The Anniversary

It's our 7th wedding anniversary. No special activities planned, the hubby actually had to leave for work this morning around 5am and will be gone all week. I think our only exchange was him apologizing for waking the baby as he tried to tuck him into bed with me because he was crying and having a bit of a fit.

7 years ago I slept over night at my Mom's apartment the night before the wedding. We were up until 3am I think working on making the bouquets. A friend of mine who owns a flower business gave me 100 roses for our gift. My brother and I passed out on the futon mattress in the living room talking about when we were kids and the stupid things we did.

The night of our wedding we spent at a beautifully expensive suite paid for by his parents. We were dead asleep by around midnight, we were exhausted from the wedding I think. My friends reported later that they all went out after we took off and had a fabulous night of partying without us.

In etsy news, I sold the baby ghost hat! I'm making another which I'll post tonight, I hope the pumpkin one and spider sell too!

I made it onto someone's treasury!

A treasury is a thing on etsy. Members can make a list of their favorite items and post their lists on the treasury. People then browse through the treasuries to see the items. Here is the treasury I made it onto! I thought it was pretty cool anyways. So that baby spider hat is getting some good traffic to my store. I finished the baby ghost hat and listed it this morning. I hope the pictures for the item turned out cute.

In other big news, I got an email from Blizzard inviting me for beta testing for the World of Warcraft's Wrath of the Lich King Expansion!!! Oh my gosh though, the download is taking forever! The main file I downloaded last night while I was sleeping but now there's a patch as well and it's been going for 1 1/2 hours and is at only 52%! So once the baby is awake, we're going to head to the store and wait for it to finish.

This afternoon a dude my mother found is coming over to do the lawn because of our lawn mower problems. It'll be awesome!

Perkins Nutritional Information

So last weekend the baby and I went for a quick breakfast with my sister-in-law to Perkins. I knew what I wanted to order but I hit up their website to find out just how many calories are in that sandwich. And I couldn't find any nutritional information anywhere! I emailed the website and asked if they could provide the information or if it was there and I just wasn't finding it. This was their response:

"We are currently compiling this information. Once it is complete, it
will be available on our web site. Thank you for your loyal patronage.

Web Master"

Seriously? They don't have the nutritional information for their own menu? They're a huge nation wide chain! I'm flabbergasted.

Etsy's Halloween Gift Guide

My baby spider halloween hat made it to etsy's Halloween Gift Guide! On their front page is a link to their holiday guide and I'm on it! It appears they add a few new ones everyday, so eventually mine will get pushed off, but it's awesome anyways. The hat is getting some decent traffic. I'm almost done with my second one, a baby ghost hat.

What else are my plans today? Hmmm. My mother is sending some old guy over here to give an estimate to mow the lawn. Our mower only works for up to 5 minutes at a time and then stalls and is unstartable. So frustrating. I hope he doesn't charge much. It's not that the lawn is really long, but some weeds have moved in. Not that I mind all that much, but I think the neighbors with their perfect chemical treated lawns are going to start getting cranky.

Who do I need to hurt just to get a part time job? I'm totally hire-able. Great resume, and I've been hunting everyday online in all sorts of places looking for, applying and dropping of resumes. Anyways, I think the baby is getting his first baby molar. I can't feel anything yet, but just his general crankiness tipped me off to the issue. He's usually such a mellow guy. I need to put him to bed and get working on a new etsy item, I wanted to do 4 this week and so far I've only done one.

What else did I do today other than job hunt? I cleaned the downstairs pretty well, my mother even complimented me on how cute the house looks. The picture is of the scarflet thing I made. Mom loved it, but I'm not going to list it until I can get her to model it for the photo. Otherwise I surfed the internet a bit, here's some cool places I went:

A cool 'How To' video on etsy on making natural dyes.
My favorite bitch fest - The Duluth Citizen's Blog
Danny's podcast - Danny Does Duluth

I had to run to the Reader Weekly office today. Dennis is their new editor, he agreed to fill out this referral form for me. I needed it for the Americorps Vista application I turned in. The job sounds perfect for me. I'd be working with lower income families and kids hooking them up with the UW-Extension programs and 4H. Doing grant writing for them and working with the school district to establish after school programs. It's a one year volunteer position, but it does have a $833 living expense. It also comes with childcare assistance, health insurance and an almost $5,000 scholarship. But it's a full time job although I've been told that a lot of the work I'll be able to do from home. My interview is scheduled for Wednesday at 3pm. It's all going to boil down to how much time the baby will need childcare for. I'll need to pick something out to wear!

The Reader Weekly is a free local weekly edition paper that I used to write a cartoon for. I also helped out in the office with their ads and community calendar. That's one of my old cartoons above. I really feel a nap coming on...

Avoiding the kitchen.

I've got to tackle the kitchen but I just don't want to.

I always thought I'd be a great Mom/housewife, I'm a great Mom, just not that awesome of a housewife. But maybe no one's house looks like a magazine inside.

Goal for this week:
1. Keep up on the kitchen (my least favorite room to do chores in).
2. Create 4 things to post on my etsy page.
3. Sew something with the great sewing machine my Grandma left me.
4. Get the baby's 1st birthday party invitations out in the mail.

The Green Expo

We went to the 'Green Expo' today. A huge farmer's market and inside the convention center there were tons of booths about everything green from recycling electronics to green construction techniques to organic baby clothes and toys. Outside the convention center there were dozens of displayed children's artwork about saving the environment and conserving energy. I loved this one.

Creatively I accomplished a couple things today. A baby pumpkin halloween hat I put up for sale on etsy. And I also made an awesome scarflet mini scarf thing, but I'm really unhappy with how I'm photographing it. The color looks all wrong and I kind of want someone to model it, but just not me. My pictures make the yarn loose it's fuzzy quality too which makes it really a nice item. I'll have to work on it.

My Food Diary Anxiety

I use myfooddiary.com and I generally like it. Although when I'm eating complete crap I just avoid logging my meals altogether. I like going to the forums at that site and browsing through the before and after photos people post of themselves. I wouldn't do such a post even if I were to loose a significant amount of weight for fear that someone I know would see it. Which is ridiculous. Only people who pay for and use that site can view the forums and if that person was there they'd be there for the same reason as me, so why am I so worried about being judged?

It may be that I have a slight anxiety when it comes to knowing I might be watched by others. I cannot mow my lawn if the old man across the street is sitting on his porch. He's always out there, he's probably judging how horrible our lawn is. It's pretty weedy and unkept around the edges. There's a big pile of old sticks and clippings with half a broken wood chair next to the garage and I'm always the last person on the block to retract my garbage cans after the garbage trucks come. Sometimes even 2 days.

I had an insane dream last night. I went to this huge center that helped mentally handicapped people get jobs. I was there because I thought they would help me get a job too. As I was waiting in line to talk to one of their counselors I saw that one of my ex's was sitting in a row of chairs watching a television behind me. I didn't want him to notice me, I was wishing I wasn't there. Somehow he found me and I couldn't believe how great he looked. Super great, like I didn't care if I was married, the chemistry was insane and I had to talk to him. We sat on the floor facing eachother to talk. I don't remember what we said, but I looked down when his foot accidentally touched my leg and I saw that my other leg had been amputated! I just had a stump and next to me was my fake leg that apparently had fallen off.

Oh yes, the picture. The green hat I just knitted for my 8 year old nephew and the flower could be made into a pin or barrette, I couldn't decide, so I just listed it on etsy.com for $4.

Dream Journal

07-30-08

I was in a small dumpy apartment with three other people, two Mexican immigrants and one old man. I was also a Mexican immigrant or illegal alien. The old man had a coffin in the middle of the room which was for some reason totally normal to the rest of us. Everyone was bickering about what to watch for a movie that night. The old man was upset that there was a metal book shelf in his view of the tv. None of us offered to move it so he did it himself. As he was tilting the shelf forward to move it, a sharp support of the shelf from the other side tilted behind him and stabbed him right through the head almost instantly killing him. He staggered for a bit and wobbled and fell right into the green coffin closing the lid of it with a slam.

The tall skinny Mexican said, “oh shit now what do we do” and one of the Mexicans was already on the phone calling the police. I walked into the breakfast nook of the apartment and turned the stove off so the pizza wouldn’t burn and I remember hoping that the police wouldn’t discover it and eat it. The police came really fast and knocked on the door, I approached but just a second after they knocked they busted the door down and were handcuffing all of us. The shorter fatter Mexican was upset because he knew he would be deported back and was telling us that this is not how he wanted to return to his family, that most people return with something to show for it, not poor and deported, but they bring back nice things to give their families.

The short Mexican was holding a stack of postcard like advertisements from magazines and was ripping them. First he’d rip them in half and them into equal third parts and make a neat stack of them. I held these ripped cards and I remember squaring them up in my left hand like a deck of cards getting them straightened up. (The handcuffs disappeared somehow for this part)

07-28-08

Rodney, Jason, Bob and I were off for a long weekend trip to stay at Oprah’s mansion. It was a very tall white building overlooking a bunch of freeways with lots of multi-leveled decks off of one side. Inside it was a beautiful place. The boys stayed in one large room and my guest room was very small with a twin bed and shelves attached to the walls high up, but it was a luxurious room with reds, pinks, golds and yellows. That night I woke up from sleeping and realized that my room must be up against Oprah’s bathroom. I could clearly hear her pooping! It was a really farty poop too. I couldn’t wait for morning to come so that I could tell the boys all about the Oprah poop.

The next day I went out on the decks to find the boys. On one level was a caged huge angry black wolf. The cage had white squared shaped thick bars but no top on it. The wolf didn’t jump out but I thought he could have. I found Bob and told him about the Oprah loud pooping.

I don’t remember what his reaction was and I never saw Oprah in the dream.