I've been busy!

Well, it's official! I signed all the paperwork a week ago, and turned in my apartment keys Wednesday. I've been busy lately - blowing off my normal weekly plans and declining invitations to grab gelato so that I can unpack, shop and move in.


As I buy new furniture, get rid of boxes, and stage my house, I'll post more pictures. I'm hoping my life might be able to get back to normal in a few weeks. Hopefully by then I'll have a grill, I can put on my hostess hat, and keep it clean and pretty for everyone to see it: coworkers keep asking about it, soccer & kickball peeps, the young adults group at CPC, Girl Scouts, etc.

I'm starting my furniture/house shopping today. So don't roll your eyes if I get excited about buying a stud finder. And yes, I need one to hang Brad's dart board cabinet! (Have I posted a completed picture of that yet?)

Pi Day follow up

To clear the air, I'll get permission from the email sender from here on out before I blog about an email. I love my parents, and their sense of humor is the main cause of me living 1700 miles away. Just kidding, Kasiskes. I'm really in Austin because I get paid to be, and I surprisingly like sunshine. Please do not remind me of that comment when I start complaining about the 100 degree days.

Interestingly enough, here's a blog I stumbled across. It was posted the day after Pi Day, but I don't think the blogger intended to tie Pie and Pi together. Regardless, it made me laugh with all those charts. Let me caution you that the blogger has a somewhat of a dirty mouth.

http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2010/03/pie-verus-cake-scientific-approach.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Hyperbole-and-a-half+%28Hyperbole-And-A-Half%29

And let me appologize - I haven't been blogging/sewing/talking about interesting things lately. If you don't know by now, I'm closing on a house tomorrow. (Eek!) So my days/weeks have been crammed with looking at houses, stress, packing, and daydreaming about the new furniture I will buy with the "Obama-bucks" that I'll get for buying a new house.

Hap-pi Pi day!

Ok, so I'm a day late and a dollar short. For the record, I need to say (if I didn't call you with excitement yesterday) that I picked the right church. My church (Central Presbyterian Church) is "Deliberately diverse and fully inclusive." And by diversity, they mean more than the color of our skin, our nationality, age, or our sexual orientation. (Although those are a big part of the church diversity.) Yes, my dear friends, they've included math geeks in their diversity! The announcements yesterday morning at CPC went something like this:

"I'm glad you all remembered to turn your clocks ahead. It's Pi Day. If you're interested in volunteering for SxSW..." Due to that, I received many "happy pi day" congratulations. I (somewhat) embarrassingly started rambling Pi, and didn't get as far as I thought I knew. Oh well, that's what I get for not memorizing any more digits in the past 7 years.

Just so I'm not the only one rolling my eyes at my parents (happy MARCH btw, Dad. Have you MARCHed to the DER yet?), here's an email from my mom. It is far too horrible for me to be the only one who rolls her eyes at it. Please do not hold back your laughter (or your tears if you're directly related to these folks). Together, hopefully we can tell those retired folks to keep doing Sudoku's and leave the math jokes to the pi-fessionals.

(The subject line is "Pi NOT???)

HAPPY PI DAY !!!
Pi hope you're planning to celebrate with puns of pie.
Punny, I have to make a pie for the shop today. What should I
make...pi-apple pie? Pi don't you make a pie today??
Last night, we had a pi-zza pie to celebrate early. I had 3.14 pieces,more
than usual because it wasn't very good.

Pi Pi
Love Mom and Dad

Little City in the big city

Okay, some people will tell me that Austin isn't a big city, but it's the biggest city I've lived in. (Hello! I grew up in a town called Churchville where the town had to put in a SECOND traffic light when the Main Street bridge was being repaired. And yes, my elementary school band played on it when it re-opened.)
In between helping out with Sunday School and the monthly potluck, I opened up my computer in this Austin-y coffee shop. At first I was confused as to why I was being served a Mocha in a glass, but I stopped judging them once I tasted it. It appeared they had a small lunch menu too (not nearly as much as Sips though). Perhaps I'll stop by after church sometime.

This restaurant is nestled on Congress Ave, two blocks from the Capitol building. And I'm pretty sure I love these stone slab tables.

Back to Sewing!

Remember that house quilt I showed you 6 months ago? I finally started it! I procrastinated at cutting the fabrics because I'm scaling down the size. I've started with some nine-patches and friendship stars for the sky. The squares on the smallest nine-patches are only 1/2 inch wide. Although they're small, this has taken hours and hours so far.

Last fall, I tore my meniscus (the cartilage in my right knee between bones). I let it heal for several months, and now it flares up from time-to-time, but I don't have sharp pains like before. A walk (fast or slow) hurts more than a jog. I realized yesterday that driving hurts it more than playing soccer. And, if you have no sewing experience, Using the pedal of a sewing machine is like using the gas pedal of your car, but with more stops and starts. I bought a new knee brace that I'll use to sew and to drive, and probably wear after a soccer game.

(PS - first soccer game was this weekend. I had to play the whole game, so I racked up 90 minutes for the Kasiske challenge!) For the record, this is my second sewing injury. I pinched a nerve in my forearm last summer because I kept resting it on the table while sewing.