Heavy

My body feels heavy as a result of eating too much lately and not exercising enough. I also have a lot on my mind and a lot sitting on my shoulders. Atlas would be proud of me. I've definitely got a lot weighing me down and I think I need to just try and calm down. I need to re-boot those resolutions to eat healthier and be more conscious of what I eat. I also need to start working out again. Good chemicals need to be running through my brain instead of just idling about with negative energy. Boooo.



With great power comes great responsibility...? That's related to this post, right?

The Pack!

Take that Rapelisberger!

I am pleased with the results of the Super Bowl.



I ate a lot of Velveeta "cheese" today and my mouth tastes gross and I feel queasy/cheesy. I'm never coming near that stuff again. I'm disturbed by how popular that stuff is in America.

I do still want to eat EZ Cheese, though. I haven't had it since I was a Girl Scout in fourth grade. I remember liking it then. I remember my mom adamantly refusing to buy me a can at Vons. I think I might get some this week. I'll tell you how that goes.

PS: That is a picture of a Green Bay barrette I made in honor of the game. I like to think it's what made them win.

Idea Thief

I wander through Paper Source and other stationery stores fairly often looking for ideas for my letterpress class. One thing that's always caught my eye at Paper Source is their business card sized cards that have simple words/sayings printed on them. This gave me inspiration to make my own today.



These are 4bar sized cards (hand cut by my teacher since I forgot to bring my own). They're essentially twice the size of a business card. It's much more precise and easier to print on a larger card twice and just cut them as opposed to printing on a small business card, so we prefer to do things this way. I used 36 point Bank Script and selected a bright, Valentines-y red to print in. I'm considering doing these in the colors of the rainbow and tying them together to give out as presents (while keeping a bunch of my own to use, of course). Oh. The first few I printed had the "u" in the wrong font. I had to clean the print off, pry out the "u" with my fingernails and find the proper replacement. But.. the crisis wasn't as bad as it could have been because the spacing turned out to be identical and I didn't need to fiddle to find new lead/copper/brass to fix it. One day when I'm less scatterbrained, I'll do a better explanation of letterpress.

I'm aware that this post is written in terrible English. Lo siento.

I Can Sew!

I'm lazy for blogging since I feel like making more barrettes, so I'll just show you some barrettes I made (:

Gung Hay Fat Choy

I'm very tired, so I'll keep this short.

Happy New Year! It's the year of the Rabbit. I ate rabbit at Rustic Canyon in Santa Monica a few weeks ago. It's delicious. I recommend you give it a shot if you ever have the chance. I also watched part of Bambi today and smiled when I saw Thumper. He's tasty.



Another terrible and fuzzy photo. I did say I was tired.

Spring Cleaning

I went on a cleaning rampage today and threw a bunch of stuff out, but somehow my room is still messy and my house still looks like an episode from Hoarders. Granted, the latter isn't really my fault. I'm trying to keep my things contained to my room and my bathroom so the blame can fall on my shoulders as little as possible. I'm still trying to polish off unpacking but it's incredibly hard to condense all the things I've accumulated in 7 years of living on my own back into my childhood bedroom. My room is only 12x12 with a double bed, two desks (one for normal desk purposes and the other for my TV, my stereo and my gaming consoles), a bookshelf, a dresser and a tiny bedside table. My desk chair is one of those exercise balls and I have a small ottoman for storing my remotes, controllers and stray cords. My biggest problem is all my kitchen stuff. As my mom already has a fully stocked (and then some) kitchen of her own, there isn't any place for my stuff and if you know me, you know I have a lot of it. I'm tired of it kicking around aimlessly in boxes in the garage and I've managed to stow a lot of it away. Currently, I'm mostly flummoxed on what to do with all my stray stuffed animals (my bed is full already) and all my cups and mugs. Messes stress me out. Despite having so much stuff, I don't like disorder and I feel like my house is just piles and piles of crap. Again, not my fault!! I'm trying to do my part and clean out the hallway and garage of all my moving boxes so I can start chipping away at all the other random crap just laying about. I've been meaning to do more cooking and baking, but as I've mentioned previously, the kitchen is such a disgusting mess that it discourages me every time. Thinking about it is stressing me out so I should probably just go back to watching Glee for now.

Here's a bird. My house is such a mess he could make a nest and no one would notice.

February!

As a child, February was my favorite month. My birthday is in February. It's a weird number of days. President's Day is in it (day off!). Valentine's Day is there. Okay, before you start a tirade on Valentine's Day and girls and blah blah blah, the reason I liked it so much as a kid was because of the cards, the colors and the cookies.

One of my favorite cookies is a sugar cookie with frosting on top. At school, we always had Valentine's parties where we would get to decorate our own cookies. As mentioned before, I didn't get sweets much so this was a stellar day for me. Also, we'd get 30+ Valentine's cards. I love stationery!

As an adult, I've learned to make more sophisticated sugar cookies with Royal Icing and design my own stationery. I've also started liking the color pink more and more. As the Valentine's merchandise began popping up in stores in the past few weeks, I've picked some stuff up in preparation for cookie and card making!



I'm a sucker for Martha Stewart and Paul Frank, so Valentine's stuff from those two brands makes me as excitable as a fat kid at a pie eating contest. Here's some of the stuff that's laying on my bedroom floor right now (: I have all sorts of vague ideas for baking and crafting. It helps me get my mind off things and gives me warm fuzzy feelings about my man. What could be better? (: