Watching the first 20 seconds of this clip will tell you what I've decided to repeat in my head over, and over, and over again throughout the day when I'm stressed.
For my English class this week I am required to watch Bedknobs and Broomsticks (well, there are actually 4 other movies I could have chosen, but I have had an itch to watch this one for a while, so it's a good excuse). I wanted to share my Favorite Part Ever with you:
I am totally in love with a new movie. Robin Hood. I think I need the soundtrack, and also to see it a few more times before it comes to DVD. And then I'll buy the DVD. (Also, I had no idea who Russell Crowe was/is, other than being some famous dood. So my love of the movie has little to do with him.)
Made the Trifecta an appointment to go PARAGLIDING in two weeks! We will also be going to Timponogos Cave. That makes two goals to check off my list.
Dad and I went and applied for our passports today. Fees paid, pictures taken (awkwardness abounded at that appointment, but you get used to it when you're me). Now we just wait. I am saying goal accomplished.
I finished The Sister's sculpture. Before her birthday. Mission accomplished, and really adorable, too. Take a look at it on my Other Blog.
I went the whole of Tuesday without speeding at all. Very hard. Didn't even go 1 mph over the speed limit, as best as I could tell. I think I annoyed a lot of people that day.
I purchased a quilting book at work the other day (with my points, so, really, I didn't spend any money on it. Sweet.). It has a few other projects in it, but I'm super excited to find the perfect fabric to make the perfect quilt. My only issue is that I want to continue in the tradition of hand quilting, and I'm not so sure how that is going to work out. Quilting frames are not cheap, and I haven't the money with which to buy them.
I found a photography contest to enter. Now I just need to take the Perfect Picture.
My car is still clean since I washed it last Saturday. Well, except for the fact that it rained tonight while I was at the theater, so I guess I might need to wash it again.
I have been attempting to spread the word of my Etsy Store, in an attempt to accomplish my goal associated with that. I have also relisted and listed a bunch more photos. Go look. (Banner at the end of this post links directly to my store.)
On that same note, I have ordered some new business cards from Promo Pixie (on Etsy), and judging from the image she sent me, I am going to love them. Word.
I am more than 2/3 done with the blanket I am knitting. Good thing, too, because I'm getting tired of that craft again. Also, yarn lint is getting everywhere.
I keep looking at the doll I have sitting in a box in my office and I think about getting them on display. That's about as far as this goal has heretofore gotten. Maybe tomorrow, before work, I will get a jump on this for reals.
Other plans for tomorrow include seeing The Karate Kid with The Dad and The Sister, cleaning my kitchen from when I made dinner tonight, and going to a job that will soon make me break out in shingles on a regular basis. (That is a story in and of itself, which I am not currently at liberty to blog or even talk about. Especially since I do not yet know all of the details. Someday, though, and probably soon, I will share.)
And, hey. While I'm at it, the basic rest of my schedule for the next week.
Sunday: Church. Presidency Meeting. Visits. Home Teachers are coming over. Need to schedule Visiting Teaching myself. Dinner with the familia.
Monday: FHE, weather permitting, actually sounds exciting. I may go this week, just to give the bishop a shock. No work, thank goodness, thus I will spend a good hour or so cleaning my house. I especially need to dump all the trash and clean someone's poo-box. And vacuum.
Tuesday: Close at work. Same story as always.
Wednesday: Dentist appointment to get my teeth cleaned. Not my idea of fun. Especially considering the fact that it is fairly early in the morning when I'd rather be sleeping. At least I will be able to go home and take a nap, though. Close at work, again.
Thursday: OPEN at work. Weird. Afternoon is currently promising a nice nap. Probably.
Friday: OPEN at work again! Have no other plans, yet.
Saturday: OPEN at work for the third day in a row, but only because I managed to get someone to trade shifts with me. Immediately following work, I shall drive up to the North country. I expect to get into town around 8. Not sure what the rest of the evening entails, except for sleep.
And, there you go. A bunch of side notes to keep you sufficiently satisfied, I hope, as well as updates on the goals I am working on and have already accomplished. 994 days to go! Also, a bunch of random crap about my coming week that you probably could care less about. The end. I am sleeping now.
Once upon a time there was a dog named Dogdog. He was magic. Every time he wagged his tail, the weather changed. One day Dogdog was sad, and didn't wag his tail alllll day long, and it got really, really cold outside and ice started falling from the sky. Not like hail, but like big chunks of ice blocks.
There was also this evil mastermind dood named Muhdud. He had just finished watching Dr. Frankenstein when he looked out the window and saw a bunch of iceblocks falling from the sky. So he decided to build an ice giant with the ice blocks, and because he was a mastermind dood, Muhdud was able to finish his giant in 3 hours.
The giant started ravaging the streets of Dogdog's town which made Dogdog even more sad, because all of his friends were being frozen. Kitcat, one of his kitty friends, ran to Dogdog for help and told him that Muhdud was the one who had built the giant, and also told Dogdog that he needed to wag his tail to change the weather and then the ice giant would melt, and everyone would warm up again. But Dogdog was too sad to wag his tail. So Kitcat grabbed Dogdog's tail in her teeth and held on tight. Dogdog didn't like this, because it hurt! But he couldn't get Kitcat to let go, so he started swinging his tail as hard as he could Then the sun came out! And it was really hot. And the ice giant melted, and Muhdud got a sunburn because he had been outside watching his giant and didn't put on sunscreen. And everyone else was happy.
(Kind of like jello, but with less movement -I've been napping a lot)
You may wonder why I haven't blogged for a week. Well, let me tell you.
I had some of my favorite people ever visiting me. Namely the Grandparent People (and Cousin, but he fits in with the "people" bit. Usually). Also the Parents came to keep them company when I Party Pooped out of Disney, which was sure nice of them. It was also sure nice of me to get them into Disney for cheaper than the average Joe's ticket price. (The perks of being a Disney Robot.) So that's what I've been up to.
Anyway, like I said. There were Disney things. I didn't really do the whole picture-taking thing with them at the Parks (except for the part where they came and visited me while I was working, but that doesn't count because that was Work and I was payed to take that picture). But I believe they had fun (and got soaked on a ride or two), despite the weather not being as hot as it was today. Darn weather.
Unfortunately, The Mom got sick on Wednesday and had to stay at the hotel all day. Don't worry, though, she didn't spend the whole day alone. After a while I was Disney'd out and walked back over there where we promptly both fell asleep for a while and I also watched NCIS (Season 3. It's beautiful, but I believe I will need Season 4 for that one thing in May that is coming up). There were also shopping things involved where I helped the Grandmother Person and the Cousin Person get discounts and the Grandmother Person also bought me the adorable Precious Moments Finding Nemo snow globe.
Thursday was fun times with Relatives at the Santa Ana Zoo. Please enjoy this short/long/medium sized Photo Essay (I have yet to decide how many pictures I am uploading. It's a surprise for all of us!)
I'm not entirely sure how it can be ethical for the National Bird to be locked in a giant cage, but I guess that's not something I have to worry about.
The Santa Ana Zoo likes monkeys. A lot. I don't know what kind this one was other than the sleeping kind. He (she? Werf. We'll go with "werf") and werf's hand sticking through the fence.
No photo essay of mine is complete without flowers. We should all know this.
We once learned that Red Panda's do not make good pets. But I couldn't see any sign that said anything about adorable little monkeys.
Emu Fume. I had a book of palindromes once. (If you think about it, that second statement totally makes sense.)
Yesterday the Trifecta got together for our weekly meeting at Tiffy's. It's this cute little restaurant/ice cream parlor on Katella and Disneyland Drive. The food isn't, like, the best food ever, but the service is good (our waitress was adorable), and best of all, THEY HAVE PLAYER PAINOS!!!
Always I hear these things playing when we go eat at Tiffy's as a family, but for the first time ever, it was me playing them (well, my quarter, anyway. Mushu put the quarters into the piano).
You're going to have to forgive the sound quality (or lack thereof) as I took this video on my phone. Actually, maybe just mute it as you watch.
So, I think my head is about to explode. This is the 3rd migraine I've had in two weeks and I'm getting desperate. If you know of a really good doctor in Orange County, let me know. I prefer someone not scary, but I'll almost take anyone. This is how desperate I am.
Anyway, other than that small detail, life is still good! Last week my Love Duck and parents came to visit me. There were 12 days of Disney in a row (what with work and all that), but it was the first time I've really played in the parks since I got here 2 months ago. I screamed my lungs out on Splash Mountain (I think I mostly just scream because, you know, I can, not because I'm scared), rode Small Word for the first time since it re-opened last month (so cute!), and ate like a million marshmallow sticks. I love those things so much. Surprisingly enough, though, I didn't take many pictures! This was probably a mistake on my part, but I think it's because I take so many pictures at work that, when I'm not working, I find it is kind of nice to be able to see more of the world than what's in a view finder.
Mondays have basically become my favorite day of the week, despite having class on what is usually my day off. For this coming Monday, I believe I am looking forward to a non-dance party at Barnes and Noble, and I'm pretty sure it will be the best non-dance party in the history of non-dance parties.
So, yup. That's basically life right now. I need to run out to Target today to pick up Pinocchio and probably The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, but we'll see if I actually make it that far. I guess it's more of a want than a need, anyway. Probably I will, though, seeing as how I'm nice and don't really know how to say "no" to people, so I'm taking a fellow CP to some train station by the Honda Center in about 20 minutes.
And, oh yeah! Bless the IRS, because I got my tax return today! That was excitement in my bank account. I'm now trying to decide if I can justify buying a macro lens for my camera or not. It's a lot of money for one of those puppies, though, so it may have to wait a little longer. I kind of like seeing bigger numbers in my savings account.
This is for those of you who have not been on the ride. Spot the hidden Mickey! (For the record, I don't even remember if you can see it in this video. But I do know where it is.)
It came, it came, it came! After a bit of drama with the postal service and Amazon, my order of seasons one and two of NCIS has arrived! I can't even tell you how happy this makes me.
Today in my random wanderings of the World Wide Web I discovered this. And proceeded to get really excited for it. Personally, I really really like Miyazaki. I think, out of the films of his that that I have seen, Castle in the Sky is my favorite. Or maybe Howl's Moving Castle. Maybe even Spirited Away. I don't know! So hard to choose.
What about you? If you're not familiar with Miyazaki's work, you should really go out and educate yourself. If need be, come see me and we'll have a Miyazaki marathon. Granted, I don't have all of his movies, but I've got a fair share. And love them all. We can have popcorn and cinnamon rolls. Yum.
I think one of the best things about the new baby is the media center on it. I recently discovered a Heroes parody with The Boy and laugh myself silly over it. Seriously, good stuff. The black guy is my favorite because he can kick himself in the back of the head.
I'm not entirely sure how it can be ethical for the National Bird to be locked in a giant cage, but I guess that's not something I have to worry about.
The Santa Ana Zoo likes monkeys. A lot. I don't know what kind this one was other than the sleeping kind. He (she? Werf. We'll go with "werf") and werf's hand sticking through the fence.
No photo essay of mine is complete without flowers. We should all know this.
We once learned that Red Panda's do not make good pets. But I couldn't see any sign that said anything about adorable little monkeys.
Emu Fume. I had a book of palindromes once. (If you think about it, that second statement totally makes sense.)
