Oh hello blogger. Let's play catchup!

Ahem... icon made by me... over three years ago... gosh how I hate that song now. In fact, I'm no longer sure I like Rhianna as an artist. All of her songs lately seem to get on my nerves faster and faster, until she only need mutter one syllabic nonsense note before I flip the channel. But um... three years ago I delved in to my "crapass beginner animated gif" phase, so this icon remains important to me. (NOTE: although I have "grown out" of said phase, my animated gif talents have not progressed at all. Just a happy FYI)



So, um... I sorta failed myself didn't I? lol. I spend almost an entire month trying to catch up so that I may fall back in to blogging regularly... and then I wander off again. Oh joyous fun. Okay, so if I've learned anything in my absence from blogging, it's that my mind doesn't work the way I thought. And it's all my fault. I mean, there have been hints along the way of how my mind works, but it wasn't until recently - almost completely given in to my eccentricities at their finest - before I fully grasped it. Basically, my mind does not think on projects one at a time, I knew that before. The problem is, now that I've let my mind go, it no longer allows me to do one project at a time.

For instance, I failed abysmally at nanowrimo. After the first five days, (Approx 7k words) my mind decided I wanted to paint some shirts while making some earrings, reading the Harry Potter series again and working out christmas ornaments for some friends. The first week of nano was all I did - and it wasn't because I ran out of ideas for the random writing piece I started, I still plan on going back and trying to finish it, but yeah, just because my mind told me no, and I listened.

I have since completed the shirts and earrings. I'm on the sixth HP book, and only 3 ornaments in. And my mind now wants me to start "Project Cover the Walls pt 2". And of course I'm participating in this year's ED Forum Gift Exchange, (this will be the third year I'm participating) so that's another project to work on. And my mind has been thinking about the ED giveaway that's coming again soon... again I fear starting that project until I know for sure of the rules for this time around.

I'm not entirely sure how I like this experiment of my mind. I feel less and less in control with every passing day. Not to mention I'm becoming more and more unhinged. Feeling stir crazy, and not entirely sure what to do to fix it. And yet... part of me knows that I'm still clinging on to the edge I tried to jump from. I could still let myself fall even further down the hole. If I do, will I no longer care about the control I've lost? Will I gain more control by letting myself go? Will I be happy? Or should I pull myself up from the ledge, draw back, beat my mind back in to submission? Gain back the meager amount of control I had, and possibly force more? DECISIONS DECISIONS!!!!!


Anyhoo, I have decided this much: I shall do a quick catchup here on my blog. Though I haven't been posting regularly, I have still been taking pictures with the intention of sharing them here, and so I shall. I think this time's catchup will not be so thorough though, each subject will not get its own day and post unless I change my mind. But eh, mr blog thinger, I do want to share.

And so I shall. Here's some quick recap pics of... Septemberish - Octoberish?


I went to an Apple Store for the first time ever... it was... okay, I didn't like it much at all. It didn't feel like a store.


I also visited a car junk yard for the first time ever.. I liked it much better than the apple store, was exactly as I expected it. I cut my thumb on hidden broken glass and feared for my life... but as I'm obviously still alive, it wasn't such a big deal.


I found out that these carnival pops may look delicious, but alas, they are not.



I noticed my bumper sticker is faded to unreadable, yet I still have no intention of removing/replacing it. (It says: "Have you hugged your cow today?" I bought two of those bumper stickers, the second is inside the car)



The sticker inside has yet to fade.



I found that Family Dollar has an anti theft sticker.... which makes me wonder how many stores wander about stealing shtuff from Family Dollar to sell in their own store. I mean, that's the only reason I could see that sticker there for. It's not like some person looking to buy liquid Dial from a shady dude on the street will see the sticker and go "OMG you stole this! I MUST CALL THIS NUMBER!" However, a person wandering Store ____'s liquid Dial section might consider calling if they saw the sticker.


Anyhoo, I also decided that this pink Tampico does not look delicious... but it would be a pretty shade for liquid Dial...

I got new sunglasses, which are lovely.

I also discovered this incredibly sad mannequin, though I can't recall where the sad mannequin is from:


When you take her pose in to consideration, I think poor sad mannequin is sad because she's self conscious in the lack of clothing she's forced to wear.


By the by, the mannequin behind her seemed rather indifferent.



As did the third mannequin. And I'd also like to mention that I had an entire conversation with my friend about the sadness of the mannequin, which caused the woman behind the counter in the lingerie section to laugh hysterically, stating that she had never noticed how low the first mannequin's self esteem was.



And here's one project: in september, I decided I wanted to make myself another nightstand. I had only one, and I wanted two. I bought some particle board, and - using the helpful suggestion from my dad to map out the pieces I needed to scale - found out I had enough particle board to make TWO night stands. I liked this idea better, because then I had the opportunity to make MATCHING nightstands.

Some progress shots:

This is how you take out a screw that you've moronically forced in to the wrong place and stripped it so the screwdriver can't get it out.



Not being a woodworker, I do not believe I made these correctly, but it worked out well enough so eh.


Cutting a wooden dowel with a manual saw and trying to take a picture of it. Woot.

Two nightstands. Waiting to be finished.

Here is where I paint them. I left them out there for over a day, but it took a WEEK in my room before the sickening spray paint smell went away. Lesson learned, I should have waited longer before moving on to the next step.


I found that particle board - at least this kind - does not sand well. Not wanting to damage whatever I placed inside of them, I covered the inside entirely in contact paper.


And here's finished product number 1:

And number 2:
My friend Sara's family was closet cleaning, and Sara was kind enough to pull some various pieces of clothing that she found interesting for me in hopes I could use them in the future. She made some lovely selections. The fabric I used for the curtains in the nightstands was previously a dress.


Overall, I'm happy with how they turned out. They have flaws, due to me not being able to saw on a straight line, messing up with screws, etc. But from far away they look identical, and as they are on either side of my bed, that works out well. Hehe.


We'll end today's episode of catchup here. Tune in tomorrow (possibly) for the next episode, featuring Percy the Pumpkcow.