March 30th

Since I don't have any photos of my Dad's birthdays as a kid, I present this photo montage re-imagining of what one of his parties could have looked like...

Happy Birthday Pop! I love you!

March 27th.

Arm chair travel

Google Maps' little orange man provides me with so much satisfaction.  I can explore the world for free.  I can also look around many major cities to find the places I should add to my "must see" list...


Here are my favorite finds this week;
Ok this one was Seattle, the woods by the lake is nice and all but the bisected woman amused me greatly;

Apparently Seattle has a really cool museum I need to go see...

Dublin Ireland has a place called Booze2Go... love it!

 This is also Dublin!  Oh gosh n' begorah I want to spend a good long vacation in Ireland.

And this one is Puerto Vallarta Mexico, such a pretty beach city...

Ok, that's it.  I am burnt out from work this month and am planning on taking my first day off in about three weeks tomorrow.  The knots in my back are terrible.  One day isn't going to be enough but it's going to need to suffice, much like the way that although I cannot travel, I can at least Google and that is going to need to tide me over for a bit.

Sigh.

Beards (reblog)

This is for my Pop... and probably a few other fathers who read my blog...

Click HERE.

Stuffed.

I went to the store this morning with the intention of buying some pan dulce and coffee only to discover that the massively heavy bag I've been carrying around didn't have my wallet in it. When I got back to the shop I decided to play "What's in your bag!"

First thing in my bag was a smaller make-up bag

Contents of the make-up bag included;
 4 lipsticks
1 pencil sharpener
1 Neosporin,
2 eyeshadows
1 lip brush
1 acne spot treatment,
1 70spf sunscreen
2 hairbands
1 hair clip
2 wig pins
1 corset lace

But wait... here's the rest of the contents of my (shockingly small) bag;
3 receipts
1 BART ticket
4 chapsticks
trash
1 spray hairgel (not for me)
1 roll of elastic
1 package of needles
1 origami needle holder
1 digital camera
1 cell phone
1 pair fingerless gloves
1 waterless toothbrush
1 package hot cocoa
5 snaps
1 reproduction Victorian button hook
1 skirt bar
1 toupee clip
1 wig pin
1 pair 8" scissors
1 pair thread scissors
1 fabric swatch
2 highlighters
4 art pens
1 eraser
1 mechanical pencil
2 gel pens (1 black, 1 blue)
6 spools of thread
1 ipod (not pictured)

Sometimes during Tech I just keep stuffing things in there "in case I need it".  There is a point however when there is no way to find the things you need.

The bag now contains;
 wallet, phone, camera, ipod, scissors, 1 chapstick and well...
  most of those pens (I need a lot of pens, don't judge.)
Much better.