Dainty Kitty

The Googly Eye Caper Album

Rather than posting them all in one entry I decided, duh, to create an album for our optical adventure.

The Googly Eye Caper Album

Introduction to the Caper

Our original plans to take a long bike ride today were put off by the threat of rain (which never came) but Jake and I did manage to successfully pull off the Googly Eye Caper!

I'll post the other photos tomorrow (well, it's after midnight so later today) but this is quite funny.  We created and photographed a rather goofy but happy pair of potatoes: 

When we came back, several photographs later, we found this:

Someone had purchased Mister Potato and left poor Miss Potato all alone!

Someone must have also fallen madly in love with our first cute piece of fruit, Lovely Lady Lime, because she had also disappeared before we left the store.

This was a lot of fun and we came out of there (without purchasing a damned thing, by the way) already full of ideas for Googly Eye Caper Part Two in which we will be armed with teeny tiny googly eyes.  Although, there's something very endearing about a habanero pepper with giant, soulful eyes....

Googly Bear

What happens when you combine a boy, a girl, a supermarket and some googly eyes? Stay tuned to find out!

Rested-ish

I took half of Thursday and all of Friday off because I was having a terrible time getting through Wednesday without bursting into tears.  The time off was really needed even though I didn't do all that much.  Well I did lots of things but nothing solid.  I always feel I should accomplish something when I take time off to merely stay around town.  Like, "Well, I finally got that closet organized now to tackle the box of Things That Need to be Filed!"

Instead I shopped a bit on Friday and found a really great clearance sale at Gadzooks, one of my favorite clothing stores, spent a lazy Saturday afternoon picnicking and lounging in the sun with Jake and Sunday on the patio of the Pub drinking Bass and reading Rolling Stone, getting just buzzed enough to really need a cup of coffee, again, with Jake.  I just relaxed.  I think I might have straightened up the living room on Saturday morning and maybe washed a sink full of dishes but that's about it. 

I wasn't really happy to come back to work on Monday but I do feel much better.  I've also decided that taking both of the antidepressants my doctor prescribed is probably a pretty good idea.  I always forget to take the one that I'm supposed to take at night but have managed to remember three nights in a row.  I'd like to think that having a good weekend and a happy life outside of the office has more to do with my lifted mood than the medication but if it also takes medication then so be it. 

Sewing helped a bit, too, I think.  The apron's not much but it gave me a chance to shut down my brain for an evening and focus instead on cutting bright colored fabric, sewing crooked lines and dancing to the B-52's which made me happy. 

Riding on the Metro

I realized last night that I hadn't sat in front of my sewing machine in a long time.  I don't know why I thought making an apron was a good idea - I never wear them - but it was easy and fun.