Lazy Sunday

Today is a good day. I'm at home in my pajamas and slippers (the mention of slippers is important because my feet are always cold), I just prepared some dough, and soon I will be baking that sucker into cute little sugar cookies. Also, it's gorgeous outside, white, fluffy snow everywhere... OH and I found a camera of mine, that I thought I had lost, in a random drawer in my house. Hoorah! I will post pictures of the cookies when they are completed, icing and all. In the meantime, here is a photo that I took with my Holga camera (the one that I thought I had lost). It's this guy Ben, that I went to high school with, in a tree. We were waiting outside the school for our turn to play in whatever concert was going on that night, and I guess he got bored and decided to climb a tree.

Santa at 100% completion

Well, here you have it folks (or Barbara, because I'm pretty sure you're the only person who reads my blog...), it's the moment I know you have surely been waiting for, sitting at home, biting your nails, mumbling to yourself "When... WHEN is it going to be done? OH SWEET MERCIFUL CRAP, WHEN?!" And the answer is NOW!! Santa is complete, mostly thanks to Graeme because he is the far more proactive one in the relationship. I like to scratch my bum. With the party being tomorrow (actually if we want to be technical, the party is today), and only one reindeer being fully complete (also thanks to Graeme), I feel as though I have failed. Perhaps building seasonal characters out of balloons and gooey flour-water is just not for me (sigh).

"I see you when you're sleeping"

Photoshop fun

My mom's boyfriend, Luigi, writes reviews for a magazine (which I can't remember the name of right now...) on computer programs, and technological devices. The companies send him the products, he uses them for a while, then writes about them. Recently he wrote a review on Adobe Photoshop, so Adobe sent him all of the latest versions of their programs for free. He let me install them on my computer, and last night I had some fun with Photoshop (note: I have no clue how to use Photoshop, so even though I am sure that the outcome of my exploration with the program is probably juvenile, this is the best I can do at the moment).

Ahoy matey! (I'm hilarious).

Graeme in a boat, and third paper mache update.

Well, the title is pretty much self explanatory. Why he is in a boat certainly is not. And I prefer to leave it that way, it's funnier.

Our paper mache project is coming along, not as quick as we had planned however, since we took a huge break from it for about a week, and the party is this Saturday... So now we are in a fantastically tense race against time. If this were a movie it would most definitely star Keanu Reeves... not as Graeme, or me, or anybody else, but simply as himself. He would just be there, looking stunned, yet somehow bored at the same time.

Crime scene shot.

Santa looking sharp in his red attire (I guess it's not technically attire yet... just red).

Graeme's fuzzy reindeer, made out of a nasty sweater-find at Value Village.

Eek!

Mom's birthday brunch

Yesterday was my dear mother's birthday so her best friend Barbara and I teamed up and planned a surprise brunch-type thing for her. In order to distract her while I was getting everything ready at the house, Barbara took her out for the two of them to get makeovers at Mac, and that is why they look like they are ready for a night on the town. Everything went very well and my mom seemed very happy, which is the exact reaction we were aiming for. (p.s., Barbara if you are reading this, thank you so much for your help, I loooove you).

Barbara and my mom, looking all fancy.

Mom with her birthday cake (the creme caramel is next to her on a plate). She looks like she's doing a very dramatic laugh, yes?

Blowin' out the candles.

Aaaaaand cutting the cake.

Creme caramel making

Tomorrow is my mom's birthday so I thought it would be nice to make her some creme caramel while she was out with her sisters this afternoon. I used a recipe that I found on the good old internet about a year ago. This is my third or fourth time making it, and it gets easier to not burn the caramel every time... I like making creme caramel because it has few ingredients, little preparation time, and it's not that complicated to make. Yet in the end, you are left with a delicious and somewhat fancy desert. The dishes are cooling in the mini fridge in the basement so my mom won't find them and will (hopefully) be pleasantly surprised come tomorrow. They don't look as pretty when they are in the dishes, especially because I put plastic wrap over them, but they will look like the picture in the recipe link I put here when they are served tomorrow.

Claudia... SMASH!

I am angry. I hate my stupid part-time job. I hate the fact that it's part-time and they don't give me more shifts even though I really need them because I am not in school this year and need money. I hate the job itself (picking up lazy people's garbage, even though there are garbage cans literally EVERYWHERE around them, cleaning bathrooms, ripping tickets, and, most importantly, getting yelled at by old rich people). I also hate that I had the opportunity to get a much better job during November, but procrastinated, as always, and now all of the positions have been filled. Now I have about three hours until I have to return to my sad and demeaning job, where I'll try not to dwell on the fact that I fucked up and should have called for that other job sooner.

This is a picture of my cat Norman, doing what I wish I could do for a living.

P.S. Fuck Cineplex.