In other news, the craftiness continues.  I decided that knitting and loom knitting weren’t enough and also bought some crochet needles.  I’ve watched a couple instructional videos on Youtube and have been practicing.  I keep making little mistakes, so I haven’t gotten a complete hot pad yet, but did make some face masks, fake mustaches  and eye visors for my Wednesday gaming group. (At least, that was how they played with the scraps.)  Who knew crocheting could entertain so many people?

Crocheted tombstones… it’ll be a thing.

On an unrelated note, I am really annoyed by the most recent Lonely Island song.  Not because it’s annoying, but because they totally stole my jokes.  The way most people used the term “YOLO” never made sense to me.  ”Since you only live once,” I mused, “You should take care of yourself.”  So my YOLOs would be things like:

Back to the annoying part.  So Lonely Island totally made a song along the exact same lines.  It’s good stuff (even if they stole my lines).

Since this post seems to have a theme of YouTube videos, let’s continue the trend.  Some other things I’ve recently stumbled across which I recommend are:

Well that should keep you busy for a little while.  I’m going to go listen to that first song again.

It’s been a long ass time since I did a picture post of a day in the life, but here it goes…

I started out the day deciding to be productive instead of sitting on my lazy ass and playing Sims 3.  First I decided to take down the Christmas decorations.

Good-bye little Christmas tree.

Then I decided to put on some loud music and clean all the things.  First up—dishes!

Before…

And then what it looked like after my awesomeness had passed through:

…and after.

While I was busy cleaning all the things, the various animals in my house were busy being lazy.

Too lazy to even play with her ball.

Lazy cats.

Then I looked outside to see that it was snowing!  (Man, this day is off to a riveting start, I tell you what.)

I hate snow.

Then Mr.W and my brother came home.  Mr. W and I discussed getting a new TV in a couple months before some friends came over and we all went out to eat at a Mexican restaurant.  I would have taken pictures of any or all of these events had I remembered.

After dinner we went to the game store for our regularly-scheduled Saturday night RPG gaming, where I fortunately resumed my picture taking.  Here’s a camo scarf I am working on for my brother:

You can say it. I’m awesome. And not at all old womanish.

I realized that this isn’t the most interesting day so to try and spice things up a little, I took some pictures of the guys I play with.

My brother, Chris, and Ryan.

Tom and Hermine

Mr. W is either consulting his Pathfinder books to build a new character or praying. I’m going with praying.

But this did not succeed in spicing things up.  Fortunately it was at this point that we opened the Rumchata.

Chris is intense about his Rumchata.

Fortunately, this made things spicier.

Ryan is spicy now.

And then here’s a picture of me.  I didn’t know how to pose for it and Chris said “Just look up.”  And I did.

True story.

And then I discovered that I had a package of goodness waiting for me.  Now I can knit all the things!  Soon a second package will arrive with the straight loom pieces.

Again, I am not at all old womanish.

Day complete.

Did you know that 45% of Americans make New Year’s resolutions but only 8% achieve them? This tells me that I am correct in not wasting my time making resolutions. Before I always blamed laziness, but now I can blame math. I like blaming math. I wish I could find more things to blame on math.

I got a 2013 Pessimist calendar from Despair.com and am loving it so far.

Today’s calendar entry was the definition of pessimist: One who believes, accurately, that all is for the worst in the worst of all possible worlds; see: “realist” Antonyms: Optimist, Dumbass

I love this calendar.

If I did make a resolution though, it would probably be to take (and blog) a picture a day. I think something like that could be really fun, but then I thought about my typical day and realized that most of the pictures would probably just be of a computer monitor. That hardly seems interesting. And seeing as there is only an 8% chance that I would actually take this picture of my computer monitor each day, I hardly see the point.

In Christmas news, got some nice gifts this year… running shoes, Amazon gift cards (which were promptly spent on books and The Brave Little Toaster movie), a needlepoint Fallout boy ornament with a Santa’s hat on.

I think the best gift was from Mr. W though.  TEN of these bad boys:

I used my first coupon last weekend–we saw Les Miserables. It was so-so. He didn’t outright hate it, which was nice.

Not too much else going on. New Year’s eve Mr. W, my brother, and I stayed home and had some Moscato wine at midnight. I counted down the minutes starting at 11:50 which was just as anticlimactic as you would think.

I want to get back into writing. Anytime I have some free time I think, “You know, I should write” but then I end up playing Sims 3. And then watch as my Sim writes. I tell them what genre to write and the title of the book and they start typing away at their computer. They immediately have a publisher that gives them advances every time they turn in a few chapters and then when they are done it gets published and they get royalty payments for a few weeks. If real life were like this I would write more often. Probably.

I annoy myself. I have two romance novels completely outlined, start to finish. I have even written the first third of one of them. And yet, I never work on them. Mr. W says I have a fear of success, and he is probably right because he is usually right whenever his answer annoys me. When this happens, I usually snap back with “You don’t know me”, which actually means “I want to be able to sidetrack you with my bullshit but instead you are calling me out on it, and I find that incredibly aggravating.”

Hey, so I’m not dead.  Just thought I should start out with that.

I randomly decided to look at this site and discovered that there hasn’t been any new content since August 27th.  Then I wondered if it even really mattered, because most people reading this are probably keeping up-to-date with me via Facebook.  So do I even need this?  I don’t know.  Maybe not.

I am in Atlanta this weekend for a friend’s wedding.  I am staying with my friend, Sarah, and her husband who are also going to the wedding.  Sarah and I went to a tea room for lunch today where I got to feel incredibly fancy.

First we got Carrot Ginger soup and tea.  I ordered an Orange Marzipan Rooibos tea (so delicious).

Then lunch came.  Finger sandwiches, scones with lemon curd, and various desserts.  Everything was very good.  I have never done this fancy tea business, but it was an overall enjoyable experience.

I then ended up buying a small tea pot and some more of the Rooibos tea.

Let’s see… other news since August… I was promoted at work and now have the title of Data Governance Specialist.  The new job is going well and I am enjoying it a lot.

We still don’t own the house yet.  The seller and his daughter have finally reached an agreement, so I had to start the closing process with the bank again.  Then I just found out the other day that there is an FHA regulation that when you are trying to buy the residence you are currently living in with a 3.5% down payment then you need to have lived in said residence for 6 months.  Our banker is trying to file some kind of exception for us, but if it is not approved then we will have to wait to close until January.  Not the end of the world, but I fully expect something else to crop up and further delay everything again.  It is becoming laughable.  Either that, or I am becoming crazy.  Perhaps both.

In graphic design side-business news, I designed the logo for  my local library.  That was a lot of fun and a great opportunity.  It was recently approved by the board and hopefully once they start implementing it I can get more business over my way.  Oh, which reminds me… I need to give them business cards.  If you are interested in checking out my graphic design business site, you can do so here.  I don’t have the library logo up yet, but there is a small portfolio of other work to see.

I think that’s it, really.  Life is quiet, just the way I like it.