cart) and we sat on a park bench to people-and-dog watch.

At one point, she was adjusting her jacket (or something like that) and was standing up. This guy comes along and goes “You look like you’re a polite girl. I’m polite. I’m not from around here, I’m from Halifax. Are you from around here? See, I need another $4 to get a room at the [insert organization name here]. Could you help me out? Every little bit helps!” (there were some side commentary from my friend and I during this). Then I go “Sorry, I don’t have any change at the moment” and he goes on about how we’re not polite. Then he moves onto the next park bench and the woman says something and then he goes “Fuck you!”

We went into a coffee shop at that point as my friend thought he had spat on her inadvertently while speaking to her. Ew, I know. So she washed up and then bought coffee, I inhaled the scent of coffee while we waited (yay for silent suffering…? Heh…). Then we headed out and went and saw Confessions of a Shopaholic (came out on February 13th). So. Damn. Good. I mean, for romantic comedy it was really good. A lot of the things that occured did occur in the book series (it covers the first two books), some of the characters’ roles were slightly changed, but yeah… Good movie all around. Great chick flick for you and your friends (if you’re into that sort of thing). Isla Fisher definitely takes the spotlight in the movie as the main character (Rebecca). I’m going to stop before I start sounding like an advertisement, but it was an excellent movie. And the guy who plays Luke Brandon? Not that bad on the eyes…