Now with ultraviolent zombie mayhem!
By Melissa | June 19, 2009
Finished quilt #2, a small wall-hanging quilt. Its construction is chronicled here:
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| Rail Fence Wallhanging Quilt |
In other news, there’s not much news. I just finished reading the most awesome book ever: Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. No, really. Someone took Pride and Prejudice and re-wrote it with zombies in it. It was freaking awesome–if you like historical fiction and zombie brain-eating action, this book is for you. I’ve moved on to another zombie book: The Zombie Survival Guide. It’s written with such detail on zombie biology (that’s as far as I’ve gotten in the book so far), that it’s actually convincing me that zombies are a real possibility. Not that I doubted it before. But after reading this book, I will be ready for the inevitable undead apocalypse.
Also have become a fan of this song by The Black Ghosts. I will not admit where I heard it first. Ok, fine, it was in the movie version of Twilight, stop judging me, you know you saw it, too. Ahem. If you ignore the fact that it was in a teen movie sensation, it’s a pretty song (although that video is a little weird). …You’re still judging me, aren’t you?
Anybody know of any good zombie books? Other good music that should have a happy home on my iPod?
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Updates all around
By Melissa | June 5, 2009
Time to dust off the old blahg for an update, I suppose.
Let’s see. First, the cloak I wrote about in my last entry was a hit at the Renaissance Fair. Tracey wore hers, too, and together we dorked out at the festival. Despite the pouring rain, it was all fun and games until the part where I got sick and vomited in front of God and everyone (the cloak was unharmed).
Zoë turned one year old on Monday. To celebrate, we took her to Petsmart to buy a couple of new toys and some treats. We met a very talkative Asian woman who told us we should have babies, but “dogs are much easier. And cheaper.” Zoë seemed highly unimpressed with the celebrations, but she did manage to destroy one of her two new toys within an hour of getting home from the store. I also made a Blurb.com book of pictures from her first year (dorky, I know, but also cute). That should be getting printed soon–I’ll let you know how it turns out.
My grandfather passed away a few weeks ago. The week he died was one of the saddest, roughest weeks in recent history. He’s not suffering anymore, though, and that’s sort of a relief. My family’s life is slowly getting back to normal–Dad is on the mend, too. Thanks to everyone who send well wishes our way recently.
Josh grew some stuff in his garden, and then we ate it. Well, the lettuce at least. Also some tomatoes. Josh seems to be able to grow stuff, whereas I am a bit challenged in the gardening department. I am doing good to keep my one citronella houseplant alive.
I haven’t really sewed much recently. I did sew a couple of stuffed animals that came out kind of cute. I found the pattern on Etsy.com, my most favorite place in the Internet world. I would show you a pic except that one of the toys is a baby gift, and I’m not sure if the giftee reads this blog or not. I’ll show you after the baby shower, which is on Sunday. I promise it’s cute.
Josh and I are going to San Francisco in a few weeks for a conference/vacation. He’s going to a conference, but I’ll be just living it up in San Fran. I plan on hitting up coffee shops, reading books, and traipsing around while he’s busy. We tacked on a couple of days at the end to do some sight-seeing. So should be fun. I’m definitely ready for a vacation. Oh, and while we’re in San Fran, we will be seeing the B-52s in concert at the conference’s big finale party. I am super stoked about that because I am a big fan of the B-52s.
I think that about does it for super new and exciting news from the Gnomograms front.
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