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That was the weekend. How was yours?
Oct. 30th, 2011 10:52 pmI got a lot done on Saturday--it was one of those crisp, cool sunny days we get here in the fall, and I went over to the workshop and stayed for 4 hours, messing around with metal and enamel, and having a great time. I discovered if you enamel ozone blue onto bare copper, the first layer is an interesting lavender color, but subsequent layers of enamel will make it blue. I futzed around with some copper scrap and made some earrings that I enameled with various colors; and I made a commission piece (still waiting on approval).
Left with a warm fuzzy accomplished feeling. Got home to find some illiterate idiot had parked in my 5 Year Resident Reserved space. (Big sign, unmissable = ass.) Had dinner with my friends L&J and then we went wandering around Barnes & Noble. Bought the new Tamora Pierce and some really lolarious Christmas cards.
Got up this morning feeling oddly out of sorts. I've been having weird dreams lately. I never remember them completely, but I've been getting odd flashes. Very strange, almost Lovecraftian. Also: flying lizards and magenta cobras.
Balanced my checkbook and almost had a heart attack. Thank everything for the bonus check next week. My rent went up almost 10% and man, does that hurt. I really hope the house deal with my brother and his wife goes through. I'm seriously considering killing my landline and finding room for the things in my storage unit in my overstuffed little apartment just so I don't feel horribly pinched financially.
Anyway, I cleaned the workroom (closet) in my apartment and put together the new earrings and buttons and such. I'll hit the workshop Tuesday, and run up a few more things. My friend D is helping me to set up on Friday for the Austin Celtic Festival and L&J are helping me tear down on Sunday. I'm so glad that I have such great friends and I can bribe them with show passes! :-) I really need the help doing that these days. My Evil Knee limits me a lot in that area.
Dinner tonight with brother, his wife, and the Nephew. Late birthday celebration for brother, and he took us out to McCormick and Schmicks, a really good seafood restaurant. Crab cakes and shrimp and perfect green beans and spinach and peanut butter pie, oh my! Gave him the complete Gahan Wilson collection that he had actually asked for--almost unheard of!
Dressing up as a mad scientist tomorrow. Ought to be fun.
Some of what I did on Saturday:
Left with a warm fuzzy accomplished feeling. Got home to find some illiterate idiot had parked in my 5 Year Resident Reserved space. (Big sign, unmissable = ass.) Had dinner with my friends L&J and then we went wandering around Barnes & Noble. Bought the new Tamora Pierce and some really lolarious Christmas cards.
Got up this morning feeling oddly out of sorts. I've been having weird dreams lately. I never remember them completely, but I've been getting odd flashes. Very strange, almost Lovecraftian. Also: flying lizards and magenta cobras.
Balanced my checkbook and almost had a heart attack. Thank everything for the bonus check next week. My rent went up almost 10% and man, does that hurt. I really hope the house deal with my brother and his wife goes through. I'm seriously considering killing my landline and finding room for the things in my storage unit in my overstuffed little apartment just so I don't feel horribly pinched financially.
Anyway, I cleaned the workroom (closet) in my apartment and put together the new earrings and buttons and such. I'll hit the workshop Tuesday, and run up a few more things. My friend D is helping me to set up on Friday for the Austin Celtic Festival and L&J are helping me tear down on Sunday. I'm so glad that I have such great friends and I can bribe them with show passes! :-) I really need the help doing that these days. My Evil Knee limits me a lot in that area.
Dinner tonight with brother, his wife, and the Nephew. Late birthday celebration for brother, and he took us out to McCormick and Schmicks, a really good seafood restaurant. Crab cakes and shrimp and perfect green beans and spinach and peanut butter pie, oh my! Gave him the complete Gahan Wilson collection that he had actually asked for--almost unheard of!
Dressing up as a mad scientist tomorrow. Ought to be fun.
Some of what I did on Saturday:
