Jeans and Sneakers

This week absolutely flew by.  After making my bag last weekend, I really did nothing crafty at all this week.  I did get up to reading His Dark Materials again.  I’m in the middle of book two.

Sometime earlier this week I started having this weird pain in my stomach area.  I dismissed it as gas at first, but it’s been a few days and it hasn’t gone away.  I’m only partially worried as to what it could be, since the rest of me insists on pretending that it’s nothing.  Hopefully it’ll go away.

The surprise has come and gone, so I can say openly now that Thursday night I took Wyn to go see Beauty and the Beast on Broadway for an early bday pressie.  It was awesome.  My mind still boggles at the ending sequence, wondering how they managed the Transformation scene.

I am *NOT* enjoying the cold.  I don’t think I’ll leave the house this weekend except to get free dinner at Rob’s parents house on Sunday.  I’ve got nothing planned for the weekend other than getting some rest, and trying to relax more.  This week was a little hectic for some reason, and I’m looking forward to unwinding.

Also. . .there’s a surprise this Thursday night, but I can’t post about it yet because it’s a surprise for Wyn, an early birfday pressie.  I’ll post about it afterwards.  :]

Last night I took Rob out on a date.  We went to gyu-kaku and had lots of good meat and rice.  I ordered the fried rice with eel, and by the time it came to the table, we both forgot it had eel in it, and Rob ate some (he doesn’t usually eat seafood), and he liked it!  We had a good time, but the night ended pretty abruptly, as on the train ride back home, I passed out and ended up just going to bed when we got back to the house.

Rob stayed up late doing his taxes, but I was asleep by like 1 am so this morning, when I woke up at 10, I didn’t expect him to be awake for awhile.  I took a shower and went right into my room afterwards.  I had a crafty plan, and wanted to get started before I lost the motivation.

I made a messenger bag!  All in one day too.  I started out on graph paper deciding what I wanted it to look like and what pockets it should have, and then I measured, interfaced, cut, and sewed it all together.  It took me a few hours, but I did it and it’s great!  I’ll post some pictures when I take some.  I want to get some action shots, and I didn’t really go anywhere today.

Now that I’ve made a decent looking bag, I want to make more!  I want to make a small arm-pit type shoulder bag next for when I go out to like the movies or something and just need something to hold my wallet, phone, keys, and chapstick.  My messenger bag is big enough to hold my knitting!  I’ve put all of cambridge jacket in it so far, along with the mag that it’s pattern is in.  There’s still some room to spare.

For some reason, I’ve had the almost unignorable urge to buy something.  A new toy, like.  I’ve been eyeing a Sidekick3, since my phone is old and the battery is a joke, but I promised myself I’d buy a sk3 after my debt is paid off, which it almost is, but isn’t quite yet.  I also suddenly want a black 8gb ipod nano.  It kind of goes with my want for rollerskates and lots of fun self striping sock yarn.  I keep telling myself to chill and just pay off my debt.  It’s working so far.

Dentist’s appt this week, and rent is coming up. . .but I did file my taxes, and I’m getting a nice refund, plus I’m getting the bonus from work for my boss going to Aruba.  I think I’m pretty good on money for now.  I just can’t spend carelessly. . . .*sigh*

I made a post earlier this week, and it was a really good and thoughtful one, but my internet connection ate it. . .my tv has been broken since early this week, Rob’s still trying to figure out what the heck is wrong with it, already got one possibility out of the way.  I miss playing Zelda.

Friday night Wyn and I went out to dinn0r with my dad.  If you’re ever anywhere near this place, do yourself a favor and stop in for a bite (unless you’re a vegetarian).  We ate so much meat. . . it was amazing.  I’m taking Rob there next weekend.

I kind of hoped to do nothing this weekend, and after Friday, I got my wish.  But sadly, I got bored really fast, and restless, so I was pretty miserable.  Rob was busy coding, he finally got back into a project of his that he hadn’t worked on in years.  I didn’t want to be selfish and try to pull him away from it, but I didn’t know what else to do with myself.  So I did a little laundry, walked around the house a lot, looked on the internet a lot.

I’ve been knitting Cambridge, in all it’s boring glory.  I’m almost done with the second front panel, and after that I’ve got two sleeves, a collar, and some decorative edging, and a zipper.  I can’t wait to get this thing done.  I’d take pictures, but it just looks like miles of ribbed blue.

My boss is going away tomorrow, to Aruba (must be nice).  So this week should prove interesting.  Once again, the weekend has brought me thoughts of staying here at this company longer than I had originally planned, so that I can save up some money.  If I stay for an extra year, and save most of my paychecks, I’ll have a nice little chunk of change to start a business on.  I don’t know if I can take that though.

I’ve also been reconsidering the type of business I want to start.  I still want to make things, but the things I’m thinking about making have gotten bigger.  We’ll see, I might do some test runs after I finish this draining sweater.

I really want a pair of roller skates.  I want to learn to do all of those crazy roller skate dance moves like you saw on sesame street and old 70’s-80’s tv shows.  I have no idea why I have this sudden fascination.  But I can’t wait for warm weather.  I’ll also probably get some kind of portable music device for then.  And knit cute knee high socks.  God I’m bizarre.

I got my wine glasses.  They’re awesome.  I haven’t used them yet, because I only have one bottle of wine right now, and I don’t want to drink it just because I got glasses.  I’ll have to get some more wine.  :]

I’m getting sick of my hair.  There’s a slight chance that when summer comes, I might cut it short again.  We’ll see though.

Truth is, I just haven’t felt much like writing.

I haven’t gotten much knitting done. I tried to make a little clutch type bag, but I’m stuck at this one part, and it might just be enough discouragement to suck and make me put off finishing it indefinitely. I’ll try to convince myself to try anyway.

I’ve been pretty bummed out thinking about monies and my job and 2007 being here and now, and March only a little way away. I woke up this morning knowing I had to go in to work and doubting that I could ever make a business for myself. WTF kind of way to wake up is that?

Over the weekend (which was fun btw, more later) I was talking to Rob about how I think part of my want to buy a 1st Gen RX-7 after I pay off my debt is maybe that I’m scared to actually try to do this business thing. That maybe I feel that I’m not ready to do it, and I’m buying myself more time by getting something that I know will need a steady cash flow to make it what I want it to be.

Well. Today I’m looking at it like this. When I was in HS, I joined the track team because I had a crush on this kid. While I was actually at practice, and at the meets and stuff, I hated it. Every day I thought about how it wasn’t worth it to beat myself up like that because of some stupid boy, and how I should quit. When I came home and wasn’t actually at practice, I was like, ‘well it’s not really that bad. . .’ Ultimately at practice one day I had enough, and I told the coach I was done, and I left. And that was it. But now it’s like working for someone else is the same situation. While I’m there, or right before I have to be there, I hate it, and I think about how stupid it is that I’m doing these functions for other people when I could be doing them for myself, and when I come home or on the weekend when I’m not there, I think, ‘well I could probably tolerate it for another 6 months to a year. . .’

. . .I don’t want to be here in 6 months to a year from now. I don’t want to have wasted another year of my life being frustrated and uncomfortable 9 hours a day, 5 days a week.

I need to kick my ass in gear, and seriously sit down and think about what I can do. I have two parts of a business I want to create, and I need to get started.

Rob and I tried to have a Do-Nothing-Weekend, but it didn’t happen.  Saturday threw us a gorgeous day and I didn’t want to stay inside.  We went looking for wine (and found some!), and then Rob did some car work on both of our cars while I did some cleaning and took down the tree.  Then out of nowhere, Bay wanted to come over, and we had some errands to run.  Sunday we did stay home for the most part, other than dinner at his parent’s.  I bought Super Swing Golf for my Wii!!  My mom gave me a gift card for xmas, and I used it for that.  I haven’t played it yet, but I’m pretty excited to.

I have no idea what to make for dinner tonight.  Friday night I tried to make curry and was disappointed.  Oh well, I’ll end up making something.