…no see. If you can’t tell, I’ve taken a little break of sorts this summer. I’m still alive and doing well. I was feeling for the first time that maybe I was being a bit to convenient(if that makes sense). Just needed a short hiatus this month. Nothing has really changed in that time, though. I’m still the feeling same… Oh well.
As usual, I hate summer. This summer is no exception. It seems to be the hottest so far… or that is what my mother is claiming. It feels like it. I hate the heat and I equally hate air conditioning. I just can’t win. At work we don’t have AC and I don’t think it hit anything lower then 95 everyday last week. I also spent most of my time in a paint booth with safety equipment on. It’s been so bad that we’ve even been forced to set up camp in the computer room to sleep for a few nights… feeling sorry for me yet?
The most I can do is make myself as comfy as I can. So far they’ve been working to some extent. So what have I been doing: (lots of words behind the cut… amu is pretending to know how to write) Read the rest of this entry »
Found a cool little trailer from Yojimbo. The awesome music I was talking about is towards the end. My wanting to watch old samurai movies has turned into a mini Akira Kurosawa marathon… which has now turned into a small Toshiro Mifune movie marathon. All thanks to Netflix, in the past few days we’ve watched Sanjuro (the sequel to Yojimbo), Rashoman, and High and Low. Surprising I really liked High and Low despite the fact that it’s not a samurai flick (hahaha). I even decided to watch it again this afternoon to catch anything I may have missed. They have a pretty decent selection on their “watch instantly” so we have a few more movies on queue. Very good stuff.
Very tired this even. I stayed up late last night sewing. I should have a few things to show off soon. But don’t get too excited. It’s all for the dollies.
He’s far from finished. He’s on his second face up and needs lashes. I learned the hard way by putting them in after the first face up only having to take them out to do the second. I’m feeling this one out but I think I like it. I just need to add a little more gloss and giving him a little body blushing(not to mention a new wig… do not like DX and maybe some new eyes).
He is such a melon head (don’t let the first photo fool you, though) but I just adore him. So different from my other minis but that is a good thing. He did make it to a doll meet this weekend while The Mr and I were working Balticon. Sadly at the time he was going by “the schulze” but thanks to The Mr’s help he now has a name.
The Mr and I spent most of the weekend in Huntvalley for Balticon. It’s a sci-fi/fantasy literary convention run by the Baltimore Science Fiction Society. The Mr was a guest there along with a few of his web comic friends. He was given a table in the guest hall and I set up shop to plug his webcomic. It was a good weekend and a met some very cool people. A few fiber artist who I was able to talk to as well as a very cool doll group who was kind enough to let me crash their meet.
The Mr had to go back today for one more panel and I was kind of regretting not coming along. The dealer’s room had a vendor who was selling clothing reference books which I would have loved to have checked out. Oh well maybe they will be there next year.
Totally random but, I’ve been in the mood for some really good and old samurai movies lately. Netflix watch instantly has a great selection of Akira Kurosawa’s films. The Mr was watching Yojimbo last week and I was only able to catch a little while preparing for the convention. Tonight I decided to replay it (the music is awesome, by the way… no really… I’m serious). There are a few other titles that I’m going to catch but if anyone has any recommendations, I’m all ears.
The mr and I started a new routine. We woke up and had breakfast together. He walked the pug while I got ready for work. And then we both left the house to catch the bus. The Mr got a new job and it’s in the same building I work except up one floor. For those out of the loop, The Mr lost his job at the end of February. I don’t like posting stuff like this normally because, seriously, who wants to read something like that. It was a job that he wasn’t fond of and it started to wear him out so when it happened I though “things will be okay”. And they totally were for the most part. He kept busy and was even busier than when he had a job. When my uncle found out they were hiring upstairs he put a good word in for The Mr and he got the job. It’s certainly not an office job but he’s working with his hands and I think it’s a good thing. After we got to work went our separate ways, he came down to eat lunch with us and we left together taking a nice long walk home. We stopped on our way to get a few burrito bowls from Chipotle (we were feeling lazy tonight) and a coffee and were goofy the rest of the way home. The mr does a mean South Baltimore accent if you ask him nicely. He was cracking me up on the way home (we’re both from Baltimore and have been known to let the accent slip out).
The littlest things have made an odd but good change in my mood lately.
We had a good trip at the farmers market on saturday. Asparagus is now in season here and several farmers had it at the market. I roasted some last night and they were so good. I also got some out-of-this-world strawberries. They’re from North Carolina which means the local berries should be here in a few weeks. I decided to get some after craving them for a month now. I made the mistake of getting some seriously non-local berries a few weeks back. They were bright red on the outside but completely white on the inside and tasteless. I knew better than to get them but went against my better judgment. The ones I got on saturday are so red all the way through and oh so good.
I’m still slightly dragging my feet about Dolpa and I’m only left with a few days to decided. They listed their schedule and I’m still not sure. If I go, The Mr and I are going to make a weekend of it. I would still be going to the event myself but at least I’ll have a traveling partner… or we could just save it for another weekend in New York. Decisions decisions…
Besides this little set back, the littlest things have put me in an odd but good mood.
Sorry, this post has gone a bit everywhere this evening, hasn’t it?
cooking cute