Fried!

Fried!
Originally uploaded by alicia954

This cute little crocheted egg (by Alicia Kachmar) perfectly mirrors how I feel in the heat today. Oh, how I wish we had air conditioning at work....

And this week is only supposed to get warmer. Ack.

Vacation's end... (almost)

Have you ever unwrapped a Hershey's Kiss and inadvertantly put the foil in your mouth instead of the chocolate? That's the kind of day I am having. It's not a bad day... just... my head is officially "on vacation" which means it's about time for me to go back to work. Le sigh.

I have two busy days ahead socially, so I may or may not update again before I am back to work... so what have I done with my summer vacation? Let's recap:

Friday 29 June: dissapointments... Rithet's Bog exploration... picked up our spiffy Windows Media PVR computer thingy...

Saturday 30 June: birthday breakfast... Summit Park... birthday lunch... shopping... birthday dinner (cheesecake!!)... mellowness...

Sunday 1 July: banana pancakes... Ratatouille matinee (enjoyed by all)... beading frenzy... fireworks...

Monday 2 July: housecleaning... dropped kiddo at a birthday party... fixed my rocking chair, including sewing new covers ... picked kiddo up... family dinner...

Tuesday 3 July: more housecleaning... cleaned kiddo's room... got video card replaced in PVR... went out to spend my Future Shop gift card (bought LA Story, Big Trouble in Little China and a mini-tripod)... came home and watched LA Story.

Wednesday 4 July: replaced my Mom's kitchen faucet... shopped... worked on union website... relaxed... found ourselves with a bonus kiddo-free evening and went to see Pirates of the Carribean at World's End (which I thoroughly enjoyed!).

Thursday 5 July: didn't do as much as planned on the union website... listed stuff on etsy... had lunch out with hubby... listed more stuff on etsy... tidied... played with the PVR (after getting another video card installed --third time lucky).

Friday 6 July: Mother-daughter day: shopping... home for lunch... out for touristy afternoon of Undersea Gardens and Beacon Hill Park... grabbed dinner in Chinatown "to go"... and now I'm just hanging out watching Stargate (the movie).

productive... but not in the way I had intended....

I started the day with full intentions of rediscovering all that I had forgotten about Drupal while working on a website or two... instead I went off on a tangent and photographed some of my keychains from my weekend beading frenzy and listed them in my etsy shop...

So... still crossing stuff off my "to do list"... just not what I planned to cross off.

... now off to do some tidying...

Surreal World....

Some pretty (and pretty weird) things to look at:

Kent Rogowski had the brilliant idea to turn stuffed bears inside out and photograph them for a series called simply Bears.

In the lead-up to the much-anticipated Simpsons movie, several 7-11s have been remodeled into Kwik-E-Marts.

I never thought of etsy as a marketplace for furniture, but there are some great, whimsical items there -- Birdhouse Garden Bench; Puzzle Tables; Curvatura (plant table); Etsykids Rocking Chair -- but I'm not sure how I feel about the Fake Bowl of Fruit Loops.

Finally Tidy.

kiddo_clean_room1
Originally uploaded by triviaqueen

It took all day, but we finally got kiddo's room cleaned. We took out two bagsful of recycling, one bag of garbage, one bag of outgrown clothing, and two bags of books and stuff bound for our August garage sale.

Kiddo is very pleased now that her room is clean... she can see her desk again, and can reach and see most of her books -- along with those which she parted with, we put a boxful into storage. There is also more room on the floor as we took out her kid-sized fold-out sofabed.

As you can see from the photo, we also found a fun vintage cloth classroom map of the world (Landforms of the World) to hang on her wall.

Now if she can just keep it clean....