last sunday: i made time for myself. i NEEDED to get out of the house. i went to the movies. this may not sound like much but i don't actually get much time to myself and it was worth it. i saw black swan and it was very effective, though i'm not sure i can say that i liked it. it did give me quite the stomach ache for some time after it was over. like i said: effective. tales of madness get to me because of all the actual madness in my life. the acting was very good, and the direction, and the filming. still, i'm not sure how i feel about it. no matter my ambivalent feelings--the time to myself was SO AWESOME. it might even be nice to make time for myself one thing i make every single week. especially if it involves movies.
monday: chicken soup with star pasta and cannellini beans. part of the sunday time to myself involved verbally shoving a chicken at rodney and telling him to figure out how to roast it on my way out the door. he did an excellent job and we made the soup together. it was yummy.
tuesday: i made tiny brochures for my design class. yeah, i know, more homework as making something, but these, at least, were tiny mock brochures. made by hand. so cute. sorry, i neglected to photograph those.
wednesday: vesta needed to speak at a school board meeting for a presentation that her school was doing, so i brought yarn. i thought i would make some fingerless glove/arm-warmer thingies. so far i just have rectangles that i pull out and restart, but it was nice to bust out the needles and yarn all the same. vesta was awesome, by the way.
thursday: i had a horrible migraine. i asked rodney to make dinner and popped 2 excedrin migraines and laid very still in bed until they kicked in. then i was starving and ate a bunch of his yummy stir fry and made tiny boxes out of mini cereal boxes and other packaging i've been saving, while i watched some addictive trivia game show involving a million dollars and then bones. i love the rare chance to sit and watch mindless t.v. with the girls and especially love that i was DOING SOMETHING the whole time! these mini cereal boxes were very hard to fold against the grain and i don't think i'll be doing this again. the mini boxes work awesomely with recycled cards, though. i feel obliged to put in a disclaimer here--this is NOT normal fare at our house. i specifically got the mini cereals to make artist books out of, but the boxes were getting that hoardy feeling, so i will just get more if ever i am actually ready to do the artist books. it's its ARE very good, though. and i do eat those an a regular once-in-a-while basis. and they make for a cool box because they say "IT's it!" in big beautiful green type, which is nice for putting little gifts in.
friday: i realize this is really stretching it. but, oh well. what i made on friday was a mii. yes. we got our wii on friday because, well, because wiis are rad and we all deserve one. i've wanted a nintendo since i was 11 or so. it looks pretty good and quite a bit like me, i think. (i don't know why, but the orientation refuses to stay changed when i flip it right-side up).
saturday: more homework as making something. in addition to making these brochure comps for mercy corp i also did some (read: hours) of dreamweaver homework. unfortunately we are still at the stage where we just do what we're told and don't actually design (read: what i spent hours on is too ugly to show you). dad took the kids up to portland for my aunt's surprise birthday party and rodney and i stayed home and did homework all day until we left for town to have an early date night. we saw True Grit and it was wonderful. i recommend it.
and finally, this sunday. today we all went to town and played mini golf at some weird "family fun center" type place that was straight outta roseanne, called putters. rodney gets the hook-up over at LCC for free tickets to these strange places we normally wouldn't go to. it was interesting, if over-stimulating. AND, i got a hole-in-one! tonight i made an adobe illustrator "sketch" of an idea i had a few years ago. this is by no means the final design, because originally i wanted it to look very much screen-printed or hand-stamped, which, of course, this doesn't. but it was still fun to play with the idea in illustrator and just mess around. my plan is to do a series--lemons on pink, limes on brown, oranges on blue...and later perhaps a tomato, squash, etc. theme.
have a great week!
i am grateful for:
dad taking the kids all day
rex goliath (best cheap wine EVER)
that i forgot monday was a holiday and now i remember so it's totally extra
sore muscles
good food
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