Archive for December, 2007

the art of modern designed cat furniture

It should come as no surprise that I love well designed modern furniture. In fact, I love anything that is well designed. I have a lot of respect for industrial designers, because that is something that I could never do. My designer brain does not work in three dimensions.

I discovered something recently that nearly gave me a heart attack, because it is so perfect. Fantastic modern furniture designs for cats!

A great place to find a nice collection of modern cat furniture from all around the world is the blog, moderncat.net.

It would be so fun to work at a company like that. To be surrounded by well designed cuteness every day, and omg, to test products on cute kitties! I used to work for a jewelry and gifts company designing necklaces, earrings, brooches, as well as greeting cards, ornaments, picture frames, and a ton of other items. Along side the jewelry and gift design, I created trade show graphics, mailers, and other marketing material for them. The latter is not as fun, but definitely a more desirable skill set to have, career wise.

Here is one last little gem for you guys.

hair cut? yes or no or yes or no or yes or no

I successfully drove David crazy on Sunday. I’ve been needing a trim to shape up and thin out my locks, but I thought I might want to go much shorter instead. This started a long debate whether or not I looked better with short hair or long hair. David claimed that both short and long hair looked good on me. This was sweet, but drove me mad, because one has to be inferior on my face shape in some way. They can’t both work perfectly.

I am still not 100% sure if I want to cut my hair short. I like my long hair, it’s pretty, but is short hair prettier? more unique? will it make me look more mature and sophisticated? I’ve had short hair for most of my life, so it’s comfortable for me. Should I wait to cut it until I am totally tired of my long hair? Or go ahead already with a short bob? I have never been so worried about a haircut before, I’m always the person who says “who cares, it’s just hair, it will grow back”.

I think Katie Holmes has very similar hair to mine, and she had it about the length of mine (my hair can make boob curtains now) until she cut it to a cute bob. I love that bob. Now if only I had her little chin and nice cheekbones and nose, I’d be set.

lack of tradition or patience

This is the scene nearly every Christmas, as well as all of the other gift giving occasions. My family and friends make fun of me for it, but I’m not going to take full responsibility for this. As I remember it, my dad often told me what he was going to get me for my gifts before the occasion arose. So it’s all his fault, completely his.

I’m terrible at it, I just can’t keep it inside me. Sometimes I will try really hard, and I will hold out for weeks and weeks until I blurt it out a few days before. One year my mom was coming to visit me in college and Mother’s Day was going to fall during her visit. I had purchased her a gift already, a watch, and was waiting to give it to her once she arrived. Before her flight, I was talking to her on the phone about her visit and Mother’s Day when I spilled the beans, “I’ll give you the watch, then!” I blurted. Why couldn’t I have said “you’re gift” instead of “the watch”? Because I have an excess information release disease, that’s why. Those kinds of incidents happened to me way too often.

Here is the ring David got me for Christmas. Yes, I’m already wearing it.

back to short hair

I went in for the bob and I am very happy with it. My hair grows like a scary muscled man on steroids, so I’m totally not worried about growing it back out again if I get tired of this.

David took several photos of my new cut but none of them completely encompassed the awesomeness of the style. Not that David can’t take nice photos, I blame two dimensionality. This is the same reason why I think I look great in the mirror but get nauseated at the sight of myself in nearly all photos. Oh, the difficulties of time and space.

instructions upon my death

I’m not going to make much sense, because my brain doesn’t want to work, but I know you’ll forgive me.

I’m sick. I haven’t been sick like this in years. I have a fever, painful steel wool throat, drips, drainage, faints, and aches. Edit: Okay, I totally over exaggerated. I had a cold, it lasted like two days, and I’m already getting better. Since I am certain that death is coming for me this week, David has been instructed to take my ashes and create a diamond from my remains.

The little sleep I got last night, was filled with dreams of the company that creates the human-diamonds, they were alien’s from another planet banking on the silly materialistic humans, something about extra cleaning services you could buy, and all these meaningless additions to purchase that added to their scam.

A tacky holiday sweater party I went to last week.

My mom and me at a dinner party over the weekend.

The cutest boyfriend trait: watching awful reality shows with me, like The Real Housewives, and acting genuinely interested at the comments I make about the characters.

home alone

I’ve been home all week, save Christmas where David and I went to spend the day with family. David has been working a little bit so part of the week was spent alone, just me and Mojie. Did you know there’s not a lot of good on TV ALL the time? The internet has been boring me a lot too, but I’m sure I’ll be more interested once I get back to work. Being home so much has allowed us to finish a lot more painting work, put up a new kitchen light, new door handles, and hang about 57 frames with photos and artwork.

My least favorite, and most time consuming task right now is painting all of the wood trim and wood doors a high gloss white. It takes for-freakin’-ever! Drives me nuts. Regular wall painting=easy as pie. Stupid wood=work of the devil. I don’t know if painting them white was the smartest thing to do, but I bet stripping and restaining them a darker wood color would not have been any easier. At least it was less expensive than replacing everything with new trim, doors, and everything.

David and I have decided to try for stained concrete flooring, I think it will look so nice. My old home renovation list has been updated slightly, and grown with a lot more details. Mostly with the kitchen revamping. The wall between the kitchen and living room is coming down to become a bar, and I need a new counter top but I still haven’t decided what I want, I’m thinking of concrete counters, but I’ll have to see if that will work well. The cabinets need to go, and new sleek modern ones need to come in their place. We like these white ones with some glass thrown in.

The plain rectangular bathroom mirrors with no frames I want replaced with contemporary oval mirrors like these from Ikea, with a stainless steel frame. I’ll need new sinks and vanities as well.

So, lots more work to do, but at least the bigger things will be done by someone other than me, hello contractors! I should get back to work painting some more trim, yay. I hope you guys had a great week and holidays!