tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-167102182024-03-23T12:49:01.915-05:00What is my life going to be?Trials and tribulations, loves and laughs and one day maybe becoming a grown up in my adopted home city of Chicago. Country girl in a high rise.Heather Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08803986002619715757noreply@blogger.comBlogger883125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16710218.post-92136417598809186712014-04-21T13:39:00.000-05:002014-04-21T13:39:09.744-05:00Moved inWe did just that. But of course we did it in December and January (in the most brutal winter in Chicago in a long time). I love the space in the new place. I like the idea of really making it our own, but, and I mean BUT I am not sure I am ready for the work. I'd rather be quilting.Heather Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08803986002619715757noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16710218.post-80950581991812910972013-09-19T15:25:00.000-05:002013-09-19T15:25:06.819-05:00Moving!!Yup! It is all happening, selling the current place and moving to a much much much bigger place in Andersonville/adjacent to Andersonville. If all goes as it is supposed to go, we will close mid December and move less than a week before Christmas and our christmas card will probably be a moving card.<br />
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Maybe I will get better at blogging again and blog the putting the new place together business.Heather Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08803986002619715757noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16710218.post-28925730646233283262013-03-21T13:10:00.000-05:002013-03-21T13:10:07.855-05:00Okay, So I MOSTLY Got Things Under ControlI say mostly because, I totally did change up my job hours/availability, and by change up I mean dial down. Which was great! Is mostly great. I mean it would be great if I hadn't gotten a phenomenal opportunity to help put together the quilts for a fairly famous quilter's first book of quilt patterns. It is awesome, and I cannot believe that I am getting to do it and it is fun. BUT.<br />
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But I am only ever working or sewing. Sometimes I am sleeping. And I am basically not at all working on my own projects, so that is not awesome. However, there is only about two months left and my life becomes my own again AND I am getting paid in the meantime.<br />
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And it is fun and a good opportunity. Although I broke my sewing machine, so right now there is not a lot that I am getting done.<br />
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<br />Heather Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08803986002619715757noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16710218.post-66005191214891131082013-02-21T08:43:00.000-06:002013-02-21T08:43:01.685-06:00This Week You GuysI have been letting things get me worked up that are none of my beeswax and also things I can do nothing about. Other people make choices I think are bad. I cannot change their choices. I CAN change how I react to them. Ummm, this week that has been harder. I'm working on it.<br />
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I'm also working on a few other things to get myself in a better place.<br />
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Among other things, I'm taking my schedule more into my own hands. I have two part time jobs which sounds awesome until you realize that two part time jobs usually mean working 6 days a week and occasionally seven (but often for shorter bits). I had a talk with my boss at the job that has flexibility and am working on shaping that schedule for the better. I also am going to take responsibility to build in me time. The bonus of my part time jobs is that I can sort of take time off whenever I want. But I have not been doing this and sometimes getting only 2 or 3 whole days off in a month. SO OF COURSE I AM FEELING WORN OUT!!! In 2013 I am going to take time off in one day me times hopefully every month and definitely every other month, and I am not going to let myself feel bad about it. Just because I can work everyday does not mean that is a good idea for my well being, and I am fortunate enough to have a boss that appreciates that my well being is good for my working.Heather Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08803986002619715757noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16710218.post-75365274220092044832013-01-21T23:04:00.000-06:002013-01-21T23:04:26.997-06:00It's been almost a yearI have had both a wonderful year and an emotionally rough one.<br />
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Wonderful because my job(s) generally make me happy, we got married, we had an amazing honeymoon, and we are very lucky people to have such comfortable and fortunate lives.<br />
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Then its been emotionally rough, and I don't know why. <br />
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I got a concussion in August, I suppose it could have something to do with that, some sort of post-concussion syndrome. But it has happened before unrelated to concussions, so it hardly seems fair to blame it. <br />
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It has gotten worse since I cut my finger and went to the ER last month, but I am not sure if it is stress and anxiety related to that or to sleep deprivation from the business of retail in December.<br />
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It could be anything. I definitely feel unlike myself. And I have struggled to behave like a reasonable human, especially when tired.<br />
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When I was about 20, I confessed to my sister that frequently when driving I would have these unbidden crazy thoughts where I would see in my mind terrible accidents take place between me and other specific cars on the road with me at the specific moment I had the thought. I would see a tanker truck and a fiery explosion engulfing me as I drove past it. I would see a pickup swerve over into my lane. <br />
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These things weren't real and they never happened but the thought flashing into my mind was a pretty regular occurrence. It should be no surprise that I was an especially nervous driver and to this day hate to drive.<br />
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I told my sister that with the feeling that you know everyone has thoughts kind of like this. They just happen. They're normal. My sister was horrified, and then tenor of her reaction told me that this was not in fact normal. She'd never ever ever (pre Taylor Swift) like ever had that thought or anything like it, and she was pretty sure most people don't think like that.<br />
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I don't own a car and rarely drive, so the car thoughts are not back.<br />
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But thoughts like that are.<br />
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Since the finger incident. I see it happen again and again and again. Sometimes I know it is a replay of the bit of finger I accidentally amputated. Sometimes I know it is a new fresh imaginary amputation. The worst of the cranky emotional attitude breakdowns I've been having date to about then. <br />
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Was it the pain meds?<br />
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Is it the anxiety?<br />
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Is it the lack of sleep caused by the inability to fall asleep amongst my mental amputations?<br />
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Is it all of the above?<br />
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Or is my brain chemistry just kind of fucked? And has it always been?Heather Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08803986002619715757noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16710218.post-56195944216209695982012-03-13T11:42:00.002-05:002012-03-13T11:42:17.671-05:00Some Things Don't Seem To ChangeLike me and my constant what to define my life with struggle. The last post (months ago--sorry ya'll) was all about it. And my friend Jim posted in the comments that to define myself by a single line or word seemed limiting, and he asked if I really wanted to limit myself? He's absolutely right. I don't. <br />
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And let's face it, a lot of the worry in that post had to do what other people would think about me, and I ought to focus on living a life (work and all) that I think well of. Well at the very least constantly aspiring to that.<br />
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I'm much better at ironing out my life so I get up and I accomplish things both for the household and myself. We've been eating very well at home lately. I have written basically nothing towards any romance novels, but I have finished what feels like a gabillion quilts. And actually, I am going to start selling quilts. Just baby ones and some throw quilts that are not time intensive, so I don't have to charge a fortune for them. It will be a start.<br />
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It stemmed from a conversation that the fiancee and I had over dinner last week about finances and worry about money. I am getting X amount to use to build up some stock and the idea is that if nothing else at least I will make quilting a hobby that is a wash rather than an expense and WHO KNOWS if anything more could/will come out of it. So, if you want fun modern baby quilts, call me! Or really email me.<br />
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Also we addressed some big clouds that had been hanging around off and on over the finances lately with the biggest fix being both of us accepting that just because he is good with money in manner A does not mean that I can be good with money in that way, but I can be great with money if we use manner B for me even though he thinks that I should be driven insane by living that way. Major lesson learned there: we are not the same and cannot be expected to do things the same way with the same degree of success. So we each are dealing with our portion of the family budget in entirely different ways! Yeah that was one we should've figured out MONTHS ago.<br />
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<br />Heather Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08803986002619715757noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16710218.post-1009193185567558312011-11-17T09:37:00.001-06:002011-11-17T09:55:01.502-06:00Reinventing my lifeWell, I guess not reinventing my life, more of a reorganization of my life. <br />
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If you've been reading this, you can see that I have been working only part time in retail since May. Which is actually pretty great for my health and sanity. It lets me work on artistic and creative things, and it lets me get a good amount of sleep, and working retail means I am not sitting on my fat ass. Well let's face it my flat ass. I'm up and about. And I like all of that. It also gets me out of my house which is good for my emotional stability (if I was just not working I would live in a cave of blankets on my bed and not see other humans while I forced myself into a downward spiral of depression and an upward spiral of weight gain).<br />
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All of those are good things and mean that I have a life I am really pretty happy with. I could list the reasons why my life is not flawless but who's life isn't flawless? And that just gets petty.<br />
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So my life is good. But it has also precipitated a bit of an identity crisis for me because I haven't been a person without an identity wrapped in my own work since I was in high school, probably before, even at points when I was unemployed but devoted to some thing.<br />
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But now I don't really have an identity that I feel comfortable sharing when people ask what do you do.<br />
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I don't want to say I'm a part-time manager at a large national home goods retail chain because although I do that and I enjoy, I don't think it reflects what I am. Okay and maybe because I am a big snob. And maybe because I am embarrassed to say that to fancy people with fancy jobs who ask me this when I am out with the fiancee who's fancy job let's me work part time.<br />
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I'm a quilter is tricky because I am just an amateur at that really.<br />
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I'm a stay at home cat mom, but that just makes me sound cuckoo bananas. Although it sort of is the most true. I am in planning to become a stay at home mom for whence we have babies in the future. So I can't just stay home with the cat now. I don't even really want to. But I keep the place tidy, I make dinners and stock the fridge and run the show and do volunteer work. All of which would be acceptable as my life IF I had a baby or two, but I don't so I worry that I sound like a spoiled baby myself (and maybe I am, maybe that is the root of the crisis).<br />
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I don't even know exactly what I would want to be.<br />
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Well, that's not entirely true. I would like to be a romance novelist. I have several bits and pieces of novels, some of which are total crap and others that could be a good novel if I ever finished them. Before I didn't have time. Now I do, and if I set down to finishing them and refining them, I think--no I KNOW--I could get them published. And if I could replace my part time job income with a novelist income (I'm not looking to be Jennifer Weiner or Nora Roberts or Danielle Steele, I am just looking for a few books a year from like Blaze or Harlequin) then I would have my ideal life. I think (I know, I am so non-specific about this).<br />
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So that is the root of the reorganization. Changing/structuring the life I have today to give me time to/force me to write on the novels, so that someday soon I will have one to submit to publishers so that by the time I quit work to have babies or adopt babies or whatever, novelist income will be sufficient that I never have to go out and get a job again. <br />
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The reorg means no more sleeping in for no reason and getting up at a regular time each day. It means voicing the secret goals so someone somewhere will hold me accountable to them just by checking in on my status. It means using time to write each week a few days a week for a few hours a week. Which technically is what I should be doing now. But I plan to build all these steps in slowly so I work my way up into a habit (like I've done with flossing and my nightly face routine). I need to learn to walk before I enter a marathon.Heather Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08803986002619715757noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16710218.post-45051518575537322242011-10-06T16:10:00.003-05:002011-10-06T16:10:55.708-05:00Working it outI have actually been so productive today that I have astounded myself. Especially because included in that productiveness is finishing 70 pages of a novel that I did before all the other stuff even though it wasn't on the to do list.<br />
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And also I found a pair of pants that I thought were lost for good which is extra good as all my work jeans have developed holes at the same time (which I guess isn't shocking as they were purchased at the same time like 9 months ago and I wear them pretty non-stop).<br />
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Also, the cat seems to have decided he likes me more than the fiancee even though I bought him a tiny vampire cape for Halloween.Heather Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08803986002619715757noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16710218.post-24079672220701479042011-09-22T12:03:00.004-05:002011-09-22T12:03:58.000-05:00I have been very slow to post latelyAnd update on the audition was that I was not cast. Which is fine, it had a really huge potential to screw up all of the rest of my life for a part in a play that meant I would probably never act. Although the director had seen work of mine that I had written myself and performed in the Tim Miller workshops and that was awesome for me. Possibly as awesome as not being recognized and getting the gig.<br />
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I did get promoted at retail job which has pros and cons. Pros are I have a set schedule that never involves flex shifts that I may or may not work and I am paid quite a bit more an hour. Cons are that there is more responsibility on me when I am at work (which I am not against just that I am leery of this for me fluffy part time job as it might leech out the fluffy) and I have to do truck which means getting off work at 1:30am one day every other work and then taking public transit home.<br />
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I also got put on an advisory committee for the Lincoln Park Zoo education department which means I get to spend the next two years MAKING UP our new carts and curriculum! I am stoked. It is volunteer but super fun.<br />
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Also wedding planning is moving forward. We are working on not having it involve yelling. That might need some more work (from me as much as Sam).Heather Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08803986002619715757noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16710218.post-59387440174209940672011-09-08T08:41:00.000-05:002011-09-08T08:41:26.723-05:00Please cross your fingersBecause I have an acting audition with a not BIG big deal theatre company here but a really awesome second tier theatre here to be a PAID understudy to a supporting role on the first show of their season. Which means it is totally likely that I could get that job and never actually act.<br />
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But it would be an awesome experience, and it is for the Sarah Ruhl play <u>In the Next Room (or the Vibrator Play)</u> so please cross fingers, and certainly at least pray that I totally don't screw it up.Heather Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08803986002619715757noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16710218.post-44194203556163853462011-09-06T17:16:00.000-05:002011-09-06T17:16:21.587-05:00Wedding Planning makes me want to shoot myself in the faceI mean, not really but kind of. It is just so much work and so many people and so many dictums that make is SOOOOO complicated. And it is just too hard. Especially from looking at it on this side of the to do list. Instead I want to cover my face with my bed sheets and skip it.<br />
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Also other people are soooo excited that we are getting married. I mean we were always getting married. We just didn't know exactly when. Now we know. Calm the heck down. Also maybe they are excited because they won't be planning this shit. UGH!Heather Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08803986002619715757noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16710218.post-30919468038217103532011-08-25T11:11:00.002-05:002011-08-25T11:14:40.052-05:00ForgettingI am trying to devote some time on Tuesdays and Thursdays to writing projects although this week it has been curtailed by weird and crappy work shift on Tuesday and being way behind on a quilting project for the shop on today. Last week I did awesome though. So this week I am getting a little bit of writing done right now and maybe some more on the weekend.
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<br />However, I had a really great idea for a blog post for the quilt shop and now it is GONE. Totally totally gone, no idea about even remnants.
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<br />And I HATE that.
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<br />It is so infuriating.
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<br />Especially because I think the greatness of the idea grows in proportion to how little I can remember of it. Chances are it wasn't even that awesome, but now I think it is because I have no idea about it.
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<br />Poop.Heather Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08803986002619715757noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16710218.post-67335407197207754372011-08-20T14:03:00.002-05:002011-08-20T14:05:46.131-05:00Scared StraightWell, not straight exactly. Just scared. Scared because wedding planning officially commenced yesterday evening with an email to our preferred venue and an email to the wedding planner I thought we were going to hire like 18 months ago when I thought I was really wedding planning. SO, basically that means very soon we will have a date and then we will have to get married. Not that I am opposed to getting married, but it seems I am very trepidatious of all the wedding hullabaloo that goes into the planning. It is very very stressful.Heather Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08803986002619715757noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16710218.post-48343171756947251122011-08-18T23:18:00.002-05:002011-08-18T23:20:45.213-05:00Trying to make a comebackTo blogging. I have decided to make a commitment to writing two days a week. Some of that writing will be for the blog on Quiltology (the quilt shop where I sometimes work) and some of it will be on some non-blogging related projects that may or may not have a very specific point except just to do it, but hopefully some of it will also start appearing here. I am also hoping to remember to email pictures and little notes to the email address that auto posts. That would also work to update my life.
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<br />We'll see.Heather Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08803986002619715757noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16710218.post-11341407188301655482011-07-29T09:39:00.003-05:002011-07-29T09:42:22.132-05:00I don't know why I stopped postingWell, I do actually. I have had the stomach flu and a horrible summer head cold and produced a stage reading and worked my tuchus off in the less than one month we have been home from Spain. Both colds knocked me down for the better part of a week. And I still went to work while dealing with them. I am really really not trying to be a hero.<br /><br />Good news, starting next month I should be working less days a week. Other good news is that I sent a quilt that I've put in over 100 hours and 11 months on off to be quilted. Which means all I have to do is make the binding and sew it on by machine and finish sewing it on by hand. Ummm, yeah. Other good news, close to finishing a top for my very own bed for keeps!! Cut out stuff to start two other quilt projects. Thinking of eventually selling some of this business.Heather Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08803986002619715757noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16710218.post-38514231960071779592011-06-27T11:53:00.000-05:002011-06-27T11:54:08.330-05:00Shut the fuck up! This is our hotel room in Spain!<p class="mobile-photo"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihMme1Vbxu2d9QFE4fCP6IGS933PPyI3N_dVSFdEJXy15ltNovo-RgrBDh-qE7zoUkZMWHVub8yERC72xHYm-THpXl0gBTz_Ew3wjL1DY4nZ2ZaCPRa3sDQiT3kQ0zNNEB2cFJ/s1600/photo-748331.JPG"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihMme1Vbxu2d9QFE4fCP6IGS933PPyI3N_dVSFdEJXy15ltNovo-RgrBDh-qE7zoUkZMWHVub8yERC72xHYm-THpXl0gBTz_Ew3wjL1DY4nZ2ZaCPRa3sDQiT3kQ0zNNEB2cFJ/s320/photo-748331.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5622943904732851746" /></a></p>Seriously we have a balcony and a giant room and a giant bathroom and there is a pool!! It's like I'm a princess. For one night. Because this room costs 2-3 times as much as our usual ones here in Spain. Clearly worth it. Our one big splurge.Heather Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08803986002619715757noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16710218.post-46541106834534677742011-06-24T13:47:00.002-05:002011-06-24T13:51:08.414-05:00Going on VacationNot sure how internet accessy we will be over the week we will spend in . . . SPAIN!!! We are going all over, but we are mostly staying in modern business hotels that come with wifi. I am bringing my itouch to use as a baby computer that won't try to text me or whatever international roaming that my phone will do, but it also won't take any pictures like my phone will so BOOOO.<br /><br />Anyway for the next week I will be in Spain. I might not be here at all, nor will I likely be on facebook or thingies like that. Just a heads up y'all.Heather Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08803986002619715757noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16710218.post-61734580033346492132011-06-23T13:25:00.001-05:002011-06-23T13:25:24.711-05:00Cat + laundry<p class="mobile-photo"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8RHPBdxNMyFkUodYW2JkF_Y-NJDw5SGwxZ8mz5LFxN3SWxSnBefnDoNuYIwjMnWrV7HHTf7fPFIHZX7w4FbpwaejdbNtbrsC1cpLThhVjlyVA_FyaMS25MQQlCgeoDUqmBV5Z/s1600/photo-724712.JPG"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8RHPBdxNMyFkUodYW2JkF_Y-NJDw5SGwxZ8mz5LFxN3SWxSnBefnDoNuYIwjMnWrV7HHTf7fPFIHZX7w4FbpwaejdbNtbrsC1cpLThhVjlyVA_FyaMS25MQQlCgeoDUqmBV5Z/s320/photo-724712.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5621483081764748930" /></a></p>Steve McQueen likes to help with laundry if by help with laundry you mean push it off his chair because it is in his way.Heather Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08803986002619715757noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16710218.post-41521290514998462312011-06-22T21:20:00.000-05:002011-06-22T21:21:01.745-05:00I love my niece<p class="mobile-photo"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-eRv7PIB4s0RRoYBmx7XlIvQi3T7_MqVdLyC0d9tfVeRQPJ53xY1cu7Z8KeVmWiMVRVlwoFZxGKXAHAA-C-V_OCMbv8ywmfA4Bh0IgZ9e76W2yzaxFRW7s2BKgvA_WH-7V_Vi/s1600/photo-761746.JPG"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-eRv7PIB4s0RRoYBmx7XlIvQi3T7_MqVdLyC0d9tfVeRQPJ53xY1cu7Z8KeVmWiMVRVlwoFZxGKXAHAA-C-V_OCMbv8ywmfA4Bh0IgZ9e76W2yzaxFRW7s2BKgvA_WH-7V_Vi/s320/photo-761746.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5621234568209647442" /></a></p>This is my baby niece who I love so much it hurts!Heather Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08803986002619715757noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16710218.post-43445503109141020812011-06-17T18:38:00.000-05:002011-06-17T18:39:21.829-05:00On the road again<p class="mobile-photo"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg75zwUrC2tGwsWhURyUSLRXWhV5JJDAHeFyKXoxOzfk155bqsWD_jCA_r3oGMekM5p6WIlGBeVXiXXBvMAaKdvLxD86Fm_N5dZVeLRl7JwYIU5Cs2WyqgNCzx9QgIrbXs5zuWg/s1600/photo-761830.JPG"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg75zwUrC2tGwsWhURyUSLRXWhV5JJDAHeFyKXoxOzfk155bqsWD_jCA_r3oGMekM5p6WIlGBeVXiXXBvMAaKdvLxD86Fm_N5dZVeLRl7JwYIU5Cs2WyqgNCzx9QgIrbXs5zuWg/s320/photo-761830.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5619337519780507186" /></a></p>Sam and I are off to Boise for a friend's wedding this weekend. That's my snazzy new suitcase and my purse on the orange line today. The suitcase was a birthday present from the in-laws. I think she needs a name. How do we feel about Rita?Heather Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08803986002619715757noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16710218.post-21875747279849574342011-06-10T13:54:00.001-05:002011-06-10T13:54:48.604-05:00Look you guys I totally cook sometimes<p class="mobile-photo"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwlWnoGs0IdQ0cfpoAbD7o2lIg_ykL3wx290EoRz-G0lfjbRQLxGNMsk0M8ZLnifJGV4w-81iO1m_hrgLl2u4RyYxRolfOtJJOpf8AhC31cLs-sS0RpIS1KILy8W0p6w_UIXWb/s1600/photo-788604.JPG"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwlWnoGs0IdQ0cfpoAbD7o2lIg_ykL3wx290EoRz-G0lfjbRQLxGNMsk0M8ZLnifJGV4w-81iO1m_hrgLl2u4RyYxRolfOtJJOpf8AhC31cLs-sS0RpIS1KILy8W0p6w_UIXWb/s320/photo-788604.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5616666557179559602" /></a></p>This is the makings of a grilled radicchio and orange salad and my kind of pasta-y pasta salad.Heather Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08803986002619715757noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16710218.post-79463562147268677242011-06-07T09:50:00.002-05:002011-06-07T10:00:24.725-05:00Awesome Surprise Mini WeddingThat is what I did last night. I found out after work around 4:00pm that my friends Anna and Branson (they went to U of Idaho with me) were getting married last night around 11:00pm at their big artist commune loft/performance space/secret residence.<br /><br />That sounds way crazier than it sounds. But they are having their wedding in Idaho (where they are both from) over Father's Day weekend, but they didn't want Idaho to get the license money for making it legal (Idaho hates gays and well women and poor people etc), so they were going to get legally married here before it all. So then they decided Sunday night to make it a thing and invite people since they live in a crazy big commercial space with a nice clear large performance area (mostly stand up and sketch). However the bride is in rehearsal after her regular day at work, so wedding time was 11:00pm ish.<br /><br />I headed over late late at night. There were rose petals on the floor, candles, wine, PBR in the hands of the Bride and Groom, a group of ragtag friends some dressed wedding ish most dressed for the hot hot night in the non-air-conditioned space. Somebody fired up the laptop so we had pre-ceremony music, music for toasting, and music for dancing. A bouquet of ribbon was tossed. It was lovely and small and close and fun and funky just like they are, and I think it was a great great night and I can't wait until we travel to Boise for the big version of their wedding.<br /><br /><a href="http://instagr.am/p/FUr8j/">Click here to see my photo of their first dance last night.</a> To Adele's cover of Bob Dylan's To Make You Feel My Love.Heather Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08803986002619715757noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16710218.post-3511979689675172042011-06-07T09:40:00.002-05:002011-06-07T09:45:39.142-05:00Busy BusyOk, so this not really working thing has given me a surprisingly full life. And I am adding an exercise class to it (or two). Maybe. Whatever. I didn't get up for the one this morning. But I was up really late.<br /><br />I'm doing better at making dinner. Not doing better at keeping super crafty. Well that might get better. Because I broke my desk chair/sewing chair. Then I went to Ikea and got a new one and also a better work lamp. Actually my new work chair is awesome: <a href="http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/90185320">the Tobias chair</a>! It is also see through which really helps open up the clusterfuck corner where my sewing machine is.<br /><br />Actually I should be doing this now.<br /><br />I should also be blogging more since I am home more. Well more after we get back from Spain (we leave in less than THREE WEEKS!!!). So in July. Blogging returns. Probably. Well, believe it when you see it.Heather Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08803986002619715757noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16710218.post-20096580182764783732011-05-23T10:06:00.003-05:002011-05-23T10:14:29.802-05:00Housewifery is hardWell, really I think in my case it is mostly that time management bedevils me since I mostly just skip doing things I don't find fun. And I do only the stuff I want. Like a giant spoiled toddler that can read and has bizarrely adult taste in television.<br /><br />Anyway, some new resolutions are getting up and getting outside when Sam goes off to work. Even if the outside part involves bribing myself with like Argo Tea visits (its like Starbucks but for tea and is awesome, also has coffee, and is only in NYC, Chicago-it was borned here-and St. Louis and Evanston, but check it out at ORD if you have a big layover). But hey Argo tea visit + kindle would be a nice start to any morning. <br /><br />I have also resolved to plan the meals for the week in advance. Then I can give Sam the shopping list over the weekend while I am in a store, and I should have 90% of my needs for the week. Occasionally I will need to add to the pile but often at midweek farmer's markets. At least for the summer. I do much better at getting a meal made when I have both the recipie and the supplies to do it.<br /><br />The dual work thing has been fine mostly. Not as much time for projects as I had hoped but due to an emergency in the quilt store family and an unexpected person quitting at the retail chain I got seriously over scheduled for a couple of weeks (well I mean I got full regular job schedules), so that of course cut into crafting time. I did get a lot of work done on one project that I might be able to finish today. And I gave myself a deadline for the big wedding quilt I have been working on since time began.Heather Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08803986002619715757noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16710218.post-1041868026919368482011-04-19T10:10:00.001-05:002011-04-19T10:12:18.513-05:00I am now officially underemployedOr I will be underemployed as of Friday when I no longer work the big job.<br /><br />I will return to my former retail gig 15-20 hours a week. Plus 5 hours at the quilt shop. Plus kissing my weekends goodbye. Oh. Yeah, well, let's see how that goes.Heather Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08803986002619715757noreply@blogger.com0