The Carly I knew was direct and fearless, and the intermittent nervousness in her eyes now seems to indicate a depth of damage I don't fully comprehend. I consider the possibility that her asshole ex-husband is largely responsible for this transformation, but I wonder if I'm simply passing the buck because the alternative is too depressing to consider.Jonathan Tropper, The Book of Joe, p. 299
August 13, 2011
Carly
July 13, 2011
Summer 2011 DIY Project
I got a job, an income is always great. But, I feel intellectually un-stimulated so I need to keep my hands busy or at least my mind for the moments when I'm not filling plastic cups with soda or passing border sauce packets to customers.
The Plan:
Take this Ikea Hemnes Desk (in white) and Ikea Hemnes Add-on Unit (also white), selectively paint the back panels black and apply this Oriental Vine Allover Stencil in white, add this Cat Stencil in varying silver and white pieces to the black painted cabinet doors of the desk with silver (or white) glowish accents. This might be hard to visualize but I have a notebook full of sketches.
Implementation:
Now, before I execute my master plan, I need practice. So I plan to take paper mache square boxes like this and use my color pallet to practice applying the stencils. Once I paint the boxes, I want to add initials and mail them to my dearest friends! Hopefully, I will have the patience to keep some for myself.
I work full time now so it could very well take me the rest of the summer to finish this but I'm fully determined to see it through. I did some calculations and it will cost around $700 to complete the whole thing. Funding this project and saving for my vacation this year will meaning pinching pennies and scouring the basement couch, but it'll be fun!
Take this Ikea Hemnes Desk (in white) and Ikea Hemnes Add-on Unit (also white), selectively paint the back panels black and apply this Oriental Vine Allover Stencil in white, add this Cat Stencil in varying silver and white pieces to the black painted cabinet doors of the desk with silver (or white) glowish accents. This might be hard to visualize but I have a notebook full of sketches.
Implementation:Now, before I execute my master plan, I need practice. So I plan to take paper mache square boxes like this and use my color pallet to practice applying the stencils. Once I paint the boxes, I want to add initials and mail them to my dearest friends! Hopefully, I will have the patience to keep some for myself.
I work full time now so it could very well take me the rest of the summer to finish this but I'm fully determined to see it through. I did some calculations and it will cost around $700 to complete the whole thing. Funding this project and saving for my vacation this year will meaning pinching pennies and scouring the basement couch, but it'll be fun!
June 23, 2011
Things I Like
It seems I only complain about the things around me I don't like. So I decided to write down things I do like, seeing as even I don't really know what they are...
- Golf
- I Love Lucy
- Romantic comedies
- Sherlock Holmes
- Billiards
- James Bond movies
- Papercraft
- The Sims
- Handicrafts
- Politics
- Indie music
- Beer
- Vodka
- Long walks
- Bodies of water
- Admiring bodies of water from afar
- Cats
- Cleanliness
- Macaroni and cheese
- Simple, elegant, understated fashion
- Androgynous people
- Old movies
- Smart phones
- Comedy in general
- Nature documentaries
- C-Span
- Baking
- Examples of Murphy's Law in action
- Talking over coffee
- My daily planner
- Tinkering
- Discovery Channel shows (Deadliest Catch, Auction Kings, American Chopper)
- Fixing things
- Legos
- Reading classic novels
- Hot dogs
- Stuffed animals
- The sound of ticking analog clocks
- Making lists
- Collecting quotations
- The smell of clean laundry
- Pictures of flowers
- Puzzles
- The news
- Vans shoes
- Skinny jeans
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