life these past few weeks has just seemed to blur by. i feel like someone must have published my office number somewhere at work, because i've had nonstop visitors for the past few days. i think friday was the first quiet day i had all week.
i finally was able to purchase a slide printer - now to find the AC adapter so i don't spend all my money on batteries. hopefully it will work and all that. i'm hoping to use it to make cards and stuff for the booth.
speaking of the booth, i finished a small nightstand and am working on a dresser. they're being painted and decoupaged. i know that sounds corny, but with the top of the nightstand now covered in 18th century botanical reproductions, i'm pretty happy with how it looks. pictures coming soon.
this week i'm going to a conference in austin. granted, i'm driving back and forth, but don't look for me. i'll probably be asleep when i'm home. ;)
...if everything's not fine (John Mayer)
i keep telling myself this, but my internet connections are really flakey, and they've turned the water off in my apartment (without notice) to fix a leak. *sigh*
Flash Mobbing in California (pdf)
so i'm lazy - i didn't feel like retyping the above column. it's a pdf, but not too terribly huge. it's a great commentary on the state of the recall and things in california.
so maybe i should arrange a flash mob in college station at coffee station when we start playing our jam session there. hm... ;)
sick car. i got a flat last night on my way home from caldwell. thankfully, nick was with me. he's done it before, so it only took about 15 minutes before we were on our way again, though that was enough time for a trucker to stop and offer to help...and his parents to circle back around and follow us home so we wouldn't get run over driving 45 down the interstate on a donut. ;)
rain! so i went to go get my car after it got a new tire and new oil. i *almost* beat the rain back. not quite. the front of me - dry. the back of me - soaked. i hate when it's windy while it's raining. :p
looks like the jam session thing might work out after all. the only bad thing is that it's on thursdays...the same time as the other jam session thing i go to. wonder if i could talk them all in to coming over to coffee station. hmmm...
i seem to have recovered sleep-wise. last week i felt like a walking zombie. combine that with an abnormal work schedule, and i could barely remember my name, much less what day or time it was. things are getting back to normal though, aside from the mountain of laundry i need to catch up on.
while the fam was here, my sister and i did some finagling and both ended up with ipods. i love my ipod. :) i no longer have to carry a huge number of cds in my car to listen to music...just the tiny ipod. add to that the difference in sound quality, and i'm in heaven!
oh, and to top it all off, i fixed my bracelet. it's one of my favorite ones and i wore it all the time until i broke it in my scramble to get to the airport to leave for key west. (yes, yet another part to that sad tale.) but it's fixed. amazing what you can do with a pair of fingernail clippers. ;)
what a wonderful birthday! my mom, sister, and grandma flew in from california and surprised me. they took me to fredericksburg for the weekend, and we got up before the crack of dawn to go to dallas to get vintage linens at a place that was floor-to-ceiling - literally!
it's even been worth sleeping on a leaky air mattress...
but now i'm sleepy. but it's been the best birthday ever!