I've neglected my Vox lately, so here's a recap of what I've been into lately.
I've been knitting another baby blanket. Crazy, you say, since knitting a baby blanket is pretty much the most time consuming and exhausting thing ever. It's for Kate, a girl at work, who is due in September. Basically I've got two months to finish, since the shower will probably be in August. No pressure or anything.
I love Lady GaGa more that any respectable person should. The past two months I've been listening to The Fame like crazy. Anyone who carries a china teacup around with her everywhere she goes sounds like my kind of girl.
I finally caught up with season one of True Blood, and in preparation for season two I have been reading the Sookie Stackhouse novels. I read Dead Until Dark relatively quickly, so I am hoping to move through the next books soon as well.
I'm learning Revit Architecture at school, and I've been rendering images like this one:
1. Catch up on laundry - finally
2. Get all of my photos printed/into albums
3. Clean all of the floors
4. Wash the sheets
5. Organize my desk
6. Wash all of Caesar's blankets
7. Replace the carpet in the bunny cage
A little ambitious. We'll see how it goes!
I had to make another doctor's appointment due to the fact that I still have not been feeling my best. I constantly have chest pain and I have shortness of breath almost as often. I was told it is likely that I have developed reactive airway disease from being so sick (i.e. the pneumonia plus week long illnesses every year for the past four years or so). I was given another inhaler, and told that it might even be possible that I have developed asthma. If I don't feel better, I am be on my way to a specialist.
In other words, pneumonia is just the gift that keeps on giving. Hooray!
Here is a little snuggly octopus I knitted. I have not named him yet, but whenever I do, it will be something silly. I plan on giving him to my mom.
He was super easy to knit and I definitely plan on knitting him several friends.
A Valentine's Day inspired playlist.
1. Frou Frou - Shh
2. Sleater-Kinney - Oh!
3. theSTART - Melt
4. Head Automatica - Beating Heart Baby
5. Fleetwood Mac - Save Me a Place
6. Smashing Pumpkins - Stand Inside Your Love
7. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Maps
8. Stevie Nicks - Sleeping Angel ("Someday, when we're older, and my hair is silver grey - unbraid with all the love that you can, like a soft silver chain.")
9. Azure Ray - If You Fall
10. Bright Eyes - Make a Plan to Love Me
11. Buckingham Nicks - Frozen Love
12. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Love Letter
13. Death Cab for Cutie - I Will Follow You into the Dark
14. Mazzy Star - Fade into You
My three favorite moments of the Christian Bale melt down:
1. "Oh! Goooood ferrr youuuu!"
2. "Fucks sake man, you're amateur!"
3. "Seriously man, you and me, we're fucking done professionally."
Other unexpected obstacles and expenses showed up.... I took Caesar to the vet to get his shots and learned that he has a heart murmur. I don't know much about these things, but the doggy doctor says it could either be no big deal or a big deal indeed. To find out, Caesar has to have a visit with a cardiologist, which costs around $470. Of course I will pay it, because I love Caesar and want to help him if he is sick. Needless to say, I've been emotionally exhausted since the vet visit. It's time to bust out the credit card and hope for the best for my doggy. In the meantime, I will continue to put things on his head and take pictures of it. I like to think that he doesn't mind.
I am back on the bring-my-lunch-to-work program, due to the financial meltdown. I hope to make some delicious stuff in my crock pot and eat a lot of soup.
I have never been one to care about the spiritual beliefs of any of the bands that I listen to, but I mention it in this case because people always want to talk about it when they find out that I listen to mewithoutYou. It is pretty obvious that I am not a religious person, myself. After spending time churches and Bible studies and reading countless books on religions both ancient and modern, I have come to the conclusion that it is really not worth committing myself to one set religion. Because of this, many people are surprised that I am even interested in the music of mewithoutYou. They ask me how I can get past all of the "Jesus talk" and listen to the albums as much as I do.
The fact of the matter is, I don't consider the music of mewithoutYou to be overly religious. Sure, they have plenty of songs discussing their beliefs - what band doesn't? The difference is that mewithoutYou presents lyrics that can be easily applied to your own life despite their spiritual influences. I have never felt alienated by their lyrics or by their inspirational live performances.
I found mewithoutYou through my friend Katie at a very weird time in my life. The first song that she played for me was "Tie Me Up! Untie Me!" and I knew that it was a complete departure from what I had been listening to previously. Since that day, mewithoutYou has gotten me through some of the hardest things I've ever had to deal with. If God was behind it, that's great, but I'll take awesome songwriting as well.
Top ten mewithoutYou songs (in no order);
1. "Tie Me Up! Untie Me!"
2. "Silencer"
3. "O, Porcupine"
4. "Four Word Letter, Pt. 2"
5. "Messes of Men"
6. "Everything Was Beautiful and Nothing Hurt"
7. "Nice and Blue"
8. "My Exit, Unfair"
9. "Torches Together"
10. "In a Sweater Poorly Knit"
The wedding is eighteen months away, which seems like quite a while, but in all reality.... it is sneaking up, fast. I can't imagine having a shorter engagement, since there is so much to research and take care of! There are so many initial questions.
Should the wedding be in Colorado Springs, where most of our family lives, or up here in Denver where we live?
Who should be in my bridal party? Is it odd to have friends that I haven't talked to in a while stand up for me?
Will picking a certain little girl as the flower girl make the other little girls upset?
How much per plate is reasonable for catering?
Why is wedding photography so expensive?
If I invite a few girls from work, is it rude to not invite almost everyone from work?
Is it weird to invite my boss?
Is it even weirder to invite my former boss, who now is my current boss's boss?
Pretty much all I know so far is I am omitting a traditional wedding march altogether. After that, it starts to get hazy.
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