After Christmas Recovery

I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday! :D I know I did!! My MAMA CAME!! I don know if you can tell or not but im excited. Lol anywho here are pictures from Christmas, Dicksons Faire and general awesomeness.

Work sushi from my over night shift

Bangers and Mash!

 Corsets and Masked Mama

So much Dickens Faire! 

*Sigh* work, but makin it cute

Christmas Breakfast!!

Gifts, pets and Christmas snack!!

Bruscetta and Pizza!!!

MMmmmmm.... Prime Rib....

Push up contest and Pig Mania

Hanging out in the famous Union Square with Mama :) 

 

Ya.. Hope your holiday was as good as mine, but Im not sure it could be :) lol kidding. Took mama to the airport Thursday and  Picked the Gentleman Friend up from the Airport on Friday. He had a good Holiday to and brought back baby Jesus Cookies (kifles) and lots of goodies!! Right now we are eating donuts and watching the Football on Redzone... Im a spoiled girl 

Managing Time like a FIEND!!

So much stuff going on! But I stole a quiet moment in corporate coffee shop to just sit, drink some iced tea and blog.. And download podcasts :3 Lets see, lemme complain about all the things i have gotten myself into these days.

Im working on the promo materials for the guy who did my car alarm a few weeks back (months? geeze this is dragging out) Its a cute little project, but one more thing on my list these days.

School is amazing but going by so quickly!! Tonight I need to catch up on a painting that I neglected last week, draw some thumbnails and be prepared to do some make up as Im going to be missing some more in the future... :/ Sad but the way things are, bte missing because GF is being presented with an awesome award and picking my mother up from the airport, so 2 biggies for me!!! Plus the usual sketchbook stuff for heads and hands (which actually i cant complain, he's not a great teacher but the homework is sooooo much lighter then a good teacher which is great at this moment). Plus thumbnails for Digital Media, and not to forget the weekly essay for Art History (aaaarrrrrggg, MADONNAS!!!!) But these are my regular weekly things, the constant maintanance. Plus I need to keep doodling for my side project

My Mother is coming. Which is GREAT but my house is a DISASTER. Like homeless viking bachorlars have been living there. Who knew one busy chick and 2 cats could make so many dishes... lol!! (I personally hate doing dishes) oh ya, and the gerbil, 2 bettas, the hermit crabs and Jaws the goldfish....

Craft show on the 1st! Which is going to be tons of fun, and hopefully give me a little cash boost right before the holidays. But this means I have to make crafts! which I have been "planning" since summer but have been putting off.... for like... till last thursday? Fashion Rachel came over and we crafted some, I cranked out about 40ish really cute items, now i just have to finish packaging them and make some of my signature lino prints. I havnt printed in a few years now, but my tools are still sharp and ready for action! actually they may need a little sharpening... but thats ok, I can do this too :) )

Work is insanity. They have been doubling my hours (boooo for my time, yay for my eating) and its Holidays. This means the crazys are out, I get yelled at in Chinese and Russian, and homeless people try and pay in space diamonds. (True true and true, all have already happened) On a sad note one of my coworkers had a stroke at work the other day. they caught it super early so he will be alright, but inhis get well card we all teased him about getting out of the "All hands on deck" days (everyone better be there because we made things to cheap!) and Holiday hours.

The cats have been insane, and this is kind of a stressor. Kitler i think is developing and eating disorder, he is just food OBSESSED. To the point of eating erasers, plastic and more. I know its because he's bored, but Pickles is copying him and getting kind of sick (isnt the old cat supposed to teach the young one to be GOOD???) I just need to spend more time with them i guess. Poor guys.

Things are busy, but its good! I actually feel really good about things, and the stress isnt a depressing, smothering stress I have had in the past. Life is full but really really good! I finally have a saturday off just in time for GF to take me to see ADAM CAROLLA LIVE PODCAST!! Im not sure is you know.. but Im a huge Adam Carolla fan. I havnt gotten to see a live show since 09, and this is going to be soooooo goood!!!! Bald Brian, Alison Rosen, and all the Mikes will be there, so good! And with my tall handsome hero who has decided he is going to invite everyone over to watch football on Sunday. I like this plan. They wont come, but I like the idea that he wants to invite celebs to his mancave, which DOES have a Theater sized tv projector.

BTW going to start having some home made Christmas gift recipes and idea's for those of you who are as broke as I am :3 Mmmm just got a free frap from the awesome barista's :)

Job! Upcoming Adventure! Life!

And so much more! So I have been a work-a-holic this week at the new job. Not gunna lie, thusly its really not bad. Not bad at ALL. A little enjoyable even. Why would selling men's shoes possibly be enjoyable? Well, maybe its my frame of reference. After the California Corporate petshop gig and horrific managers, constant animal abuse and little monies, and before that working my happy ass off for no monies and little perks, and basicly having had a bunch of crappy jobs, its nice to have a job where people know what their doing. Also, men know what the FUCK THEY WANT. They want a pair of shoes. They want to leave with a pair of shoes. I fetch shoes they give me monies. Not that there arnt annoying/evil/spoiled customers, and not that there arnt angry wives, but over all its "Fetch me this shoe" which isnt to hard. well, sometimes its hard to locate it, but that too is like a treasure hunt. and we KNOW how I feel about treasure/geocashing/etc.

Memorial Weekend was the 75th anniversery of the Golden Gate Bridge.

 they had lovely fireworks, bands, food trucks (OMG) and tons of fun, which Gentleman Friend told me ALL about as I.... was working... Earnin the cash ;) Anywho, Papa worked on the bridge loooooong ago, mostly for earthquake retrofits but still, that bridge helped put food on my familys table.

This weekend Im going to be spoiled out of my mind by the GF. His best friend is coming to town and apparently we're going to PARTY!! In varios citys even ;) Not gunna lie, super excited!!!

Never to Early for the Holiday Season...

Ugh... Its a few short weeks until everyone I know and love will turn into lunatics, and I will be broke, ha, broker. So I decided to be proactive. Since no one I know or love reads this, I can share it with my followers...err... myself. lol. So since I have many many MANY peppers from my lovely sister and her garden I am going to be making pickled peppercini's, with apples from my Aunts tree that is over flowing, I am attepting apple butter (with the help of my beloved crockpot, oh crockpot, love of my life) and back by popular demand, pickled carrots! So why all this pickling? isnt pickling hard? What about botulism? Let me answer all of this loves.

These are refridgerator pickles, so I dont have to worry so much about scary things growing in them. also, applebutter? Freezer fodder till holidays hit :) And for all my pickled things, Im using the same basic brine:

2C Vinager (they suggest apple cider but I used white last year and it was great)
2C water
1/4C White Sugar
1.5 tsp salt

bring it to a boil, and place the vegi's into the jars, along with herbs and spices. This is great so I can flavor each jar seperatly! Pour boiling brine over vegi's, let cool and store in the fridge until yummy.

Its really easy. I bought like 20 mason jars last year for like $10, the little ones (which are cuter for gifts!) and will again this year. Also, I have been saving cute salsa and fruit jars, and picked some masons up from my neighbor. Nice ;)

So school started on Thursday. Its going to be sooooo good for me. Im ready to get my ass kicked!

And yes, pictures are coming, its just hard when Im updating from Corporate coffee shop.

Ohh! I have started a little challenge! Im going to attept to DRAW every day for one year. In my little sketch book... So this isnt going to include the massive amounts of drawing I will be doing at school. I have tried to do this before and always fail.. I may fail now... But maybe I wont ;)