Fendi & Emo - Rockin' Your Stockin'

So, while I temporarily feel bad for Jason, today has been incredibly AWESOME not having anything to do, so I can mess around all day and not feel guilty! I feel bad because he’s stuck doing homework for the next month while I have none, however, I remember all those semesters while I was doing homework, and he was playing video games. So it helps with the guilt. :P

I whipped out the good ole’ sewing machine (actually it’s shiny and new!) and hemmed two pairs of pants that were in desperate need of it. One I have been wearing for months that had safety pins holding the hem up because it fell out a month after I had them altered (disgusting I know) and what’s really bad, is when I took all the pins out, one of them had rusted. :(

I dragged Jason out to Joann’s Fabric today, because they overcharged me (well, my mom) on some silicone baking cups, so I wanted me $4.04 back! While we were there, we picked up some thread for my pants, and a pet bed pattern which was completely out of place, but I had to get it, because that’s one of the first projects I want to work on. However, I just noticed that the thread cost $5.36 a piece, but I went with that specific one because the person who sold us the sewing machine said it was better quality. I think I will investigate that more next time. Ouch. :/

Back to the projects, I didn’t know what stitch to use, and I still don’t know how to use the machine (there’s sooo many buttons but I don’t know what the heck they do) so I think I am going to ask one of the people who taught me how to knit, how to sew, versus going to classes, I’m kind of a retard when it comes to learning hands-on stuff. It took me like 2 weeks to learn how to knit properly, and a good 2-3 months to learn that I was casting on completely wrong, so everything I had made, was crap and would fall apart when it was washed. As for sewing today: I screwed up by picking a stitch that looked like was on one pair of the pants, and didn’t change it to the correct foot, and jammed the damn thing, so I just went with the triple liney looking stitchy thing. Haha, see how technology has ruined me!?

I feel like such a sneaky devil. Twice on Saturday I got Jason to eat something disgustingly healthy and before he knew what it was, he said “its ok” or “this is really good.” Buwhahaha. The first thing was in the morning: Breakfast Cookies that are loaded with fiber and good stuff for you. I had never had / made them before then, so it was new to me too. They were a bit odd because the outside was crispy like a cookie (kind of) but the inside was very cakey/bread like but they were delish! Then for lunch I made a “meatless” tamale pie. I used soy beef crumbles, and some healthy alternatives for other ingredients, and Jason really seemed to like it, he even went back for seconds. I wouldn’t tell him what the “secret ingredient” was until he told me if he like it. When he said he did, I told him there was no meat in it, and he just looked confused… he was positive the meat was turkey until I showed him the packaging. I will get us both healthy yet! I really need to work on the recipe page so I can post some of these recipes to share.

As for the rest of today, it was spent doing homework and finals. I am officially done with school for the year! Wahoo, I hope December goes by super slow so that I can enjoy my time off… although I know it won’t, we’re busy most weekends with work (for me) and school stuff (for Jason.)

Friday, since I took the day off, my mom came up and we went shopping for a sewing machine, because a couple months back Jason had talked about splitting the cost for a Christmas / Birthday present. Obviously, that can’t happen now; but what mother doesn’t want a totally domesticated daughter? :P We ended up getting the Emerald 183 from Husqvarna Viking. I can’t even pronounce the name, but that’s ok. My mom decided that one with a computer would probably be better for me because I’d end up getting frustrated having to change all the manual dials. I did grow up with a computer attached to my fingers ya’ know. All this manual stuff kills me. (I kid, I kid, I still use a typewriter on a daily basis at work, and I’m not that old-school-technology impaired.) Anyway, it’s still sitting on the living room floor. I’m scared to open it because we have no real place to put it for now, but I’m also afraid I’m going to be addicted to it. Jason says that I’m getting all crazy with all the cooking and being domestic, but I just can’t stop! This time of year is sooo great to do pretty much anything. We’ve had our doors and windows open for the last few days now. It never gets hot in the kitchen, so I just can’t stop baking… I have more to do tomorrow! Bake, bake, bake.

Also on Friday, we decorated our hour with an obnoxious amount of decorations. Last weekend I took down all the Halloween stuff, and hung up the outside Christmas lights, but ole grinchy wouldn’t let me turn them on until after Thanksgiving. So when we got home Thursday night, guess what got plugged in. :P We put up our “new” (new to us, we bought it last year after Christmas on super discounted sale prices) tree, and decorated it. Then we decorated our small tree and put up the gajillion snowman items I have. Our living room is so bright with lighted items; we almost don’t need a lamp in there anymore! I should have pictures soon. :)

Soooooo, sorry I’ve been such a putz lately. Although, if Jason updated, I’m sure you’d never hear from us again. ; ) Things have been busy around here, at least for me because since last week through next week it’s finals time! Wahoo! (Not really, that was the internet-cloaked sarcasm.) However, I did complete my second to last assignment for my web design level 2 class, and I feel that I just have to gloat. Basically the project was to research different “Web Development” jobs, and due to the fact that it is such a broad term used for so many things, list what I needed to learn, and what I already knew. I feel like I always half-ass these assignments, but my teacher just seems to love to feed my ego. Here’s what she said this time:

Assignment completed per instruction.
Amanda…this is an interesting combo of jobs and I don’t agree with you. I think you probably are qualified for more of these jobs than you think. While they list an entire string of qualifications, most applicants don’t have them. I think you might consider applying for some of these jobs. You have the core understanding of the field. You actually have limited to very basic knowledge of css, so I think you could do that. While you said you didn’t have PHP, JavaScript, and MY SQL Server, you could learn those by the time you got an interview. This made me smile….”the rest of this made me basically go, huh?” Sometimes those lists seem endless, don’t they?

You did a really good job researching all of this. Your skills may be broader than you give yourself credit for. Your writing skills for this lesson are above class average. I really liked your set up for this one and it was very easy for me to read. I liked the narrative. A+ for this lesson. Joanie.

Anyway, I have finally gotten Jason to help me with some ideas for the wedding: cake toppers! (Hey, it’s a start.) A few days ago, one of his friends, bought him the expansion pack for World of Warcraft, and with the packs comes catalogs with lots of cool crap. On one of the pages, we stumbled across FigurePrints. Basically they take your actual World of Warcraft character, and turn it into a 3-D model, that’s about 8 inches tall. We both got super hyped and super excited because seriously, how cool would it be to have the original Fendicano and Emocube as our cake topers? A bald old man in a dress and a purple elf! Seriously, HOW COOL? We could even get the White Wedding Dress and Black Tuxedo that you can create in-game for them to wear. However, this soon became a thing of the past as we learned a few things. First, you basically get entered into a drawing on a monthly basis. My guess is that you’re probably competing against at least 75% of the ten million other players who play World of Warcraft (yes, we’re not the only geeks out there… there’s plenty of us) but then, it also takes a month or more to create, and you can only do one of your own characters. Another thing is that they are made of some sort of plaster like material from a printer and then sealed, placed in a glass case. Wouldn’t that be lovely? While we were really excited to do this, I doubt we’d get the chance to even make one in time, much less two. : ( Total bummer on that note. Another thing that Jason suggested is this lovely mess of a cake. If you know us, neither one of us can be serious ever, which makes this cake all the more funny, but I don’t think I could do it. And, last but not least, I would never, ever, make a cake like that… haha I’m not that crazy. Man, there are some uuuuuuugly cakes out there.

In other news, we decided to fix our sink the other night. Jason took it apart (well the small area that we were told needs to be fixed) and we took it over to ace, just to find out that whoever installed the sink did a nice little jerry-rig to make it “work” and that left us pretty much screwed. Even the guy at ace was confused, but I think he may have also been a little high, which is scary. I found a box of miscellaneous pipes, told Jason to get it, and he ended up re-piping (is that even a term?) the entire thing under the sink. He is so handy, even when he doesn’t know what he’s doing. So far he’s rebuilt our flushing system thing in our broken toilet, and now underneath our sink. He could be a plumber without even trying! : P (He’s not too keen on the idea though.) Anyway, it’s late, and tomorrow is our cleaning day, so I better get to bed.