Happy Dad Day!
(well, my dad, anyway)
It's his BIRTHDAY!
I unfortunately was not able to get him his present online, which is a bummer because that means I had to pay full price for it at Barnes & Noble, but it is purchased and wrapped nonetheless.
I got him a copy of Hoodwinked, the new book by John Perkins.Now that I think about it, I should've bought a copy from the author's website. they usually autograph them when you do that. Oops. Well, I guess there's a Father's day idea.
Happy Birthday Dad!

Morning After

So I'm 27. It's just like 26. Except older.

My birthday went well. I spent most of the morning goofing off online and opening presents from my family. I received the most awesome awesome wooden wall chicken (I have a thing for chickens) and a multi-eyelet kit (for leather), AND a huge box with polymer clay goodies. Beads will be a-happening around here for a bit. With my new bead rollers and baking rack I will be entertained for hours! The beads pictured are in my other Etsy shop Blenderbach. The eyelet kit is interesting as well. It comes with three different sized eyelets in a myriad of colors and a gun. It claims that it can be used on leather, cd's, paper, vinyl, and "everything" so we'll see how it goes.After all the goofing off I went into the store for a bit to finish up two pairs of purse scrap sandals. But not before picking up some Sal's pizza on the way. Sal's may replace Cardello's in my pizza-love, but really only because it's closer than Cardello's with it's greasy pizza goodness.
Once my birthday lunch was devoured I worked on a custom pair of sandals for an online customer. I should have them finished by today (hooray!) and once they're complete I'll need to get started on two more custom orders and than some more purse scrap sandal orders (which i hate doing - they're so repetitive).
Once that was over Allen and I headed to movie night with our laminating machine and bullhorn (supplies for the AlleyCat race on Saturday). The feature of the evening was Motel Hell, which looked promising and was entertaining for the first 40 minutes until the VHS tape crapped out on us. So we had to resort to another episode of our short, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia.

April Fool

Nobody's nice to the All Fools Day babies. It's enough to make me wish I were a better prankster. But no, I'm the type to let out a knowing giggle right before you drink your soda spiked with pickle juice... I've never been good at pulling pranks, pulling one over, or pulling the wool over someone's eyes. I'd like to think it's my good nature but most likely it's just my follow-through.

I'm feeling a bit down today. It started last night as I came home from work.
Having a usually sunny disposition, it's always a very weird feeling when my mood turns stinko. I try to over-rationalize the things that are bothering me and that never makes anything better. Yesterday evening I was determined to let it ruin my night, bought a six pack on my way home and planned on drinking through tears by myself. Luckily Allen saved my night with conversation, warmth, and a gift and we both stayed up until 3am (the exact time I was born).

Despite the rain (it always always rains on my birthday- April showers, you know?) and my pissy attitude I still have a lot to look forward to today. I get to go into the shop and finish a couple sandals. Maybe even work on something for me. Later tonight we'll be doing our weekly outing of movie night! I'm not sure what the feature will be but it always promises a good time.
And I'm certain the clouds will lift. The real ones and the metaphorical ones.