june 10th , 2005

 

8:29pm

 

5:36pm

worked on tubes for over 2 hours. then i rearranged all my yarn and put all the skinny yarn that i can make tubes out of into one container. and it's a LOT. like a lawn bag full. i have so much yarn. i have a lot of acrylic. i might sell the acrylic because i am turning into more of a yarn snob now and i don't know if i want to work with acrylic. but at the same time it does hold it's shape so well for sculpturey things in a way that i just haven't found in a natural yarn.
hmmmm. but ya, my amount of yarn is bordering on sheer absurdity. who am i kidding, it IS aburdity. it crossed that border long long ago. i think my house is about to give birth to a yarn monster or gag up a giant hairball.
be careful what you wish for my friends, i wished for yarn and i sure the heck did get some in the last few years!

2:29pm

pupshaw sculpture!!!


http://www.strangeco.com/blogs/news/0409/pupshaw.html

i want this so bad it HURTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
oh god, orders ended on oct 2004 *cry!!!*
fffffffuck.
not like i could have afforded it anyway :(

and :
http://www.jimwoodring.com/pupalbum.html


ahhhhhhhhhhhh!!!! neeeeeeeeeding this!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

oh god there is now a book about pupshaw and pushpaw!!!
those are my fave cartoons in all the WORLD EVER!
i want those as tattoos :)

http://jimwoodring.com/shopsite_sc/store/html/page1.html

good god!!! i NEED that!!!!!!

*rips hair from head in frustration*

2:14pm

tubes made so far:

 

2:03pm

trying to learn aout Rinzai Zen:

http://members.aol.com/_ht_a/gayzenla/myhomepage/rinzai_soto_compare.htm

but my brain is going too fast (ironically) to take it in!

1:49pm

it's getting darker and darker out.
this is such tornado weather. i'm so glad i live in a city, tornadoes rarely ever strike cities.
but when i was a child and lived in southern minnesota in a very small town named glenville (almost iowa) it is tornado alley down there. the tornado siren would go off all the time. i have a terrible fear of tornadoes.
when the siren would go off i would lug the hamper full of all my stuffed animals down into the basement and then hide under the stairs.
then i never was strong enough to bring the hamper back up so my parents would have to help me.

 

12:42pm

it's 77 degrees with 64% humidity! ack, the humidity!
i think i will walk after the sun starts to go down maybe, because i do not want a heatstroke like yesterday. it's supposed to get up to 80 with 60% chance of strong storms all day.

i made tubes with my mattel knitmagic for about 6 hours yesterday 2 hours before i went out to dinner, and 4 hours (from midnight until 4am) last night. tubes tubes tubes tubes!
i'm not going to make anything from them until i have used up most of all my skinny string that fits with the knitmagic. i can't use thicker stuff because it doesn't fit. then i will assort it all my colour and make things. of course i should probably just makes scarves from it all since that is what i could sell cheapest. but the "big project" person in me wants to assemble these long full length coats from them and so i have a little battle waging inside me over that.
but i will see which sides wins the battle AFTER i make all the tubes.
for now i will just continue making tubes.

although today i must also send off cds to people who bought them.
i must get that all organized and see who ordered what and write down their addresses and stuff. i better do that now.

4:38am

Horoscope for Aries (June 10 2005)

Don't take to heart what someone says to you today. Participating in something physical will take your mind off the little frustrations you are facing. Your heart is in the right place, so don't let anyone make you feel guilty.

and

With a true spirit
Valid during several weeks: At its highest, this influence indicates an unusual degree of selflessness in love. In personal relationships, the need to care for someone else may mean that you will not get immediate gratification other than the pleasure of helping someone you love. If your relationship is basically sound, this influence will assure greater rewards of love and satisfaction later. Although this is a time for self-denial in love relationships, do not fall into the negative trap of playing martyr. Do not inflict on others, especially the ones you are helping, a constant awareness that you are "unselfishly" devoting yourself to them. This will undo your efforts and create trouble. If you cannot service with a true spirit of selfless devotion, do nothing.

and

Your planet, Mars the Warrior, is engaged today by mental Mercury. You are ready to take on anyone who gets in your way, but this isn't just about winning an argument. You want to appear intellectually competent to others and consequently may over-extend yourself while putting on a show. Slow down and enjoy the finer things by pulling your energy out of your head and back into your body.

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You entered: 4/18/1966
You were born on a Monday
under the astrological sign Aries.

The Julian calendar date of your birth is 2439233.5.
The golden number for 1966 is 10.
The epact number for 1966 is 8.
The year 1966 was not a leap year.

As of 6/10/2005 4:22:32 AM CDT
You are 39 years old.
You are 470 months old.
You are 2,042 weeks old.
You are 14,298 days old.
You are 343,156 hours old.
You are 20,589,382 minutes old.
You are 1,235,362,952 seconds old.

There are 312 days till your next birthday
on which your cake will have 40 candles on it.

Those 40 candles produce 40 BTU's,
or 10,080 calories of heat (that's only 10.0800 food Calories!) .
You can boil 4.57 US ounces of water with that many candles.

Your birth tree is
Maple, Independence of Mind
No ordinary person, full imagination and originality, shy and reserved, ambitious, proud, self-respect, hungers for new experiences, sometimes nervous, many complexes, good memory, learns easily, complicated love life, wants to impress.


There are 198 days till Christmas 2005!

The moon's phase on the day you were
born was waning crescent.