I Sleep With One Eye Open November 19, 2008

Because I have nothing else to write about, I will announce that my cat is secretly plotting to kill me. I think it was all that talking about having Roasted Cosmo for Thanksgiving >_> he must have heard…

Exhibit A:





Look at those eyes, o_o he’s watching me… it’s like he’s just daring me to grab my yarn back, but nooo, I’m not falling for that trick >: I know what those claws can do.

Exhibit B:





Look!  LOOK!!  D: its a subtle threat I say!  Like he’s anticipating what yummy delicious meat I’m going to taste like *cries*  And he’s taunting me with yarn *sobs*

Exhibit C:





>: solid (what?) proof!  And… and… sometimes he just sits outside my bedroom door staring at me!  Staring at me with those adorable slightly cross eyed  blue eyes, they’re calculating something I tell you!  Like he’s measuring the distance between the door and my bed, and taking notes on when everyone else in the house goes to sleep so there will be no witnesses. Dear God it’s going to be death by pet *sobs uncontrollably*




…help me… he’s staring again…

Warning: coupon + sale’s = poor me… November 14, 2008

So in the spirit of NaBloPoMo I’m posting a very mundane day here   I had gone to Jo-Ann’s to pick up some knitting needles since their Clover stuff was on sale and ended up spending more then I expected, but I didn’t even find the needles I wanted lol.  Then I decided to go to World Market since dad had to go pay a bill.  Some of the tea was on sale so I bought some chai tea (mmm, chai tea), and I had some coupons from their e-mail thingy.  I had gone looking for some wine they had, the bottle was shaped into a kitteh :3 I think it was a special riesling for Halloween though ;_; I didn’t see it there, and was too preoccupied to ask someone.

I did buy a coffee press I had been eyeing for a while though >_> I’ve been avoiding buying coffee for a while but I had a sampler packet of some nice coffee from world market and decided to buy one XD its so neat looking also lol.  Other then that I saw some freshwater pearls for $14 and on impulse bought it o_o I so love pearls.  I also bout a glass cuff bracelet too lol and a canvas bag for groceries and such, it has a green elephant on it with a kind of granola eating co-op look to it lol plus I’ve really been meaning to get a canvas grocery bag.

Aren’t they cute :3 the necklace sits a little under my collar bone and I really want it to sit right on the collar so I’ve been contemplating cutting a couple pearls and re-finishing it.  If I do that I can make something out of the extra pearls x3 but I’m still not sure I want to go through all the trouble.  The cuff is average size but I have slightly smaller wrists in proportion to my hand @_@ so it sometimes seems like I’m a little girl playing dress up with my mom jewelry XD  But then again most bracelets I get are like that.

Currently Listening to~

Ozomatli: Violeta a bit of a morose song but I love it :/

The Decemberists: Seems like perfect weather to listent o_o

Guess what FO means and obama November 9, 2008

Sooooo, FO means “finished object” or something along those lines.  I finished the puff hat this morning, hooray!

And onto Obama!  Unless you’re living under a rock, or some isolated corner of the world, you pretty much know the President Elect of the United States is Barack Obama.  And you’ve probably read the news, something along the lines of “U.S. elects first African-American President…” blah blah blah.  Which, even if you’re not American, seems like a huge thing.  But you can never really comprehend what that means for us.  When you’re born and raised in the US you take history class and pretty much learn that we are a country built upon the backs of an oppressed people.  Most wanna shrug that off saying “the past is in the past”, but its not, its ingrained into the very fabric of our society.  Most of us grow up knowing racism, by experiencing it, by witnessing it, even by acting upon it.  It’s a history that’s as much a part of America as Blueberry Pie (XD because apple pie isn’t %100 American :p).

Honestly I wasn’t sure I’d be this young when a person of color is made President of the Unites States.  I thought I’d be a spry old lady snapping at my grandkids saying “Finally!  Finally!!  And dammit, and get that cat away from my steak >:”.  But when all of us dreamt of that moment, we dreamt of an election when that persons color didn’t really matter anymore.  Which was one of the greatest things about this election, it, for the most part, didn’t matter.  Most people (and definitely not all) voted for him because of other reasons (which I’m not going to get into ).

As for me, I didn’t vote.  A really long and convoluted story short, I was watching CNN before I left to go and they said “voting on the west will end around 10″ or something like that.  On Ortega Highway someone announced that the booths in California would close at 8 and I knew me and my dad weren’t going to make it.  We did drive the rest of the way in the hope that there’d be a line (since booths stay open if people are waiting) but I wasn’t sure since my voting area was in a “Retirement Community”, which pretty much meant cranky old people wanting to sleep early @_@.  I got there 34 min late :/  Lesson: be super obsessive when it comes to moving and making sure you have the right address -_- also go EARLY!!!  First time I didn’t vote since I turned 18, now I feel like I somehow cheated, entirely shamed and embarrassed, and mostly like I didn’t earn my right to feel something after the elections (which sounds odd but yeah).

Anyway, on the way back they aired McCain’s concession speech and that’s really when you realize he’s won, I mean really, truly, won.  You spend the day watching and listening to the news coverage and stay hopefully cautious, waiting for those electorates to go up, even at such a lead you remain cautious, but then realize he’s really won.  And that’s when history hits you.  That poster you spent your childhood staring at since kindergarten, that poster at the front of your classroom, the one with the old white dudes that ran this country, well they’re going to make a new poster, and its no longer going to be a poster full of old white dudes, its going to be a picture of old white dudes and a light skinned black dude with the name of Barack Hussein Obama.  And you remember all those old history classes, reading and writing on what shaped this country, the good bits and the bad, and all those debates in class on how fair people of color get treated in comparison to a white person, and you realize that all those problems are FAR from over, but Good God the United States of freakin America just elected a half black man named Barack Hussein Obama as the President!

If you haven’t grown up in the U.S., if you’re not American, you can never totally understand what he represents for us.  It transcends the politics of present day and goes straight into the annals of U.S. Government from the very nanosecond they announced it.  And as far as politics goes, when George W. ran for second term he used fear to capture the country, we’ve lived in that fear and uneasiness for far too long that it’s beyond a relief to have someone wanting for hope and change.  I can’t imagine how much pressure Obama is now under, I pray he doesn’t crack under it, and I pray he remains true to the heart of his campaign.

and btw Congrats America

Why God WHY!?! /melodrama November 3, 2008

So I realized my head is abnormally big

Rather if you were able to felt my hair into a ball it would be equivalent to an adult sized head, with hair to spare (creepy visual o_o).

I ended up finishing the Hat Numero Two hat and realized how cute it was.  So I decided to try it on only to come to terms with the fact that it doesn’t fit my head ;_;  More then that, it didn’t even touch my head, the hat just kind of floated at the back of my head hanging onto my hair.  It was literally something like 3 inches away form my scalp and sitting on top of nothing but crazy frizzy hair.  Which made me sad ;_; (pity me) and made me realize I really needed to get a haircut , I’m thinking of going super super short again :3

So in the meantime, I adding another row of decreasing puffs and starting another project with some bulky yarn I have.  I plan on either making some cute fingerless gloves or a scarflette, and I have to decide on knitting or crocheting.

Cake that lasts forever and ever…. o_o October 23, 2008

So I finished my cake now I just need to decide what to do next XD my hat is as of yet unfinished >_> even though I KNOW it would only take a couple of hours to finish it (maybe less) all I’ve been able to to is glance at it, reminding me its there, and think to myself “I’ll get around to finishing it” only to do something else ^^;;

Actually, my dad wanted to look at some new houses near by, they’re nice, smaller then ours is, only the layout makes the rooms a lot bigger.  But that’s besides the point, the lady who works at the front office by the model homes, she said she liked my hat (the beige acrylic one), so of course I was super happy and told her that I made it myself :3 and she wanted to know if I make and sell hats   Unfortunately I don’t, and told her I didn’t, but she said I should XD which gave me a huge crafty ego boost lol.  One of the cashiers at Jo Ann’s actually told me the same thing when I wore it there :3 so I think I’ll take Lei’s advice and start an Etsy store.  Only when you go browsing at everything on etsy (which I do a lot) you realize that all the stuff is so well thought out, and well made, it gets kind of intimidating D:  But I figured if there’s someone who wants to buy a uterus plushie there’s someone who wants to buy something I’ve made lol (not that I’ll be making uterus plushies anytime soon o_o).

But before thinking about selling anything online, the hat comes first!

… meh, maybe later…

 

::edit Nov. 3::

THE CAKE

because the Lei wanted to drool o_o;