my first album

here's the cover for my first album: what kind of music do you think i sing? or am i just in the band? what do i play?

have fun!

1. Go to "wikipedia." Hit “random”or click http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random The first random wikipedia article you get is the name of your band.
2. Go to "Random quotations"or click http://www.quotationspage.com/random.php3 The last four or five words of the very last quote of the page is the title of your first album.
3. Go to flickr and click on “explore the last seven days”or click http://www.flickr.com/explore/interesting/7days Third picture, no matter what it is, will be your album cover.
4. Use photoshop or similar to put it all together (You can use picnik http://www.picnik.com/app#/home/welcome , it's free and easy to use).

covered in bees! socks and note

so, i've have these for quite some time, and i know you're all dying to see them, so here they are. i LOVE them! the are sooooooo warm, and not too thick or crazy or anything! thank you alpaca wacka for knitting them, and big sister for dyeing the yarn!

here is the requisite "blog modeling photo (the only good one):"

Miniature Knitter

if the video isn't showing up, here's the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VT5MFdAB7fI

Um, I am amazed! I love Neil Gaiman and all of his books, and the books of his that I have seen in movie form as well (aka Stardust), and am really excited to see Coraline, so i went to the website, which is really fun to play around at, and I found this. Enjoy!

and here's the pattern for the sweater: http://www.coraline.com/images/sweater_pattern.pdf

for the time being

Your result for The Princess Bride trivia Test...

Westley

Inconceivable! You scored ###!

You live it, you love it, you lost track long ago of how many times you have seen it. You have been known to wish someone luck by hollering "have fun storming the castle!" You scoff at people who cannot recite the entire 'battle of wits.' You are a true fan.
Thank you. Its people like you that give me hope for humanity.

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not too shabby, i hope

yay elections! yay elections being DONE. now we can move on.

i had a horrific day of worry about a paycheck that had not gone through, so after work there was a 'quick trip' to the nearest mybank atm (40 miles away) to deposit a loan from my friend so that i wouldn't get even more outrageous fees on my account while i was waiting for everything to get worked out, so i was not paying much attention to the election results. (that and there is a significant lack of radio news in this area).

on the way home, i stopped for some caffeine at a corner truck stop and as i went in, the idiot who had run a red light to beat me to the convenience store held the door open for me. he also read my shirt (needed an excuse to be peering at the chest, more like) and asked me if i went to the iowa college of medicine.

'no. i've got a good friend who goes there,' i replied and made my way to the pepsi cooler.

he walked right next to me and said 'so, are you happy about the election?'

i told him that i actually didn't know, and that i'd been out of the loop for the last few hours, so he told me that Obama spanked McCain and i told him that i guess i am happy.

he said 'i hope your happy in a couple of years.'

instead of making some snide remark, like i really wanted to (his tone made me want to kick him in the balls... hard, even if i hadn't voted for Obama), i just said 'i hope so too.'

and it's true. i hope that in the next couple of years our president can lead us into a better economy and a better relationship with the rest of the world. i don't know what will happen, but at least i voted and made sure that i have a say in what is going on. whatever happens, i know that i made the best decision based on as much information as i could find about all of the people and measures on my ballot. i actually did some serious studying about a lot of them. and i hope i voted right, and that my state did too. when everything else is done, all a person can do sometimes is hope.

is that such a bad thing?

so much to tell!

let's start off with a joke:



i like a good lol goats every now and then. :)

there is so much to share with everyone, that i'm not really going to say anything in this post. i'm just letting you know that i have a few catch-up posts coming... i'm thinking three. they will all have pictures and random ramblings from me, just for you. meanwhile, feel free to paruse my photos and things through the link to the right of this post. yay flickr!

froehliche mai tag -or- when jess came to visit: part 3

(original post date: May 3)
so, it turns out that i had these photos all ready to post before i went to camp, but never did, so here's some stuff for you to look at. the first pictures are of the snow storm on the morning of may 2. the entire town was shut down. the more yellowish photos are of the night before, after i had come home from work. before that is a series of photos from when jessica and i wandered around the canyon over easter.
enjoy!