I probably should have taken pictures while it was still light out, because pictures make blogs more fun to read.. but it's dark out now so you are just S.O.L.

Went to Home "Repo" as Dan and I call it today, got some 10x2s and made me a riser/step/platform-thing for my art fair booth.  It's pretty sweet, it's like a big 4 foot long, 10 inches wide box with 2 sides missing.  The missing sides will be on the bottom and back, so I can keep my cash box and other miscellaneous items behind there out of customers' sight.  I'm so smrt.

S M R T.  Smrt.

OK.  Besides that we got some fabric to make a table cloth in pretty brown tones.  It's going to rock.

Now I just have to finish up making stuff so I actually have things to DISPLAY on these DISPLAYS. :)

In other news, our trip to Denver was awesome... we ended up getting two free roundtrip tickets to anywhere in the 48 for giving up our seats on the plane since it was over weight restrictions... sweet deal, except that we paid the karma by getting stuck in Lincoln, Nebraska for over 24 hours. :)  They set us up with a hotel and breakfast but our flight the next day was canceled and we were in the airport for like 8.5hours.  ugh. :P

It looks like we will be getting the jobs in Antarctica at McMurdo... we met the guy and talked and it seems like we are at the "top of the list."  I will be having a phone interview to get more information within the next 2 days.  EEP  I've never had a phone interview before and I'm not very good at interview-y type stuff I have too much anxiety when people are examining me.. that's why I hate doctor appointments :D

It's nice to have Mondays off from work.  It's like one day of the week where I can spend the WHOLE day doing whatever I want.  Which usually means I create some jewelry, photograph some jewelry, and play around on etsy.  It's so nice.

Today I got my shipment from The Ring Lord, where I buy my sterling silver wire, and where Dan gets his rings for chainmaille.  Hooray!!!  Now I can make earwires for the numerous pairs of earrings I have made this weekend.  I am trying to stock up for an art fair I registered for.  It's in April in Whitewater, WI.  My first real art fair.  Very exciting.  I have spent over $200 on stock-up-supplies so far, including the 2 ounces of sterling wire from The Ring Lord, and the rest where I work, a bead store.

Yesterday Dan and I hunted around for a 6' folding table to take to the art fair, found a crappy fold-in-the-middle one for $70, a decent one at Sam's club for less than $40 (couldn't buy it, though.  not members.)  and finally a $35 one at Menard's!  I love Menard's.  So that's one more thing I needed for the art fair and I'm running out of tax return money so I better not need much more! :D

Aside from that, I have spent this morning paying bills, filling out rent certificates to send to my landlords for the Homestead Credit, and pretending that I'm talking to my cats even though I was really talking to myself.

:)

As previously advertised, we (being my significant other, Dan, and I) got a digital camera, so I took a bunch of pictures and random crap and decided that these are my favorite things.  It's not all of them, because, as I will complain about every moving day, I have a lot of crap.  These are just the ones I got good pictures of.

First and foremost, my #1 favorite thing ever: Dan.



at the bar.  :D





my kitty my love. katsumoto oninoneko miyazaki-san.  he has his phone number on his collar charm so all the ladies know how to get a hold of him.




katsumoto's secret homosexual lover, onyx.  but we call him buttface, for obvious reasons.




my newest tattoo, my tree of life.  by brian of capitol city tattoos.  you can still see some of the redness and irritation from when i broke out into hives a few days after i got it.  my skin in retarded. :D




This is Herk, my Herkimer Diamond.  He is a member of my very extensive rock collection :)  Isn't he pretty?




Another collection, this one is my "Reject Bead" collection, made up of misshapen or broken beads and beads with bad drill holes.  Working in a bead store, reject beads come home to live with me nearly daily.




One of the beaded ornaments I made to give away as gifts this Christmahanukwanzaayuleakah.  It's on my bamboo plant that refuses to be healthy but still won't die.




In the living room... I heart my ikea shelves and my gargies.




An icicle on the ivy that grows outside my bedroom window, it looks like an acorn. :)

Okay that's it for now, people.

Hope you enjoyed this little adventure into my world. :D