• when the gangster was my mom
    a day at the races,  Blog

    when the gangster was my mom

    I was driving home this afternoon, and this car gets in behind me, and is kinda following me. So I’m thinking, y’know, if you want to go faster, pass me fool! There’s two lanes! But then the person starts flashing their lights at me. (and, if I were Catherine at this point, I would have started screaming that THERE IS…

  • when i really needed spring break
    a day at the races,  Blog

    when i really needed spring break

    Yesterday in class, we started going over the SAME FREAKING STUFF I’ve had last semester and just like, 2 weeks ago in my other class. I was on the verge of pulling my hair out. Instead, I stopped taking notes and drew a gigantic explosion on the page, and wrote underneath it, “I HAVE EXPLODED.” And then I just sat…

  • when the sims were streaking
    a day at the races,  Blog

    when the sims were streaking

    Haha I got Sims 2 University to work for a while… (I think I pinpointed the problem, I think my computer is getting too hot and it’s automatically turning off to protect itself… I’m going to get a cooling table for it) OMG it’s HILARIOUS when they streak!! I had everybody in the house streaking at one point. I especially…

  • when the gangster was my mom
    a day at the races,  Blog

    when there was cheesecake

    Several reasons why today sucked: 1. Had to watch West Side Story in class. I really don’t care for that movie. 2. Had to go back to work after school – I get out of class at 4:30 so I was there until like 5:30. Yuck. 3. Macaroni Grill got my order wrong. Actually, my mom called it in wrong,…

  • Queen Amidala Parade Dress Progress
    Blog,  costumes

    Queen Amidala Parade Dress Progress

    I got quite a few more petals done this weekend, and today I finished the base cape. I worked on the dress a little more, too. Here’s the base cape for my Padme Parade dress… this was on sunday morning, when I was just pinning it together and stuff. I finished it today, as I said. Here’s the workstation for…

  • when the gangster was my mom
    a day at the races,  Blog

    when i questioned mara’s wedding dress

    One of the things that disappoints me about the Star Wars universe is the subject of marriage. I haven’t really thought about it or looked into that much, my memory may be a bit fuzzy in a few places, but why is that “a long time ago in a galaxy far far away” so much of the Earthly, western ideal…

  • when the gangster was my mom
    a day at the races,  Blog,  conventions,  dragoncon

    when i was selected

    Shock the monkey! I got a call today from someone from the Marriott. They referenced my reservation I’d made for Dragoncon, a couple of weeks ago. At first I’m thinking, oh crap, something has screwed up. But then she says that when I made my reservation, I was selected to receive an offer – I get to stay at any…

  • when the gangster was my mom
    a day at the races,  Blog

    when there was a guy with a sledgehammer

    Yesterday on my way to work, I stopped to get gas. Whils I was standing there letting it fill up, I turned around to watch traffic. There was some road construction happening at the corner, but nothing that was holding up traffic. Out of nowhere, one of the construction guys walks right out into oncoming traffic and starts pounding on…

  • Amidala Shoes, Parasol, Progress & Plans
    Blog,  costumes

    Amidala Shoes, Parasol, Progress & Plans

    I’ve actually been working on stuff! Yay, me. I finally got the serger correctly threaded to do the rolled edges for the petals, and have since made about 30 petals… and it was SO FAST!! *_* It would have taken me Iforever/I to do it on the regular sewing machine. I think I’m in love, haha. I painted my shoes…

  • when the gangster was my mom
    a day at the races,  Blog

    when i tried telling a story

    Remind me to go back to telling stories on my blog. I was rereading my old archives, and god, I don’t post the same way I used to. I want to get back to that. What’s a story I could tell… hmm… Ok, so I started typing a story and it sucked. So I erased it. I’ll try again tomorrow.

  • Indiana Jones
    Blog,  random

    Indiana Jones

    Indy does not like this situation. Not at all. Indy wearing a pretty Christmas bow. This didn’t last long. This was from my photography class ages ago. I don’t know how I managed to keep her like this long enough to take the picture. Another one from the class, I love this picture 🙂 She’s so determined to figure out…

  • when the gangster was my mom
    a day at the races,  Blog

    when i made a xanga

    btw, I made a xanja journal – Cath made me join, so I did. It’s not going to be anything major, this and my LJ are still going to be my main journals. I’m using it right now a little bit because I like that I can select the album/tv show I’m watching or listening to, and the fact that…

  • when the gangster was my mom
    a day at the races,  Blog

    when schedules clashed

    Ooooooof I am in pain from the basketball game……..! We lost, but we won. Go figure. (we won by forfeit, but we went ahead and played them by loaning them one of our players, and we lost. haha) I am sad because I’m not going to be here for RAT’s play. It’s on the EXACT same weekend as Celebration III.…

  • Lots of updates and plans
    Blog,  costumes

    Lots of updates and plans

    I haven’t updated in a month! Good grief. Costume updates: Qui-Gon: No progress whatsoever. Ha, ha. Padme: I bought some more stuff (see below), and finally got the serger threaded correctly for doing rolled edges as of yesterday… but otherwise, nothing! Mara: I bought my fabric, shinguards, and goggles. I’m still trying to decide whether or not I want to…