sort of crafty

out with the old…. December 29, 2006

Filed under: crafts, friends, lax, library, music, twilightsingers — sortofcrafty @ 5:16 pm

and in with the new, i hope. i can’t believe i will be writing 2007 on my terrible student loan payments starting next week. where has the year gone? i guess i should also write the obligatory “what cds i dug this year” posting too.

i am suprised to say that i am a bit bored since i am out of school. this week my job was closed so i have been doing some crafty things and reading. i am reading a book that i picked up randomly at the library- excitable women, damaged men by robert boyers. it’s a short story collection, which is good b/c i don’t have to feel really committed to the book, if i don’t dig a story, the next one might be better. i read about half of daniel handler’s watch your mouth. not so much a fan of that one. i stopped more than half way through when i got annoyed and felt done with it. i think i’ll read the basic eight, b/c i did like his other book adverbs. i also checked out high fidelity b/c i know i can that in about one sitting.

i don’t know what to do for new years eve (from this point on, referred to as NYE). i have been invited a few places, but i honestly hate NYE with a passion. i think it’s a completely made up holiday in that if we really wanted to change our lives, we could choose to do so at any point. last year, h and i hung out and drank homemade wine that was a bad idea, i think it affected my hair b/c i remember on new years day thinking my hair was giant.

anyway, i guess i have a few options for NYE, but can’t decide if i should participate in any of them or just skip it entirely. not to be a party pooper, but it’s just not my favourite.

i am trying to think about going to austin to visit ms. susan too, i hope we can coordinate something before i have to work, or rather at this point, am lucky enough to have a job at all i guess. so, not only would i get to see susan, but also i have been dreaming of visiting austin. austin and montreal. those are two big ones for me to get to sooner rather than later.

ok, i’ll start compiling the list of cds that i dug this year. i had the best time driving around in the car the other day. i listened to blackberry belle super super loud and sang super loud and felt so much better. i thought about the million times i have seen twilight or the whigs live and thought about being with my friends and even getting to go to LAX to see them and the feeling i get being at shows, especially those kinds of shows that are like events to me. that’s my new years resolution, more twilight in my life. or more singing in the car super loud thinking about the best times. i’m out.

 

i’m ready. December 25, 2006

Filed under: crafts, knitting, randomness, sewing — sortofcrafty @ 11:53 pm

yeah, i am about ready for the holidays to be over. boring boring boring. i made a hat (knit) and a purse (sewn) today just b/c i had nothing else to do. they turned out cute. i think.

i’m officially done with school, grades in hand, no diploma yet, but soon.

job search continues, with (some) bumps in the road.

i know this is the worst update ever, but my heart is just not in it.

 

whot whot. December 7, 2006

Filed under: music, pittsburgh — sortofcrafty @ 8:40 pm

so, i’ll just start by saying that it took me 2 hrs and 45 minutes to get from oakland to the house today. icy icy is the way to summarize the burgh. our bus driver told us that no where in the city was salted. at all. nice work!! this winter will be awesome if they keep up that kind of good work, right?

i met j and m for a late lunch at lulus and then waiting for a bit for a bus and then on a bus for over two hours. bitter….

i was psyched to see this:

Twilight on Jimmy Kimmel Live

The Twilight Singers will perform on Jimmy Kimmel Live on Wednesday, January 3, 2007 playing a song from Powder Burns. Jimmy Kimmel Live airs weeknights on ABC at 12:05 AM.

greg dulli on tv? is it 1994? love it.

going to the basement on the hill to watch scrubs tonight. laters

 

 

cute website. December 7, 2006

Filed under: crafts — sortofcrafty @ 10:37 am

i was looking at the elsewares website today, cute, semi expensive, but cute stuff.

i have done some of my xmas shopping from various crafty kids this xmas. here are some links.

mymy – i always get buttons from her.

plainmabel – i don’t think i bought anything here, but they have always have cute things.

cut + paste – lots of stuff

mcsweeneys -le sigh

small things – awesome necklaces

 

oh, sjp December 7, 2006

Filed under: pittsburgh — sortofcrafty @ 10:31 am

so, you all know that i want sarah jessica parker to be my best friend, now that she’s in pgh, it just might happen…. dennis quaid, i’m not sure that we would necessarily become friends, but i am sure we’d be polite to each other.

 

le sigh. December 3, 2006

Filed under: music — sortofcrafty @ 10:27 pm

this is what it’s all about lately. that’s it. oh, and the kiss and tell single that i put up on myspace. i love that song.

frazy.com frazy.com

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but i need a building permit here? December 1, 2006

Filed under: randomness, school — sortofcrafty @ 5:06 pm

so, the interview.

i guess to sum it up, the secluded nature of the location was not as a big a problem as me not wanting the job in the end, right? (the title comes from the fact that there were so many towns that i passed by on the way down to the interview that made a point to tell you that you need a permit to build in the small ass town).

i am in this strange phase where i feel so torn between a job (any job) and a job that i actually might fit in. how can it be this hard at this stage, isn’t knowing that being a librarian is the last choice i need to make forever? i know that’s terribly immature, but really, i am feeling so torn between it all that i am beginning to freak myself out.

i went to coffee yesterday with a school chum (school mate, whatever phrase you want to use….) and we are in the rare group that are graduating this semester. it’s scary shit.

so really, if you see me, i don’t want to talk about graduating, or interviewing, or anything. talk to me about you, don’t even ask about me. talk to me about the sky or the craziness that went through town today and all the broken out windows. yeah, that’s what i want to talk about with you.