When I Grow Up.... I'll be a crafter?

Name: Gideon "The Bag-Maker" Friday
Tuesday's Post: M.I.A.
Today's Soundtrack: Shapeshifter -Marcy Playground

Good Evening!

Today after I went to the library and stole some music for my Sansa... I came home, read my e-mail, looked at a t-shirt on my floor that I've always adored and realized that I keep wearing that t-shirt because I love the design on it; and I keep wearing it even though it's too small. Here is the shirt:

I believe that Sister Sarah actually bought this shirt at a Ross in Idaho, during the trip we took with Bethie and Mr. Ethan in 2006 (a.k.a. the vacation in which all the butterflies died.). Then I also realized that I happen to have 9 yards of black cotton laying about from a toga party I went to last year.

(Toga costume - laying about)
I'm sure there is a picture of my wearing it some place, I just can't seem to find it. :-) Anyways, with these too pieces of supply I started to feel crafty... I have never made a... well an anything with success before so I went in to my crafting endevor comepletely expecting to fail. Soooo I decided to make a tote bag, I grabbed my craft supplies, my fabrics, and my sunny disposition and started on my way... no pattern... Please enjoy my craft excursion which I decided to record through the magic of digital photography.






During this bit of time I was talking to Ang on the phone.... soo... no pictures.... but here's what I made while I was talking to her!





And now, various pictures of me trying to show off how awesome my bag is... Some more hilarious than others. =-)





That last one is pretty much amazing!

Well, I hope you enjoyed seeing my crafty skills in action.

Good Night,
Giddy

The Sarah-Beth ol' One-Two Knock Out!

Name: For the time being shall remain Gideon
Right Hand: Better
The Swap: Is on! (I will explain later)
Current Mood: A bit lonely
Soundtrack to this blog: The Carpenters: The Singles 1969-1973
Goal: Return my books to the library and a blog a day for the next week.


Today, I thought was a day just like every other Monday. Oh but was I in for a pleasing surprise! I got to work on time-which was nice, I made bread without Bryan The Bread Guy because he's currently on vacation; Speaking of which, I was informed today that I'm not allowed to tell people who call work asking for him, I'm just supposed to say "Oh he's not in, can I take a message?" and maybe he'll call them back... or maybe not. Around noon I was cutting up some avocado for our sandwiches when I happened to look over my shoulder and out the window and to my most certainly pleased surprise I see Sarah and Bethie making their way down the walk to the store door!

*Happy Butterflies!*

They ordered some sandwiches, bread, and some beverages and hung around a bit and ate. Before leaving they went over to SEE's Candy across the parking lot and brought me a chocolate "SEE-gar" Here's a picture of me sniffing it.


After work Sarah and Bethie met me at the apartment of doom (the place I leave at with my Dad and D) and we drove to Olympia. First stop was Beth's house, we broke some bread together (literally) and it was delicious! By 3pm we were at Ethan's school picking his cute little self up. I met him with a huge embarrassing hug in front of all of his classmates-I'm sure it's a moment that he will relive someday in therapy-he secretly liked it though, I know. Then we picked up AJ and made our way to the movie theatre. We watched "Race to Witch Mountain", it was alright for kids movie and anything with The Rock in it is good to me *wink*. What I do want to see though is a movie I saw a preview for; a movie by PIXAR called "UP" it looks totally cute! It seems to be a story about an old man that attaches his house to a KAHBILLION balloons and floats on up and out to an adventure. Little did he know when he took flight that there was a "boy scout" on his front porch; unfortunately because he had already taken flight the old man's unplanned/unwelcome guest becomes part of the quest and they are forced to work together through storms and what appears to be magical adventures in foreign lands. I'm really excited about the prospect of seeing it.

I'm home now, obviously. I had a pretty awesome day, today filled with laughing and good times. I really miss my family and friends in O-town and I'm going to miss them even more when I go to WY.

Good Night,
Ms. Friday

Essusa me, canna I take yo pichar?

Age: 22
Room: Clean-ish
Right hand: INJURED!
Car: Still for sale... buy it... now...

This morning is was so cold and I swear on my way to work I hit every red light! Pretty much annoying... Other than being practically late for work this morning, my day was pretty uneventful...That was until two white women with nine teenage Japanese girls in tow, walked into the store. All four of us were kneading bread so Dominique and Daniela went to help them while Harmony and myself continued cutting and kneading the bread. Harm and I are behind the front counter, working and talking when all of a sudden 2 teenage asian girls are standing at the end of the table... "Escusa, canna I take yo pichar?" one of them says to us... "Uh sure.." we replied and went back to work as more of the girls rushed to join the first two. Some of the girls asked questions like "Ahow meny of de lovahs do yo maka eacha day?" and "Ohhh, do yo lie yo job?". When I had to use the bowl lift to dump about 35lbs of white bread dough onto the kneading table all of the girls rushed fully into the work area behind the front counter and all I could her was the clicking of digital cameras and mumbling in Japanese.


My favorite part though I think is when I cut the first hunk of dough and threw it to the other end of the kneading table and all nine girls went "Oooooo!" completely in unisen. It's great, I've never been a tourist attraction before. I guess I just always assumed they had bakeries in Japan... guess not. :-P And like I told the girls at the store when our adoring Japanese fans departed. "We're totally gonna end up on some Japanese version of MySpace under album named "My Trip To AMERICA!"."

-Ms. Giddy

Sex and The Soul of a Me

"Sex and The Soul of a Women" - Great book, go read it. Y'know, if you're a lady. =)

I've found my self with a lot more "ME" time recently, which means a lot more time to just relax and think; which of course can be so dangerous! It's strange though that during these times the things that I do, seem to spark memories of the days gone by, of the bad choices I've made, of the men I've been attached to. Until I was 19 years old I always told myself "just wait, God will send you someone." and that, paired with teenage angst and lack of self esteem kept me from making what seems to be the usual bad teenage choices. Unfortunately though, I've always been boy crazy but really good at hiding it. I'm pretty sure I hide the boy crazy parts of me because I recognize the danger laying just below the surface; if I chose to embrace my true inclinations the results could be catastrophic. In my boy crazy ways I've had crushes at one time or another on pretty much every male I've ever known... Uh oh!

It was after I finally, after weird incident followed by weird incident ended up "dating" Eric and consequently breaking up with him, something snapped inside me and I let my boy crazy self free... a little bit. After Eric there was a string of attachments that I kept so secret, some of the dearest people in my life barely know they existed. I never really "dated" these people but attachment to them was formed, for a short while. First there was Henry, then Jack, Then Joseph, Brian, Dan, and than most recently Jessie. I can honestly say not much of my heart was left with Eric, Henry, Jack, Joseph, Brian, or Dan, I wish I could say the same for Jessie. It's hard for me to explain why I liked Jessie so much, he really didn't have much to offer other than that he appreciated me for just being me, he never only wanted me for the possibility of sex or want to use me for money; he just wanted to be with me and he showed initiative. (Okay, maybe it's not that hard to explain. =-P) The point is though, I gave up waiting for God's timing and rushed for my own. I made bad decisions. I lost parts of me by giving myself to them.

Now, now don't be worried, my virtue is fully intact. But, the intimacy that was shared I feel has left a scare. If I had only just had faith in God's timing I wouldn't have the hard memories of rejection and of breaking other peoples hearts that I do have now. I would have had a full unmarred heart to share with whoever my future and God might bring me. I know I'm forgiven now for my lack of faith but that doesn't change the regret I feel for giving parts of myself away to people who were, undeserving - for lack of a better term. As a women, (I'm not sure how it works with men, 'cause I've never been one.) physical contact is paired with emotion. There is no "just physical" parts of our being or brain. All of it is tied into our hearts and our psyche; really it's a horrible tangled web. The bright side is that attachment to someone, if they play their "cards" right is quick and long lasting. And to clarify, I am in no way saying that women are all emotion and no logic, because that simply is not true. However, unless I go into a situation KNOWING that I need to treat is in a way separate from my emotion it effects me. Maybe that is just me.... Maybe...

With all of that said, I urge any women to wait for God's timing and will, don't lose track of what you really want, compromise your integrity, or settle.

Much Love,

Ms. Friday

Hanging With My Homie

Location: Olympia - Fantastic!

Weight: 292.2 lbs
Headache: Severe
Hanging: With Mr. Ethan

I'm in Olympia this weekend, aaaagain... Visiting Sarah and Aj on my days off is almost like I have my own weekend home. =) Sarah and Aj are currently off taking our friend Jessica and her son Trey back to Yelm and I'm here hanging out with Mr. Ethan while his mom and dad are off buying books for thier sweet "bookstore" of awesomeness. Jessica is here from Germany and is visiting her family all over western Washington. Sarah and I had the pleasure of hanging out with her yesterday and this morning. Yesterday we all (including Bethie and Mr. Ethan) went to Charlie 's Safari. Oh my goodness! I love it!!! Think, McDonalds play place on steroids.


The play areas are made giant and super reinforced so that parents or the parents best friends can play on them too. The only issue is you can't just go all by yourself you HAVE to have a little kid with you. Blah blah blah... I think I need to have myself a kid so that I can go whenever I want to. Ingenious!

I've been spending the day away watching Pheneus and Ferb (I probably spelled that wrong) and Ben 10 (I had no idea that these shows existed). Ethan and I have been bonding and discussing engaging topics like why Ben 10 is growing up, the delicious factors of gold fish crackers and different ways robots can be altered to become weapons.



Here's to a day of laziness and great conversation!

-Gid-tastic

I should be sleeping... :-)

Just a quick update...

On Sunday I went out with Sarah and Aj after work and before FPU. We took this picture.


Then on Monday I went to the mall and I took this picture.



Today, I was 10 minutes late to work because I forgot to set my alarm clock.

Tomorrow, I'm going to Half Price Books to sell some of my books. I'm also getting paid tomorrow.

Alrighty, I'm going now...

Goodnight!

-Ms. Friday