i could just quilt myself to death.

i have historically enjoyed sewing. like paper crafting, sewing provides one with the opportunity to make something from nothing and express style and creativity. however, fabric at michael's or joanne's is usually fairly dismal. usually pretty fugly if you ask me. i'm not that down with calico bs that some people use. not so much.

what i am down with is this:

this beautiful little swatch of fabric comes to you from the finlandia collection at freespiritfabric, and oh my do they have some gorgeous gorgeous fabrics.


in other news:
it's true. *courtesy of Pretty On The Outside

question: do i look like someone real friendly or something? i am constantly having to talk to people in public who i don't know. for instance, this woman at the laundry facility today just kept striking up conversations, even though it was pretty obvi i was real into my people mag and catalog. it's ok, though, she was nice.

fact: laundry detergent does freeze, so do not keep it in your car if you live in a place where it is cold and stuff.

and circle gets the square.

so, i'm sitting here in the basement still laid up and watching the disney channel. currently: the suite life of zach and cody. dang, that is a "suite" show. i have been able to walk a little bit on my ankle, but the more i do, the more it becomes painful and more colorfully bruised.

basically, the only thing that i have to talk about is tv and the two floods that we have had in the basement. because of the floods, we can not use the shower and have to flush the toilet sparingly. i'm like, why don't we abandon this dumb house and move into the nicer house that we also own that is more conveniently located and more nicely decorated? seriously?! seriously.

you know it's bad when...

...you end up watching the retirement channel for half an hour until you realize what you are doing. yikes. i've been camped out on the couch in the basement for the past three days with torn ligaments in my ankle. as a result of not being able to walk, i've watched a ton of awesomely terrible tv. i've watched some great TLC...what not to wear and ten years younger. however, i DO NOT watch anything about weddings or babies. also, i love many disney channel original shows such as the suite life of zack and cody, that's so raven, and phil of the future (my favorite).

i read on katherine's blog that yorkies are the number two pure-breed dog in the us. that is bs. those are terrible dogs. i'm actually more of a pound puppy person and less of a pure-bred person, but if i had to choose a possibly westminster-bound breed, i think i would have to pick the komondor. it is pretty much the dopest dog ever.

so, i'm bored. i watched the golden globes the other night, and they were ok. i obviously thought that the office should have won best comedy and steve carrell should have won best actor. i was ok with ugly betty winning (and definitely ok with america ferrera winning best actress--she was so beautiful and had the best speech) but alec baldwin?!? seriously? seriously. jenna fischer, aka pam beesly on the office, looked beautiful. so did angela kinsey (angela martin on the office). it's ok, though, it was only the golden globes. they did win the emmy. so, yeah.

how can i leave this

just this morning, i was out walking macy and trooper and a blue expedition pulled into the driveway. i thought it was someone new on our road, because there is someone new on our road, but it was actually a car full of four jehovah's witnesses. i have just finished reading Awake! magazine about how God will make no more sickness and The Watchtower Magazine, about Man and Woman: the Dignified Role for Each. Honestly, those people drove 20 minutes outside of town to find us and give us pamphlets. Then the lady asked if I was married. When i said, "no, i'm only 22," she was like "well, you should think about getting married." hi, hello, i'm all set. thanks, though.

oh lord, i love it

well, the new (long awaited) episode of the office was amazing. finally saw pam really break down. i think that's the kind of emotion that's going to motivate her to actively try to get jim in her life. every once in a while, there's a show that really takes a hold of me and i get so obsessed i have a difficult time remembering that it's all make believe and that it's not real. this is one of those shows. they formerly have included: queer as folk, grey's anatomy, and many movies. i cried tonight while watching the office. and i have had many dreams over the past two weeks in which i am part of the office cast, sometimes as pam and i manage to win over jim from evil karen. i've also become acustomed (is that how you spell that word?) to reading two fan blogs about the office. lame, but: officetally and life in the office.

my time home has been interesting. wyoming has not been immune to the crazy effects of global warming. it oscillates wildly between being frigidly cold and blizzard-like and 50 degrees with the sun shining. last night, when i took macy out for her nightly relief, the sky was so clear and the moon so bright, the only proof that it was winter was that there were some patches of snow on the ground. the air temp reminded me of an early spring afternoon.

oh my god. my dad did the funniest thing the other day. he usually doesn't shave over christmas vacation. anyway, emma and i had made dinner and we had also invented a pretty sweet-ass trivia game, but we gave my parents like 20 minutes off from family time while we cleaned up the kitchen. we began playing our great game and about 20 minutes into it my mom goes "YOU SHAVED A GOATEE." my dad had used his 20 free minutes to shave a goatee. a goatee. my dad with a goatee is unbearably funny. he's not really a facial hair guy. he's not in to fantasy football poker night with the guys, both things that i think of when i free associate with "goatee." but he wanted to experiment with a goatee, much like a teenager wants to experiment with dying their hair black, even if they're not a goth. it was probably the funniest thing that he has ever done. i have to tell andrea.

ok, that's it.