Friday, December 30, 2005

Have a Happy New Year Mutherf*cker!

I am happy to say I will be fully drunk and slobbery when the baby new year arrives. Since not all of you will be able to enjoy the hilarity that is scheduled to arrive with my 3rd beer, here is something that will hopefully suffice.

WARNING: Possibly highly offensive material! I did not create this NOR do I support those who did - I just think it's pretty fuckin' funny.

http://gbehh.com/cards/index_cards.html

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Question # 14

Question #14 Am I as healthy as I want to be? If I imagine myself circa 2010, how would I like to feel? Physically and mentally? What steps should I be taking now to make sure that idea becomes reality?

Not yet - but I am working on it. In April it will be a year that Trav and I have been Vegetarians. Just by changing our diets we have become noticeably healthier.
Little by little we are implementing exercise into our lives. It's hard since we are pretty lazy but at least we are trying and progressing.
In 2006 I hope to lose another 25 lbs or more. My goal is by the time my hair is to my boobs, I will have lost most of the weight I want to lose. So I'm estimating around summertime 2006.
So hopefully in 2010 I will have the healthiness of a normal 29 year old.
Physically - I would like my knees to feel better - I've had knee problems from playing catcher in softball since I was 12. Hopefully I will be able to breathe freely while putting on my socks and shoes and be able to do the yoga poses that I cannot do now due to my gut.
Mentally, I hope I still stay humble and not get too self- involved. I will never forget what it's like to be fat.
I think I am doing the right things to become healthier - it's working anyway.
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Thursday, December 29, 2005

Semi-Smarty Pants

oh yeah - I got my grades today - I was WAY off.

I got:

A

A

C

Not too bad - but like I said - The C is the reason why I am only taking two classes next semester. That one was a partially online class that graded on the tests and I didn't always have time to study - some weeks I had tests in all three classes - so that just proves I can handle two - but three is a bit too much.

So I settle for a 3.3 GPA. I'm cool with that.

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Sexy....kind of

I just had to post this pic at some point. What a character she is. This is Trav's favorite pic of her.
She is the best!

Anyway.........

Merry after Christmas everyone! Hope you all had a wicked awesome holiday.
We went up to Duluth for the weekend - we made it there early thankyouverymuch - Everyone liked their gifts.
We got some more stuff off of our registry from my Gram, My Aunt got us a panini maker - can't wait to try that out, and we got some other good stuff - candles and clothes and whatnot. Good times. I showed Wendall to everyone and they thought that he was awesome - my Gram wanted to keep him (she collects clowns too) - but I made him for my other Granny.
Saturday (Christmas Eve) I went over to Stacy's Ma's house to visit while Trav stayed at his Sister's and played classic Nintendo. We ate and opened presents at his Sister's - They got me mittens(which I needed SO bad) and a cute little T-shirt. My favorite Mother-in-law and Bruce got me this amazing art studio - it's an easel that comes with a drawer full of watercolor, acrylic and oil paints, paint brushes and a palate. It also came with a canvas so I can get started right away! It's so cool!
They also got me a wonderful Dragon book that I love - I'm pretending that its a text book from Hogwarts because I'm such a nerd.
Trav got two Johnny cash CD's from his Sissy's (which I stole), and some money for an Ipod and a set of Dragon books - one called Eragon and one called Eldest from his Mommy and Bruce. I can't wait to read them when he's done.
That evening we went to my Aunt Sara's (my mom's sis). Finally it was time to give Wendall to my Granny. She basically wiped her ass with it.
I knew she would do that too. Nothing matters more that how much things cost to her. Maybe I shouldn't have told her that I made it - then she would have thought that I spent money on it and would have liked it more. She looked at it and monotonely said "oh that's cute" and put it right back in the box. Your welcome, Gram.
She got us a vegetarian cookbook - which is pretty cool and two photo albums.

We left Duluth on Christmas Day after a quick visit at Erin's. Maisie is getting so big! and she looks so much like Erin! I'll have take some updated pics of her and post them for your viewing pleasure.

Sunday and Monday we set up the art/media room. It is seriously the coolest thing I have.
I have wanted an art room since I was about 12 and now I finally have it and it's perfect.
I love it so much.
I decided that all the art the pictures I'm hanging up in there are going to be original art only - so I hung up my Dragon picture that Nancy made me, a picture that Trav's sis painted and picture drawn by one of our high school classmates, Jared Dodson. On the other wall I hung up this wonderful and sentimental collage that Trav's sis made for us - it has some flowers that Nancy painted and pictures that Boo boo took of our wedding, then in the middle Boo boo painted : Celebration October 14, 2005. It's so sweet and wonderful. I love it.
As soon as I get around to ordering out wedding photos - they will be hung up around the collage.

That's all for now - I've enjoyed this short week and I am looking forward to the next! I hope to post again tomorrow - if I don't - I'll talk to you next year! ( I hate when people say that)

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Question # 13

Question #13 How much money will I need for retirement? Does simply asking this question make me hyperventilate? Can I stand to do the math? Am I brave enough to begin?

I just turned 24 but I will answer this question anyways.

Umm - I have no idea how much money I will need for retirement. I just know that by the age of 25 you should be putting from $100 to $200 dollars each month towards (and not withdrawing) a 401K account either through your company or your bank.

I have this handy dandy Destination: Retirement 401K savings plan estimator.
According to that:

you are 25 years old - you make 30k a year - you put 6% of your annual income ($1800 which = $150 a month) into a 401k account - in 30 years (age 55) that account will reach $175,418.
That's with all the interest and the matched amount contributed by your bank or employer.

This little calculator can calculate any annual amount with any income and give you the account balance in 5 years, 15 years and 30 years. Pretty neat.

So for now since I'm still young - I will just rely on this little thing for reference until I can really estimate how much I will actually need based on the pension and social security I will be receiving.
I have a 401k account already that I started two years ago - for now I am contributing only 1% of my income each month - but by next year (depending on where I am) I will probably contribute the maximum about that my employer matches - if I can.

If anyone needs one of these or needs something calculated - let me know.

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Friday, December 23, 2005

Happy Christmas!

Thank you for all the nice comments and name suggestions for my clown! He really did turn out pretty nice. I took pics of him all finished before I wrapped him for my Grandma. I'll post them when we get back from Christmas in Duluth.
I ended up naming him Wendall. That sounded pretty chubby to me.
But if it's any consolation I liked Clayton the best. :)

I stayed up really late last night - I mean REALLY late - finishing Wendall. I think I went to bed at 2:30 or so. I ended up painting him purple with yellow cuffs and red shoes. Trav really wanted to keep him.

Well I hope that everyone has a great Christmas! Sorry for the short post but I'm in a hurry to get out of town - we have Christmas at my Granny's tonight at 5:00 - and you know me - I could leave at 9AM and STILL be late.

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Wednesday, December 21, 2005

Meet # 2

Here he is - # 2. I call him that now because he has no name and is the 2nd character piece I have created.
He is pretty much finished - I'm going to do tiny touch ups tonight to make sure he is all smooth and mostly proportionate before I bake him
He is going to be painted in a blue body suit with yellow, white and orange polka dots and his ruffles will be yellow or white - and the grapes he is eating will be purple. I will paint and clown face on him with the signature red nose.

Help me find a name for him! Think chubby. Thanks!

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Tuesday, December 20, 2005

I am here

Gosh it's been long periods between posts for me lately. I've been busy with Christmas shopping and getting a bunch of stuff done here at work for the end of the year.
I canNOT believe it is almost 2006! Crazy.

Well since I last left you - I have started Narnia, I'm just two or three chapters in, but still it's really good - very imaginative - and it's written in "British jargon" - such as: "that was jolly rotten of you". So I get to read it in an English accent - just like Harry Potter.
SPEAKING of Harry Potter - my Christmas present came in the mail yesterday - and Trav let me open it early - IT'S MY HARRY POTTER SCARF!!!! It is SO freakin cool! It looks EXACTLY like what they wear in the movie. It has the Gryffindor patch and everything - so no one forgets which house I'm in. Wow I am a total nerd.

I'm making a clay clown for my Granny for Christmas. I'll post pics as soon as I'm done (he just needs one more arm and then some hair and a hat and he can get baked - which I am hoping to do tonight). When I asked my Gram what she wanted for Christmas she said " a gift card for Walmart". There is no way I am ever getting my Grandma a freakin gift card - to Walmart no less. Not that there is anything wrong with Walmart - but she works there for god sakes - and it would be like just buying her freakin a bag of denture glue and toilet paper or something of that nature. And lastly because - that's what she gets me for Christmas - so why not keep my $25 and not waste this little "gift" exchange. pointless.
She collects clowns, so I decided that would be fun and creative to make one. Let's just hope she likes it. This Granny (my mom's mom) is all about the dollar amount with most things - so here's hoping she appreciates the craft not the cent in this situation.
I will need some help naming him though. Wait until you see him to submit suggestions - I named Steve only once he was finished so I'm going to keep that going.

I finished painting all but one of the naked necklace pendants that I baked over two weeks ago. They turned out pretty cute. I'll try to post pics of those too.

On another note - my cousin Brittney has lost her damn mind. She ran out of the house after an argument with her mom on Saturday - and didn't come home. She ended up staying the night at her boyfriend's house. Her and her boyfriend went shopping with the $100 that Brittney was given to buy Christmas presents for her brother and her secret santa person. She spent $60 on a DVD player and movies for her jobless boyfriend and bought lunch and dinner for the both of them. She DID buy her brother some toy cars - at the dollar store.
I called her cell phone on Sunday morning because she was supposed to come and help Trav and I get some extra filing done at my work, she called me back and I told her that I was going to come and pick her up and we were going to talk about what she did too.
So we talked all day on Sunday while we were working. Everything seemed like it was going to be ok. Then she called on Monday and asked if she could stay at my house that night because she did some thing that she was going to get yelled at really bad for and she didn't want to take it that night. So I told her yeah but to have her Mom call me. The "thing" that happened was she got fired from her job from stealing cash - a total of $40. Nice.
So she ended up not coming to my house - she ran out of the house again( but this time with no money and no cell phone - she came back about 45 mins later). This girl needs some serious Dr. Phil action.

If anyone is looking for Nancy, my favorite Mother-in-law, she has changed her blog to : www.manicwillow.blogspot.com
so you can read her new stuff on there. I figured I would post it because Rocky was looking for her. She didn't disappear - she just needed a change.
Don't we all.

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Wednesday, December 14, 2005

A much needed break

Well hello bloggie. I know it has been some time since I have posted. Now I don't have any more excuses because tonight was my last class for this semester. I have been really occupied with studying for these last two tests so that's why I have had like zero free time. I feel I did pretty good on them. I have a good idea on my grades too - I definitely have an A in one class - and I'm 90% sure I have a B in another and the third, I'm about 75% sure I have a B in that one as well. Overall I came to the conclusion that I did pretty good. But I really would have liked to get A's in all of them. So next semester I am taking just two classes - so hopefully I can pay more attention to them. Good grades are important to me now that I am paying for the education and I now know how important the knowledge is.

So now that I get a three week break from school - I can get back to the relaxing things that I haven't been able to do in the last few weeks. My clay pendants have been sitting there bare for about a week or so and I have been SO looking forward to starting my new book I got for my birthday on Friday. Stace got me The Chronicles on Narnia - the whole series. I can't wait to start reading it.
Ah yes - I almost forgot my 24th birthday was on Friday the 9th. We had fun. We went to Chevy's and they sang to me and I got a free sombrero. WOO HOO! I had a lot of salty margarita's which made me a bit dehydrated the next day.
Saturday, after Trav got off work, we headed up to Duluth with Brittney and Connor to get our pics professionally done with Chelsea and Kyle for part of my Grandparent's Christmas gift. It was a lot of fun and the pics turned out really cute.
Monday - I wasn't feeling very good - I think I had a bit of a head cold. Which resulted in not one, but TWO cold sores on my lips! ISHKABIBBLE!!!! Ugh, they are huge and horrible! I look like I got punched in the face and then it got infected. What can I say? I'm irresistible - Trav can't keep his hands off of me.

Anyways - on Monday night - I was feeling a bit better so Stacy, Trav and I went to see 40 Year Old Virgin at the two dollar theatre. Laughed our asses off! Seriously - it was the funniest movie I have seen in a long time. If you haven't seen it - you have to - it came out on DVD Tuesday.

I stayed home from work on Tuesday - partly because I was still not feeling well and partly to study for my test that evening. I also went to pick up my birthday present from my favorite Mother-in-law from the post office. She sent me one of her lovely watercolor paintings:

It's called Sapphire: The last dragon.
I LOVE IT!













I guess I haven't been paying much attention to Carmela either - she's hardly allowing me to type this - she keeps bumping her head on my hand so I will pet her and snuggle with her.
So I am going to play with my neglected baby girl and then tomorrow work on my next post which is questions about my year in 2005. I got the questions from Rocky's blog - www.nicesharpteeth.blogspot.com. Thanks!!!

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Thursday, December 08, 2005

Question # 12

Question #12 What can I do about the people I have disappointed and been disappointed by? If I could heal a damaged relationship, would I? Is there anyone whose lost friendship and regard I mourn? Is it time to move on?

Well I really hope I haven't disappointed anyone that I know (If I have - let me know).
I would try to rectify any mistakes I have made - if possible.

Has anyone ever disappointed me? Oh yes.
Two people stand out more than anything. My Papa and "my cousin" Julie (she is my former step-father's niece).

My Papa because still to this day we have no relationship. Seriously. It's really sad that we don't know each other like a Father and Daughter should know eachother. After he and my Mom broke up, I saw him once in a while, then it turned into about twice a year. We lived in the same town the whole time. A 15 minute drive from eachother. I have never had a positive Father figure in my life. Just my Grandpa (my Papa's Dad). That's why I hold so much regard for my Grandparents because they made up for his absence in my life. They kept very close with me and now I am closer to everyone in his family (my Grandparents, my Aunt and her family) - than I am to him. Weird I know - but that's how it is.
He is very close with Chelsea and Kyle - which is good. It shows that he learned from his mistakes. He's a great Dad to them - sees them all the time, drives them to and attends all their sports events and teaches them stuff about nature. He used to take me on walks by the Lake, agate hunting and climbing the "cliffs" (Hey, they looked like cliffs to me back then). I prefer to just remember the stuff like that - the stuff he taught me about nature.
His absence and my Mom's "situation" - are probably the reasons why I feel so strongly about wanting to have my own family. I just can't help it. It's a void in my life that needs to be filled.

If I could heal the damaged relationship - would I? Ummm, I would if I could, but I don't think it's possible. I have already moved on.



"My cousin" Julie. Moved into our house when I was around 15. She was almost two years older than me so we just started hanging out and became really close. We were like sisters - we shared a room, shared clothes, fought, laughed, cried and got into trouble together. Julie got pregnant and married at 18. We stayed extremely close and I babysat for her all the time. During our relationship - I was the giver and she was the taker. I did the free babysitting and was always there when she needed me. She would give me rides to places and sometimes let me use her car (even when I didn't have my license yet). We still stayed close throughout. She even said that she wanted me to be her daughter's Godmother.
The day that her daughter was baptized. She said that she would pick me up that morning at 9:00AM. I spent the whole day before that picking out something to wear, went to be early, got up SUPER early and got ready way on time(which I am never on time - so you know that this was important to me). I waited and waited, called, waited, called, waited. Nothing. I knew the time that the baptism was supposed to start and end. So by the time I knew it was over. I was totally crushed. I bawled my eyes out all day long. Her excuse was that they woke up late and then didn't have time to come and get me. When I asked her why she didn't call and tell me that I needed to get another ride - she said she did call but no one answered. Bullshit. She never called. She didn't forget about me. She just figured she would try to blame her irresponsibility on our "faulty" caller ID.
I forgave - but obviously never forgot. We still stayed close. I was always there when she needed a babysitter still. Countless times I was hurt by her and her actions. Used too many times. You have to understand that she wasn't just like a friend - she was like my sister. Sisters crap on eachother and then forgive right after.
I have forgiven her more than I think anyone else in my life. I would shut her out of my life and then she would call and apologize her way back in time and time again. A never ending cycle. It's partly my fault too - because when she wasn't a part of my life - there were sometimes when I would think about her, sometimes miss her, come across a card she had given me and miss the fun we had. She always understood me, she knew me sometimes better than I knew myself and I knew her the same way. We had a ton of fun together despite the lying, stealing, hurt and disappointment.
After a while, I would miss her less and less each time I would cut off ties with her. I think the last straw was when she asked me to be her Maid of Honor at her second wedding(she asked me to be her Maid of Honor at her first wedding but they ended up eloping). Then just about two months before the wedding - she had her fiance call me and say that they decided to just have one person each stand up for them and they wanted that person to be family. Family, huh? Well that's what I thought we were. When she called and asked me why I didn't send back the RSVP - I told her it was because I wasn't going. I told her that I don't care about her and her bullshit anymore. She wasn't convinced - I'm sure she thought that I would just keep forgiving her. I didn't attend her wedding.
She called months later and cried to me that she really does care about me. It touched me a little bit, I cried one tear. Maybe it was for goodbye.
She emailed me after that phone call and told me that she still meant what she said. I know that she felt bad. She knew she fucked up.
She called me two other times after that - because she was wondering how my Mom was doing. She loved my Mom so much. She never really had a positive Mother figure - and my Mom was that for her.
The last time I talked to her - I trusted her with once more with a piece of information about my mom. She blew it for the last time.
I screamed at her SO bad - called her a few choice names and told her never to even think about me again.
She hasn't tried to contact me since.
I don't miss her anymore and I think that I'm pretty close to not even thinking about any part of her anymore.
I really haven't thought of her in a long time - not in the "missing you" sort of way. Yet I still have a picture of her daughter on my fridge and her number still programmed in my cell phone.
I don't know what it will take, but I know that I don't have any trust or love for her anymore.
I hope she learns and treats the other people in her life better than she treated me.

Do I mourn the loss of her friendship? No. I made the choice to cut off the negativity she provided in my life and I don't regret that. I can NEVER trust her again. And without trust - you have nothing.

I'm sure I will completely move on sooner or later. Eventually I will erase her name from my phone and replace her daughter's picture on my fridge with someone else's. It's still difficult though - I mean imagine having to cut off ties with your sister - or best friend. It's not a clean break and it's not easy to do - even when you don't care about the person any more and you know it's for the best.

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Wednesday, December 07, 2005

Question # 11

Question #11. Am I living my life for an audience? Have internalized a watchful someone? My mom, my best friend, or an ex-boyfriend? Is this audience worthy of judging me? How can I banish them forever and live for myself?

This one is weird for me. I don't believe I am living my life for someone else - because I really don't care what most people think of me - EXCEPT a few people I respect and admire, like my Grandparents. They have done so much for me that they should not have had to do. They have always been there for me no matter what. And I know deep down that they will love me no matter what I do or who I am - but I can't help but to keep them in the back of my mind when I make big choices in my life. Like career choices and what to go to school for. I feel like I can't disappoint them otherwise I would be a failure - and that's purely how I feel - not them. I just feel like I owe them so much and that if I failed or didn't make the right choice, I would let them down.
I also feel the responsibility to succeed for my brother's and sister and my cousins. Because I'm the oldest and I feel like I need to be there for them if for some reason our parent's can't be. So that drives me to make the right career choices so that I can have a stable and substantial income if anyone ever needed anything.
It's sometimes a struggle - only because I still don't quite know what I want to do career wise. Really. It's so frustrating because I have SO many ideas and things that I am interested in. But nothing that I excel at. That's why I chose to major in Business Management. Because I know that I want to own my own business some day and I figured that I had to start soon - I'm not getting any younger for crying out loud.

So in that aspect I do care - I make some choices based on whether or not my grandparents will be proud and career choices that will make me a substantial amount of money so I can provide for everyone.

Otherwise - the answer is no - I make my own choices based on what I like or what I feel. I form my own opinions and ideas and I do what I want.
I have tattoos and my tongue pierced - because I wanted to get them and I like them - AND I want more tattoos. See these things my grandparents don't agree with - but just because they think it's gross that I have my tongue pierced - I still have it - and I don't feel guilty for having it.
Even getting married in Las Vegas - I know my Grandma wanted us to get married here in Minnesota - but we wanted it to be out there. And everyone had a blast out there - even my Grandma.

So I hope this makes sense.
For the most part - I do what I want to do for myself. I feel like I live for myself - but I also feel I have responsibilities that I need to consider when making certain choices in my life. I just want to do the right thing. I grew up pretty poor and I don't want my kids to grow up like that nor do I want my brother's and sister's to feel like I did.

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Tuesday, December 06, 2005

Pics of Steve

Here are the before and after pics of Steve. The last one is to put his size into perspective. Trav said it's important that you know how tiny he is. This is my first peice - so it's still a little rough. I made four necklace pendants so far as well - as soon as I get them baked and painted I will post pics of them too. But by then I will probably have more becuse I keep busting them out. Last night I made one in about 15 mins. I love this stuff!!!!!!

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Monday, December 05, 2005

Macy

Check out this cute little turd! Gotta love that smile!

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Polly Procrastinator

yeah that's me.

So I didn't get as much done this weekend as I would have liked to. We just didn't feel like moving the desk into the other room - so it's still in the living room - and my beloved craft room is still not up and running. I got my cleaning done though - our bathroom is immaculate - I don't even want to use it - but, alas, nature calls.

I finished Steve. I baked him in the oven on Friday night, but I think I overestimated the time he needed to be in there - so he got a little burned. He just looked like he had a weird skin condition. But, he is painted now and I will post the pics soon of his before and after.

Since my craft room doesn't exist yet - Ive been using our coffee table. I have a lamp set up there and paints and my clay. Don't worry the table is protected - I have down some pretty thick drawing paper that covers my work space. I can't wait until we get the drawing table back from Trav's sis. Hey, maybe we can stop there this weekend when we are up there. Woo Hoo! That's going to be my work table. It was my Aunt's table - she never used it - so we borrowed it about 4 years ago. Trav took it with him when he went up to Duluth and stayed with his Dad to be with his Grandma before she passed away. Then when he moved back down and back in with me - he only took some of his stuff - the table and a bunch of other boxes of his stuff are still at his sisters place. We take some back with us whenever we can.

Saturday, Jessica and Macy came to visit despite the freakin blizzard they had to drive in. Glad they made it OK. They stayed for a while and I made veggie taco's for lunch - mmmmm!
I have to call her and schedule our next date :).

I made a few necklace pendants out of my clay, too. I have a ton of ideas for more pendants. It's so fun making everything. I love this stuff!

Well I hope everyone had a great weekend - I know we did.

Stay tuned for the pics of Steve!

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Friday, December 02, 2005

Steve Polychronopolous

Well hello! how's it going? Me, goooooooood.
Sorry about not writing so much this week - I only have two more weeks left of school - so I've been doing a bunch on homework lately. Can you believe that this semeseter is almost over!? It's crazy how fast time flies. It seems like I was just buying my books!
This week was very snow filled. I made Trav drive everywhere because it makes me nervous to drive in the snow. I usually drive because I love driving - but I just can't do the snow.

I woke up this morning with a HUGE scratch on my chest - it's like 6 inches long and bright red - now it's starting to itch. No idea where it's from.

The night it started snowing out really bad - I think it was Wednesday. Trav and I went to Best Buy and picked up the new Darkness CD - it kicks arse (that's Brittish for "ass")! Love it!
Then we went to Micheal's to pick up some polymer clay for me - I got a block of plain white polymer - just becuase I have never worked with it before - so I wanted sort of a blank canvas.
I have always loved ceramics - I took it for three years in high school and have always wanted to get back into it. I checked around for classes and/or studios in the area - I found some but they are really expensive to get into - it was like $150 a month for clay, 24-hour access to studio space, and lounge with a couch and TV, a certain amount of space in the giant kiln, and a locked cupboard or drawer to keep your crap in. It's just too much for me to spend for the little time I have to spend there - it would be worth the $ if I wasn't going to school because then I could spend more of my time there. SO - next best thing = polymer clay.
I was watching HGTV over the long weekend and this lady was making santas out of polymer clay. I learned that you can bake it in your own oven at home! PERFECT!
and It stays soft until you bake it - no muddy mess of keeping the clay wet!
So I wanted to start working with it once we got the craft room set up - which we are doing tonight - but I couldn't wait. So I took a small peice off - it's packaged in a box - and it's set like twizzler's pull and peel - only square. So peeled one tubeular shaped peice off and started playing with it - just too see what it was like and how different it was from the clay I was used to.
Well I ended up staying up until midnight playing with it - I made a head and face of a little tiny guy. I added more features on last night as well as hair - Trav tried to test me to see if I could make him have short curly hair - and I did.
I think he looks great - and so does Trav - he's proud of me.
I named him Steve Polychronopolous - get it - polymer clay - polychronopolous? Well I thought it was cute. I'm sure all you Adam Sandler fans will too :)
I will post a picture of him tonight if I have time - I really want to show you guys - I like him a lot. I hate to toot my own horn - but I think Im pretty good with this stuff.

Ok - I'm going home now, this is the first Friday in a long time that I don't have a bunch of running around to do before I go home - I can just go straight home. That's so nice.
But then at home - I have to clean the tub and rearrange furniture.

Fun.

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