I forgot I had this place .. I guess I should stop by and water the plants from time to time, huh?
I've been away. I'm not caught up on reading my neighbourhood. I apologise. It's been busy and hectic and a little bit stressful, though I'm hoping that I'm more or less coming out on the other end of that now.
I spent last weekend at a local convention, meeting up with friends I basically hadn't seen since last year (and a few I hadn't seen since the year before that). The picture on the right is a little bit of dressup I did while I was there. I look sort of cranky in the picture, but it's just because the sun is in my eyes.
It's funny, because I bought all of the pieces separately, but they ended up matching each other. Coincidence. But a good coincidence. I really love those wings. Also, I bought the corset that weekend. My sister has a few corsets but I'd never gotten one myself. You can't really eat much in them, but they hold your posture up perfectly! And they're not as uncomfortable as one might think. I wish I'd thought to get pictures of the ensemble from the back. Maybe next time.
I had been taking more photos (you can see some at my Flickr page) but I started to slack off in March. I need to get back in the habit of taking more. And uploading them. This weather isn't helping. It's like the weather system can't decide if it's spring or maybe still winter. One day it's beautifully warm and the next day it's practically freezing. I don't like to wander about taking pictures if it's too cold.
These guys on the left were at the convention last weekend. One of them actually was out on the dance floor one night. I think the costumes are made of fleece, so they must be really hot.
For those of you who are perhaps unfamiliar, they are alien characters from the children's show Sesame Street. In the show, they had a small segment where they went around saying "yipyipyipyipyip.... uh-huh...uh-huh..." As a child, they freaked me out. These ones were taller than me! Still, the costumes were cool and I liked that they did it as a group. My sister got some video of the dancing one.
Sorry for the disorganised ramble. I'm pretty tired and a bit out of sorts. Hopefully more posting here, more often, soon.
This is clearly the superior song of the first two lullabies IMO. This is by Townes Van Zandt who sings it wonderfully if a bit more country and rustic than I do. I think it's a pretty good performance for just a live take. I like it.
A friend heard a song I did a little while back and she said she liked my voice saying, "I wish I had you here to sing me to sleep." Well I thought about that - no reason I can't - I can record something. Naturally you sing people to sleep with lullabies and the first song I thought of is below because it says "Sing me to sleep." So this is the first of maybe several - we'll see.
So this is an old Smiths song which I'm not sure I improved on, but at least it's a little peppier - for a song about suicide. sheesh First of the lullabies.
is this thing on??
Anyone out there? Bueller? Bueller?
Show us your eyeball.
I didn't really know what I wanted to do with it, so I just been letting it grow out over the last few months. Within the last week or so, it started to get annoying. It was taking too long (in my opinion) to dry. Sometimes, it wouldn't pin up the way I wanted it to. I was getting irritated. It should be noted that this is the longest my hair has been in years - since high school, I think. I'm used to shorter hair now!
I went to the mall on Monday night. The mall has three salons, one of which is my regular salon. Alas, I could not get a walk-in appointment scheduled at any of them. They were all booked for the night. I was able to get an appointment the next day, but not until 6pm. I left, disappointed. (I'm an impatient girl. I don't like to wait!)
The timing the next day was odd. I ended up wanting to try to move my appointment back an hour because I wanted to eat beforehand. (I'd left werk a little bit late.) I called the salon, but again, they were booked for the rest of the night. I skipped dinner and went in. It was at this point that I realised everyone was busy due to Valentine's Day. Oops. Next time, I should probably think these things through.
Sadly, I don't really have any decent pictures of my hair cut afterward. I took Thursday and Friday off from werk, in honour of my birthday. (Since we get Monday off for President's Day, that means a five-day weekend for me!) I decided to get the oil changed on my car on Thursday. It was slightly overdue. What better time to get an oil change than during the day when everyone else is at werk! Less wait time. I hate going and having to wait in a line of people. It can take forever, and again, patience is really not one of my virtues. (I know I need to werk on it.)
I drove to the place I normally get my oil changed and they only had one other person in their garage, so I was able to get in right away. This is me, waiting for them to finish up with my car. It didn't actually take them too long, which was nice. (I'd brought a book, just in case.) You can (sort of) see my hair is about 3.5 inches shorter now.
Afterward, I went out to my beach to have a little thinking time and take some Pinky:st pictures before I had to meet everyone for dinner. I managed to get some pretty good shots, some of which I haven't quite gotten online yet. Despite the fact that it was pretty overcast and quite windy, it wasn't actually very cold. I was wearing a skirt and a jacket, but didn't need gloves.
All in all, a good time. My family bought me a new camera (the Canon a640, which was the one I'd been looking at) for my birthday. I'll have to break it in soon. (My sister, who spoils me, also got me a little Louis Vuitton case that fits my camera or that I can use as a wristlet. It's so cute! Pictures to come.)
