Snow Day!

I feel deprived. When it snowed, I squealed and ran outside and tasted it and played with it like I was six again. Kevin and I threw snowballs at each other while Braxton chased after them (watching him try to pick up a snowball and carry it back to us was so funny) and made puppy angels.

Unfortunately, though Kevin got work off yesterday, I did not. The bank ended up opening a few hours later, but it still sucked! I wanted to stay home and play in the snow with Kevin and Braxton. Instead, I had to stand inside and watch the snow melt from my drive-thru window. Torture! I did manage to get a few pictures though--not as many as I would have liked, owing to the fact that I left my camera at home and couldn't take pictures until after work around 5:30. Pictures follow after the post!

I am working on Chi! Yay! For those of you who don't know, Chi (from Chobits) is my newest costume. I'd post a picture, but there aren't any good ones with a decent enough resolution. Grrr. I'll post in-progress pictures of the costume, however. =D It's got a very long trim of beads, and after doing the math in my head last night, I figured that I'll need to order around 2400 beads. Thankfully, I found just the right kind of beads online. They are affordable enough, but I still need to wait until the end of the week when I get paid and get my taxes. I've been spending a lot, and it's only Tuesday. Ugh!

Anyways. I've never been this far ahead on a costume before. :X Usually, I end up having to wait until the last few weeks before a con to finish. I guess it helps that I'm not in school. The con isn't until the last week of September, and I'm already about 60% done with Chi. Whoot whoot!

Kevin and I went to Ikea last night with the intentions of just looking around. We walked out of there with around $60 of stuff. Whoops. We bought three lamps and two black end tables for our future living room. Our color scheme is red, black, and white, so we bought two white paper lamps (which look awesome), and one cute red lamp (which will go on our future entertainment center). Ikea has cute, modern, clean-cut stuff for cheap. Yay! Kevin and I don't want rustic or fancy--we want straight lines, bold colors, and modern-feel. We're going to buy a red coach (we already have it picked out, just not paid for), and I'm going to sew all the black and white pillows for it. Our coffee table will be black, along with the end tables. The entertainment center will also be black. All the accents and curtains will be red/white.

I'm getting my hair cut today, I hope. Will post pictures if it comes to pass.

The books are going. I can't report anything on them yet, other than I've halted work on the first book for now in lue of the second, as I feel so much more inspiration at the moment for the second. It took me only three days to spit out chapter one. Yay!

Pictures!