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August 31, 2005
it's finally the last day of f-ing august
tomorrow i'm going to say something about how i can't believe it's already september. because, really. september? well not quite yet, so i'll save it for tomorrow.
i need help sitting up straight. my back is totally mangled. even when i lean against a chair back and think i'm sitting up straight my shoulders are all hunched over. also, my tummy. it's not strong enough to keep me standing straight!! i need help.
i'm eating a bananda for lunch today because we're pretty much out of food.
we are also out of:
-soap in the shower
-cat litter
-milk
-peanut butter
-man-aiz
-pretty much all other food
i'm not sure what we'll have for dinner. it might be instant mashed taters though.
okay. so i tried to return a video today that was due like three days ago and then when i pulled up to the video store i didn't have the video!! what a rip! i also i have stuff that is due back at the library and i haven't taken it yet. i'm on the road to more fines! i've been totally scatter brained for a while and i have a hard time getting anything done. i try to wash the dishes and clean stuff but the whole kitchen never gets all the way clean. ugg. i have to stay at work until it's time for me to leave. then i'll go home and i don't know what i'll do.
i ate some pretzels from the honor bar thing in the kitchen but i'm still hungry. and now i owe 85 cents. should i also eat a butterfinger? hmm?
i just found some peanut butter chocolate ice cream in the freezer. it would have gone really well with crushed pretzels on top. maybe next time. the ice cream kind of looks like it melted and then re-froze. i won't get sick from that will i?
Posted by alison at 01:05 PM | Comments (0)
August 30, 2005
blast from the past
here is a picture of brent pretending to be "goth". i think we dressed up for cat so she could make a pretend website. i remember that i didn't want my mom to see these pictures (even though i'm sure she was there when we were dressing up...) and when she did see it she said "does brent have an owie?" and i was all "MOM!!!!!" or something like that. you know, all embarassed-like and stuff.
i'm pretty sure i'm the one that crafted his fishnet shrug. bee-yootiful.
anyway, i have nothing new to report so i'd thought i'd leave you with that tasty treat.
oh, and BTW, i need to go and fix my other picture website and all of the previous pictures that i put up here because they are all boofed up since i moved to the slash/blog area. please remind me not to forget.
Posted by alison at 11:20 PM | Comments (1)
August 27, 2005
saturday morn
hi, it's still dark out. i'm up really early because i went to bed at 7 or something last night. ugg. when did corey and i turn into such old people? i'd say about a year ago... sometime in september i believe...
anyhoo, we have to be up early this morning anyway because we are walking in a 5k with the fam. so don't try and call me. i'll be busy.
i just heard a bunch of seagulls yapping. haven't heard that in a long time.
i had a weird dream last night. but i don't remember too much of it. oh wait... it's coming back.. but i know you don't want to hear about it. but i think erin was in it. so erin, if you read this, which i don't think you do because you work a lot and stuff, email me. so you can anylyze my dream for me. the dream i had with you in it.
oh, guess what else? greg bought a bag thing from me and left me a hilarious feedback. something like "blah blah blah thanks sooooooooooooo much!!!" just joking greg, i liked it. and thanks. i sold something yesterday which brings my total to 11 sold on the site and 2 sold off the site. i plan on sewing at least something this weekend. after we get done walking. and napping like old people.
also, the cat is in heat again. i keep forgeting that she should be fixed. i really doubt we'll do anything until we move. we're just that lazy.
kk-bye.
Posted by alison at 05:42 AM | Comments (0)
August 24, 2005
vacation
dear friends,
i'm trying to decide if we should go these cabins on the olympic peninsula or to vancouver for our anniversary thingy. i'm dying to go to the cabins because they are soooo cute. it would also be a very calm and quiet vacation. we went to vancouver for our honeymoon thing last year, and while i didn't have the greatest time when we were there(i only brought one pair of shoes, we walked everywhere, it rained almost the whole time, we walked everywhere, our bed was lumpy, the couch in the room had rips in it, no alarm clock...) i do have found memories looking back on it. we went on a bike ride around stanley park. that was fun. we walked everywhere. that was fun after i got shoe inserts. it rained while we walked a mile home... i guess what made it fun was that corey was there so it wasn't so bad. although, i do remember getting worried that i was complaining too much. ha.
okay. i need to go crunch some numbers. if we don't go on a mini-vacation i'm going to be so mad.
Posted by alison at 09:36 PM | Comments (2)
August 23, 2005
camel kibble
yesterday corey brought home some mini egg rolls to eat with dinner. these eggrolls were the chinese equivalent to totino's pizza rolls. when he bought them at the store someone said "oh, you should really get ling ling brand."
we kept making a joke about ling ling and now corey is calling the baby-doo kitty ling ling. this morning i called her "ling bot"
i can't remember why you needed to know this. just imagine corey shouting at the cat, "ling ling! LING LING!!!!!!! look! she just turned her head when i said ling ling. i think she knows her name!"
i had a dream that i was at someone's house and we were in a room with doors and windows on all four walls. some how a baby camel got inside and plopped right down on the floor. the baby camel wouldn't leave so it was decided that it would stay and be part of the family. someone said "what are we going to feed it?" and someone else said "i bet dog food would be fine" so when someone left to go get food for the baby camel i yelled out "don't forget the camel kibble!!" and i thought i was pretty funny. they looked at me and said "what?" and i said "you know. the dog food. for the camel. camel kibble. it's funny"
LING LING!
Posted by alison at 02:35 PM | Comments (2)
August 22, 2005
argle bargle
i'm having a sewing block again. yesterday i made this tote bag but when i put the lining inside the outside it didn't fit right. and now i don't really want to go try and fix it. i also can't think of anything new to make and i don't feel like making something i've already made. sheesh!
yesterday we went to the ballard locks. i think i went there on a field trip once but i don't remember. while we were there they fired a canon three times and it was loud and scary. there was a dog going nuts and i felt really bad for the dog. we ate fish/chips from the lockspot and some dumb seagull was watching us eat so corey sprayed water on it. what a jerk!
i'm going to go look for inspiration.
and also, greg is cool because he bought something from me.
Posted by alison at 08:29 AM | Comments (0)
August 19, 2005
some more thoughts on nothing
is it fall yet? i have a tweedy blazer hanging in my closet that i really want to wear. i also want to get a monotone scarf that goes with everything. mabye something grey and cashmere. or something. i also want some blue royal elastic velcro shoes (not unlike these) but i don't know if anyone sells them anymore. these would be okay too. yes, i like those better than the red. okay.
the radio is playing my most favorite song ever, growing up with GNR by aquaduct.
Posted by alison at 02:04 PM | Comments (0)
weekend thingies
my fingernails are getting long again. it seems that i just cut them last week. like, exactly a week ago. and i even cut them extra short because i was sick of them being (kinda) long. and now here they are, long again!!
i can't stop wiggling my right foot. if i stop it tingles and i feel empty inside my sole. restless legs.
i sold another thingy on etsy. how exciting. i want to buy more fabric and things but i also feel like i should try and use up as much of the stuff i already have. bo-ring! i'd be happy selling enough stuff to pay for fabric and other supplies and not have it dip into my own money. if i could just break even for the rest of my life i would be happy.
it really bothers me when people cook really smelly food in the food room. it's always the same thing and it stinks so bad i want to barf when i smell it.
i want to change the bedroom around this weekend. i also want to clean the rest of the house so i don't feel like i'm living in my highschool bedroom.
weekend thingies:
-cut nails
-watch "this old house" on channel 9 at 10am saturday
-sew a piece of fabric to a different piece of fabric.
-drink tea some where
-spend less than $20 (is that possible?!?!)
-make a dinner that doesn't include a garden burger as the main course.
ooh! the radio is playing my "butt dance" song from 9th grade. future sound of london...."We Have Explosive". that takes me back... back to the x-mas party i had. someone got a bowling ball for a white elephant? hmm. i want chex mix.
shit dog. cat plugged me.
fix your archive links already cat!
another thing: i need to start putting non-sewn pictures on flickr.
Posted by alison at 01:38 PM | Comments (0)
August 18, 2005
every other thursday is my favorite day of the week.
i got paid today. i just bought a pair of earrings on etsy. they are brass and shaped like a round thing. something round. round shape. it's round. i'm excited to get them.
i finished the trailer park pouch last night. you can visit it here. you don't have to if you don't want to, but i'm really proud of it and i think it's the cutest darn thing.
i have to return some li-berry thingys this morning before they open. the stuff was due yesterday so i hope i don't get any late fees. that would be a bad way to start off my clean library slate.
Posted by alison at 09:19 AM | Comments (0)
August 17, 2005
tonights dinner: fish sticks, tater tots, french fries, cereal
hello friend, check out this houndstoof bag i'm half way done making. it looks like a mini trailer! it's killing me! i didn't use a pattern and i'm noticing some wonky areas. it gives it that "organic" look.
i have about 6 or 7 yards of this blue and brown houndstooth fabric so don't expect it to go away any time soon.
also, check out the baby-doo in my fabric pile. cute.
now for the gross and upsetting part of the post: yesterday i woke up with a sore throat. last night was was checking out my tonsils and it appears that the left one has a couple of huge HOLES in it. and guess what comes out of those holes if i wiggle my throat muscles enough. that's right THROAT BOOGIES. you can find out more here and here or here if you want to know what i have to go through every single day of my life. well, not ever day. but when it happens it is not pretty. anyway, now i know that i'm not alone, but it doesn't make my tummy feel any better: all day it has been flip flopping at the thought of tonsils giving birth to throat boogies all over the place. i'm going to go gargle with salt water or something.
Posted by alison at 08:24 PM | Comments (0)
August 16, 2005
tuesday!
this morning i got up at 6:30 so i could get ready and go out and take picutes of my wares. i sewed until almost 8 and then corey was all "oh. i forgot. i need to be at work at 8:30." so i had to drive him to the bus stop a few blocks away so he didn't have to wait for the one in front. i still had time to take pictures, but i felt rushed. also, my camera is slowly crapping out. lame! after i got home i only had time to resize and upload three things. that's okay though, because i can retake some pictures after work and put even more stuff up on etsy. yay.
loretta lynn is having the TMBG effect on me. the TMBG effect is when i listen to TMBG over and over and over non-stop for about two months straight. if i try to listen to another cd i make it about two or three songs before i have to turn it off. i need more!! i can't take it!!
hey, you know what i hate? those trucks with four wheels in the back. i believe people call them a "dually". how dumb! today i was driving behind one and it was so big and fat in the back area that it couldn't get around a bus. the lane was too small. they can barely fit on the road!
you know what else i hate? ruthie on 7th heaven. last night simon was telling her that it wasn't okay to have sex before marriage even though he was doing it. and i'm pretty sure she was wearing a shirt i bought at the gap a year ago. it is orange and striped. what a bitch!
this afternoon i will go to the post office and mail something and then do some other stuff. like sewing, going to the store, sewing, taking pictures, sewing, computing, eating, sleeping, sewing, talking, and maybe some sewing.
Posted by alison at 10:09 AM | Comments (0)
August 15, 2005
dong dangles
i hope this post finds you well.
my shop over at etsy is EMPTY because i sold everything in it!
well, everything but one pouch that i decided to keep for myself. tomorrow i will be mailing the last item purchessed. fun times!
this afternoon i made two more pouches and finished up a third from the day before. i also have three other things to put up tomorrow. my plan is to get up really early and go over to the park and take some pictures of stuff outside. but first i need to buy batteries for the camera.
i'm excited. maybe tomorrow i will go buy some fabric that i saw at the vintage store the other day. isn't it lame that i have to go to the actual vintage store to find good vintage fabric? i should be able to find it at other places. i guess i'm too lazy about it.
now i'm tired.
Posted by alison at 10:49 PM | Comments (0)
hobo love song
last night two hobos were yelling outside.
it might have sounded like this:
hobo1: FREMONT!
hobo2: FREMONT?
hobo1: YEAH! FREMONT!!
hobo2: WAIT. WHAT? FREMONT?!
hobo1: FRE-MONT!!!!!!!!!!!
i don't remember hearing anything else but them yelling "fremont" over and over.
oh, the blog is hidden right now because www.malisonian.com/blog/ is being used for some other stuff. i have only told one person so far that it changed so i bet nobody is reading this!!
here is a funny story about my hilarious husband. i warshed my brassiere in the sink because it smelled like smoke. then i hung it in the bathtub over the faucet thing. he took a shower and when i came back in he had laced the strap through my comb and then balanced the comb against the wall and towel bar just so. when i saw it i took the comb out and then just draped it over the towel bar by itself.
he's so funny.
i'm so hungry i could eat at arbys. just a regular roast beef sammy though..but with all the sauce and stuff please.
i'm going to go let people know i moved...
Posted by alison at 09:19 AM | Comments (2)
August 12, 2005
old note found on desk
sleep country
x-mas in july
ends
monday
THANK JESUS
Posted by alison at 02:17 PM | Comments (0)
August 09, 2005
more stuff about nothing
yesterday i picked up some stuff at the library.
-loretta lynn sings patsy clines favorites
-dolly parton coat of many colors
-steel magnolias
and now i have the soundtrack to coalminers daughter ready to pick up. loretta lynn singing patsy cline's fav's is pretty awsome though. my favorite song is "back in baby's arms". no wait it's "walking after midnight". no, it might also be "sweet dreams". i don't know, it's all good. i'm unsure about the dolly parton one, i need to listen to it again.
oh yeah, someone found my fish cannery pictures on flickr and wanted to interview me. ha! i answered their questions in an email. i don't know what will come of it.
i don't want to go home because it's messy. but i do want to go home so i can listen to music and pet mini-kitty.
another reason to not go home is that the bathroom sink is clogged and we keep forgetting to buy drain de-clogger.
Posted by alison at 02:06 PM | Comments (0)
August 04, 2005
i bought a green shirt yesterday
yesterday corey got a butt load of new school clothes. i wanted to get new school clothes too but i could only find one thing (green shirt).
i have steel magnolias ready for pick up at the library but i can't go pick it up after work because i have to go home right away. some one is coming over to look at my trombone! yesterday i got it out and tried to toot on it for a minute. turns out that the only songs i can remember are major duple and perot.(??) (pierrot?) i thought that pierrot was really "go tell aunt rhoady" but now that i'm thinking about it i know it's not. the point is that it's kind of sad that someone might buy the boner. i invested many many years not practicing that thing.
Posted by alison at 10:44 AM | Comments (0)
August 03, 2005
bugs'n'stuff
this morning while eating my organic honey nut cheerios i found a bug inside of an O.i know i need to clean the cupboards out again because i made macaroni and cheese the other day and there were bugs in with the noodles when i dumped it into the boiling water. i bought the macaroni a week earlier so it wasn't even in there that long. neither was the cereal.
i just went into the food room at work and checked out the honor bar for something to eat. there were some packages of peanut butter crackers things and i could see dead ants inside it!! dead!! with dead ant poop too!
i went to the dr. today. i had a to wait a really long time. before that the receptionist girl didn't say anything about a co-pay so i asked and she was all "i dunno..." so i paid it anyway and they will reimburse me if it turns out i didn't need to pay it. i bet you wanted to know all that didn't you? oh, and i got “topicort” cream to "chase away my rash" and some cetephil for washing my hands. she said no more antibacterial!
dark chocolate and diet mug root beer are not a good combination.
plans for today:
- working until 5
- doing something at home
- paying bon bill and then buying corey some new slacks. SLACKS!!
- cutting up bon card and gap card.
Posted by alison at 01:53 PM | Comments (0)
August 02, 2005
alison hand rash appt. @ 11:30
so i've had this rash on both of my hands for over a month now. i put lots of different stuff on it because i didn't know what it was. for a while i thought it might be ring worm (yes!!!) but the anti-fungal stuff i bought didn't work. it would get especially bad on the weekends when i was out all day in the sun. and it was in the exact same places on each hand. weird! the other weekend at the yard sale in marysville it was pretty bad, itching and red and gross so i decided i would make an appointment to get it looked at. at the same time i went to the store with my mom and bought some stuff called "prid" and put it on the rash. it smelled and didn't seem to do anything. i called on monday and the first available time they had was august third. i figured that since i'd had the rash for a while it probably wasn't going to go away any time soon so i made the appointment. a day or two after i called the doctor office my rash started going away! what the butt?! i don't know if it was the prid stuff or what. it's too late to cancel my appt. so i guess i'll just spend the $30 co-pay for the doctor to look at nothing. sometimes my elbow gets itchy so maybe i'll have them look at that. jeeze.
i'm really excited to eat my lunch today even if it's just ramen. i forgot lunch yesterday and it sucked.
Posted by alison at 11:53 AM | Comments (0)
August 01, 2005
toots
yesterday i went to ikea with my mom. i got two prizes. a set of basket thingys and a 99 cent flower pot. i'm really excited about the basket things but i have only found a use for one so far. so anyway, it's august now. and that is all i have to say about that.
we finished off the month of july by taking a drive to bainbridge island in a rental car. we got the rental car because the seatbelts in my car broke. so it's all getting fixed and they gave us something to tool around town in. IT HAS AIR CONDITIONING!! i don't mind driving my car so much, it's just that driving in the summer sucks and all of my things smell like lawn mower. i left some jackets and sweaters in the back seat for a week or more and when i took the stuff out everything stank really bad. now i will have to wash all of it. butt.
anyway, so we drove to bainbridge island and stopped at port orchard which is a dumpy dump. we ate at a mexican place and it was gross. i'm so mad at myself for saying we should eat there because after we left i kept seeing signs for dairy queen. dairy queen!!
so in conclusion, next time we drive around there we will take a rental car again and we better fucking eat at dairy queen.
Posted by alison at 09:10 AM | Comments (2)