Well I went to see one of my lecturers today, after not been happy with the mark I had received for an essay (65/100). When I first walked in he said he had already decided to push it up to 68/100 as he felt that he probably marked me harder than others, after chatting with him some more about my essay he bumped it up to 70/100. Yehaw!
Busy in the midst of starting another essay on possible effects of terrorism on the economies of states in East Asia and finishing off a quilt for my nephew Jökull or if you want to be pedantic, my half-sister’s step son. My family tree is a tree with branches all over the place 
When I first went to Iceland at the end of 2002, the quilts that Mum had made for her step-grandchildren were proudly covering every bed, when I got home I said to Mum, you should make quilts for the step-step grandkids as well. She said I will make two; you can make the other two. So Mum has made one for Toti’s eldest step-child, Anna Rún and has the fabric for the other one for Stefan. I was delegated to make quilts for Herdis’s step-kids, the first one was sent off for her eldest step-son, Krissi after last year’s show and now I am in the final stages of the quilt for her other step-son, Jökull or as we call him “Little Glacier Boy” as Jökull means glacier in Icelandic for this year’s show.
When it came to naming the quilt for the competition, I expanded on Jökull’s name and titled the quilt “Magical Powers for Glacier Boy” and in the comment section said a little bit about Jökull and how he is Iceland’s answer to Superman Depending on which banner you get when you load my blog, you may have seen Jökull showing off his magical powers lifting rocks to make a dam. Dam Builders
Well enough with all the chatter, here is the quilt, tonight I sewed the blue borders on to the quilt top and tomorrow, Mum and I are going shopping for the backing fabric
After way too many weeks of me giving Mum most of my paycheck and then fairly often having to get money back off her I now own my 350D
Yehaw! Now since she is all mine, I have to come up with a name. Olga the second is what comes to mind at the moment in memory of my basoon from high school. Any other ideas???
This of course means that I can start pouring money into glass and other sorts. I don’t think I yet want a telephoto zoom as most of my images are at wide angle end of my lenses. I am currently tossing up between a Pelang 8mm Fisheye or a Zenitar 16mm Fisheye. Both are Eastern European made lenses that get rave reviews, when paired with the 1.6x crop loose a bit of the fishiness but still work very well. Oh which one to get?
I am also quite piqued by the Canon 100m 2.8 Macro, it would serve two purposes for me; providing a bit extra reach than the 24-85mm gives me at the moment as well as the macro aspect.
Choices, choices, choices.
came the small ad’s, I have to say none are as good as the Big Ad, however they do provide a good laugh.
The first one comes from BlipTv – The Small Ad, not an Australian beer this time but Belgian.
And from Australia comes this one by JayJays – Small Ad
That is what I am at the moment.
You see I was meant to start work at 5am this morning like I do every monday to put up the new price tickets in the dairy section so all shoppers are happy, knowing they have the right price for their milk and frozen veg. All well and good I double checked my alarm making sure it said 4:25am and it was on buzzer because the radio never wakes me up.
However, did I check to see if the time was right? nope my clock was twelve hours ahead! Yesterday in my cleaning, I had knocked the alarm cord out replugged in pretty close to midday so it was only “5 mins” out when I fixed the time last night, I had said to myself when I sat down to do it, have to change it from am to pm. Did I though? Nope.
So when Mum woke me up at 10 to 7 and I rang work, I sure gave them all a fit of giggles over my tale of my alarm clock and I crashed back to bed giggling my head off
So to give you the giggling gerties here are some things to share.
Big Ad – This ad, whilst been one for an Australian beer is not just for the beer drinkers, this is for everyone, an utter crack-up of an ad, some of you have seen it, some have not. I still watch it every couple of days.
Rare Exports Inc by Woodpecker Films – Another ad for adult beverages, this one however was designed for the launch of a new pre-mixed drink in Finland was shown before movies in the cinema. Rare Exports. Note it is a large (66mb) download but so, so worth it.
Something for those with lower back tats – the future – Another total crack up.
French Bull – The plates and mixing spoons were in out saturday paper, which Mum and I fell in adoration for and then on the website they have pj’s! So want some of them
The hardest thing about this thing is coming up with a post title but by all means it was a modest day.
I want to thank you all for sweet comments, emails, IM’s etc etc
I arrived home from an enchanting concert last night to find my birthday present from my parents spread over my bed – Paisley by Esprit along with a gorgeous card from a local gallery in the city – Gallery M. I had tried to talk Mum into changing my bed covers whilst I was sleeping but she was not that enthused Matthew has ordered me an All-American Rejects shirt from Interpunk – Coy Fish < = how cute is it? I by no means was spoilt with lavish gifts wrapped with ribbon but since it was my birthday that I meant I got out of jobs round the house today - no washing up
Then this arvo I webcammed with Hayley (and Pete) - so much fun, she showed off the utterly cute baby stuff she had got today and I showed off my new sæng cover and pillow case. That girl is a barrel of laughs. Watched Strange Bedfellowson the TV tonight with Pabbi, Michael Caton is a crack up. Had the sweetest phone call from Toti, one of my bigger brothers wishing me Happy Birthday and in all the excitement of him ringing I forgot to ask how Anna and the kids were!
Since Matthew doesn’t finish work till 6 on a Sunday night, it made it a bit hard to go out, so Mum made chocolate mousse for dessert We plan on going out for Mexican tomorrow night
For the rest of the day I spent my time like I tend to on other events in life and I cleaned my room, this time my wardrobe and entry table as well as rewiring some connections in my computer and finished editing the photos I need to get printed from my Iceland trip.
Tomorrow marks the day that I get bumped up into the 20something age bracket, no longer will I be a teenager.
In my own celebration in a couple of hours I am heading off the The Zoo to see The Mountain Goats and The Zebra’s. Going to be an interesting night out, going to a concert by myself, I have been to more classical concerts in concert halls by myself before but not a dark, night concert. That is what growing up is all about
Not much planned for tomorrow, got a lot of readings to be done but we are having chocolate mousse for dessert and going out for tea on Monday night.
Loose Here by Kain
