Quilting!!!

So I am embarking on another quilting mission! (Unfortunately it's kinda top secret so I cannot reveal much...) I am very excited!
I think my first real gift-quilt turned out exquisitely! Thanks to my dear Heather, I finally have pictures to stroke my ego with!

Voila! The amazing front of the quilt! I chose a pastel base for the colors with floral prints accenting. I think my pattern also turned out pretty cool too! The pinky-purpley bit was supposed to be more diamondy looking, but I like the pattern it makes when you squint your eyes at it a bit or look at the picture from afar. The back is fleece with a border of the same floral used in the purple squares.

It's a totally cuddly quilt meant to be destroyed with love!

Mostly, I'm really proud of myself for actually doing it and finishing it! Quilting is very much a stress-reducing activity for me (although it can cause a bit of stress on its own...) I enjoy it completely!!

I'll have to wait a little while to have any info/ pictures of my next project... but I promise it'll be awesome!!

And less than a year later...

We're dealing with this crap again. My Grandma is in the hospital. Seven years of fighting cancer, and now there is nothing the doctors can do for her, except send her home. They say she has a tumor in her chest that is pushing on her lungs and heart, and they have given her 2 to 3 weeks. It's just so.... sucky. I can't think of a better word... I'm still trying to get over my Grandpa passing... I really don't think my family is ready for this. I suppose this time we have time to prepare, say our goodbyes, but it still so sucks. I'm glad that the hospital is sending her home. She wants that, and I think she needs it. I just don't want to accept it, nor deal with it... My aunt is extremely pregnant and due sometime in March. I just pray and hope that my Grandma can see, or even hear, about the new baby. It just all hurts....

Tony is trying to kill me...

So today was day one of my new workout routine. Day one = Core! I am absolutely determined to go through with it, in hopes that I will look awesomely amazing by my birthday (which is coincidentally the last day of the program). I have the will power as of now... but I'm not so sure I have the body power to just jump right in... Each workout is about an hour long, but I was only able to do 40 minutes... Which actually thinking about it, is pretty good for someone who has been relatively in-active (exercise wise). All I can do is keep working and hope I get better! Go me!

In other news, I have two interviews on Wednesday for part-time jobs. Here's hoping I get one of them! Better yet, both of them! Perhaps I will have a choice!

I suppose that is all for now... I hope this gets more interesting...

Back in Black... well... okay... Pink

So with the recent explosion of all my friends blogging again, I decided it was high time I tried it again... I think I just gave up due to my lame-ass writing skills... but I have recently discovered that I need to actually try to see results.

So even though living at home kinda sucks... I still feel less stressed, and thus less of a bitch. This is always a good thing! And it's not like I don't have a social life. I'm out every Wednesday night with the guys at Quizzo, and I usually have stuff to do on the weekends!

And I love my job! The kids are so awesome and amazing!! They have seriously made me reconsider my future career options... Now I just need to get my butt in gear so I can apply to grad school and not stay a home-bum.
I recently applied for a second job... I have two interviews coming up which is a good sign, especially in this crap-hole of an economy.

Also on my recent "life-list" is the idea of working out. I got a Wii-fit which is nice and all for keeping track of weight goals, etc. but I and going to start something a bit more intense. I'm crossing my fingers and hoping I won't chicken out of it and start being lazy again. I need to do this, for myself, to prove that I just need to get out there and do it. I know I can do it!

On another positive note.. I have been having a creative kick lately! I think all those pre-school art projects have really paid off! I have a bunch of sewing projects slated! Very exciting!!

Well, I suppose now that I have caught up, basically, all my other posts will probably seem less random and pointless :-P

Horray!

Finally things are seeming to start to get together and work out okay. I got a job, and although it is only part time and only until late July, I love it and I am so thankful for the experience. I am working as a teaching aid for special ed summer school. There are 7 kids in our class and they are all so adorable, and super bright, smart and unique. I really couldn't ask for a better job right now. Now the challenge will be finding something to fill its place when the summer school ends. I can be a substitute for the school district, but I'll have to do something else when I'm not doing that.

I finally received my degree information and I found out that I did in fact graduate in May, but somehow I still received distinction. Plus I had the pleasant surprise of finding out that I graduated cum laude as well! So for now things are going a little bit better and I can live with myself a little bit more. One more rent payment on the hideous apartment and the future is ahead. I'm crossing my fingers that things keep going along this surprisingly pleasant path!

Just 'cause I'm actually online for fun...

So update... horray I suppose. I've been busy despite not being employed. I've been looking for a job almost every day and riding my bike a lot. Although now it's over at Mark's so I'm not able to use it cause he's not home! I went to a job fair yesterday. Nothing really exciting, it was rather small and uneventful. I did get a pretty awesome Rockem Sockem Robots-esque pen from SPSS (a statistical analysis software company). I'm just rather upset that I haven't heard back from anyone really about jobs. I wish they would at least just reject me so I wouldn't hang on to a slim chance that I might still get a job. It saddens me that I'm not employed, although I know a lot of people aren't and my mom even told me it took my dad 6 months to get a job out of college. I'm starting to think that I should just go ahead and get a job at Caribou Coffee or something and keep searching for something more substantial for now.

That mixed with my friend suddenly moving out to Arizona have been toying with my emotions and I'm rather touchy lately. I don't like being such a loose cannon, but I don't know how to control it I suppose. Sometimes I think I'm just plain crazy how I go from one end to another. I suppose it's just a side effect of stress. I just hate feeling depressed.... nothing is working out and everything seems topsy-turvy. I guess I just was too confident about the way everything would turn out.

well this is just a minuscule rant about my apparent crankiness. I really don't have anything nice to say so I'll cut this short. I'll hope for better days.

This is all a bunch of bull....

I feel like no one takes me seriously as an undergraduate. I'm just pond scum to TAs with power trips and Professors as old as dirt. I had a meeting today and when I got there my professor was in with a grad student. I tried to poke my head in but the door was basically closed in my face. If I had been in with the professor she would have kicked me out because she had another meeting. It's complete bull crap. She has constantly forgotten my appointments, been up to 30 minutes late and had the nerve to e-mail me wondering where I was. How long am I supposed to wait for you? I'm just so sick of it. And I feel like I can't stand up for myself because it will affect my grade, or I won't get a recommendation I need in order to get a good research job. I know that they wouldn't be allowed necessarily to do such a think, grade wise at least, but in my world it seems entirely possible. I'm just so pissed off. And that TA last Friday, telling me that I would loose points because I was at my grandfather's funeral?!! what the Hell kind of education system are they running here? I know i shouldn't take it all personally, but still.... it feels so unfair and unjust. I feel like such an underdog. I do my work, I try hard... but I feel like I'm still shot down or not taken seriously because I"m an undergraduate student. I'm so upset by all of this nonsense and crap. I'm too pissed off to think. I'm tired of waiting for meetings. Sick and tired of it!