Its Only 365 Days
333/366: I WISH YOU COULD SMELL THIS THROUGH THE SCREEN
28 NOV 12
Momma's got a brand new toy! I have four annual birthday traditions which I try to uphold. 1)The one and only cake must be tiramisu 2) I try to travel somewhere 3)I buy one pair of ridiculously high heels and name them after my age 4) I buy myself one good gift--something that truthfully only I would ever know I really wanted. (Just for comparison, year before last it was an Ikea lamp...seriously).
If you haven't already guessed, this years Happy Birthday to me gift is...a crockpot. What? Huh? Why? Yes, yes, for normal people this would be the gift that would get someone slapped or be thrown in a closet and re-gifted, but I really really like to cook (have you not seen my flickr set?) and since I don't have 199$ for the stand mixer I've been coveting for a couple of years now, this was option 2. Can one love something right out of the box...I think they can. Just the mere thought of throwing crap into this thing and letting it "cook for me" for 8 hours while I'm busy doing other stuff, is quite a thrilling thought. I figure this gadget in my possession was long over due. I did some online comparison shopping and sadly the original one I wanted for a steal at Wal-mart was sold out in store and online for 9$, so this was the next not crappy model for $29. Read a lot of reviews and most of them were positive.
I decided to break this puppy in with a first meal of slow cooker baby back ribs. I wish you could smell the house through the screen. It is insanely intoxicating. Somehow I didn't factor in the little kid in me syndrone which requires me to hover over the food and constantly poke at it asking, is it ready yet. I put these one at 3, and at the least, they won't be ready until 10pm. I'm trying to work on a paper now, and the smell is driving me crazy with hunger. I'm going to be pacing like a hungry wolf in a second.
So I was on another little mission today to find some potting soil. My basil doing so well, I wanted to start some other herbs, but Wally-mart was out of soil b/c all of the garden center had been turned into Christmas bike storage. Plus I guess they figure, no one's planting in Nov/Dec anyway which is true.
I left to try Target, but no luck (why didn't I just head to a garden center you ask, duh, but I had other stuff to pick up). I did happen upon some Justin Bieber duct tape. My obsession with this brand of duct tape began 3 years ago when we had the first duct tape construction competition. For an entire week we tried to beat the Guinness book of world records for largest dome out of duct tape and newspaper, but we didn't finish on time. Poo. My fingers were numb with the wrapping and sticking of that tape. It was the year before that, that I created my infamous duct tape dress which won me the Halloween costume contest. I used almost 7 rolls of tape to make that puppy. Then a year ago, we had a workshop on different uses of duct tape and making wallets was one workshop, but they bought too much tape, so we got to keep the extra. We ended up decoupaging all of our desk supplies so that when people in the office would borrow our stuff and not return it, we could easily see, yup, that's our pen, our stapler, our binder, hell, our office chairs!!!! Such an effective anti-theft deterant. I love duct tape to say the least, and I like going to the aisle to see what new latest tape they have. Years ago, we figured out they had University duct tapes you could specialty order which was awesome.
Update: Turns out, this may be another year where my birthday tries to screw me over. Got an email text last night from my besty saying she was going to have to cut part of the trip short. I was already in a shite mood in the afternoon, and I lost it. I do NOT have a good track record of awesome birthday's. 90% of them have been awful disasters. I could go on a whole rant about how much Time and effort and money I have personally put into making friends and family feel special, planning surprises, bringing in special guests, cooking all day and night...on and on, and then when mine comes around (oops, looks like the rant has started) everyone has an excuse why they are so busy, they have school, work, forgot...on and on. Okay, I'm stopping now, because I could go on for days on how bad they've been. Anyway, I told her to cancel the whole thing. I didn't want to have to drive all day just to have to turn back around. Plus we'd planned a photo shoot which I don't now how you could work it in that time constraint, so I was like F-it, I'll just do my own thing.
Two gun shots later, things had calmed down again. According to our lawyers, we will be taking a road trip to a closer destination and come hell or high water, I will have fun, or I will quote, be stabbed to death and left for dead, end quote. The lawyers really didn't feel comfortable adding in that last part, but what are we paying them for.
Tomorrow night, I think I may be going out to do some night shots. Haven't done it in a while, and I'm hoping the lights are up downtown so I can catch them this season.
333/366: I WISH YOU COULD SMELL THIS THROUGH THE SCREEN
28 NOV 12
Momma's got a brand new toy! I have four annual birthday traditions which I try to uphold. 1)The one and only cake must be tiramisu 2) I try to travel somewhere 3)I buy one pair of ridiculously high heels and name them after my age 4) I buy myself one good gift--something that truthfully only I would ever know I really wanted. (Just for comparison, year before last it was an Ikea lamp...seriously).
If you haven't already guessed, this years Happy Birthday to me gift is...a crockpot. What? Huh? Why? Yes, yes, for normal people this would be the gift that would get someone slapped or be thrown in a closet and re-gifted, but I really really like to cook (have you not seen my flickr set?) and since I don't have 199$ for the stand mixer I've been coveting for a couple of years now, this was option 2. Can one love something right out of the box...I think they can. Just the mere thought of throwing crap into this thing and letting it "cook for me" for 8 hours while I'm busy doing other stuff, is quite a thrilling thought. I figure this gadget in my possession was long over due. I did some online comparison shopping and sadly the original one I wanted for a steal at Wal-mart was sold out in store and online for 9$, so this was the next not crappy model for $29. Read a lot of reviews and most of them were positive.
I decided to break this puppy in with a first meal of slow cooker baby back ribs. I wish you could smell the house through the screen. It is insanely intoxicating. Somehow I didn't factor in the little kid in me syndrone which requires me to hover over the food and constantly poke at it asking, is it ready yet. I put these one at 3, and at the least, they won't be ready until 10pm. I'm trying to work on a paper now, and the smell is driving me crazy with hunger. I'm going to be pacing like a hungry wolf in a second.
So I was on another little mission today to find some potting soil. My basil doing so well, I wanted to start some other herbs, but Wally-mart was out of soil b/c all of the garden center had been turned into Christmas bike storage. Plus I guess they figure, no one's planting in Nov/Dec anyway which is true.
I left to try Target, but no luck (why didn't I just head to a garden center you ask, duh, but I had other stuff to pick up). I did happen upon some Justin Bieber duct tape. My obsession with this brand of duct tape began 3 years ago when we had the first duct tape construction competition. For an entire week we tried to beat the Guinness book of world records for largest dome out of duct tape and newspaper, but we didn't finish on time. Poo. My fingers were numb with the wrapping and sticking of that tape. It was the year before that, that I created my infamous duct tape dress which won me the Halloween costume contest. I used almost 7 rolls of tape to make that puppy. Then a year ago, we had a workshop on different uses of duct tape and making wallets was one workshop, but they bought too much tape, so we got to keep the extra. We ended up decoupaging all of our desk supplies so that when people in the office would borrow our stuff and not return it, we could easily see, yup, that's our pen, our stapler, our binder, hell, our office chairs!!!! Such an effective anti-theft deterant. I love duct tape to say the least, and I like going to the aisle to see what new latest tape they have. Years ago, we figured out they had University duct tapes you could specialty order which was awesome.
Update: Turns out, this may be another year where my birthday tries to screw me over. Got an email text last night from my besty saying she was going to have to cut part of the trip short. I was already in a shite mood in the afternoon, and I lost it. I do NOT have a good track record of awesome birthday's. 90% of them have been awful disasters. I could go on a whole rant about how much Time and effort and money I have personally put into making friends and family feel special, planning surprises, bringing in special guests, cooking all day and night...on and on, and then when mine comes around (oops, looks like the rant has started) everyone has an excuse why they are so busy, they have school, work, forgot...on and on. Okay, I'm stopping now, because I could go on for days on how bad they've been. Anyway, I told her to cancel the whole thing. I didn't want to have to drive all day just to have to turn back around. Plus we'd planned a photo shoot which I don't now how you could work it in that time constraint, so I was like F-it, I'll just do my own thing.
Two gun shots later, things had calmed down again. According to our lawyers, we will be taking a road trip to a closer destination and come hell or high water, I will have fun, or I will quote, be stabbed to death and left for dead, end quote. The lawyers really didn't feel comfortable adding in that last part, but what are we paying them for.
Tomorrow night, I think I may be going out to do some night shots. Haven't done it in a while, and I'm hoping the lights are up downtown so I can catch them this season.