On Cityscapes and Straightening Up

Hello again internet! I come to you anew, back from the great beyond! Or, you know, Bellingham. I left last Thursday to spend a few days with Chelsea, and then my family came up on Saturday so we could spend a few days in these house/cabin things on Mt.Baker. For some odd reason I straightened my hair twice during this trip, and I took a picture of the second time when I was at the house/cabin thing. So you get this odd myspace-esque picture of me taking a photo in a bathroom mirror XD (and don't ask me what I'm doing with my face because I do not know).

Thursday was mostly me getting to Bellingham, and then going out for Thai food once I got there. Although when we got back to her apartment, Chelsea and I were approached by these two somewhat shady guys who kept telling bad jokes and then tried to get us to buy magazines from them. In the parking lot. Because the intelligent thing to do with your credit card number is to give it to random guys in the parking lot. Of course Chelsea was no help whatsoever in trying to get away, so I had to tell this weird (but mostly true) story about how my Grandfather sells Kirby vacuum cleaners in Montana after they said something about how other salesmen sell crap like Kirby vacuums. Then we watched North and South which is ten kinds of awesome, and nine of them have to do with the fact Richard Armitage is gorgeous.

Friday we walked around Fairhaven which resulted in us painting pottery, and eating gelato, cupcakes, and gluten free pizza. At the pottery place I painted one of those tea-for-one sets with a cityscape in front of a sun set on the tea cup, the night sky on the tea pot, then the moon on the knob of the top of the pot. I'm pretty excited to see how it turned out, but since they said it wouldn't be ready until after I left Bellingham Chelsea said she would pick it up and bring it to me later.

When I was with my family I read a lot in between the family games, walking on easy forest trails by really pretty rivers, and trips to used bookstores in Bellingham. I brought two books with me, but I also ended up buying eight books (five of them were used!). Out of those ten books I read three of them (Will Grayson Will Grayson by John Green and David Levithan, City of Bones by Cassandra Clare, and Little Brother by Cory Doctorow).

As a side note I've also been trying to write more lately. For the past few nights I've just been writing whatever I feel like in this notebook. I've (poorly) translated random quotes into Japanese, wrote down my own thoughts about myself and life in general, and wrote random bits of stories I've been working on and bits of ones I hadn't thought of until I started writing it down in that notebook. It's been nice to just write again.

Also, I think I might start a craft blog. I created one here on blogger ages ago, and I thought it might be nice to chronicle the things I've been making (mostly crochet and my attempts to learn how to knit). I might post a link to that if I ever actually do it. As a parting gift, here's a crappy webcam photo of an elf I started today. I'm quite proud of the ears.