rediscovery

I should be studying for my impending midterm tomorrow. But of course, I got distracted and rediscovered an absolutely gorgeous song by the Kooks [I've begun to notice that when I transferred most of my music collection to my external hard drive, that a bunch of songs disappeared - this song being one of them. How sad].

So without further ado, I Already Miss You; make sure you have some kleenex nearby, ladies and sensitive gents.

dear Scott Campbell,

Tonight I discovered the illustrations of Scott Campbell and his work is kinda what I wish I drew like. Here are my three favs thus far:

Show Off 5 because I love Julius Caesar

The Tea Spilling because I would cry if I ever spilled my tea too

Four in Need of Refreshment because the Beatles are awesome.

embroidery

All summer I have been attempting to do something creative with my hands that isn't my usual fare [unlike most of my artist peers, I am obsessed with art and the idea of making art but during the summertime I never seem to actually make much - just theorize about it] and the ideas of either knitting or embroidery has come up multiple times. I will admit, I love sewing. I love it mostly because it is something to do with my hands to keep them busy.

My goal for embroidery is to be like Joetta Maue's absolutely lovely work [which has been my craving all summer]. These are some of my favourites:

I guess practice will make perfect. I just need some fabric. However, I am currently attempting to turn this pant jumpsuit of my mum's into a dress for me. Mum actually looks astonished when I modeled it for her after connecting the legs.
Oh, ye faithless.

how lovely

I haven't seen [500] Days of Summer yet - although I would really really love too hint hint Kyleman - this video made me smile; this is especially considering I adore Zooey Deschanel as an actress AND musician, plus Joseph Gordan Levitt on 3rd Rock From the Sun when I was a kid was always my favourite.



If only cute news, Kyleman's one fat cat Turbo, who apparently adores me as much as I adore her is snuggling beside me, kneading my side and pressing her chin against my arm. So cute if only I wasn't afraid of drool.

painters in the park

I will tell you one thing I am jealous of right now:

There are people painting in the park I work in right this very second and I can't go out and play with them. No, because I have computer work and organizational work and work, work, work in general.

Plus I don't think my boss would appreciate it much if I ran outside to be a free-spirited hippy child and got paint all over my work shirt.

In other news I am wearing new lovely, so-shiny-they-squeak, black shoes which I absolutely adore but buckle up and so make it incredibly difficult to take them off and put them back on fast enough when I have to run to get the door.

Aren't they just lovely?

On a slightly ending note, it feels like a typical Tuesday at work. Everything is quite quiet and slightly boring due to computer work. My craving to play the Sims is overwhelming and I'm sad my two days off went by too quickly. There is only 3 more weeks of work though and then a couple days before heading back to Guelph. I feel like this year might be slightly more stressful for the Kman and I since we've become so adapted to essentially being an old, married couple, that the withdrawal [atleast the withdrawal I'll have] will be terribly terrible.

If only they had a patch for that.