So. Week One - What do I do when i'm stressed out.

* read comics - my favorites are Stone Soup, Peanuts, Garfield, Zits, and the ORIGNAL For Better or For Worse. I don't like  what Lynn J. is doing with it now, going back over the old 1980's stories with new art and updating jokes,etc. It's like a phd going over their kindy papers and redoing them, techinically better but loses a lot of its charms.

* bubble baths - I've taken over keeping the bathroom clean, simply because I was tired of this avenue being closed due to the fact that i'd have to scrub out a filthy tub first. I used a whole Mr. Clean magic eraser this morning and the shower still looks crappy, must learn how to really deep clean and what to use. 

*listen to music - what I like to listen to depends on my mood. If i'm emo upset, I like the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants soundtrack, Billy Joel, The King's Singers, Celtic Thunder, etc. If i'm angry, I like Queen, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones... If i'm just melancholy I like classical, if i'm just frustrated I like big band and kids music - things my Dad used to sing to me( I have no memory of Mom singing anything specific), like Frank Sinatra's High Hopes or Bing Crosby's too-ra-loo-ra-loo-ra One of the songs I thought for YEARS that he made up, turns out it was off an old show from when he was a kid. It was called Spiderman Lullaby by Zacherley the Cool Ghoul Horror host. Sometimes I can't decide what I want and play a little of everything - I have over 2000 songs on my Ipod, and there are a lot i'm missing - I have very eclectic taste.

*look at fun stuff on the internet-
   Perpetual Kid - www.perpetualkid.com
   Think Geek - www.thinkgeek.com
   Plasticland - www.shopplasticland.com
   The ACME Catalog - http://home.roadrunner.com/~tuco/looney/acme.html
    Sporcle - fun quizzes, games, etc - http://www.sporcle.com/
   MSN game Zone - cubis, zuma, and more http://www.zone.com

*play computer games
   I like Morrowind, Hidden Object games (esp Agatha Christie Mystery Games), The Sims

I ordered this fabric to make something for myself, and something for a friend who is a fellow bookworm. The collection is called Bookish, By Jenni Calo for Connecting Threads.  People who know me well will probably find this partially amazing. In 6 years of quilting, I've never made anything for me. I started a quilt for me but it is on hold as it is a charm quilt, and i'm collecting more fabrics. I saved almost two months of spending money, and bought a bunch. I found one I liked for mom, didn't buy it right away and connecting threads ran out. I wasn't taking chances with this one, I liked it too much. I find myself liking the blue and green colorway much more than the other, so we'll see!


( Bookish.... )

I'm participating in the friending frenzy over at magsmom. So far i've found a bunch of people who are friends with people that i'm already friends with!

About Me:

Name: Becky
Age: 30
Status: Single, living with parents and brother
Religion/Politics: Baptist Background, liberal politics for the most part. Pro gay marriage.
Pets: cat and dog at present, but i'd love to have more, especially cats!
Occupation: Unemployed at Present
Location: St. Louis, MO, USA
Education: B.A. in History with a Theatre Minor
Organizations: Flower Valley Quilting Guild, Sigma Alpha Iota Women's Music Fraternity, Alpha Psi Omega Theatre 
                          Honorary, SCA College of Blessed Herman the Cripple at Adelaide Uni, SA by email. In the process of
                          paperwork for Daughters of the American Revolution.
Likes: Quilting, Reading, Fabric Collecting, Animals, RPG games, board games, crafting, sleep and chocolate
Dislikes: fake people, liars, manipulators, closed-minded and selfish people

Favorite Books: The Phantom Tollbooth, The Wind In the Willows, All Creatures Great and Small, Harry Potter series, The Elm Creek Quilts Novels(Jennifer Chiaverini), The Falco Series (Lindsey Davis) and Roman Sub Rosa (Steven Saylor) anything Agatha Christie, Patricia Cornwell's Scarpetta series or Rita Mae Brown.
TV Shows I watch: Eureka, Warehouse 13, Army Wives, NCIS, My Fair Wedding
Old TV shows I like to watch on DVD/Reruns: M*A*S*H, JAG, The Sopranos, Monty Python's Flying Circus
Favorite Movies: The American President, The Lion King, Dave, chick flicks
Favorite Music: I listen to pretty much anything but Rap or country. I love the Beatles, Queen, Trans-Siberian Orchestra,
                         Billy Joel, and the Kings's Singers. I especially love choral music, classical and Big Band. Unless it is 
                         something I liked in a tv show or movie, the older the better!
Biggest Strengths: compassionate, creative, giving 
Major Weaknesses: taking care of everyone else and neglecting myself, I can be too trusting of people and am horrible for
                                  starting projects that I don't get finished.
Hobbies: Quilting, sewing, reading, crafting, photography, baking and my godson just gave me a gift certificate for knitting 
                classes for Mother's Day!
Things I post about: Life, craft projects, events, job search, family, interesting articles, boos i've read, friends. I'm not big
                                   on posting on religion or politics unless someone asks my opinion.

Some inconsiderate clod in England, where the new Falco novel has already come out, has updated both the Lindsey Davis and Marcus Didius Falco pages on wikipedia and major fan sites (user handle is the same, so the same person I think) with major plot points from the book. If you don't want to be spoiled, avoid them until 8/31 or whenever you get the book!

Here is what's been done so far/in progress -

knock out wall/kill mold -done
fix window - done
prime and repaint- done
sand floor - done
refinish floor - done
replace baseboards and chair rail, add crown molding - purchased, will hopefully go up this weekend!

( Progress Pics... )( Progress Pics... )Step 2:( Progress Pics... )  New Floor/Paint! ( Progress Pics... )

x-posted to note_to_cat :

Dear Chester,
    Congratulations, kitty. You've managed to do something that I have NEVER seen anyone post about in the cat community before. You fled the basement when the puddle of water started to get bigger and bigger....$60, 16 hours without water, and a plumber later, what did we find was clogging our main house drain??? A KITTY BALL! How did you get it under a steel cover, cat? Inquiring humans (not the least of which is the plumber, he had a good laugh over it) want to know!

Mostly for my own reference, so I can find them when they update! If you know of any good ones, please let me know. All HP for now, haven't had time to look up other fandoms, and have purposely avoided Twilight fics!

FF.net
Authors:
GenkaiFan - http://www.fanfiction.net/u/1013852/GenkaiFan
  Story: Poison Pen
Ms-Figg -http://www.fanfiction.net/u/1317626/Ms_Figg
  Stories: lots. Esp. Love Bites, Dark Lady, Daddy Dearest
coffeeonthepatio -http://www.fanfiction.net/u/1633060/coffeeonthepatio
  Stories: Self Preservation, Semantics, From the Corner, Billow
SnapegirlKMF - http://www.fanfiction.net/u/1386923/Snapegirlkmf
  Stories: All! Moonfire, Prince Manor series, The Apothecary Knows Best, Away in A Manger, Irresistible Chemistry

I FINALLY FINALLY FINALLY sealed the long overdue box for ofenjen , and sent off my Quilts for Kids Kit in the nick of time. Here are the Linus quilts, had to make two posts as LJ said the post was too large. These are tops, going to Jen Ofenstein (ofenjen ) to be quilted by and for The Linus Connection.An old UFO I finished from when I first started quilting, "Rainbow Stripe"



A simple 4 patch that I made for Linus:


"Monkeys for Linus", made from the scraps of the last two monkey quilts:
Then my mom made two afghans, "gerbera daisy" a blue and yellow untitled one in the same pattern.