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So I saw this amazing bureau here and other places that I can't remember at the moment:

So I decided that would work perfectly with my white bureau's- the one in my bedroom in particular.

My process was printing the words "secret", "sleep" and "lazy" in a jane austen font that I got off-line, coloring the back with pencil and then tracing those letters onto the drawers. I then painted those words onto the drawers with gray paint I got from Lowe's still from the giftcard I had from my house warming! Here are some pictures:

Margarita, music (lap top), cell phone.

Tool box (to maybe take hardware off drawers), gray paint.

Half painted already-half pencil stencil of "secret" on my drawer that contains the secrets.

The printed word "sleep" which I will color on the back with a pencil and trace onto the drawer for my pj's.

Primitive carbon-copy.

Finished product.

Close-up.

I love it.

Um

this is something I don't even have words to describe.

I love

sleepovers.

Flattered yet disturbed.

Those are two very random things to feel at the same time. 

This morning I woke up, showered, got dressed, came downstairs, started the coffee maker, put my Meal for One in my lunch bag and poured a bowl of Cheerios (same thing every morning, I'm a creature of habit, at least in the am).

While I eat my Cheerios I check my email, google reader and facebook. When I open my computer iChat automatically opens up as well. 

I received an instant message this morning from someone not on my buddy list. YoMommaFat510304 to be exact. 

I accepted the message so I could see what it said only because if I declined it, it would bother me not knowing what the message was.

This was the message from YoMommaFat 510304 received at 6:16 am:

"hey...you're hot. and you have no clue who this is :)"

My response:

"it's too early"

What the hell? I mean, let's be honest, I don't hate the fact that someone thinks I'm hot (unless they're just effing with me) but I'm kind of disturbed about the whole thing. 

Only me. 

This is why

I heart my SBF Lizziebelle:

(a text message convo between the two of us this afternoon)

me: just avoided eye contact with [a girl from high school we were super bffs with who in college turned into a slight beyotch but we've since buried the hatchet. technically.] at target like a champ

lb: she is like the basilisk

me: HAHAHAHAHAHA

lb: I need professional help

me: if you do then we should go together bc I knew what you were talking about without missing a beat

lb: we need to be committed....TO THE WORLD OF WIZARDING!

This is why we're SBFs, bffs and second cousins. Love her.

UPDATE: In editing this post and putting a link to the word "basilisk" I have discovered that there is a Harry Potter wiki. I may not end up watching Lost or Mad Men at all, I may just read this all night!

Another good thing!

So tomorrow night at the Zeiterion Theatre has RFK: The Journey to Justice which I was so excited to see.

So excited.

Spring semester 2009 I took a grad class at Bridgewater, Assassinations, with one of my favorite history professors- Dr. Thomas Turner. The grad students were assigned a 25 page research paper on an assassination of our choice, I chose Bobby Kennedy. After completing the paper I knew Bobby was my favorite Kennedy. I heart him.

So anyway, I saw that the Z was putting on this show and could. not. wait. for it to be February!

Well, it's February and I officially don't have enough money to buy a ticket to see the show tomorrow night. Super. My Aunt Dori works in the box office there, but I didn't feel comfortable asking her if she had any comp tickets. I know she wouldn't mind, but I just don't feel right asking. As I had that thought I was pulling into the parking lot at the gym and literally that minute my Aunt Dori was calling me! She offered me free tickets to the show- how freaking awesome!!!!!

I'm so excited to see this show tomorrow night, even though I'm probably going alone, nbd!

Plus my friendboy is on his way over to watch this weeks episode of Lost and some more episodes of Mad Men.

Love it!!

LOVE!!

There are a lot of blogs on my google reader. One of the blogs I read is Makeup Bag and there was a contest giving away free false eyelashes, all you had to do was leave a comment.

I've entered tons of blog contests like this before, never winning.

Except I WON! How exciting!!!

I received and email informing me they needed my mailing address to send me my false eyelashes! I'm so excited! Now I just need something fun to wear them to!

I love getting stuff in the mail! I have some exciting stuff coming soon actually
-Eyelashes
-Laura Mercier Oil Free tinted moisterizer
-Season 3 of Dawson's Creek from ebay
-Season 2 of Mad Men from ebay

PS Mad Men is an AMAZING show! It makes me want to wear frilly pretty dresses/nightgowns  to bed!  Random.

Finished!

Ok, here's a picture of the completed "headboard" along with the creative process:

That would be the finished product. I'm thinking of getting some dark gray pillows to prop up behind the white ones, and then have the pink ones be under the comforter so you can't see them at all. When I have money.
Ok, so first I tested two light  yellows from Home Depot on the wall:

Then taped up computer paper to figure out how many fit width wise and height wise to make the stencil:

Then drew out the design trying to come as close as possible to this headboard I saw in Domino magazine:

*I used a pencil I received from a girlfriend as the "save-the-date" for her wedding this summer. Ridiculously cute/unique. 

Then I drew it on a regular sized paper I had folded in the same amount of squares that fit on my wall. 

Then drew each square from my drawing onto an individual piece of computer paper. 

Then taped them up to the wall to make sure they lined up and actually worked.

Then cut them out and taped them back up again.

Then traced the outline with a pencil.

And painted that biatch in!

And what you have now, is the final product with two coats of paint and the bed moved back up against the wall:

Total cost of the project: Nada!

I could have ordered a stencil from The Stencil Library which is what they used for the domino headboard, but that cost something ridiculous like $40 so I figured I could do it myself somehow. It may not have been the most logical process of how I recreated the stencil, but it worked for me. Plus for the paint I used a Lowe's gift card for, so that didn't cost me anything. Although at Home Depot I did pay $5 for the two paint samples, so I lied, it cost me $5. But I heart it!! 

Vacation projects

This week was February vacation and it was AMAZING to have the week off. I am currently in denial that it's almost over.

Things I accomplished:
1. Rearranged my whole living room (including couch, TV, desk, everything) by myself.
2. Painted a headboard on my bedroom wall that my bed is up against. Why? This is how I explained it to my Dad, who isn't really on the same decorating page as me:
Dad: What are you up to today?
Me: Not much, painting a headboard on the wall in my bedroom....waiting for reaction
Dad: You're what?
Me: It's going to look good, I'm painting the shape of a headboard on the wall in my bedroom.
Dad: Why don't you just buy an actual headboard?
Me: Because I have no money and a gift card to Lowe's so the paint will cost me nothing. Unless you want to buy a headboard for me.
Dad: Negative.

So there you have it, I just finished the second coat of paint and pictures will follow once it dries and I can put the bed back in place instead of in the middle of the room. Here's an inprocess picture to tide you over:

LaLa refused to get out of the way, and was in the middle of yawning. But that's the stencil/template I made on the wall, that I traced and then painted in. Also in the middle you can see the two colors I tried out before deciding on the one on the right of LaLa's nose.

Did not accomplish:
1. Grading anything.
2. Planning anything.
3. Working out as much as I had wanted.

Oh well. I still have today and tomorrow to do some grading and planning.

Or not.

"Try it, you might like it!"

-Danny Wood, New Kids on the Block

That was a quote from a video back in the day, that I or my cousin Nikki taped off of tv of the New Kids on tour. They were eating, and Danny was telling the camera that his mother used to tell him, "Try it, you might like it" about new foods.

I rarely attempt this because I worry about wasting a precious meal either out to eat or store bought in the event that I don't like it. Case and point, lunch today.

Normally I get the Chicken with Almonds Lean Cuisine and I decided to branch out and bought two new ones: one with veggies and whole wheat pasta (I failed to notice at point of purchase that this meal came without chicken) and rice with chicken, veggies and cranberries in an apple sauce. (Not apple sauce apple sauce but some sort of apple glaze business.)

Both I did not like. Now, I did not mind the pasta with veggies option that I had yesterday but my complaint is that it doesn't have chicken aka not enough to it. The second meal which I had today, really didn't agree with me. I should've known but I figured I'd take Danny Woods' words of advice, but unfortunately for me, I was not a fan of either. Back to my chicken with almonds.

Not until the end of the week though, I bought lettuce, cucumbers, carrots, mushrooms and almond slivers to make salads for the week, I've just been too lazy to do so. I think that'll be my afternoon activity.

And watch, we'll have no school tomorrow and I won't need a pre-made lunch. At least I'll get to sleep in and make bacon and eggs for breakfast because I actually have those ingredients! Oh maybe I'll buy waffle mix and maple syrup to make waffles too!!!!!!!

Yummmm......is it 3:00 so I can go home and eat something yet?

Despite

over ten years going by Dawson's Creek still manages to make me cry.

Spoke too soon

Got an im from The Russian:

"hey lovely, how are you"

Grr.....I can't just ignore it and be a jerk. I have to man up and be honest.

Excuse me while I change into my honest pants....

You know what's kind of funny?

I don't think The Russian was enamored with me either, I haven't heard from him.

Much less messy when it's mutual!

I hate

when you can tell that someone thinks you're an idiot and not doing something right when in fact I know how to use effing email and if I'm not receiving it, it's a problem beyond me since I'm getting emails from other people!!!!

Sorry, just needed to vent.

I feel gross

I went to the gym last night, showered when I got home and then this morning instead of showering again, I just wet my hair and washed my face. But my hair feels gross. I feel like it looks greasy. And smells. I feel like when I get out of school today I'm going to run home and shower before going to the basketball games this afternoon.

Yuck.