I had a great Thanksgiving. We had dinner at Jax's Cafe and went to see Shall We Dance starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers at the Heights Theater. Given our activities, I woke up in 1937. I should have worn a hat.
( Let's take a look back at 1937... )
Interesting times.
- Thanksgiving circa 1937
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annablume- November 27th, 15:05
- The dollhouse had landed!
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- November 24th, 20:55
I figured I should chronicle the remodel online.
The mini curtains are soaking.
- Project! Merry Thriftmas
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- November 24th, 9:43
Today after work I'm going to pick up an old handmade dollhouse off Craigslist. I'm told it needs a few shingles and a coat of paint, but it looked pretty cute online. I am supremely excited. I'm hoping to gussy it up and give it to my two young cousins (once removed) for Xmas. I have visions of papering the walls with scrapbook paper and throwing all kinds of queer crap in there. I'm not sure if I'll go retro or girly or just plain bizarre. I kind of love dollhouses. I can't explain it. When I was a kid, I had a Lundby dollhouse. They're quite collectable now, being the first dollhouse to embody a mid-century home style and what not. Come to think of it, that's probably what broke me. I do love me some mid-century architecture. I actually put a Lundby house on my own Christmas list this year, so maybe I'm projecting a bit on my cousins. C'est la vie. Adults get to do that sort of thing.
I'm looking to do a little Xmas bartering. I bought these two embroidered linen circles at the thrift store, and I want them sewn into small round pillows. I have fiberfill. I have backing fabric. I do not have a sewing machine or any kind of mad sewing skills with which to perform this miracle pillow alchemy. I thought I could maybe sew them by hand, but I started that and it was a disaster. What I do have is some metalsmithing skills, and I would be willing to trade an Open to the Universe necklace in circle or square or whatever shape for this sewing service. Any takers?
- 40th
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- annablume
- November 22nd, 14:55
The nerd birthday weekend is in full effect. Friday night Pink went out to play board games and drink beer with some guy friends. Saturday during the day he played RPGs and met friends for lunch at his favorite schezwan place. Saturday night we met folks at the Sporty. I had great fear about the late notice and the bar itself but of course everything was fine. The turn out was awesome and the food and drink there is so cheap it was just silly. After the bar, we headed back to the house for cheesecake and more socializing withscentedwoods. This morning, Pink's best friend and partner took us out for brunch and finally we landed at the computer store where Pink poked all the goodies and picked a few things new toys. Oh, and we bought him up a new winter jacket while we were out that way. I've got yoga tonight and then we're having a quiet romantic dinner at a restaurant of his choosing. That should be about all the celebrating we can handle.
I don't know what we're going to do with all this cheesecake.
- Saturday
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- annablume
- November 21st, 13:49
Yesterday, while I was picking up a box chain at Veberod, I spotted a beautiful mokume gane ring with a shy half carat bezel set round diamond. It fit perfectly. If anyone has 2500 dollars to blow, it's there waiting for me! Sigh. It was so pretty.
I've been mostly asleep for the last three days. I meant to fully sleep for one day of my vacation but one nap lead to another and things got out of hand. I'm not going to let myself feel too bad about it. I suspect by the time you actually admit to yourself you need a whole day of sleep you pretty much need three. I am feeling very "meh" though and I believe it is because my days have lacked both structure and productivity.
Today I'm going to dye my hair. I may attempt dying my eyelashes. I have to mail a necklace and work on my paper.
In other news - holy abdominal muscles! Sometimes I think my yoga instructor is trying to kill me.
- Yoga Victory
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- annablume
- November 20th, 13:39
P.S. I "floated forward" today in yoga class from down dog to forward fold and actually got some lift and moved over a foot forward. It was epic.
- Team Jacob!
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- November 20th, 13:35
I went to see New Moon last night and it was totally awesome. The Roseville 14 was hosting midnight showings in every single theater and it was completely sold out. Mollie, Anne and I were probably the oldest people there. We did see some "cool parents" and I think we even been older than them. The Twilight fans, though? Totally endearing. It was like a dorky emo teenage girl convention. They are charming and adorable and restored my faith in the next generation. The girls in front of us in line for the Imax theater were doing their homework!
As for the movie itself, it was about 100 times better than the first one. Of course, they had to leave some things out - but they didn't sacrifice story continuity to do it. While I may have some Team Jacob bias, I think the lack of Robert Pattinson helped immensely. He might be pretty (and I would debate this), but he's a retched actor. It's also a werewolf beefcake palooza. That alone is worth the price of admission.
It irritates me when people mock Twilight. It's such a sitting duck that mocking it seems so mean spirited . Especially because it's mostly adults mocking something that's really intended for children. Is it because it appeals to teenage girls and teenage girls are so loathed? If so, that's truly disgusting. Is it because it's a romance novel? What's wrong with that? Is it again because these types of books have typically appealed to women that they're seen as the red headed step children of the literary community? I admit that there are some serious problems with Bella's character, but she is no worse nor more insulting than a dozen other female characters in bestselling blockbuster fiction. Hello, Ironman? That movie had a nice dose of racism built in as well. Twilight is fun. That's still valuable to me. I like to have fun.
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- November 19th, 16:57
I slept most of yesterday which was dreamy but of course I wasn't tired at all last night. After class, Lawyerette came over and we took a walk, did some yoga, drank a couple bottles of wine and chatted until the wee hours of the morning.
This morning I felt surprisingly good. I managed to get my butt out of bed by 11 today (in a lame attempt to normalize the schedule) but I've done fairly little. I pondered my Justice biography, which I think I am going to write on Scalia because he's a crazy motherfucker. I took a couple of surveys for Communications Studies department research for extra credit in my comm theory class. I made three meatloaves (one to eat and three to freeze) and dropped a knife on my foot and stabbed my toe. That was pretty exciting. Tonight at midnight I'm going to see New Moon. It ought to be dreadful and I cannot wait!
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- annablume
- November 17th, 20:26
I have five days off from work. I can do anything I want.
I'm going to bed.
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- November 17th, 14:40
I love birds.
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- November 16th, 20:08
I believe I passed my test. I am greatly relieved. I'll learn my grade in two weeks. During that time, I also have to write a Supreme Court Justice biography and some other kind of silly and small paper. I'm feeling about ten million times better about my classes today than I was a week ago.
I also learned today that sneaking off into the conference room for some Salamba Sarvangasana during lunch makes life worth living again.
I think I'll bake cookies and catch up on Mad Men.
- Guess who...
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- November 15th, 22:00
Just sold her first piece of jewelry to a stranger?
WOOT!
- She's a model, believe it or not, and a thumping bore.
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- November 15th, 10:42
Isn't it odd how that joke persists? How is to supposed to make us feel? Clever? Justified in our ugliness? As if we are not all, at sometime or other, more tedious than charming. I rarely find people boring, and I rather think less of myself when I do. There are far fewer boring people than there are bad conversationalists.
We saw Casanova's Homecoming last night which was written for the Minnesota Opera and first performed in the 1980s. It was funny. Cute. It wasn't the greatest opera of all time, but it had some prettiness to it. The English always throws me and I found it a little cacophonic at times, but I liked all the singers except one. Apparently, they chose this opera on the basis that opera companies tend toward classic operas or brand new operas, which means once an opera is no longer "brand new" it doesn't get much play. That's no way to sustain a genre. As an added bonus, the composer was in attendance and adorable as he appeared to be a very old, very round, and very happy man. Before the opera, we grabbed dinner at Everest on Grand. It's Nepali and Tibetan food, which is turns out is quite a lot like Indian food only more delicate. Outstanding! I tried yak.
Any of you locals in eljay land that I don't see very often interested in setting up a monthly happy hour? Sometime I feel like we are all so close and yet so far. It's silly.
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- annablume
- November 15th, 10:41
ETA: This is a repost from yesterday that I accidently deleted. SW, this means I killed your link and would you ever repost your comment? Thx.
Yesterday in yoga we did upper body stuff - lots of down dogs, modified chaturanga (with knees on the ground) and attempted up dogs. If you had asked me on Thursday, I would have told my that my mush core was the weakest part of my body, but apparently my upper body and arms are useless as well. I'm having a brutal time keeping my shoulders rolled back in down dog. My modified chaturanga ends in face plant. And my up dog? Well, I can lay there and press the on the ground, but I suspect it's more likely that the earth will give way than my body will rise.
I did my three sun salutations this morning anyway, and by a miracle of timing I just happened to be doing them at sunrise. That was kind of nice. I'll do the core training stuff a little later. I now have three things I'm really working on - the core stuff, the sun salutation, and nauli kriya. Last week, I practiced at least one of those things per day. Plus, I attended my hatha class and yin yoga. I'm satisfied with that for the time being. All told, I suspect I'm doing three to four hours of yoga a week. And it's still a pleasure.
The more I think about it, the more I fantasize about going to India for a month and studying in an Ashram. I'm putting that out their as a tentative goal. I feel there are some other things in my life that will need to happen first. I want to finish school and I don't know what I'm going to want next. I am happy (knock on wood), but I feel like there is a giant question mark looming over my thirties. I like my job and I am still challenged, but where will I be in ten years? Will I pursue further academic work and change careers? Try to move ahead at this company? What about artistic pursuits? Spirtuality? Health? I feel a bit at odds. I'm not raising children, so what should I be doing?
- Things I enjoy (in no particular order):
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- annablume
- November 13th, 21:00
- Frugal Monkey Powers - ACTIVATE!
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- November 12th, 12:40
Form of making my own coffee!
Shape of handspun Christmas presents!
I spent the first hours of my morning going over our finances from now until the end of the year. BLEAK. We started hemorrhaging money sometime in September and it's been all downhill since then - my GPS (stolen), the window repair, the vet bills, Pink's lack of pants, his required car repairs, Chicago, the other half of the sofa, a 40th birthday, Thanksgiving and then Christmas. You know, I'll live through it. But this is never where you want to be.
After that, I made a Tea Garden and Labyrinth in Farmville. I am so totally grown-up. I've also got a Bunny Promenade.
On the agenda for today is homework. I had a hair appointment which I had to cancel (see previous reference to budget) and am thinking it's about time to buy the box and dye my own hair. Bleah. I've got a massive test of Monday and I must do well.
- Look at me!
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- November 11th, 18:06
I'm updating from class!
Bad Anna.
- Announcement
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- November 9th, 23:13
I've made an executive decision:
Oatmeal Scotchies are now a Christmas cookie.
- Gold
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- November 9th, 8:23
Om
Namah Shivaya Gurave
Saccidananda Murtaye
Nisprapancaya Shantaya
Niralambaya Tejase
Om
I bow to the goodness within myself who is the true teacher
Who assumes the form of truth, consciousness and bliss.
Always present and full of peace,
This essence is in her nature, completely free, and sparkles with a
Divine luster inconceivable.
Apparently a week ago last Friday, I was so blissed out after yoga that I forgot my shoes. In my defense, I think I changed to go to a party after and had two pairs of shoes. But I didn't realize they were gone until last night when I saw them there alone on the shoe shelf. Someone left this little prayer card inside my shoes, probably to determine how long they were sitting there, but I think it is wonderful sentiment to start the week with. So, I'm sharing.