Not feeling too blogg-y.

 

So I made an app ointment to see the doctor for the first time since Cannon was born. Yeah, four years. I've been busy. And mostly without health insurance. So, while I was there, I got the full package. Yearly exam, mammogram, tetanus shot and a flu shot. So while I'm there, she lets me know that my thyroid is enlarged and I need to have an ultrasound. So I get my ultrasound and that afternoon I get a call that my mammogram came back and I need to get an ultrasound on my left breast. Yippee. I call and set the appointment. Today I get the call that my ultrasound on my thyroid showed multiple nodules on my thyroid. They tell me I need another appointment. Ummm, seriously? The more you look at me, apparently the closer I am to dying. So stop lookin at me! I have my breast ultrasound on Monday and on Tuesday I think I'm having a needle biopsy in the office on my thyroid. Fucking doctors. Sorry - venting.

Now that I've put it all out there into the internets I feel better. I have an awesome party to plan and I'm not letting twenty bazillion doctor appointments get in my way of yummy mini cupcakes and mimosas!

TRADE SECRET DAY: A Hangar Tutorial

Okay crafty peeps... so you want to have customized hangars, but you don't want to pay a small fortune to have them all screen printed. Here's a nice little DIY project for you.

 

Supplies:

Your beautiful logo
Laserjet or Inkjet printer
Water-side decal paper (typically used for model trains and cars, etc)
Clear coat spray paint
Scissors
Saucer of cold water
Dry towel
Hangars of your choice

1. Design your logo/decals in your graphics program and make a layout for an 8 1/2" x 11" paper.

2. Print your logo on the glossy side of the decal paper.

3. Spray the page with a soft coat of cear coat. I would let this dry and give it a second coat. If you get it thicker it will be easier to side off and onto your hangar later.

4. Cut out the logo to transfer onto your hangars. If you are a perfectionist like I am, keep in mind that you might be able to see the outline just slightly so try to cut them out in a uniform way.

5. Place a few of the decals face up in a shallow plate of water and soak for close to a minute. Check to see when the decal starts to slide off of the backing paper. Throw away the backing paper and slide the decal onto your hangar. It should slide around easily until it is centered and straightened.

6. Use the clean, dry towel to pat the decal down and press out any air bubbles.

7. Let it dry and rock the party!


 
 
 

Room with a Birthday View

I couldn't resist taking this pic. I just looked down and started laughing. I had contemplated taking a work-hookie day, but I was forced into a non-job-related work day from the beginning. I have an advertising deadline that I need to get proofs off to this afternoon, Mia's gift wrap fund raiser (that I strongly oppose) is due today, Cannon is still sick, and most importantly I got a new SHUFFLE for my birthday!!!! My hubby loves me.

So, there's a story there. Of course. He bought be a most loverly ipod for my birthday a couple of years ago and I was too busy to properly play with it... and so it sat unused until Justin finally started using it. I even bought it pretty cases and such. Alas, my laptop wasn't cooperating with iTunes (SEE PREVIOUS POST, GRRRR) and I was so frustrated with it that I just didn't touch it. Fast forward to today. There she is in all of her pink glory. And here I am with my entire CD book that I haven't opened since I sold my VW Cabriolet in 2001.

So before I begin to tell you how ecstatic I am to be uploading my ode to 1997 cd's, let me give you a little insight into my very complicated psychie. I am technocologically very savvy. VERY. I'm also pretty self-aware of my time/capacity limitations. If I don't have the time to fully understand something, then I don't want to waste the time or energy to even know a bit about it. I either know it very well, or not at all. I can fully admit that I don't always prioritize this well. My head and body are always running a mile a minute. At any given moment in my head, I'm planning to design a new line, construct a retaining wall, paint a china cabinet, bake cupcakes with the girls, bathe the dog, build an exterior store sign... yeah, that was all a moment yesterday. It's not that I don't want to know all about how iTunes works or know the ins and outs of Arduino boards (OH how I want to know THAT! The fun that this crafty geeky grrl could have!) It's just that it hasn't found a space on the highway to cut into traffic yet. If it keeps my interest long enough, eventually I'll find the bandwidth for it to merge in. Today, I made room for my new iPod/iTunes. And I am in PRINCE HEAVEN here people.

Now, on a slightly less exciting note. Here I sit on my 35th birthday and writing about myself and I realize that these things have always been true about me. It is sometimes hard for me to still see that part of myself. That "mile a minute, energized, friends had to hide my algae energy pills because I was wearing them out" girl. My body just doesn't move that fast anymore. My mind still does. And, as my husband can attest, so does my talkie talkie mouth. Maybe I need to find those crazy algae whole food pills again. Oh Hays Girlies out there, do you remember that?

And now, a short birthday review for your entertainment pleasure. Apparently my laptop is still bitter about that whole love/hate thing from yesterday because it just thrashed all of the photos I had uploaded of birthday's past. So, you get a review starting in 2000. BORING. :)

2000 - this is the closest pic I could find to my birthday. It was taken on Oct 12. Surely we did SOMETHING fun right?


Maybe not, because just two days later I had done THIS to myself. Maybe I was belated-celebrating?


And two weeks later:


And exactly one month after my 27th birthday:



Whew. Moving on to 2001. No birthday pics again. BUT! Here I am on the 22nd with a 15 week, 4 day old Mia Quinn brewing in my belly!


2002. It's time to PAR-TAY! Right? Ummmm, nope. Looks like we ripped out the ceiling in our kitchen for my 29th. Wow, we were all sorts of fun back then weren't we?


Oh, nice. MIA however had a Half-Birthday celebration just four days later on the 7th. OMG that's cute.


2003. The big THREE-OH. Yes, this time we did it up right. A little family photo before heading out for our FIRST EVENING away from the Quinn-ster.


This pic pretty much says it all.


2004. Cannon was just over a month old and we went to IKEA for my birthday! Seriously. We went and bought a new kitchen. It was pretty awesome actually.


2005. Um. Yeah. Somehow I've misplaced all photos from a couple of years. The backup cd's are m.i.a.

Wow, that WAS boring. And now back to your regularly scheduled programming.

i *heart* the internet

Happy Birthday to me!



For about two years now I have had a love/hate relationship with my laptop. I have hated everything that it can't do or doesn't do well and I loved that airport security has dropped the uninsured hunk of junk three separate times. It has entire lines of dead pixels on the screen, the memory was low and worst of all, I couldn't stream Project Runway to save my life!

I just upgraded to 2GB of RAM. Hello hotstuff! Or so I thought. I started up Firefox and within a minute or two - stuck. Dead halted on trying to open some pretty basic websites.

GRRRRRR.

So, Justin mentions that I should maybe update my network adapter drivers. Okay, how come I don't think of that... or didn't anytime in the last two years. So he goes on the hunt for the file and I start google searching anything I can find on the adapter itself. I have searched for any info on the problem before to no avail, but apparently I tapped into some new keyworking this time around and found this piece of gold. That's right. THIRTY SECONDS of updating and I was streaming Season 5 Episode 3 like butter!

If you clicked that link, make sure to read my comment where I declare my love for the blogger that posted it. Bloggers rule.

So, it's my birthday and I just got a pretty special little gift. I got my youtube back. All is right with the world.

*** don't take this as a sign that I don't want your gifts and adorations! more is more here people! ***

BOO! Halloween is here!

 

I had a very hard time getting a good photo of the new shop window, but I'm counting on Amy to get a better one tomorrow. She has a much better camera and well, she's just good like that :) We've stocked the store with new Halloween lounge sets complete with vintage Halloween print pants and Sassy Kitty or Peter Peter Pumpkin shirts. I'll be bringing in more sizes tomorrow through the weekend. We made 0-3 months through 8 years this time around! These are limited edition and limited quantites per size.