Cherry Blueberry Pie. It's extra special (or I'm extra stupid) since it was baked when it was 90 billion degrees outside with 900000% humidity.

Can someone please please figure out someway to dehumidify the air?! It's sucking away my life!

Because I was feeling seriously irritated (probably irrationally irritated, but you know how it is sometimes) about the YOUR COMPUTER WILL EXPLODE comments that I got, I did some digging around.

I couldn't find any incidences of fleece damaging laptops. There were a few hits wondering about it, but no one could say "Hey, I used a fleece case and my laptop went kaput because of it." I e-mailed two case manufacturers that used fleece as an interior lining on their cases. I also e-mailed Acer and asked them if a fleece case was safe to use.

Guess what?

To be honest, I've never heard of fleece causing such a problem with laptops! Further, I've never heard from a customer saying that they've experienced problems that they suspect could be attributed to our laptop sleeves.

and then, straight from Acer
Kim, it is safe to use fleece lined sleeve for covering the system.

So, there you have it.

I made a case for Nettie the Netbook.



But, not only will it wipe out all of my data, but it is also going to MAKE MY COMPUTER EXPLODE!!!!11!!elventy!!!!!.

Just incase you didn't get the point..

But see, here's the thing- laptop manufacturers have actually taken the problem of static into consideration when they designed them. The pieces that can be damaged with static are protected to prevent that happening. Imagine that. So the chances of a fleece lined sleeve actually MAKING YOUR COMPUTER EXPLODE are about nil. Granted, YMMV, but considering that most of the commercially available sleeves are -also- lined with fleece, I'm going to take my chances. I'll be sure to have tijntje update if I get exploded in the process of using my very dangerous sleeve.

Let us keep our fingers crossed that this is the last and final time I will ever have to have bridesmaid duties. I think 5 times is enough.

I should -just- be getting ready to land in Minneapolis tomorrow around this time. Whoo! Then I have a 4 ish hour long layover. I wish it was a little shorter, but I never know how long I'm going to be stuck going through immigration and customs. When I have a long layover it usually takes 5 minutes and when I have a short layover I am always freaking out because there's NOT ENOUGH TIIIIME!

YAY

We went out and enjoyed the weather today. Took a reasonably long bike ride on the way to a geocache and then decided that we weren't smart enough to decipher the clue *L* We've since figured out probably what it meant so we'll go back out another day and try to find it.

I'm not entirely convinced that someone isn't pumping laughing gas into our apartment, we've both had the giggles all day long.

I want to start trying to dye everything I see with silk ties now.



I tried brown eggs too and really like the way the one to the very back looks. The other one is alright, but I think I like the way it turned out better on the white egg. The one in the far right bottom was a bit of an experiment. I covered that one with little pieces of several different ties just to see what would happen. I'll do that again, but try to color coordinate things a little better *L*

I also want to try doing this with some blown eggs so that I can keep them. I might buy pre-blown eggs because the eggs here all have a hot pink date stamp on them and I can't seem to get it off!

I dyed some eggs today, but I wasn't 100% convinced it was going to work, so I only did four. I used silk ties to dye these =)



I'm so excited, I need to go to the slightly less expensive thrift store to see if I can find some more silk ties!

We're going to Newcastle for a quick little day-trip. It should be fun. We'll leave NL Sunday night and return Tuesday morning. I'm not sure if I'm going to make it back in time for the NAWC meeting which is a bit of a bummer, but not enough of a bummer that I'm canceling my trip.

It's getting time that I need to start packing to go back to the US. It seems like time has really flown by. I still need to find shoes for the wedding, but I think I'll have better luck looking there than here since apparently women's feet don't grow bigger than a size 9.5 here. I don't understand, these are a tall people and I'm still stuck with too short pants and too small shoes. How do they even balance themselves with such tiny feet?!

I think I like my peace and quiet more than I like birds, but it's also way too nice today to leave the windows closed!

Lookie at what I made.



I sorta followed the tutorial here and then put my own spin on it.

Uh, so I tried to amputate my finger with my new food processor blade. That slicey blade is VERY SLICEY. Then, we were bandaging me up (it's really not that bad, but you know how fingertips like to bleed and bleed) I started seeing stars and feeling like I was going to faint (which hardly EVER happens to me). Not really sure what happened there, So I sat down on the floor in the kitchen and probably scared the living daylights out of tijn.

I'm good now, it's only a flesh wound!

I've been working on decorating my little Easter tree that I'm making. I have made some little embellished felt eggs. I also have some cute felt butterflies on there and chenille chicks. I am still debating over whether or not I should paint the branches white. It looks okay as it is, but maybe it will pop more if they are white. I would just paint them without hesitation but without having a good area to spraypaint, it's quite a dramatic event to paint things. We'll see.

It's nice and sunny today. I even got to wear my sunglasses for the first time! Whoo =)

My inlaws are coming over for dinner on Friday. I think I'm going to make lasagna. I found a recipe on how to make your own ricotta cheese, so I'm going to do that tomorrow. That way I will still have time to go get some from the store if it turns out to be a horrible disaster. I have a nice raspberry trifle recipe that I want to try, but I haven't quite pinpointed side dishes yet. I'll probably just go with salad and garlic bread- you know the standard lasagna side dishes *L*

Son of a monkey it's windy outside.

I went to get my haircut and I wasn't sure if I was going to make it home or not!

Google is on my shitlist right now.

One of the things I amused myself with was looking at the search terms people were using to get to my blog. Google bought Feedburner and then pretty much did a forced migration to their "new improved" version which is a steaming pile of poo that doesn't give relevant to me info anymore. Don't even get me started on what they did to one of the widgets on blogger. Bah! Whatever happened to "Don't be evil"?!

In other news, I finally got an appointment with a psychologist (uh, 5 months after I went for an intake) at the end of the month. Now I've talked myself out of wanting to deal with it, but I guess I better just suck it up and go.

Oh, I almost forgot! I found a food processor at the thrift store for 10€ so I am going to go on a chopping spree =D

Stupid tennis is on instead of Murder She Wrote! BLASPHEMY!

Sock monkey ears cause me grief. I think my sock monkeys from this day forward will have to remain earless... or I need to figure out a less fiddly method to produce and attach them.

I am all itchy with hives for some reason. I haven't had them for awhile, I'm wondering what's set them off this time. *scratch scratch scratch*

I hope the weather is nice tomorrow. I've really been ITCHING (haha, ok I'm dumb) to go to the fabric market. There is a 20% chance of rain so I have my fingers crossed it will happen in the afternoon when I'm already home. I've also come to the conclusion that if there's a 20% chance of rain, it actually means 200%. 50% chance? Well that really means 500% chance of rain. I really think they should predict when there will be a chance of sun. Rain, it's a given. It's the chances of sun that I'm actually interested in!

I was flipping through the channels and came across 7 Brides for 7 Brothers. I love this movie!

I'm just puttering around today. I did some grocery shopping and tidying, but that's about it so far. I'm STILL trying to shake this cold. I really wish it would let go, it's been ages.

We went and ordered sunglasses for me today. I felt better about it today as there actually -was- sunshine than I would have if we'd gone in on a "normal" day full of lots of grey and raining. They were having a sale on their frames because they were remodeling and going to be closed for a week. The frames were 1€, but then the lenses were 52.50€ a piece! So I was feeling a little hesitant about that, but he said if he charged us full price for the frames (which was 39 or so, not terribly expensive frames since they're just going to be sunglasses) that the total cost would be only 69€. Sounds strange to me, but it worked out. I shall have new sunglasses in the next couple of weeks. Yay!

The paint in the bathroom is bubbling and peeling in places, so we're scraping it all off and starting from bare walls. There's not actually a whole lot of wall space in there, so we're trying to decide if we want to paint the ceiling too. I think tijntje is leaning towards not doing it, and I'm thinking it might look kinda nice. We'll have to see if we need to take the paint off the ceiling too in order to do that.

This afternoon we went to our traditional "date" place, IKEA. Yes, I know, it's pathetic. I can't help myself that it's my favorite store *L* We actually managed to get out of there without spending any money aside from lunch, which I think is a first.

For dinner I made somewhat scary looking heart shaped meatballs stuffed with mozzarella and mushrooms, green beans, and twice baked potatoes. I really liked how the potatoes turned out. They had cream cheese and spices instead of cheddar and bacon like you often see. The meatballs were okay. I think I need to play with the recipe a little more to get it just right, but it was certainly headed in the right direction. tijntje made us dessert which was a peaches and cream concoction and it was really good. It didn't set up quite how it was supposed to, but that could've been because we used Splenda instead of sugar. It didn't really matter though, I think I liked the sauce part runny better than I would have if it had gelled up.