You Know What I Hate?

Attention seekers.

More specifically, the friends on facebook, myspace, or other similar sites who put up these really vague status messages that beg to be paid attention to.

Examples:

XXXX: "is tired of trying :("

XXXX: "just doesn't know anymore..."

XXXX: "Made a complete mess of everything and there's only one way to fix everything... It's what I must do. Hope everyone will understand..."

To me, these are messages that are simply begging people to pay attention to you. What these people may as well have said is "I'm gonna put just enough of my personal business on facebook so everyone is gonna ask me about it!"

I mean really, what is anyone gonna say to stuff like that? The standard responses would be "What's wrong?" or "OMG, is everything OK?"

And heaven forbid no one should respond to this attention seeking message.

XXXX: "feels like no one cares..."

C'mon drama queens. If you would like to talk to someone, just say it. I always love to talk to friends and help them if I can. What I DO NOT LOVE is feeling as though I have to dote all over them.

Blech.

Oops

So, in a moment of sheer brilliance, I scraped my car up against a red pole in the parking lot of my apartment complex.


I've got to say, I've never done anything this fantastically idiotic while driving. In fact, in the 4 years I've owned this car, I've never done a single thing to damage the body. Needless to say, I was angry, annoyed, and embarrassed.

I sent some photos to a body shop I found thru craigslist, and they quoted me $700 dollars to fix it.

Yah right.

I got talking to my friend Jesse, and he suggested a few things to try. Some Palmolive dish soap and a bit of rubbing compound and voila!


The Palmolive alone (and a LOT of elbow grease) took out about 95% of the paint. The rubbing compound worked to get out the rest. As you can see, there was still some damage done to the body of the car:


However....while I don't like it, I can live with this over bright red paint streaks. AND, it only cost me $11 to get it to this point.

Boo yah!

I'm on a roll today!

My Michael Miller fabric came today! I of course got right to work, lol.

"Tweet Tweet" by Michael Miller


"Zoology" by Michael Miller


:)

Restocking the Etsy Shop

Don't worry folks. I'm not posting this to sell things to ppl who read my blog. I'm mostly posting it because my life is incredibly boring right now, and this Etsy shop project is one of the only things going on in my life right now worthy of updating on, lol.

So, I got some fabric in the mail yesterday and turned it into a pillow case right away. I call this one Daisies on Chocolate. It isn't my absolute favorite fabric, but I think it still came out cute.

I'm hoping some of my Michael Miller fabrics will start arriving very soon!

I LOVE Michael Miller

But don't tell Brian ;-)

Actually, he's a fabric designer and I love love love his designs. Everything he does has this retro funky vibe to it, which is why I think I like them so much. There are about a million other designs that I'm in love with too...these are just a few examples.

Etsy Shop Continued

I got an email this morning saying I had a purchase only to find out it was to my mother's account. Haha. I told her she didn't have to do that, but her response was "I know that....but I wanted them." LOL.

These are the two items I had in there:

Up, Up and Away Pillowcase:






























































A Vivid Dream Animal Print Pillowcase:


























































SO, even though I made a "sale," I still haven't figured out how successful this business will be, since I've only had two things on sale for two days and they were bought up by my own mother.

On the bright side, Etsy allows you to see who "hearts" your shop, or your individual items. Even though my shop was only running for two days, I already had someone who had added my shop as a favorite, and someone else who had added the Vivid Dream pillowcase as a fav. AND...it wasn't my mom on either occasion. Hopefully that is a good sign!

I am planning on adding new stock, but I'm still waiting for the fabric to come so I can make it. I ordered some super cute fabric over the past few days that should start arriving soon :-)

Etsy Shop

So, I recently created my own Etsy shop. I mostly did it because it only cost 20 cents to list an item, and I figured I'd see how it all goes. I don't know if anyone will be interested, but if they are, I could make a little extra income here and there off of my pillow cases. Check it out and tell me what you guys think. Any suggestions? This is my first time doing something like this, so I'm open to any and all feedback.

At the moment, I only have one item for sale and a shitty banner I made in some free program I found online because don't know how to make banners, lol. Any advice on this would be more than welcome.

I'm Still Alive

Ok, so as my friend Ben so gracefully pointed out, I haven't been updating my blog lately. Truth of the matter is that there hasn't been much to update. I'm on summer vacation now and have had lots of time off to be at home and be completely lazy. I've become addicted to this game called Farm Town on facebook and have been playing it in my free time.

Yea yea, I know what you're thinking... You spend your free time fake farming?....lame.

Oh well. I'm addicted, get over it.

In other news, Brian just found out that he will be getting to take a trip to Ireland at the end of the month. I'm SUPER crazy jealous! BUT, I know he's going to have a really good time, and I'm glad he's getting the chance to do it. It's also going to be the first time I've been away from him for this long (10 days).

However, I'm going to stop complaining about that right now seeing as Holly's husband is out to Iraq for like 8 months. 10 days is nothing.

I'm trying to get to the gym more often since I have a membership and may as well use it. I went to Zumba and 24 set last week. Zumba is a dance aerobic kind of class that really gets you moving. The problem is that the class is WAY crowded and you can't see the instructor well. I'd never done the moves before AND I couldn't see what she was doing. I'm sure I looked like a hot mess.

24 set is more strength and endurance with hand weights, barbells and steps. This class KILLED me, and I was sore for three days. BUT it was a great work out and I'm totally planning to go back.

Other than that not much as been going on. Brian and I went to see "Up" and I cried thru the whole thing. It's very cute and I absolutely recommend seeing it. He will officially be on summer vacation at the end of this week, so we are looking forward to seeing lots of other summer movies too :)