I slack. I apologize.

When I first started this I totally thought I would blog often and talk about whatever. Then it was just sporadic and now I rarely do it. One of my closest friends has TWO blogs and another friend has an awesome knitting blog and here I am with my blah blah blog and I don't even put anything on it. OK I'm going to attempt to keep this bad boy up!
First thing on the agenda: KNITTING!
I've just started a new project for myself. It's the Infinitude Scarf by Jeni Chase that I found on Ravely. It was EXACTLY what I was looking for and I had my yarn all ready and waiting then..... realized I didn't have the right needles. BLAST! So I had to order them online. and wait. Okay it was only 2 days that I had to wait but still, I wanted to MAKE THIS!! So last night I get home and there are my needles.
I get out my AWESOME Sheep(ish) yarn in Teal(ish) and start knitting. And after casting on 240 stitches and doing half a round I realized this yarn MIGHT not have been the wisest choice. It's kind of itchy and fuzzy. Duh, it's wool. Well a wool blend. But.... I'm truly madly deepy in love with the color. Ooh wait wasn't that a Savage Garden song? Let's bring it back to Junior High! Wow haven't thought of that group in a while. ANYWAY, I decided I'm going to attempt to finish this scarf cowl wrap thing and then attempt to knit another one before we leave for ireland. THe whole poitn of this is so I have something to keep my head/neck warm while we're in freezing ass England and Ireland. So that's the plan.
In other news, my best friend is getting married in a mere couple weeks. EXCITING
and I'm going to see not one but TWO 100 monkeys shows at the end of Aug SUPER EXCITING
and then I get married Sept 10. Where has the time gone?!?!?!?!?

NO Drama Dammit

I refuse drama. I REJECT it! I will not have it in my wedding. So when a recent series of events went down I Had to stick to my guns and give Drama the boot.
Being who I am, and having gone through all that I have, it's really hard for me to see people veering down a bad path. I see the beginning twinkles of it, worry but generally let people live, because I know as well as any that attempts to right them are futile. And then something happens. And it did. With no excuse or reasoning, only defensivness and table turning, there was nothing for me to do. I tried to put it all out there and got slapped in the face with a big bowl of "It's your fault, you should've.." She was slated to be in my wedding and had so far done nothing, not even get excited for me. So I'm done. I hope and pray that she gets it together and moves up and onward, but I can't get sucked back into old lifestyle and old behavior. I've come too far. So, I have a new bridesmaid in my wedding and I'm honestly BEYOND excited. I think my wedding party are some of the most amazing rad fun people I know. My new bridesmaid is literally like a twin sister I didn't know I had. I laugh more with her then I even thought was possible.
And so life goes on. Work, wedding planning, stressing about business, enjoying moments with loved ones and just trying to smile and be happy whenever I can.

Monkey Regeneriziation

Is regenerization a word? It should be. That's I feel :-) Monkey REgenerized! So I did it again. One of those 25 hour days. Up a little before 4, went to an event with Audrey in San Dimas, hung out with Audrey and off to see the Monkeys in LA at the El Rey Theater. Met up with my Monkey Homies, Gloria and Holly and met Misty. We posted up in a good spot and stayed there the whole night. BEST SHOW EVER. I swear, this show was amazing. They played a TON of songs, I'm SUPER stoekd for their new album next month. I took a ton of pics, here's some of my fave Jackson ones. And Nikki Reed!






Anyway, makes me want to play music. I wish I had time to play again. Oh well.
School is out this week! I have three finals and Wednesday night is my last one! I've got so much shit going on this summer it's not even funny but it'll be nice to have evenings off again. Come Fll Semester I think I'm only taking the one accounting class, because I don't want to miss a bunch because of the wedding and honeymoon.
This summer, I want to knit more, run more and sew more! That's the plan!
oh and I already bought my tickets to see the 100 monkeys in Aug :-) Twice.

Wild wiener roundup!!!

25 Hours

UGH. Yesterday was MADNESS! I woke up at 4am. I had an event in San Marcos with Audrey of Healthy Bites Dog Treats. It was supposed to rain all day so I was relaly Not looking forward to it. But luckily we got there and it turned out ok! We had a big booth, sold quite a bit of stuff, talked to lots of people and helped raise money to cure canine cancer! Yay!
Then Audrey and I drove back to the LA area, we went to Ikea and Joanns, which are always a good time. Then I dropped off Audrey around 6pm and drove to Hollywood. The Monkeys were playing! Got there a little late, around 8pm. Some really awesome bands played, Polaris At Noon, Vanity Theft, Hunter Valentine. I made some friends, danced around, drank some enrgy drinks. Finally a little after midnight, they came on stage! THE MONKEYS!!!! YAYYYY


I have a renewed love for Jackson. I mean really, could he be any cuter/adorable? Jeez la weez. They opeend with Ugly Girl and through the night played the monkey song, shy water, Reaper, Sleeping Giants, and a bunch of other awesomeness, including some new songs off their next album. I was bummed they didn't play Junkie or Made of Gold but I don't think they play those at shows very often


The show ended around 2am and I drove home. Traffic in Hollywood was ridiculous. I finally got home a little before 5am. I had been up for 25 hours and that last 30 minutes of getting home was ROUGH. But it was worth it! Amazing, show, can't wait for them to come back to LA again soon! I'm going to try to make it to their shows whenever they're nearby!

I get to see my Monkey's tomorrow!!!!!!!

SCORE! Tomorrow is a 100 Monkeys concert! Can't wait! I'm going alone, but I dont even care, i'm going to have fun. Get to see my other imaginary boyfriend sing and dance and play music haha
My work has been going great. I really like everyone I work with and the work itself isn't too difficult, but keeps me busy and the days go by quickly. School is good too, I like my classes, just a lot of work but I'm glad I decided to only take three this semester. It's really hard to keep up with making things for Bop and Rocksy, but I'm trying.
AND one of my awesome friends is having a little bday party on Monday and I'm going to attempt a birthday cake for her. Hope my plan for it works out
And life goes on!

Torchwood

In case you haven't noticed, I'm on a Torchwood bender now. I just finished the first season and will be starting the second this weekend. I mean HELLO! Captain Jack Harkness:

Life has been crazy for me with school and work. Mon-Wed I go to work at 8 and finish school at 10pm. It's hectic but Hey, that's life right? I try not to complain too much! and my favorite author has a book coming out in a couple weeks that I'm BEYOND excited for!!!! Yay for Feb! :-)