Port Bow?

It's probably a good thing no one really reads this blog. It's a nice, clean, open window into my eclectic brain. Strangers will read this and think, "Who the dickens is this person that jumps from one subject to the other, has an obsession with knitting and vampires, and makes all sorts of false promises like posting pictures?" I know, it's ridiculous. But you wouldn't be able to help a Twilight obsession either.
So because I read through my latest blogs and realized there is no following or pattern what-so-ever, I decided to update on all of the things that have happened starting with the latest:

• The house we moved into is not the studio with a garage. It's much bigger, does not have a garage, and belongs to my grandmother in-law, not my father in-law. Plans changed, I guess.
• I have gone through 3 jobs this year. The last one with a uniform was only seasonal and the people there were also mean. The current job is much much better.
• Since the book club started I have also read these books: Love Walked In, by Marisa de los Santos; and The Oath, by Frank Pereti. The book I mentioned, the Thirteenth Tale, it was dark and creepy.
• I am NOT a very good picture blogger and I will never in my life make it as a photographer. I would starve.
• I did do a wedding by myself and was paid a small sum for it... and although I still would do another wedding, I don't have anymore signed up for this year. And I'm kind of glad. It's nice to relax.
• I did not change the name of my blog. It is still the same.

So that is the update. And you won't believe it but I almost made another promise to start blogging with a pattern. So sorry. Instead I will just.. oh... try to stay on course with a topic.

Life Applicable

So did I happen to mention that Alex and I now have our very own, bonefied, rented home? Just ours? We moved into this little cabin with running water and an indoor toilet just last week and I have been spending the entire week cleaning it and trying to make it comfy. I spent 2 days alone organizing and cleaning the kitchen. (The fridge was moldy because it was unplugged all summer.) I never realized how much clothing I have until I tried stuffing it into the tiny closet. I even got rid of some!
My current project is trying to make the living room seem bright and cozy. It's hard to do that when it's smaller than my little finger and the walls are super dark. I'm pretty sure we can't paint either. It helped when I took down all of the pre-furnished windown hangings. My belief now is that you should never use dark colored curtains if your space is small and your walls are dark. Go for something lighter.
Anyways... Enough about the house.
My crafts are not so well on their way. I've been so busy with moving and starting a new job that I haven't even gotten into the book I'm supposed to read for book club. I tried reading it last night but I was so tired that I started falling asleep before I finished the chapter. It's a pretty heavy book.
Well, it's time to get back to work. And Rebecca, Lauren did my hair in finger waves the other day. It was my dream come true!

Quilting Together the Crafts of My Life

So according to a little tid bit of information I picked up today, my husband and I are finally getting our very own apartment!  Yay!  This is very exciting considering the fact that after being married for a over a year, we still have not yet had a place of our own, to ourselves.  So this is very exciting news.  It's nothing too huge.  Just a studio apartment with an attached garage.  My father in-law is the one who is providing us with the space and Alex is going to actually put in the kitchen and bathroom.  All of which is supposed to be done by the end of the month.  I'm so excited I can hardly stand it!!   The end of the month is almost too far away!  

Other exciting news, I quit my crappy job and am exchanging it for a totally new and hopefully more... not so stressful job.  

And now it's time for the craft update.  

Projects in store:

1) Knitting a mitten pattern I found online

2) Making a quilt 

3) Sewing myself a new dress

4) Embroidering all of the pillowcases and an iris wall fabric given to me by my dearest mother

5) Finish and start a new pair of socks

6) Knit a sweater.

As you can see, I have quite a supply of new projects!  The quilt I will hopefully start soon.  The sweater is a distant aspiration.. hopefully when I have more time in the winter.  The socks are just something I have to finish.  And the mittens are going to be my winter mittens.  I make myself a new pair every year.  Oh man... I better get started!  

Good or Bad, Happy or Sad

I can't tell you how happy it makes me feel when little 2 year old Brooklyn walks in my room with a bag of chips and says, "Hey Fuffy, what are you doing?"  She calls me Fuffy because she can't say Marcie.  

I decided today that I have a problem of adapting moods.  When other people are happy, I generally can't help but be happy.  When other people are angry, I unfortunately get angry.  It's the same with sad moods.  Sometimes it's good.  Sometimes it's bad.  

Day Recording

To say the least, picture blogging my day isn't going as great as I thought it would.  The big picture of my head is one of the first that I took because I thought I looked good that day.

So the reason why picture day recording isn't going so gr

eat is because my husband took away our good camera and left me with the one that seems to think blurry pictures look good.  Wrong, little camera.

  Wrong.  So I got through one day, the start of anoth

er, before I left the good camera in the car.  I wasn't hurt or anything, but I forgot it in there.  So that is what made my husband make the decision to trade me cameras.  Today I had to take 3 whole shots of a sandwich before it came out okay.  And all of the other articles around it weren't in focus.  How frustrating.  

I also think that I have to get Rebecca to show me how to post pictures on here and have them actually stay where they're supposed to.  

A Little of That

Sooo... a quick update since I haven't blogged in a while.  

I'm finally getting my head out of Twilight.  Most of that had to do with the fact that I got a new job which requires me to wear a uniform.  Also I figured that it wasn't fair to my husband and the speed limit (Which I was breaking everyday because I was trying to drive fast and cool in my little silver car... kinda like a vampire.)  

Also to get out of my Twilight thingy, my sister in-law and I have been reading books together.  So far I've read, Hunger Games (creepy), The Host (good book), and I'm about to read The Thirteenth Tale which is like a mixture of  Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre.  I should love that book considering Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre are two of my favorite books.  

Here's a little something for my sister... I've been starting to document my days by picture.  Yay!  I already documented yesterday and I've started on today.  Now I just have to figure out how to upload the dang pictures on my laptop.  Unfortunately for all of you, my days and hobbies are relatively boring so you'll get to see pictures of the pillowcases I've been embroidering and my car rides to work with MCR or the song, "Sex on Fire" by Kings of Leon.  Yeah... pretty much the highlight of my days.  Sometimes I like to mix it up with a little Kanye West.  Oh Kanye, how I love thee.  

Well, I only have a few minutes left before I have to go to work and I need to run to the post office to see if my book is in.  Hopefully Amazon is on top of things.  

Next time I'll have pictures!  

A Little Something...

I've done it, and I've done it good.  I read a book series that I CAN NOT get out of my head.  I feel like such a nerd.  I only feel like a nerd, though, because it is all I can think about.  I walk around pretending that I was the characters, or that the highly fictional world they live in is real and I am a part of it. If you want to know what series I'm talking about, just have a gander at the phone conversation I had with my sister in the coffee shop yesterday:

Me:  Paige, I just finished the "Twilight"  series and I can't stand it!  My life is over now that the books are done!

Paige: Oh, really? How so?

Well, I open my closet and say, "What would Alice wear today?"  And, I also walk around pretending to be a vampire.  I drive fast thinking that now I have super alertness and can swerve any pedestrian that gets in my way. 

(The guy ahead of me just started laughing at me, by this point)

Oh dear, Marcie, that's not very good.

And you know what?  No, no it's not good.  I walk around pretending to be a freaking vampire for crying out loud!  And then when I come back down to earth, I'm so depressed that it's not real.  I would highly recommend the books, but then again I don't because this is what you would become, dear readers.  Depressed and nerdy.  But yet stylish because if you're like me, you would also try to dress like a vampire.  And they are very stylish.   

Oh man.  But enough about that.  Because of this, I decided that it might be fun for me to just Blog about my everyday life and make a few things up here and there.  My new blog name will be called, "A Little Something I Made Up."  Because it is.  It's really sad when you're very happy with your life and then you read a book that makes you realize that you can't live in a world with fantasy things that could very well take your life away in a split second and that makes you depressed.  

My husband and I have currently been delivering mail for our career.  It's interesting, boring, and cold.  Judging by the draft that's coming through the window and the current state of my frost-bitten toes, I would say that it's a balmy -40 degrees outside.  Today's going to be just great.  

There are people that we deliver mail too that have the last name, "Schwafel."  They're our favorite because their name makes us giggle to ourselves.  And then I remember that if I was a vampire, I wouldn't feel cold on the mail route because they don't have any blood so they can be perfectly fine in cold weather.  And then I stop giggling about the Schwafels.  

It takes us about 3 hours to deliver the mail.  The first day it was about 4 hours.  It was also warmer the first day.  After the 3 hours of cold yesterday, I felt like my fingers would snap off at the slightest nudge.  So I just held my hands in my lap and didn't make any sudden movements... just incase.   Because of my caution, I still have all ten fingers.  But after sitting by this draft window I'm beginning to be a little concerned about my toes.  

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Well, after some oatmeal, time away from the window, and a cup of coffee, I think I'm warmed and ready to go try to pull something together from my closet and begin another day of wishing I was a fictional character in a book.  

Pray for me.