Month: October 2006

I love getting presents in the mail! Caro sent me a fabulous, adorable wristlet that matches my business card holder that she gave me in July when I went to see the Yarn Harlot. It is the perfect color combination with brown and blue, and it is lined with the cutest fabric. She also sent me “P” and “S” stitch markers for Pointy Sticks! (Going out tonight, the laptop is set up and ready!) She even made the card, which is so cool. I love it all!

I was just thinking yesterday that now that I’m using a rolling backpack on Monday & Wednesday when I have Organic Chem and a ton of books, and a regular backpack on Tuesday & Thursday when I have Trig and Self-Awareness Psychology (but only one book to carry around) that I should find some small purse thing to use so I could easily transfer from bag to bag. Then I got home and there was one waiting for me in the mail. Perfect timing!

The construction is perfect – granted, I can’t sew, but my mother is fantastic at it and has trained me to have a good eye for the details. The fabric is just the right weight, which makes them really nice. The wristlet is great, and I love my card holder so much – I can’t say enough good things about Caro’s goodies. You can get some too at her Etsy store. They are fabulous!

Thank you, Caro! I loooooooove it! Mwah!

While driving home today, I saw a truck with a sticker on the back window that read:

B.I.T.C.H.
Beautiful, Intelligent,
Tattooed, Charming and
HORNEY

Nice. If you’re going to announce to the world that you are horny, you might want to at least spell it correctly!

Unless she is maybe a follower of Karen Horney, the neo-Freudian. Do you think that could have been what she meant?

What a whirlwind weekend we have had. I had the speech in the middle of the afternoon on Friday, which was quite inconvenient. I sucked, and I could tell I lost what few listeners I had half-way through. Considering the fact that I could barely find time or motivation to practice, it isn’t surprising. Oh well, I now say I’ve been there, done that and gotten the t-shirt. Literally. I got a free conference t-shirt just for presenting. Whoo hoo.

Saturday we cleaned, and that was good. We put a rug down in the living room last weekend after Mike & Jason put together our new coffee table and end tables. (Target – I couldn’t find any that I loved for the room at Ikea.) Tara, Elaine & Kenny came over for dinner Saturday night, and since Tara & Elaine both have cat allergies we vacuumed a lot. I sorted through old, lingering mail. I dusted. All of those exciting things. Dinner was fabulous, enhanced by the great company.

Tara spent the night, so we kicked off today by heading over to Ihop. Mmmm… pancakes. We spent the afternoon lounging, and I am all caught up on Project Runway now. We laughed about Uli’s whole “I love hot weather, I am from Miami, it will be a flowing dress with bold prints!” thing. Every.Single.Time. I still think Jeffrey’s latest creation sucked, but whatever. I’m looking forward to the finale now. Mike made us steaks for dinner as a birthday treat, and they were delicious. Now, it is on to Organic Chemistry and it starts all over again.

I get to find out tomorrow or Tuesday if Mike is going back to London this week. Seriously, it might be that last minute. I think he thinks it won’t happen, but I’m not sure. I’ll believe it when I see him here all week. October will see him travelling a lot, which is just weird. In the whole time I have known him, he has never travelled this much. Before it was unusual for him to travel more than once every 6 months; now it this will be his 4th trip overseas this year. I’m ok with it though – I would love to take Jason to London for Spring Break, so bring on the airline miles!