Domestic Geek

Heh, now I know why I didn't want to go to work yesterday. My intuition must have been warning me that the chick I am having issues with decided to show for a couple of hours. Yeah, she's the last person I want to see on a day I volunteer to do extra work. I had a relatively peaceful 6 hour shift today, though. A lot of my filing in the Archive Room is now caught up.

Depending on how this week goes, I'm going to try to take the whole weekend off next weekend. I have much to do and would really like to have two whole days away from work. Of course, if I don't put any OT in during the week and the weekend is the only time I can get some extra hours, I'll probably take them.

I stopped by the Great American Quilt Factory and found my final piece of fabric I need. w00t! Now I just need to clean up the mess I've made recently in my craft room and get quilting!

When is enough enough? I saw an ad in a magazine today for the new Alvin and the Chipmunks movie. Um, how about Hollywood get off their collective asses and come up with an original move idea. I'm so sick of old stuff being regurgitated. Seriously.

I watched a movie called Surf's Up last night. It was ok, but definitely not one of the better animated movies I've ever seen. I know they were trying to do it in a documentary style, but it was a bad documentary style. I wasn't impressed.

I really don't know what possessed me to do it. Maybe it was the stressful work day I had today. Maybe it's that urge I get to go shopping when I'm feeling blue. Whatever it was, I stopped in at a quilting store on my way home from work. Just to see what new fabrics were out. I was just going to look since I hadn't been in a while. I then gave in and I bought a pattern and a few fat quarters thinking I'll whip up a new table runner before Thanksgiving dinner in a little over a week. On my way home, the buyer's remorse set in. What the hell was I thinking? I don't have time to get my fall theme for my blog finished and I think I'm going to "whip up" a table runner. Hahahahahahahahahahahaha! Whew, Ok, I'm feeling a bit better having got that out. But, seriously? What was I thinking?

In case you've been wondering why I haven't been posting as much the last few days, I'm in the process of finally setting up my craft blog that I've been wanting to do forever. Marcus even set me up a subdomain last December and that's as far as I got with it. I really want a place where I can chronicle my craftiness and hopefully inspire me to actually finish some of my many projects.

I'm using WordPress as the CMS so that I can become more familiar with how it works, so I've had a lot of work to do. It's using a theme that's not my own, but downloaded from the Wordpress themes site. I hate using canned themes, but I really just want to get this thing going. There's so much to learn because I've never seriously blogged using WP and only have a basic understanding of it. I can't wait to learn about all the different plugins and figure out this widget stuff.

So, help me out, dear readers! If you use Wordpress, what plugins/widgets must I absolutely have?

I'll post the URL later today when I've got it ready to go.

Blogosphere, meet Chip. Chip, meet the Blogosphere. (Get it? Chip. Chip off the block. Wood chip. LOL! I crack myself up.)

OK, he's not really a family member, but he is a new addition to the household. I've always wanted one of these wooden drawing mannequins (we used to use them at school), so yesterday I splurged the $10 bucks and got him. Besides being a great decorative accent for my craft room (yes, it is still clean!), he's useful, as well. I want to get back into illustrating and drawing.

Guys, quit reading now if girl stuff grosses you out. Just skip to the next paragraph. Do any of my women readers get constipated for the first couple of days of your period? No matter what I do, I always get it. I'm not sure if is from the same hormone that causes the cramps or what, but it is majorly annoying. I'm having a particularly bad one this week, to boot. I was in so much pain yesterday that I thought I was going to pass out. I'm also retaining a LOT of fluid. Ick. Not cool.

Man, I haven't done a Thursday Thirteen in three weeks. I've got subjects, I just can't seem to get the motivation to post.

I had a whole bunch of stuff I wanted to say and now I'm drawing a complete blank. *sigh* I guess it'll have to wait until another time.

When we were out for our weekly Saturday evening dinner date, my friend Nina told me about a great t-shirt that I would probably like to have over at Jinx. She mentioned it was about knitting and the Jolly Roger. I was picturing the "knit or die" shirt they had on Gilmore Girls, but this one is way more cool!