not much of anything II

Another less than stellar weather day. It is mid July! It should be at least 75 degrees. It is going to be a wet winter I bet. Booo.

I made up a scramble using last nights left over turkey. Added more Tabasco to the meat as it warmed. Yum. One of my best scrambles yet. Very good. After that I did some portraits.

Hmm forget when I did for a while. Nothing? Yeah. No book or quilting. Lazy day.

Made some gingerbread dough with mom.

Early dinner of pasta and sauce. Did more portraits. I'm now almost a week ahead! I want to get really ahead so I can finish the month with awesomeity.

Will do something tomorrow. Now I'm going to curl up in bed and read.

Todays Portrait Is: Amy Poehler.

two perfect records, ruined!

Had to get up before nine. boo. Brushed my teeth and hopped in the car and zoomed off to the Silverdale Dental Clinic to get a cleaning. Haven't gotten one in a year. It is hard to keep up with health when you are away at college. It was a nice little place. I was in one room to get really intense awkward x rays and then another room to get cleaning and gum/bone density check and a flossing. The hygienist said that I was the first patient who said that they had tightly packed teeth that ACTUALLY had tight packed teeth. It makes it really hard to floss. And because of my inability to floss, I had three cavities! Boo! Still, after so many years of sweets to only have cavities NOW, that is pretty good. But now we need to pay an arm and a leg to get them filled.

From there I went to Trader Joe's and got some groceries. Then I swung by Target to get some shampoo and a hot dog. I gobbled down the hot dog and pulled into what I thought was a double turn lane, but as the cop pulled me over I was soon made aware that it WASN'T a double turn lane and that I should have just been more patient. Anyway, Nathan didn't know that he had kept the proof of insurance with him and not in my Contour. So I couldn't prove the insurance. But the cop was super duper nice and waived the traffic infraction and gave me a ticket for not having insurance, but the ticket would be waived if I mailed in my proof. So yay! First time I get pulled over and it ain't so bad. Thankfully I found out this way that I didn't have the proof with me, and not, say, a car accident. Still, sucked.

Filled up my gas after that. Went home. Figured out how to send in my ticket. Made a check out for the twenty five bucks for the courthouse fees and popped it in the mail box. For dinner I made tacos! But with turkey meat, because mama don't eat beef. I added douses of tabasco into the meat, toasted the shells, and mom shredded the lettuce. We ate outside and it was scrumptious! We have never been much of a taco family, but I think we are converts. Simple, easy, and tasty!

Dad fiddled with the antenna. We watched So You Think You Can Dance. The people I voted through got through. Yay! Jess!

Now I am watching A Very Potter Musical. I'm not ready for Harry Potter to be over with! It all ends. But I'm not watching it till Sunday.

Gotta do a bunch of portraits tomorrow.

Todays Portrait Is: Yvette Nicole Brown.

salad: so good with the right ingredients and dressing

The weather has yet to get decently nice for long stretches of time. It just poured rain for a long long time. I want to soak up the sun on the lawn. This is ridiculous!

Entered more books for mom. Snacked a whole bunch. Sat on the futon and read my massive tome. I twisted my wrist hoisting it with one hand. Ouuuuch. Then I started feeling warm and took a nap till mom got home.

Dinner was healthy healthy salad. Yum! It stopped raining long enough for us to eat outside.

Then we watched So You Think You Can Dance! The choreographers are not as good as they once were. They need some of the biggies back. I'm really starting to like Jess as a dancer.

Tomorrow I have a dentist appointment. Then some errands. Should get to quilting some more. I reckon I'll stay up reading tonight instead of staying up watching television.

Todays Portrait Is: Donald Glover.

dragons!!!!

Woke up to a new pile of books outside my door. As long as mom keeps finding books, I'll keep entering them on Amazon.com for her. Yup yup.

Had some oatmeal and tea. Went into town at about one to go to Barnes and Noble. The book I needed to acquire was George R.R. Martin's A Dance with Dragons. The fifth installment in his A Song of Fire and Ice series. Fans have been waiting six years for this book, I've only been waiting a few months since I finished the last audiobook during my thesis. The book is over a thousand pages long and is quite hefty. A mammoth tome that will hurt my hands to hold and read. Oh well.

Returned home and entered mom's books into Amazon. Drew some portraits. Then satisfied with the days tasks, I sat on the couch and read read read. Darn good reading thus far. Read till mom came home and read some more. I stopped to walk with her to get the mail and then later in the night we went to pick up dad from the airporter drop off. He seemed to have a lovely brief time in San Jose.

It started raining later on in the day. Boo!

On Sunday I'm going to see the final Harry Potter movie with Meghan (a PNCA grad who lives in Kitsap and is quite cool). Whee!

Didn't do any more quilting. Don't know how much I'll get done as long as I have this book to read.

Todays Portrait Is: Chevy Chase.

not much of anything

Didn't participate in any quilting today. Had other things to do. Lunch/breakfast was mac and cheese. I helped mom put books on Amazon for sale. A lot of them were not selling for much, competitively. It was a gray day with some drizzles. Mom and I caught an earlier showing of Bad Teacher. The editing wasn't so good, but it had some good jokes. The supporting cast was pretty darn good. Ma and I got chicken teriyaki afterwards. Back at home we watched Hot Fuzz, as the actress Judy Punch was in Bad Teacher and we wanted to see her in another thing.

Not much went on this Monday. Really need to clean my room and get it in order. Tomorrow. I'll contemplate doing that tomorrow.

Todays Portrait Is: Alison Brie.

the contour returns

Woke up and got out of bed and found everyone off somewhere else. Well, I didn't try hard enough to find them. When I tried a little bit, they were uncovered under the arbor talking about Nate's apartment layout. Dad made me breakfast. I helped a little bit with moving some of Nathan's stuff. Then I went into town, in my newly returned to me Contour. Nathan has been using it for the past four years. Now it is mine again! Mine to drive! Whoo! Mine to pay for gas...yeah. Went to Joann's and got some more fabric. Went to Trader Joe's and got some snack food. Put $20 worth of gas in the tank. Then went home for burgers! Yum!

Nathan and Dad left for San Jose soon after. Left early to drive through the night and get more time to unpack and move and go to Ikea. Ma went to work doing things around the house. I went to the Girl Cave and started in on a new quilt. Ironed the fabric. Cut up lots of little pieces. Sewed a lot of it together. The squares are a lot larger than I was expecting them to be. And there will be so many of them. This will be a massive quilt. Hopefully it will look good.

Worked till after midnight. Will work more on it tomorrow. Yaaay!

Todays Portrait Is: Danny Pudi.

fabricating

My sleep schedule is getting dangerously close to the territory of "being out of whack". If I keep trying to get up before noon, I should be good.

Had a simple breakfast while mom and dad went to rent a Uhaul. Nathan is hauling his stuff down to San Jose in a couple days. Then I can move my stuff back into the house. Hurray, living with my parents is neat! Really need to get my act together...soon.

I spent a little bit of time in the sun.

I unpacked my sewing supplies and quilting supplies and fabric and quilting books. Poured through them looking for a good pattern for my next quilt project. Found a good pattern. Later on, ma and I went into down and I bought a pile of fabric. It should look AWESOME, this quilt. I say I bought, I mean mom bought. Tomorrow I will go in with more coupons though, as I don't have quite enough to get started. I just need one more fabric, but that one is the one that I need the most of.

After that we wandered around Barnes and Noble. I was unable to find the book I wanted, so Mum and I went to Origami Sushi. There we bought a bunch of sushi for dinner and went home. We gobbled down the delicious variety and we three watched us some Doctor Who. Ma and Pa went to bed and I watched some stuff.

Nathan spent all day driving up from San Jose. He arrived at about 10:20 and we chilled and played Wii and watched stuff and he showed me what he is working on and had me play a scary game. I hope I don't have nightmares now.

Todays Portrait Is: Gillian Jacobs.