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I know you are patiently awaiting those posts I was talking about, but I'm still compiling so here's this to tide you over.

I decorated these glasses for my uncle's stepdaughter's wedding! And I got paid! Actual money! A momentous occasion indeed.

When we were sitting around, after we had made the transaction, my uncle's wife asked, "So what else can you do?" and everytime somebody asks that I'm just like duhhhhhhhhh idkidk. So I feel like it would be in my best interest to document better. 

P.S. Rocket Power is the best and I'm so glad that it's on Teen Nick at night now.

funny

In the past month, I've ripped a pair of jeans in the thigh and just now I've ripped my pajamas in the thigh and I'm feeling like a real fatty.

In other news, I hung out with the cutest pitbull puppy today. He was outside when I was washing the cars and he chilled in the shade of the garage. Maybe it wasn't a pitbull. I don't know dog breeds, but it looked like the kind of dog that the Wheatons have.

Finished project ohhh yeahhh

Look at this cute picture from a past weekend when I was home. I guess it was last weekend.

I stole this from one of the girls in the photooo and it's a cute little sandwich of us. I like it very much.

That very same weekend, me and the fam tried a new restaurant and I think it's my new favorite. They just have everything I like. Also, my mom found this book that my brother made when he was a youngster. It's hilarious, but I don't know if it's universally hilarious or just hilarious because he's my brother.

I mean, no. It is just hilarious.

#tuesday

I always like to have a show that I look forward to every week. The one that I watch the night it comes on instead of waiting until the weekend to catch up. This season it's The Mindy Project. I have watched the episodes since April 1st at least 4 or 5 times. Every single bit of that show is funny to me. All of it. All of the sides. The entire wiener. That joke makes no sense in this context, but I don't care! Look at me not caring! Tonight Mindy said this line that was so one of those, holy-shit-that-is-so-true-I've-thought-that-before-why-have-I-never-said-it-out-loud moments, that are so prevalent in the show. It was when she says, 'Look at her! She's sitting cross-legged on a bar stool! If I tried that, I'd humpty dumpty right off.' Or something relatively close to that. So good.

One of my co-workers asked me to help them out with these bags. The font was definitely not my top choice, but I aim to please.

It's almost like I'm taking horrible pictures intentionally, but I assure you, I'm not. I just suck. I'm actually glad it's so out of focus because then you can't notice the mishaps.

 So the co-worker gave me these bags on thursday of last week and I got them done on friday, but I couldn't take them to her because I had fudged on the bag that says Evan. I had originally thought that it would be good to do black letters, but once I painted it I realized how much it blends in with the blue. The picture below really is not a good example of how much black paint sucks on this color blue.

This picture shows why I will never feel like I could sell things that I make. I always fuck up and have to go buy new materials. I used the bag as a tester after I fucked up. And I still fucked up the new one.

I keep having these reoccurring dreams that take place in an abandoned outlet mall. Sometimes there's zombies, sometimes I'm like a spy, but always the same weird location that I don't recognize in real life. Last night I was at that mall and I had stolen everything from this asian restaurant and put everything out in the parking lot and I got away with it. Then after the restaurant replaced everything and opened up, I went in and ate there as a customer and everybody was very nice to me.

I also have a sore spot in my throat and I'm hoping it's just because my mouth is dry and it's not strep or some crap like that. 

No correlation of this sore throat situation to my dream, I think. Just that I happened to think of those things one right after the other.

Now to end this post with a shirt I made for my bro. He specifically asked for black on dark gray.

I almost forgot to mention the most important thing that happened to me this week! I got my new galaxy s3 in the mail! As previously stated, I bought a new one because I was an idiot to the last one! I would equate the sensation to that of a person who lost their hand in a disgusting accident that was totally their own fault and then they shelled out way too much money and bought a beautiful, much better version of a hand. Having my phone back is just like that.

SPIRNG BERAK

To start off my spring break on the 23rd, I went to the Georgia aquarium with my some of my famz. It was tight.

{{{THE ABYSS}}}

Then the next day we had a sunday dinner and my uncle made this perfect, delicious cake. It had a chocolate cheesecake layer, that's how perfect it was. 

Then on Monday I made this:

Focaccia 

Tomato, basil, mozzarella pasta salad

And I took it to Birmingham to enjoy with these lovely knuckleheads:

I made & gave Rosh this shirt:

She seemed to like it.

Rosh and Bernard. Bernard is the cutest.

I went home to my parents house on Wednesday and George did this cute thing.

Wednesday night I decided I was going to fix the screen on my galaxy s3, which turned out poorly and left my phone in a vegetative state. I thought that I would have to use my brother's non smart phone for 3 weeks until I got paid and could afford to purchase a new galaxy. I told my parents about ruining my phone and they weren't that mad and my dad even remembered that he had his captivate, which is the same phone I had before it broke and I got my galaxy. So it's all good in the hood now. But I'm still going to buy another galaxy.

On Thursday I organized a lunch with ClaireyD, Bram, Luke, Brian, & AlexJohnson at Nothing but Noodles. It went swimmingly. Gave Luke an early bday present. I think he enjoyed it.

AlexJohnson invited me to trivia that night and it was the same group that went to lunch plus about ten more people. Our team name was Mo Money Mo Tacos :D and Bram won us the 3rd place $5 dollar gift card which he got to keep because it only seemed right. 

And then some people went back to Bram & AK's place and we watched an episode of fringe and then an episode of house hunters and then an episode of something on the cooking channel. And then and then and then and then and then and then and then.

That reminds me, am I the only one that didn't know that Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis were having a baby?! For some reason I always think of Ashton Kutcher as a perpetual bachelor.

This photo was an accident,
but it shows this awesome tardis blanket that I used
while I was at their house.

This shows how badly no one wanted to sit next to me.
That kind of offended me... but then AK sat next to me and
my insecurities decreased.

Today I ate some bangin' Panera with ClaireyD and had some invigorating conversation about literally everything and it was good. Then we went to zen beri and harassed Luke by text message and ate some fantastic gummy bears. Everything was awesome.


Most recently, I've been sat in my bed listening to Sebastian play video games and laughing hysterically at cat gifs and I also made some peanut butter cookies earlier. And now we're about to play battle block theater or n+ so I'm gonna go.

Bittersweet and strange

I'm doing a blog post to avoid bs-ing my way through a research paper. I think I might go to bed after this & just frantically do the paper in the morning.

So I have this reputation of being alright at craft projects. My cousins are really good at exploiting that, and it's okay, I let them. There's this gala thing that they decorate for every year and their theme is Beauty and the Beast. Here's some things I've made so far, in case you're curious & for my future reference:

I mean, don't judge my stuff based on my shitty photographs. I want a dslr sooooo very much.

craft time

Smells & I made this cute Alabama thing for  Smells earlier this evening. The heart's over Etowah county.

one present down

Monogrammed stuff is super popular right now so I thought I'd get in on it. It seems like I'm always making rugs. I'm not though. Cute cute cute.

This fucking thing.

This fucking thing. I can't believe I did this fucking thing. I picked a font. I picked another font so that I could put a certain T and G on their name because I know the person who I'm making this for likes a certain kind of T and G. I traced the letters 3 different times until I figured out the best way to get it on the rug. Then I cut out the letters with an exacto knife. Then I mixed this blue paint with a white paint to get the right color. Then I peeled off the stencil.




Then I realized I misspelled their name.


And I can't believe I did that because I know exactly how to spell it. Now I have a new rug that has a name on it that's not mine. Actually I think I'm going to see if there are any Gililands in the phonebook and I'm going to mail it to them.

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The thing about reading good books at work is the crys. I've been answering the phones at the front desk this week, which is not what I usually do, and people don't come by that often, but it's awkward when someone walks through and says hello and my eyes are watery and when I respond my voice cracks.
In case you were wondering, I'm reading All These Things I've Done by Gabrielle Zevin. So much good.

Anyway, I'm going to pause the reading/crying to post some pictures. I went home for two weeks at the end of May and spent some time with my long lost friends and a little too much time, for my taste, with my little bro. All in all, had a fabulous time. And I've got pictures to prove it!

Rosh with our graduation present for Justin

My beautiful redheaded best friend. I wish I done a better job of getting together with her while I was home for so long. :/ 

This photo features a few of my favorite things.

Luke, my new gigantic friend!!!

A bunch of us went to the Nook and had a grand ole time. Claire & I each had a Raspberry Lambic. Super delicious. Jeff was there! :) He's my fav.

Hot air balloonz and fireworkz

George(cat from above) had kittens and this is Wash. We hope he won't meet an untimely demise like his namesake.

This happened!!! And I was undoubtedly excited about it.

This dude. :)

Lookin' fresh at Lowe Mill

Lately

This is my latest work in progress. The colorway is fantastic. I'm hoping I'll have enough yarn to finish a substantial scarf. I have another ball about twice the size of this one that I'll add when the current one runs out so I'm not too worried. I can't remember where I bought this though. That may present a problem. My 2nd anniversary of learning how to knit is in about a month and I'm still horrible at knowing how much yarn I'll need for any given project.
I've recently learned how to knit the brioche stitch, which is what the scarf above is, and I've started 4 different scarfs with it. Who knows if I'll ever finish them. Oh snap I just thought of something.  My mom is thinking about learning to knit & if she does then I can pawn a couple scarfs off on her to finish! Excellent idea.

The other day when I went to the museum with Clairey D and LS, L mentioned that his mom wanted to commission some beard hats. I decided I'm totally not going to take any payment, because his mom is too awesome. She is so sweet and she seems to think I'm nice enough, too. I can't comprehend it, but I try not to think about it too much.

On being productive

I knitted a thing. It looks like this.

It's a washcloth.

I also folded up this paper Rapunzel for my boss's daughter's birthday. It's kinda janky, but it took me forever.