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[phinnia]

so:
i was feeling lousy and fretting over the school thing, so i went out. it was raining, which kind of sucked, but it wasn't too bad, and i took the wheelchair to the local fabric shop and bought the things to make a hat. (yes, really, i do know how to sew, although i'm rusty at it. i took a 'fashion arts' class in high school. try not to laugh, anyone who has seen the way i dress, mk? it was fun. we learned how to paint those model-figures and sewing and we listened to a hell of a lot of Air Supply because the teacher was into Slow Sad Sappy Songs. (that's what she called them.)
eta: this is the hat pattern: i'm making the second one (the skullcap). her patterns are ADORABLE (and some on the website are free, from the looks of things)

anyway, it's a cute bucket hat type thing. reversible. since gizmometer helped me break in the sewing machine, i should be able to do this.

then i went next door, to babeland. (you wish you live here.) they were playing Radiohead, which gives them +50 coolness points: there's something strangely satisfying about poking around the store, surrounded by toys of all sizes and colors and lots of leather things hanging on the back wall, sniffing lubricant samples and rocking out to Radiohead. (the album was OK Computer. Stellar choice.)

then i came home and hung out for a while, and my awesome girlfriend sent me a Real Letter (<3!) and i had this amazingly awesome idea that requires PAINT SAMPLE CARDS. (i love those things.) so i have to go out when the boy (larger) gets home and can watch the boy (smaller).

many clickies today! these are brought to you mostly by foxestacado (who once again has sent some really awesome stuff) and dolphingirl (who is generally excellent.). they surprisingly have a marine-life focus today.

first tennis elbow, now playstation palm.

scientists solve mystery of deep sea fish with tubular eyes and transparent head. (another example of truth being stranger than fiction. seriously, this fish is amazing.)

771 pound stingray caught in Thailand

fish fossil clue to origin of sex.

girl born without legs gets prosthetic mermaid tail. OMFG. seriously. *flails*

boy is coming home early, in part so i can get paint sample cards. i loff him. <3

also: the new pornographers are kind of like Canada's version of Yes.

Comments

[gizmometer.livejournal.com]

woo hat!

that mermaid tail is the coolest prosthetic EVER. and here i thought the running-flippers were neat. hah!

that fish is ALSO AWESOME. i love deep-sea critters.

*mwah*

[phinnia.livejournal.com]

this (http://amybutlerdesign.com/products/patterns_display.php?id=28) is the hat pattern. I'm doing the second one first, because it was less expensive and looks a tadbit easier, and if it works well i want to do the bigger one because i love hats and i've always wanted a big cloth one like that.

[gizmometer.livejournal.com]

i LOVE the big one! i <3 big hats! let me know how it goes?

[cindy-lou-who8.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you had a great day. :)

[phinnia.livejournal.com]

*huggles* thanks. <3 i'm glad your neurologist finally managed to get his head out of his ass. although it will deprive me of the fun of making up assorted compound curses to shout in his general direction, but i'll cope, i think <3

[foxestacado.livejournal.com]

WOW. Mermaid tail prosthetic. SO awesome.

LOL, so funny how today's clickies are all marine-based! And it's so weird that although I send you clickies all the time, I hardly ever comment in your journal, bug *hugs* I'm glad you had a good day. I promise I will try commenting more in your journal.

[californiaquail.livejournal.com]

Isn't WETA that group who did all the special effects for Lord Of The Rings?

[slipjig.livejournal.com]

Mermaid tail = coolest thing in the history of things. *in awe*

[inlaterdays.livejournal.com]

That mermaid tail is FANTASTIC. I love that they did that for her.

[machineplay.livejournal.com]

mermaid tail == win!
the stingray, omg, look at her grumpy mamaface! she's so pretty.

[presocratic.livejournal.com]

How did I ever live without your clickies? Seriously, how?

I spent the better part of my childhood wanting to be a marine biologist (quicky changed my mind when I realized I actually had to study science and not just pretty fish to do this), so all these marine-type links were right up my alley. Yay for crazy looking fish!

[miintikwa.livejournal.com]

*HUGS!* I love the mermaid tail story! You should work that into a House prompt.

[tsuki-no-bara.livejournal.com]

that's a cute hat pattern! and the mermaid tail is the coolest prosthetic ever.

[daisylily.livejournal.com]

That fish looks unreal - if somebody made it up, you wouldn't believe them *stares*