Friday, June 19, 2009
OH HI BLOG I ABANDONED! SO SORRY ABOUT THAT. it's been a month and a half, GASP. much too long. GUESS WHO DRANK A BOTTLE OF WINE BY THEMSELVES? ME. so right now i'm drunk, feeling under appreciated, wondering if i've made the right life decisions. well whatever i'm not too concerned about decisions i've made because they've been made and there's not much i can do about them NOW. oh hum loyal readers, aka boots. i've been a totally emotional crazy lady today, and i'm really wanting to start a fight, because i'm not satisfied. i just want to stir some shit up! i want a reaction! YEAH. once i get it i'll just feel bad though, ought to keep that in mind. WE'LL SEE. i'm going to post a real update about shit i've been doing that is in the works. stay tuned.
Monday, May 4, 2009
chest pains and schemings
my chest and ribs hurt. i think it may be from too much coffee. i may need reading glasses, not sure though, my eyes have just been hurting a lot, after reading/interwebing a lot. of course though they don't hurt today, or at least not as much, so who knows. i know i should take pictures of the apartment to show you ladies (is anyone even reading this?)
it's impossible to find a job here, unless you're an experienced line cook or a cpa, at least those are the majority of listings on craiglist. i am thinking about making clothes and selling them on ebay. suzy luke part deux? except less legit, and more lazy. i think i'll give it a try, not entirely sure if it will be worth the effort, or if it will even be profitable. but it might be nice to start making things again. actually did do some sewing recently
A dress i made out of a men's dress shirt. kind of a shitty picture because i'm too lazy to use my actual camera and upload real pictures, phone pics will have to suffice. it was pretty easy to make. there's this GIGANTIC goodwill outlet store (omg i know, how is that even possible?) it's called "the bins" because they just dump massive amounts of clothing into long bins, think farm animal feeding troughs, but huge and with clothes. the best part, they charge by weight. as the weight increases the prices drops. but i think it's something like $1.50 or so a pound under like 10lbs. granted, the clothes are not always the best quality but i bet i could find some good stuff to destroy/rework. and at 10cents a shirt it might actually be worth it. this shirt was $5 at the thrift store down the street, but i had this idea and it was the only shirt i could find that wasn't flannel (i wanted it to be cool for summer). the color is kind of fug, but it was a test of sorts.
a shot of the detailing. i used the seam/closures above the cuff as psuedo boob darts. I realize it's hard to tell from this picture though. i also made a bow out of the cuff piece but i haven't sewn it on yet. i really wish i had my dress form! i miss yasmine, even if she was a total piece of shit.
anyway i'll keep you updated if i manage to actually make anything, maybe you could buy it so i could have money to get drunk. i mean support my education.
i also sewed a patch on to a sweater of steven's. i bought it for him, but it's volcom and had the little diamond thing so he never wore it. i'd been meaning to do something with it forever but i could never think of what i could cover the logo with. then it just came to me (lame, i know)
bad quality, and i couldn't for the life of me hold still. but it's an anatomical heart. i made my own embroidery thread because i don't have any! meaning i just used 3 pieces of regular thread. i miss all my fabric and cool stuff, lace, buttons etc! ugh i miss SAS so bad, do any other fabric stores like that even exist? i'm inclined to think no. i will find a cool fabric store goddammitttt.
well i'm going to go eat a veggie burger now.
it's impossible to find a job here, unless you're an experienced line cook or a cpa, at least those are the majority of listings on craiglist. i am thinking about making clothes and selling them on ebay. suzy luke part deux? except less legit, and more lazy. i think i'll give it a try, not entirely sure if it will be worth the effort, or if it will even be profitable. but it might be nice to start making things again. actually did do some sewing recently
A dress i made out of a men's dress shirt. kind of a shitty picture because i'm too lazy to use my actual camera and upload real pictures, phone pics will have to suffice. it was pretty easy to make. there's this GIGANTIC goodwill outlet store (omg i know, how is that even possible?) it's called "the bins" because they just dump massive amounts of clothing into long bins, think farm animal feeding troughs, but huge and with clothes. the best part, they charge by weight. as the weight increases the prices drops. but i think it's something like $1.50 or so a pound under like 10lbs. granted, the clothes are not always the best quality but i bet i could find some good stuff to destroy/rework. and at 10cents a shirt it might actually be worth it. this shirt was $5 at the thrift store down the street, but i had this idea and it was the only shirt i could find that wasn't flannel (i wanted it to be cool for summer). the color is kind of fug, but it was a test of sorts.
a shot of the detailing. i used the seam/closures above the cuff as psuedo boob darts. I realize it's hard to tell from this picture though. i also made a bow out of the cuff piece but i haven't sewn it on yet. i really wish i had my dress form! i miss yasmine, even if she was a total piece of shit.anyway i'll keep you updated if i manage to actually make anything, maybe you could buy it so i could have money to get drunk. i mean support my education.
i also sewed a patch on to a sweater of steven's. i bought it for him, but it's volcom and had the little diamond thing so he never wore it. i'd been meaning to do something with it forever but i could never think of what i could cover the logo with. then it just came to me (lame, i know)
bad quality, and i couldn't for the life of me hold still. but it's an anatomical heart. i made my own embroidery thread because i don't have any! meaning i just used 3 pieces of regular thread. i miss all my fabric and cool stuff, lace, buttons etc! ugh i miss SAS so bad, do any other fabric stores like that even exist? i'm inclined to think no. i will find a cool fabric store goddammitttt.
well i'm going to go eat a veggie burger now.
Saturday, April 18, 2009
bad at blogging.com
dear diary,
today i saw a boyyy. i wonder if he noticed me...
lololol. just kidding dudes. i don't do much these days, so i don't have much to tell you about. a couple weeks ago, on a gorgeous sunday, steven and i went to mount tabor. mount tabor is an extinct volcano which is now a park. it's the only volcano within city limits in the US (or something like that, maybe major city limits). anyway it was beautiful and warm, unfortunately i wore shoes with holes in the souls, and tights and a dress, so i was ill equipped for hiking, but i did it anyway! it was so clear, the view of mount hood was perfect. that's one thing i love about it here, the air and sky and always crystal clear. no smog!
let's see what else... the building we live in is old (built in the 1920's) and the windows on our side of the building are old steel framed, and had to be repaired and worked on. this process began like the day we moved in. when we got to the apartment, our first day, there was a note saying that someone would be coming that day to inspect the condition of the windows. i didn't really think anything of this at first. then about a week later they came back again to inspect them again, wrote on all our windows and then took out the bathroom window and put up a piece of plywood. i actually think that process took a few days. so they keep coming back. week after week. they show up at 8am, stand in between the building and the neighboring one (where the sound reverberates horribly) and fucking yell about the windows. fuck you i'm trying to sleep. then they come in to the aparment, and since every room has one of these windows in it they have to work in each one. so you awkwardly have to try and go about your business while some dude is going in and out of any room you try to occupy. they kept saying over and over, 'this is the last week' or 'we'll be done tomorrow' but it would never happen. point of the story, they FINALLY FINISHED. we finally were able to arranged our furniture where we wanted it (everything was all pushed to the sides of the room because it could be in the way of the construction dudes.) i bought 5 Mucha posters, all of pretty ladies, and hung them up yesterday. actually steven hung them up because i was really bad at it.
the pic keeps getting cut off! it's nice having something other than a large blank wall. i'm all hopped up on coffee at the moment. steven is currently a cute sleeping burrito. i should be studying for geology or cleaning. that reminds me... school is good. my classes are really interesting, and i really like all of my teachers. i really want to go shopping but i'm poor so i shouldn't. i also REALLY want to sew but i don't have much fabric and i have no idea where any fabric stores are. i wish there was an SAS up here! fuck i miss that place. please come visit me!
today i saw a boyyy. i wonder if he noticed me...
lololol. just kidding dudes. i don't do much these days, so i don't have much to tell you about. a couple weeks ago, on a gorgeous sunday, steven and i went to mount tabor. mount tabor is an extinct volcano which is now a park. it's the only volcano within city limits in the US (or something like that, maybe major city limits). anyway it was beautiful and warm, unfortunately i wore shoes with holes in the souls, and tights and a dress, so i was ill equipped for hiking, but i did it anyway! it was so clear, the view of mount hood was perfect. that's one thing i love about it here, the air and sky and always crystal clear. no smog!
let's see what else... the building we live in is old (built in the 1920's) and the windows on our side of the building are old steel framed, and had to be repaired and worked on. this process began like the day we moved in. when we got to the apartment, our first day, there was a note saying that someone would be coming that day to inspect the condition of the windows. i didn't really think anything of this at first. then about a week later they came back again to inspect them again, wrote on all our windows and then took out the bathroom window and put up a piece of plywood. i actually think that process took a few days. so they keep coming back. week after week. they show up at 8am, stand in between the building and the neighboring one (where the sound reverberates horribly) and fucking yell about the windows. fuck you i'm trying to sleep. then they come in to the aparment, and since every room has one of these windows in it they have to work in each one. so you awkwardly have to try and go about your business while some dude is going in and out of any room you try to occupy. they kept saying over and over, 'this is the last week' or 'we'll be done tomorrow' but it would never happen. point of the story, they FINALLY FINISHED. we finally were able to arranged our furniture where we wanted it (everything was all pushed to the sides of the room because it could be in the way of the construction dudes.) i bought 5 Mucha posters, all of pretty ladies, and hung them up yesterday. actually steven hung them up because i was really bad at it.
the pic keeps getting cut off! it's nice having something other than a large blank wall. i'm all hopped up on coffee at the moment. steven is currently a cute sleeping burrito. i should be studying for geology or cleaning. that reminds me... school is good. my classes are really interesting, and i really like all of my teachers. i really want to go shopping but i'm poor so i shouldn't. i also REALLY want to sew but i don't have much fabric and i have no idea where any fabric stores are. i wish there was an SAS up here! fuck i miss that place. please come visit me!
Sunday, April 5, 2009
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
blogging from a bar
somehow I feel like this is bridgette's wet dream: blogging from an amazing bar. I totally just drunk dialed claire and she was asleep, sorry luvbug! the adverts are playing right now and it totally rules. I love steven hoffman a lot! sooo much. please come visit our adorable existence soon/ I have so many cool places to show you
Monday, March 16, 2009
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
donkey kong
OH HI THERE GUYS. i'm already such a lame blogger, not updating. lately my life has consisted of putting together furniture and watching steven play video games. currently he's playing donkey kong country: 3. oh yes. it's true. oh man right now he's a tiny elephant shooting himself out of barrels (so cute and so confusing, i thought this game was about monkeys?)
so furniture update: 2 days ago, in a fit of determination, i marched over to the william temple thrift store, approximately 3 blocks away. my plan was to buy a basket and maybe some wall hangings, both i found right away. now, small backstory, i had seen this amazing chair a few days prior, but steven refused to attempt carrying it to our apartment. i've been thinking about it for days, plotting how i could possibly strap it to myself or maybe i could bribe one of the workers into lending me a dolly. so once i found a basket i went to go sit and admire my chair, but i couldn't find it at first. i searched and discovered they had moved it to the back. that was the final straw, i went to purchase my items and found out that i could borrow a dolly no bribing necessary! so i surprised steven and managed to get it home, receiving many strange looks along the way. did i mention it's green and has a matching ottoman? oh yes. today i put together a desk i purchased at target yesterday thanks to madie and her mom, and her mom's car. the apartment is becoming so nice and homey. i will take pictures (if anyone cares) as soon as it's all done.
not a whole lot to mention though, mostly i've just been cooking and playing nintendo. i signed up for a twitter, i had one but i completely forgot about it, even the username. so if anyone is on twitter plz follow me. also been discovering so many cute places to go. trying to save my moneys though. we live right around the corner from some amazing bars. the other night we went to two of them, tony's and the matador. tony's is pretty much an authentic dive. wooden booths and red lights everywhere. we were the only people under 40, everyone in there was a regular and they all knew each other. some amazing old man bought the whole bar 2 rounds, and then another for just me and steven. he reminded me of boomhower from king of the hill, because for the life of me i couldn't tell what the hell he was saying. so steven and i got pretty wasted for free, even though pints were only $1.75! and they have a "depression fighter" special 9am to noon, dollar pints $3 small pitchers. and then happy hour is noon to seven! what?! best bar ever. ok so we were drinking it up, steven gave me a couple of bucks to put on the jukebox. once our songs were over, the previously mention old money bags, gives steven and i $5 to put more songs on. $5 on the that jukebox bought 23 songs! once those song were all over we headed next door to the matador. basically it's a mix of the cha cha lounge and the v-room, but less lame and also more lame? needless to say it's pretty sweet. drinks are pretty cheap, there are paintings of matadors all over it, AND there's a photo booth. black&white, real film, photo booth. YUS. god, i really love portland. there are just so many amazing places. i want all of you to come live here with me! please? ok thanks.
sidenote: steven is now a spider wearing sneakers in donkey kong.
i suppose i should be doing something productive so i'll BRB, TTYL KIT
SIGNING OUT
so furniture update: 2 days ago, in a fit of determination, i marched over to the william temple thrift store, approximately 3 blocks away. my plan was to buy a basket and maybe some wall hangings, both i found right away. now, small backstory, i had seen this amazing chair a few days prior, but steven refused to attempt carrying it to our apartment. i've been thinking about it for days, plotting how i could possibly strap it to myself or maybe i could bribe one of the workers into lending me a dolly. so once i found a basket i went to go sit and admire my chair, but i couldn't find it at first. i searched and discovered they had moved it to the back. that was the final straw, i went to purchase my items and found out that i could borrow a dolly no bribing necessary! so i surprised steven and managed to get it home, receiving many strange looks along the way. did i mention it's green and has a matching ottoman? oh yes. today i put together a desk i purchased at target yesterday thanks to madie and her mom, and her mom's car. the apartment is becoming so nice and homey. i will take pictures (if anyone cares) as soon as it's all done.
not a whole lot to mention though, mostly i've just been cooking and playing nintendo. i signed up for a twitter, i had one but i completely forgot about it, even the username. so if anyone is on twitter plz follow me. also been discovering so many cute places to go. trying to save my moneys though. we live right around the corner from some amazing bars. the other night we went to two of them, tony's and the matador. tony's is pretty much an authentic dive. wooden booths and red lights everywhere. we were the only people under 40, everyone in there was a regular and they all knew each other. some amazing old man bought the whole bar 2 rounds, and then another for just me and steven. he reminded me of boomhower from king of the hill, because for the life of me i couldn't tell what the hell he was saying. so steven and i got pretty wasted for free, even though pints were only $1.75! and they have a "depression fighter" special 9am to noon, dollar pints $3 small pitchers. and then happy hour is noon to seven! what?! best bar ever. ok so we were drinking it up, steven gave me a couple of bucks to put on the jukebox. once our songs were over, the previously mention old money bags, gives steven and i $5 to put more songs on. $5 on the that jukebox bought 23 songs! once those song were all over we headed next door to the matador. basically it's a mix of the cha cha lounge and the v-room, but less lame and also more lame? needless to say it's pretty sweet. drinks are pretty cheap, there are paintings of matadors all over it, AND there's a photo booth. black&white, real film, photo booth. YUS. god, i really love portland. there are just so many amazing places. i want all of you to come live here with me! please? ok thanks.
sidenote: steven is now a spider wearing sneakers in donkey kong.
i suppose i should be doing something productive so i'll BRB, TTYL KIT
SIGNING OUT
Friday, March 6, 2009
oh hi there.
so we're semi-settled in portland, actually made it here in one piece, amazingly. the drive was a bit rough. we got stopped trying to cross the CA/OR boarder because of SNOW. snow flurries to be exact. driving in snow flurries, INVIGORATING&TERRIFYING. point is, we're here. sort of moved in, not very unpacked at all. but wow, the apartment is so cute. so effing cute you would all die. my dad was here for two days, it was so sweet. he stayed an extra day because i was so bummed he was going to leave. seriously i have the most adorable dad ever. he left this morning and saying goodbye to him was so hard. he helped steven and i SO MUCH. he built us a custom kitchen table, c'mon! so wonderful. yesterday after steven filled out his rental application (why he had to i'm not entirely sure) he got this call saying he owed the city of forest grove $116, for unknown reasons, and that he HAD TO TAKE CARE OF IT THAT AFTERNOON, OR ELSE. luckily my dad offered to drive him, which would have been a 2-3 hour excursion on public transit. so thankfully it was all cleared up in a timely fashion and my dream was realized, i got to see FOREST GROVE. the tiny town i heard so much about, that steven refused to ever take me, (the town that steven went to college in). so steven's going to sign the lease and everything tomorrow, yay! he was nervous he wasn't going to pass the credit check, but he did, so no sneaking in and out of the building and only having one set of keys!
so this morning my dad left, *tear* :'( i know i'm drunk and so homo, using emo-cons and everything. my parents are so wonderful. i love them. got a bit homesick today, just knowing i'm so far from the people i love, and those who know me best. but i am completely in love with this place, and i have my stevie beans and madie here.
today steven and i wondered around our amazing neighborhood OMG IT'S SO GOOD. we're so close to everything. we walked to the goodwill after getting breakfast and bought a microwave, for $25, no sales tax! yeah, it totally rules. then we went to ace, again right down the street, got fishing line to hang pictures from. walked a bit further to the pearl to go to powell's. powell's is the most ridiculously amazing bookstore ever. it's the length of a city block and four stories high. each room is a different color with a different genre. after, we wondered back closer to our house, drank some espresso and waited for 5:30, when synecdoche, new york was playing at the theatre down the street. ok you guys, mission theatre, portland oregon. amazing. the tickets to the movie were only $3, and you could drink and eat inside of the theatre. amazing. so many good things so close to us. i'm too drunk to continue writing this, but i love everyone. i love love steven hoffman. i miss murphy. i miss maxwell and my dad and my mom. MEOW!
Sunday, March 1, 2009
listening to le tigre & missing claire williams
packing still blows, but i'm kind of accomplishing things. hoping sarah will come over and steal more clothes from me. steven is currently caffeinating himself with birthday boy franklin. so of course i'm blogging instead of packing.
ok i always knew i was a pack-rat, but seriously you guys i have so much shit. so many fucking items of clothing.
i wish i could take delilah & theo (steven's cats) with us. damn, they have been so cute lately. i'm gonna miss that jerk murphy too. damn him! so cute.
i had a point to writing this, but i guess the point was really just to distract myself from the inevitable. ugh.
frank gave me and steven a toaster and a coffee maker! and my dad found us a TV, also he found a bunch of expensive wood and made us a table. i love my dad. i love free things too.
what else... danny and jesse threw us a party on friday, and it was amazing, though the next day i had maybe one of the worst hangovers to date.
just look at this!ok must be productive!
Monday, February 23, 2009
blogy blog blog
GUESS WHO DOESN'T WANT TO PACK?
answer: me.
steven is cute, but also a jerk at scrabble. but that's ok. i still like him. i have a lot of zitz on my face. it's cool, steven still likes me in spite of all my zitz. LOL LMAO BRB TTYL BYOB.
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