Out with the Old!

Today I had no choice in my new thing:

I turned 28.

I assure you, I’ve never done this before. I took the day off, and I plan to go fart around town all day.

Fun Factor: 10

If you have spent any quality time reading the comments on this blog that you crazy readers post, then perhaps you are familiar with the bizarre psyche of my father, Frank.  When I was home this past weekend, I noticed something pinned above the computer on a cork board that I assumed was a drawing etched by my 5-year-old nephew, as he is quite the artist.  I was told this was, rather, the end product of an effort made by Frank.  I was so blown away by the complexities of his massive dome that I needed to replicate his creation.  So, yesterday:

               I drew a face out of a word. 

See final image here.

Can you see the word?

If not, check out the intricate and fascinating process here: process.pdf

Fun factor: 4

I went home this weekend, which means lots of QT with my family, including my nephew (5) and nieces (almost 3 and 1.5).  They are the kind of little kids you want to take a bite out of and eat their chubby little arms for a pretend mid-day snack.  Among many other hilarious encounters:

                 I went to a magic show.

I have never been to an adult magic show, so I was glad to have the opportunity to ease into the mysterious world through the eyes of a child.  However, I have adult eyes.  And they clearly illustrated that this magician sucked.  Most of his “tricks” were done by holding up 8×10 cards and saying some dumb bullshit that didn’t even make sense.   He slightly redeemed himself at the end with an invisible canary bit, however I will not be renewing my season tickets to that library series for next year. 

Fun factor: 10 (b/c it’s always fun hanging out with cutie-pies)

**Disclaimer:  If reenacted, this new thing will be best suited for family-types and those with severe OCD. 

There are so many steps to making a home meal happen.  1. Hungry belly.  2. Think of something to eat.  3a.  Watch many taped episodes of food network, er, I mean, 3b. Figure out how to make it.  4. See what ingredients you have.  5.  Shop for missing ingredients. 

I found a free site that is helpful in this process.  You can search tons of recipes and add them to a weekly food calendar/planner.  The best part is, when you select the recipes, it automatically generates a detailed grocery list for you.  Score.  So,

           I started using an online menu planning/grocery shopping thing.

I don’t think I’ll become dependent on this site, but I think it will be good to use when I have people in town or know that I’ll be eating at home a lot during a given week.  Most of the recipes I viewed weren’t terribly innovative.

p.s. This week is turning out to be a lot of online stuff; my best advice would be to get over it.

Fun factor: 6

Some people are pants shoppers.  I am a shirt/dress consumer.  I can’t get enough.  I find shopping for pants boring.  Because of this I average buying one pair of jeans every two years and wear them until they are unacceptable by society’s standards.  I won’t even get into my “work” pants situation- it’s mortifying.  Now, after this fascinating explanation, and I’m no mathematician, but I’ve noticed that I tend to experience a shortage of pants in my wardrobe.  Some days creativity is necessary, so today:

             I wore pajamas to work.

This is a nightgown I bought at Anthropologie.  I coupled it with brown boots and a brown turtleneck sweater and rendered it an outfit suitable for public viewing.   

I call it: Laura Ingalls minus the future drug addiction. 

Fun factor: 7

It’s rather psychotic, my obsession with blogs.  I read decorating, DIY, craft, food, life, and fetish blogs on a daily basis.  Just seeing if you actally read the lame content of this blog.  I’ve been looking for a way to store these sites aside from marking them as favorites so that I can streamline the process of accessing them, to make time for other activities.  Like finding more blogs.

Lucky for me, there is a free and easy to use site that allows me to organize my beloved babies, and it even alerts me when a new entry has been posted.  Because I NEED that information immediately after the author has pressed “publish.”    Or I will die.  So my new thing for today:

              I signed up for Bloglines.

All you do is sign up, and it’s a matter of pressing “add,” and then cutting and pasting the address of your blogs into a box.  When a new post has been made, it looks similar to a gmail alert in that it will show, for example:

Out With The Old (1)

Fun factor: 10

Today a little part of me feels as though life can’t get much better than this, because:

                I made my own font.

The amount of joy this has brought me is probably indicative of some sort of mental disorder.   All you need is a scanner, printer, $9, and a pen. 

Check it out below yo.

this-is-my-font.pdf

Fun factor: 30

Some files are just too obese to send via an email attachment, and until now I had no idea how to overcome this. Techie friend JC solved that, so for the first time:

I traded albums online using sendspace.

In the exchange, I got the soundtrack to the movie Once. If you haven’t seen it, please do. Now. A few months ago I purchased the soundtrack of High School Musical 2 for my nephew and nieces. Serendipitously, that’s the album JC was looking to add.

Fun factor: 8