all in good time.

Always being the short girl has it ups and downs but I really hate the process of taking pants to the tailor to get hemmed. Now I know that I could just do it myself. However, after a very memorable night in Chicago I learned that hemming pants just isn't something I will ever get motivated enough to learn to do well. So off to the tailor I go. The problem is that after I part with some of my hard-earned money to buy something I want to take my something home immediately. I want to play with my new toys, wear new clothes, eat new food, etc. This is why I hate paying for insurance; I don't ever get any new somethings to play with. Right now I feel like my new pants are spending the first week of our relationship with some guy in the mall. But alas on Wednesday we will be reunited and I am sure we will live happily ever after.

I have been spending my vacation in Des Moines and although the whole tailor debacle is a downer it does give me a nice excuse for staying another couple days. I know that few people ever feel ready to go back to work but still. I love my job but I wish it was in this city. If anyone out there is planning on shifting some tectonic plates in the near future might I suggest putting Des Moines, Cedar Falls/Waterloo, and Atlanta all right next to each other? That would be superb.

life goals 1, artistic ability 0

I know that I said if this project of mine didn't turn out well that I was going to delete all evidence of the idea. However, now that I actually managed to do something with all the pieces that had been camped out on my table for weeks now, I feel like I should get credit for not giving up before I started. I am also not convinced that it looks like something done by someone over the age of 7 (which is sad given it is tassels up through an M.A.). So I need a little help to figure out what to do with it to make it better. FYI I tried the whole white matte behind the tassel thing and it just looked really odd.

I forgot to take any pictures while I was actually making this trainwreck because I was too busy cursing and measuring without any real measuring device. Here it is right after I finished it:



After it sat just like that, on that very table for a few days, I finally got motivated to hang it on the wall, even though I will probably change it. I figure the wall is a good place to start storing things so that I can put different junk on the tables. Yea for fitting more junk in this tiny apartment! So here it is on the wall:


What you have probably noticed by now is that despite being from the same school, the black tassel is actually significantly shorter than the gold one. The idea was to leave space for the fourth tassel and to have an empty hook/pin for it. (I was thinking this would be good motivation, as if I would finish a Ph.D. just to avoid repositioning the tassels in a shadow box I will probably lose in the move anyways.) There is an empty pin but the pins are so small you cannot really see the empty pin unless you are up close. So now it just looks like I am horrible at evenly spacing. The small pins are nice because they don't really show from behind the tassels. I'm lost. Help.

I never knew how much disappointment was in my life until I started blogging.

vlogging gives me heartburn

either that or staying up late drinking caffeine does. If I were a bettin' woman, which I am, I would bet on the vlogging.

a little essentialism and a lot 'o truth

For those of you who don't know (read: apparently live under a rock), the midwest has been mere days away from calling up Noah to build us an arc. Recent flooding had really taken its toll on communities across the midwest and a lot of folks are still trying to get back to normal. As I found out 15 years ago, floods change not only major parts of life but also day to day life. This evening I was faced with one of the more horrific "changes."

My very favorite coffee shop, which I cannot speak of highly enough (despite them being the only coffee shop on the planet to not have wireless internet), has been forced to make a dramatic flood-related change. Since the floods began, the men's bathroom has been labeled a "danger zone.". This has obviously forced all the male customers to seek refuge in the women's bathroom for all their intestinal needs.

I know I have an unusually high demand for bathroom privacy but this is a one-person sorta set up - so how bad could it be, right? It's bad, real bad. I just do not understand what goes on when men get in the bathroom that forces urine all over the same areas that I will later sit, touch, and put things. Do some men attempt a simultaneous bladder-emptying/macarena move? I feel confident that the new male users are the problem because after more than seven years of frequent trips to this place, I have never encountered such a scenario.

I have faith that not all men suffer from this clearly atrocious affliction. I welcome those men into my clean coffee shop bathroom long after the floodwaters have receeded. To the other men, if you cannot control yourself in more socially acceptable ways please lay off the coffee and wait until you get home to make your messes.

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post #1

There is a lot of pressure to make the first post good so I wanted to get it over with. I also wanted to set low expectations for future post titles.

***This was from the "old" blog and I wanted to bring it on over so that you could understand exactly how low expectations should be for this blog - probably even lower than the last blog, which you never knew existed.

Post #3

Although it might appear as though this is the first post on this blog I can assure you it is not. In fact, the other two posts from the old blog (and by old I mean new last week) will eventually get shuffled over here. I am only posting to announce my new membership in netflix. I thought it was going to be totally rad when I found out I could watch unlimited amounts of movies online. Then DOOOOHH!!! (That is the sound my head makes when it falls back in disappointment.) As it turns out netflix immediate viewing stuff is only available for PC users. Something about DRM stuff. After everything they have available cant some techny guy figure this bull crap out on their lunch break? Very frustrating to say the least.

I also have two new life goals - and by life goal I mean something I would like to do in the next few months but if it never really gets started then okay and we are no worse for the wear.

1. Recover the purple/silver/swirl chair in my living room so that it looks like something that I put into the room and not something someone guilted me into keeping. The chair is good - but not for my place. I will post some pics - probably of me looking confused over a pile of fabric, pins, and needles.

2. Memory box with tassels - this is something that will either catch on and everyone will be doing it or it will be dumb, which will force me to delete this portion of this post, and we will never speak of it again. I really feel like I can trust the interwebs enough not to bring up failed ideas long after they...well...failed.

Okay back to working on my netflix que/cue thing and then bed.