I'm either a visionary or hallucinating

I started with these (a yellow men's button down short sleeve and a girl's paisley skirt), and decided to put them together since I'm a fan of yellow and purple (but NOT a fan of the Lakers).
This is what I came up with!
Isn't it gorgeous?
Tra la la.

Banned Books

Check out these teensy paintings that I did...on "canvas" of torn up book! :) Approximately 6"x6" each. I want to make a bunch and put them up as tiles around my room!

The Olde English D

The Olde English N

Random Viney Thing

Random Viney Thing 2

Minty Minty Pesto

Now, I know how much EVERYONE loves pictures of food on the internet that looks oh-so-tasty but soo far away because, well, it's a bunch of pixels with no smell or taste.

The food pictured: I raided our mint garden to create this mint-parsley pesto. The ingredients are Mint, Curly Parsley, Roasted Almonds and Walnuts, Garlic, Salt, Parmesan, and Olive Oil. All you have to do is blend it up and add it to some pasta. I put all the ingredients in the food processor, almost started chopping until my mother reminded me of one thing: My poor Grandparents are sleeping off their jet-lag upstairs and probably shouldn't be woken up! So I waited approximately 2 hours. WORTH THE WAIT. It is so delicious.

Check it:

Picture This: Really Random Pictures I Found On My Hard Drive (And/Or Memory Card)

I went to the Tigers game on Friday, and I sneakily took this picture. Basically, the scenario was that they were fake fighting, but real physically poking. This lady stuck her fingers up inside her man's nose and then stuck it in his ear. I can only imagine the thoughts going through their heads. Here is what I imagine: (a) "We aren't in public!" (b) "Man, my snot tastes de-lish!" (c)"That girl thinks we're famous so she's taking a picture of us!" (d) "FOREPLAY"
This is K's dog. We "crashed" the high school parody picnic today and K brought her dog, who is also a model. This is her "porn star" pose, because her back legs are wide open. I renamed her Penny Million but only in my head. My high school English teacher saw her and said, "I like your face!"
I found some picketers picketing something! IDK what though. It says "IBEW Local 17 Supports Organized Labor" or similar. Well I support organized labor as well! Disorganized labor is soo last season. IBEW apparently stands for International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, but their website is slightly confusing.
I walked at engineering graduation again, and discovered that our graduation gowns, when worn backwards, look suspiciously like Snuggies! They aren't as fleecey, but they have lots of fun pleats! (note: My gown is too long because I shrunk between 2-5 inches when I re-graduated. It sucks, but I guess that's what happens.)

Very Belated Birthday Presents!

So I am really slow at getting people their birthday presents, and since I *really* like getting homemade presents, I decided that other people should too! I made a bunch of birthday presents for friends whose birthdays were in the date range of February 27 - March 14. And then I gave them their presents at the end of April. So..Slow.

Present #1: for J - An approximately 2 ft. high sparkley poster of Edward Cullen, or as I like to call him, Extreme Creepster. J was disappointed with the internet in failing to provide her with sparkling images of the vampire, so I took matters into my own hands and shimmer eyeshadowed and glittered the crap out of his face. Apparently this poster was held up when her name was called at Graduation (congrats!) but pics or it didn't happen.
Present #2: for A - The OwlGuin! I attempted to make a stuffed owl, but my stuffed animal skills are lacking, so it ended up looking like [Owl X Penguin] = [OwlGuin]. But it's cute and cuddly! And made out of sari material so it might be silk, but who really knows for sure? I think it might be 8 inches high but I don't remember. I hope she cuddles with it every night!
Present # 3: for L, aka the Wifey. A Scarf! It says "I mrs. the mrs." since we are facebook spouses! I made that quote up myself. The scarf, when worn, exhibits no strange writing, but when laid out, the message is adorabizzle! Made from another sari.
Yay presents! Happy belated Birthday!

The Vest of Both Worlds

Yes, that is a Hannah Montana song reference in my title.

I redid a really old, huge blazer to make this adorabizzle vest!!

I made the roses, AND the buttons! I think I will wear this every single day.

Check it:

Adventure in the D!

Today, K and I took a trip to Detroit. Our main intention was to first eat linner (lunch/dinner) in Mexicantown, and then go to Hockeytown Cafe and watch the Red Wings win.

Here are some snippets of our D-venture!

A vastly decorated stop sign--I've noticed that many people like to decorate stop signs. They are octagons, which are less coolly shaped than yield signs (triangles).

The smooshed trashcan tied to a rusty lamp column.

See, if I were trying to be museumesque, I would use the word "juxtaposition" to describe this picture. Whenever I go to a museum, "juxtapose" or a form of it is often used to describe the scene. So...the juxtaposition of the old, decrepit building with the newer, pretty building trying to be seen behind it can be used to represent the D. It's a new city trying to get out of a bad reputation. Also, I really wanted to find a Church's Chicken juxtaposed with a real church but that didn't happen.

The Detroit Public Library has one of the coolest interiors I've ever seen in a public library. There are stained glass windows and a bunch of murals. Go check it out. Seriously.

Yay, my camera focused on something really close to it! FINALLY. This is a fence on the back of what used to be the front of the DIA, and you can kind of see the reflection of the DPL but not really.

Another decorated stop sign, all for you Kwame!

The roaring tiger in front of Comerica Park. RAWR! :) It's kind of cute.
Here is Athena, in a memorial fountain for Russell Alger. (?) I guess he is military.

They had Red Wings Trivia at Hockeytown Cafe, where we watched the Wings get to 3-0 in the series against the CBJ (just another reason to hate Co-LAME-bus). K and my phone-ternet helped us get to the final round to win stuff. But then we didn't win :(

They were giving away playoff beards at Hockeytown Cafe, and I asked the guy for two, so he gave me three. Let me know if you want one. Claimed by Dovbear. They are itchy and the hair gets stuck to everything, especially the mouth.

I think this is supposed to introduce a new energy source to Pakistan?

IOEs...I never know what to do with you :)



Ok, I might have giggled a tiny bit.

Cougar

With the recent premiere of a TVLand show called The Cougar (maybe I forgot about it but I seriously intended to watch!) I felt that this post is necessary.

I've been called a cougar before, mostly by gerbils and other small rodents. Ok, so maybe that's slightly untrue. However, I am in a facebook group called Cougar (for a Lab group) so I think that makes me qualified to write this post.

I was in Austin this past long weekend (maybe it was just long for me because I have about an 8-mo long weekend that I'm currently muddling through) and we went to Hillel for services. So there was this 30ish year lady there.

She was all out, wearing ass-tight jeans and a cleavage-baring top. She started talking to me, sticking her cleavage in my nose, so naturally I asked her what classes she was taking, what her major was, and blah blah blah. I discovered that she's in Calculus and she's majoring in 19 year old boys and student athletes.

Apparently she's had some conquests! I didn't know that Cougars actually got any. I almost asked her if she was a Cougar, but I'm sure she wouldn't have been too happy with that question from a girl she just met.

I can't wait til I'm 35 and can be a Cougar.

:Edited to Add: I just watched 20 minutes of The Cougar because they are showing repeats of it. This lady does not look talk like she's 40.

Quotes from the younguns:
"You do not look old enough to be a cougar...wait, that's wrong."
"I hope this cougar likes herself some lamb, because I am young and tender."

:ETA Some More: My friend (24) (who wishes to remain anonymous [because it's someone you might know]) has recently dated a cougar (42). Apparently my friend likes cougars, which I didn't know before, and this lady was barely on facebook (6 friends and a forgotten password)! Haha. Ok the reason he likes cougars is because they don't play games, and they just are what they are. She doesn't flake out, she's not about status and doesn't act like she's too good to be around you. So basically because she's not a girl, she's a woman! (Way past the in-between stage).

I dunno, I know a lot of girls that are my age (22) and still manage to find guys their age (22) that can put up with girly-ness :)

The Wild, Wild Midwest

April 5, 2009
1pm - Got Brunch with the bf, walked because it looked like a fine spring day.
5pm - It started raining and got me so da-amp.
6pm - Decided to stay in AA for an extra day so I could cook dinner for the bf

April 6, 2009
1am - Thought that staying might have been a poor decision because it started snowing
12pm - Woke up luxuriously and ate lunch (leftovers of prev. night's cooking)
1pm - Looked outside
1:01pm - Hid under covers for a few minutes because the entire outside had been erased and now was just a blank white piece of paper or similar. Decided to drive home at 3pm.
3pm - Did not drive home.
3:15pm - Reluctantly decided to drive home. Could not find car.
3:20pm - Found car, it had miraculously changed color from Sky Blue to White, no wonder couldn't find it. Was extremely thankful that my snow brush was still in the car
3:24 pm - Finished brushing THREE INCHES of snow off the car

April 7, 2009
1pm - Woke up, fell out of bed, dragged a comb across my head
2pm - The second snow of spring!
6:30 pm - Frosty the snow man was a very jolly soul. He was also excited that he got to unhibernate.
6:35pm - It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas!