http://www.laura-anderton.com/blog Concerning art, design, knitting, sewing, crafting, and cats. Fri, 17 Jul 2009 14:05:53 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I am writing this from work because I’m so freak’n bored. It’s not that I don’t have anything to do, it’s just that everything I do have is so unbearably monotonous – updated text on ads and invites and then printing them, checking stock items, and even *gasp* adding an ... http://www.laura-anderton.com/blog/?p=168 I’ve been typing up my diary entries from last December, and realizing that my idea of a busy weekend six months ago has become what I would consider a relaxing weekend now. I’m not sure if it has to do with living in cohousing… though I suppose that must have ... http://www.laura-anderton.com/blog/?p=154 What’s been going on, hmm…. Well, since March, Spring has turned into Summer has turned into walking home in hellish 95 degree heat by a lake them smells like piles of dead carp covered in maggots and getting bitten by a mosquito on my finger (finger blood, yummy). Ugh, it’s ... http://www.laura-anderton.com/blog/?p=135 The journal has been packed for the last few days. On Saturday we woke at 6 a.m. to try and finish packing, but when Jon and Erin arrived we still had the kitchen and bathroom to do. The kitties were locked in the bedroom, and all the boxes and furniture ... http://www.laura-anderton.com/blog/?p=163 What an insanely exhausting day. We had breakfast at Sentry and shopped to scant “After Christmas” sale at Macy’s for some new towels and slippers for Garry. Then we got some curtain rods and painter’s tape at Ace, where my mom picked us up and drove us to the condo ... http://www.laura-anderton.com/blog/?p=152 Probably one of the stranger Christmas days I’ve had. I woke up to see pillow cases bulging with presents – since we didn’t have a tree Santa apparently did what he used to do for young little husband. I had only had time to get Garry the watch and PC game ... http://www.laura-anderton.com/blog/?p=149 Four days of freedom! Today was such a long day, even though I only worked a half-day. I was so tired I actually took a nap with Garry this afternoon – we fell asleep in a crazyknot on the couch, which probably wasn’t the best for my neck. My mom went ... http://www.laura-anderton.com/blog/?p=142 Two days until Christmas! It barely seems like it; we didn’t even get a tree this year with everything going on, and we couldn’t afford many presents (well, except for a condo!). I had to work 10 hours today to make up for closing yesterday. We visited the condo ... http://www.laura-anderton.com/blog/?p=116 [caption id="attachment_112" align="aligncenter" width="450" caption="Our new living room"][/caption] Today we closed on our condo. Only three weeks after our first tour of Arbco (and only two days before that we had never even heard of cohousing). There were a lot of papers to sign. The government representative warned us about ... http://www.laura-anderton.com/blog/?p=111 [caption id="attachment_132" align="aligncenter" width="341" caption="Artshow Postcard"][/caption] Big news! I have an artshow in December, here in Madison, at Mother Fools coffee house - yay! I'll be displaying my latest collage work and I think it will look really cool in there; the setting really suits the style of my artwork. So ... http://www.laura-anderton.com/blog/?p=133