Good grief
Good grief - all of today, no matter how fast I channel surfed, I kept hearing someone drawl on the Weather Channel (BIG time deal here) "this is the first day of Fall," "Stay with us on this first day of Fall", or "Coming up, the headlines, on the first day of Fall."
Sheeeesh! I'm rolling my eyes here cos everyone has been into fall fever for a few weeks now, the stores are stocking up the woollens, the trees are "turning" (local lingo ie: changing into the russets and golds of the season) and the pumpkins have come out to play at the grocers.
Yes, Pumpkins, (you might have read about them in Eugene's blog entry) and they can get pretttty heavy - as the pictures show, I tried to heft one the other day at the local Hy-Vee (its a supermarket chain, like Cold Storage back at home, and in this small town - there are THREE Hy-Vees, two Walmarts, one super target, etc etc... u get the idea) and it was too heavy to lift.
But there are cute lil uns too: Its about the size of my mobile phone... and yes, that's the palm of my hand...
This one, we just had to buy, erhm, just for the cute factor - 50 cents. No not planning to eat it - though Eugene is plotting something about creating Pumpkin jawi lamps ... yes with kerosene and a wick. I keep telling him that he's going to set something on fire or will have to eat roasted pumpkin for weeks. *sigh*
yes, with a husband like this... who needs kids? Seriously. Spent about five hours cleaning house today, just to clear up the mess made by the two of us in one week! Super boh hua. Bah. And I haven't even finished with the laundry... that reminds me, argh, have to take stuff out of the dryer.
This morning, I went with a friend, Lynette, to an art class. Bloody cheem. Made me take plumb lines, midpoints etc etc with pencil. Basket. And the intructress - think she's from HK or something - was hardly comprehensible. She kept saying, "look at the waist, waist" - and both of us were exchanging seriously confused looks until we realised she was trying to refer to the vase!
Two hours of listening to paper types, and basic sketching later - I have nothing that remotely resembles art... like wha liau...
So, we went and bought:
Yes, a Learn to Draw kit at 8 dollars!!!!! Heh, will update you when I actually start trying out the lessons...
Oh, been staying up into the wee hours of the morning nowadays, totally obsessed with anime on Youtube (free! and no need to download bittorrent!)... the shounen-ai stuff really is eye popping. Sigh, am perving after anime characters... terrible. But Soubi and Iason Mink are *gasp* heart poundingly kawaii and ahem, yes, sexy. Sigh, this is what happens when you have too much time to explore strange new things. Hahahhahahah.
Oh! Fly's coming over tonight for a short stay... her owners are going to somewhere in Wisconsin to go fishing (yes, what did we expect from Yvonne and Vince right?) and though we were supposed to go too, we chickened out of the five hour drive for a mere night's stay. Sooo might find alternative R&R tomorrow, but we'll see. We'll prob spend the day playing with the dog instead.
Okay, gotta go get me some Famous Dave ribs... hungry.
Nat
Sheeeesh! I'm rolling my eyes here cos everyone has been into fall fever for a few weeks now, the stores are stocking up the woollens, the trees are "turning" (local lingo ie: changing into the russets and golds of the season) and the pumpkins have come out to play at the grocers.
Yes, Pumpkins, (you might have read about them in Eugene's blog entry) and they can get pretttty heavy - as the pictures show, I tried to heft one the other day at the local Hy-Vee (its a supermarket chain, like Cold Storage back at home, and in this small town - there are THREE Hy-Vees, two Walmarts, one super target, etc etc... u get the idea) and it was too heavy to lift.
But there are cute lil uns too: Its about the size of my mobile phone... and yes, that's the palm of my hand...
This one, we just had to buy, erhm, just for the cute factor - 50 cents. No not planning to eat it - though Eugene is plotting something about creating Pumpkin jawi lamps ... yes with kerosene and a wick. I keep telling him that he's going to set something on fire or will have to eat roasted pumpkin for weeks. *sigh*
yes, with a husband like this... who needs kids? Seriously. Spent about five hours cleaning house today, just to clear up the mess made by the two of us in one week! Super boh hua. Bah. And I haven't even finished with the laundry... that reminds me, argh, have to take stuff out of the dryer.
This morning, I went with a friend, Lynette, to an art class. Bloody cheem. Made me take plumb lines, midpoints etc etc with pencil. Basket. And the intructress - think she's from HK or something - was hardly comprehensible. She kept saying, "look at the waist, waist" - and both of us were exchanging seriously confused looks until we realised she was trying to refer to the vase!
Two hours of listening to paper types, and basic sketching later - I have nothing that remotely resembles art... like wha liau...
So, we went and bought:
Yes, a Learn to Draw kit at 8 dollars!!!!! Heh, will update you when I actually start trying out the lessons...
Oh, been staying up into the wee hours of the morning nowadays, totally obsessed with anime on Youtube (free! and no need to download bittorrent!)... the shounen-ai stuff really is eye popping. Sigh, am perving after anime characters... terrible. But Soubi and Iason Mink are *gasp* heart poundingly kawaii and ahem, yes, sexy. Sigh, this is what happens when you have too much time to explore strange new things. Hahahhahahah.
Oh! Fly's coming over tonight for a short stay... her owners are going to somewhere in Wisconsin to go fishing (yes, what did we expect from Yvonne and Vince right?) and though we were supposed to go too, we chickened out of the five hour drive for a mere night's stay. Sooo might find alternative R&R tomorrow, but we'll see. We'll prob spend the day playing with the dog instead.
Okay, gotta go get me some Famous Dave ribs... hungry.
Nat
