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Tuesday, May 4, 2010
Summer PlansThis summer, this baby is getting revamped.
Plans:
1. Continue documenting my crafting odyssey as I finish Style School. And, if someone sweet gives me 60 bucks, I might also take Summer School. (I know I totally dropped off the radar, but hi! hello! comps! Graduating from graduate school!)
2. Posting the occasional outfit post. I am under no illusions about how interesting my outfits are, but there are some challenges through wardrobe remix that might be fun to document.
3. Reviewing the books I plan to read this summer. I want to get through AT LEAST the 2009 or 10 (whichever is the latest announced, at this point) Hugo, Locus, Nebula, and World Fantasy nominated books.
4. Talking about the joint etsy venture my mom and I are embarking on this summer. We started shrieking with excitement a lot this afternoon when planning it, but I think maybe we'll do vintage things. And clothes. And crochet some stuff. Maybe sew some stuff. Also steampunk jewelry. So, in essence, all of it.
5. Documentation of Fun Free(ish) Summer of 2010. Mama has a 25 hour a week job, sooooooo.
6. Promotion of the Center for the Study of Science Fiction, for which I am the coordinator. whee aboutsf.com whee
7. Talk about my novels/stories/writing goals/hangups/other thing to create balance in this sentence. I am always plugging away at short stories but also have my family saga to write (whoa) and an SF novel to produce!
Or maybe I'll update again in early 2011. Who knows!
Anyway, I have a 10-12er to write before I finish grade school. Later.
Labels: awesome moms, goals, life choices
Monday, June 22, 2009
An attempt at more regular updatingI've just returned home from a whirlwind weekend in San Antonio with my mother--literally just returned, as Nick and I left Cabot around 4 am so we could both be at work by 12ish. Yuck. My mother is on a scrapbook forum that she's been talking and posting to excitedly for years, and was apprehensive about meeting them alone, so I came with her.
We had a blast, although after everyone's husbands began popping up cautiously at the shop where the crop was occurring I began to miss Nick. I made ten scrapbook pages, made a lot of new chums, and have decided to sign up for the forum now. The people were great, and I love scrapbooking, but it's also a great way to keep in touch with what is important in my mother's life--I miss her, and sometimes 500 miles feels a hell of a lot longer away.
Me and Mom:
I returned to work today to find out we're having an anime festival tomorrow (I can't bleedin' believe it's the end of June already!). I've been researching how to make candy sushi for a snack/project, and have found a couple good ideas here and here. We'll be gettin' crafy with our fruit roll-ups. It's sort of a pain to return to work from a mini-vacation, but I have pretty swank jobs...although remind me that I need to start working on my syllabus for fall soon, please. I'm teaching Intro to Fiction for the first time and have five novels, one graphic novel, and a cute chubby baby book of theory I'm using, but have no idea how they'll fit together yet. Frankly I'd rather be embossing or felting or something at the moment, but reality beckons.
Speaking of ominous portents that I have a world external to crafting, Nick and I have moved into a gorgeous new house, closer both to the downtown and to the university here in Lawrence, so I can walk easily to either of my jobs. It's the bottom floor of a 100 year house, and has two bedrooms, an office, walk-in closets, a window seat, a dishwasher, a clawfoot bathtub...I adore all the amenities, but it means twice the cleaning, sweeping, and unpacking that my bitty one-bedroom-with a loft apartment required. (Not that I did much of that cleaning, either!) I'll post pictures as soon as I get me some, which won't happen until the mother isn't covered in filth and misplaced baggies of jeans.
Labels: awesome moms, scrapbooking
Sunday, April 15, 2007
The gents and I took a trip to Hot Springs this weekend--Jennifer, Michael, Sam, Brandon, Maegan and I drove down (through torrential rain) Friday afternoon, and Trent and his (soon to be ex) girlfriend Bekah met up with us Saturday. Michael's mother, who wants to be me when she drove up, was overjoyed to have us and served as entertainment, drink mixer, and story teller the entire time, telling us what great kids we were and how proud of us she was (she had just met a couple of us!) We giggled and drank and pillow fought through the night until Maegan and I passed out drunk and laughing in a bed.
Woke up the next afternoon and went through some thrift stores and flea markets where I found books, crazy earrings, a pineapple necklace, and a shirt that says "Everything is releasing energy all the time" inexplicably and managed to insult the woman working there by insinuating she changed her prices by who came along. And then after playing pirate golf in the freeeeeeezing cold, the boys decided to jump in the lake to be manly--pretty ironic, considering Quaid was scared of the green water and fish! Instead of watching Red Eye and making out with Cillian Murphy's image, as I had planned, I drank too much wine, read too much postmodern gay fiction, and felt petulant and shouted in the bathroom most of the night; what a waste.
And then! Today, when leaving, Michael and Jennifer and Sam got into a car wreck! Brandon, Maegan and I were waiting a stopsign for them to follow us, as we were in a caravan, and they went right through a yield sign and plowed into the side of a van of a carpet salesman. I think Maegan and I were more shaken up than the guys are, so we jumped out, dashed over, and called 911. Luckily everyone was ok, but Michael's car is totaled since the frame is bent to hell and the engine is leaking strange substances and some doors wouldn't open. Michael's mother pulled up and exclaimed "Mikey! You broke your car!" and then laughed when we dropped vodka transferring vehicles; I think I fell madly in love with her at that point...Anyway, we took hilarious photographs when the cops weren't looking, because car wrecks are just so amusing.
Labels: awesome moms, car wreck, Hot Springs
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