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Something I now love…

Saturday, February 28th, 2009

Last weekend the boyfriend and I went to check out the Fremont Market, which happens every Sunday all year long.  Who doesn’t love a year long farmers market? I KNOW I LOVE A YEAR LONG FARMERS MARKET.  So, while there were some pretty fabulous buys there, among my favorites was this ball of yarn I purchased for 5 bucks.

Apparently living in Seattle turns you into Greeny McGreeny-Pants (I bought an organic apple the other day, I’ll admit it.) and I found a booth for this yarn place called Smart Monkey Refurbished Yarn.  This lady buys sweaters at thrift stores, unravels them, washes the yarn, and rewraps it into a skein.  She uses ony sweaters made from natural fibers so I’m not even buying like crappy acrylic yarn.  I totally love it.  I haven’t made anything with my fabulous yarn yet because I have about 16 back projects I’m currently not working on, but I’m sure I’ll figure out some great use for it.  The Boyfriend needs mittens I think, haha.

There is a website coming soon at www.smartmonkeyknits.com and you can check out the etsy shop at smartmonkey.etsy.com

It’s fabulous and I love it.

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Something fabulous is happening.

Sunday, February 22nd, 2009

Okay, so, something weird has been happening and it can only be explained by some of two of my favorite internet people.

First, watch this… (make sure you watch Will’s part or you won’t understand this at all…p.s. It’s hilarious and you’ll probably pee a little)

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jqO3_Gt2_0&feature=PlayList&p=748D0FC380A64B3F&index=8[/youtube]

now, to explain my part, a message sent to Will of Be The Marriage/Be The Boy (His blog is amazingly hilarious and you should read it.)

Here’s shit in OUR tub…

between firethehousewife and Will BeTheBoy

Today at 9:26pm
Okay, I’m blaming you for this, not really for any reason, but when this little “Surprise” appeared the first thing my boyfriend did was yell “ITS OUR VERY OWN HOBO SHIT IN OUR TUB!”

So, I moved to Seattle a month or so ago and into this wonderful apartment with my boyfriend. On Friday the 13th we come home from work to a plate of brownies in front of the door. These were no ordinary brownies, there was crunchy peanut butter melted on top (which looked like vomit) and to top it off, something was written on the peanut butter with some sort of medication. We think it said Scott. We laughed about it, and made a few more “Here’s shit in your tub” references before we forgot about it and let it go down the disposal.

Tonight we came home to another plate in front of our door, with two pieces of pizza that appear to be at least a week or two old and a note taped on top that says “Pizza Face.” Besides having a hobo friend or two (my boyfriend did help a lady that lives in her car in the park and ride across the street from our apartment and he is now obsessed with her) we’re trying to figure out this Scott/Pizza Face mystery. I’m assuming it’s just the last guy who lived here and he had a bad case of acne, but you never know.

Well, here’s shit in your tub.

Sarah

UPDATE: Now with photographic evidence!

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A quick update

Wednesday, February 4th, 2009

I do have some wonderful pictures to post, but I have no way to resize them from my camera, so I’ll give you an update sans pictures.

Sean sent me an awesome set of dishes from my amazon wishlist last week.  We had 2 coffee cups and I drink coffee every day so this was a real issue.  This beautiful set of Corelle dishes came with a set of coffee cups so I’m very happy about this.

The Aunt gave me a bunch of new stuff for the kitchen a couple weeks ago and it was beyond fabulous.  She also gave me an elliptical which I’ve been really good about using every day.  I’ve gained a lot of weight in my short time here and I’m going to get rid of it, FOR SURE.

I made some really cute campy themed valentines last weekend, I sent out a select few, so a select few of you better watch your mailboxes, probably today or tomorrow.   A few of them looked really cute and a few of them looked really sad, thats what happens when I watch TV and make things at the same time.  oops.

The Boyfriend and I have both been sick for a while now, I started it (probably given to me by the babies) about a week and a half ago with a sore throat which turned into some really crappy nasty congestion.  The Boyfriend got it towards the end of mine which is sad because I had to go to work all sick and disgusting (Yes, your daycare providers go to work sick ALL the time, otherwise you’re keeping your kids at home, we also take your kids when they’re sick and you should have kept them, but we’re just good people like that)  The Boyfriend took a couple days off to get well, I told him he was a big baby.

I’m looking forward to my first paycheck in over a month tomorrow and I think I’ll promptly go spend it all on crap and then tell The Boyfriend I didn’t get paid.  He’ll never notice a ton of new stuff in the apartment, trust me.

I have a pretty awesome schedule right now, most of it revolves around what TV shows I watch at what time.  The Boyfriend didn’t know this until he stayed home sick a couple days, but, now he does and probably thinks a lot less of me.

I’m currently working only part time, but as of Feb. 17th I’ll be full time at the daycare, pretty fab, no?  I also get a paid day off on Presidents Day, it’s insane.  My boss lives above this daycare and I think we might be kindred spirits.  Don’t tell anyone I said that.

Oh, and let’s all encourage The Boyfriend to take me to Seattle on Saturday, I haven’t been in a while and I want to go do something this weekend.

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