pinhole day!

Today is pinhole day! yesterday I turned this re-usable disposable camera into a pinhole camera. It works pretty well, I just took out the "lens" and replaced it with a pinhole, and I took out the plastic piece that acts as a shutter. It was pretty easy, once I figured out that I needed to keep the shutter button mechanism so that the advance wheel and exposure counter still worked.


here's some pictures I took with it yesterday:

this is the can I used to make the pinhole out of


this is my lab


this is the view out of the door at work


I used a nail to make the hole, which i think is too big, so thats probably why they're so blurry. but it also makes for shorter exposures. I took more shots today that I'll process tomorrow to post on the pinhole day website.
I'm considering taking it apart again and putting in a smaller pinhole. or maybe I'll just make another one......
also, check out the link to little box pinhole cameras that lab monkey brought to my attention. it's pretty cool!

goin' gray

I was hanging out with Big D and Khya, Khya was talking about her gray hairs and I said I didn't think I had any. Then about 30 seconds later, Khya said "hang on!" and tugged on hair on the top of my head. I went in and looked in a mirror, Sho'nuff! a white white hair, sticking right out of the top of my head.

one is never enough

one day off all by its lonesome just isn't enough. It was a nice day though, even if I didn't get much crossed off my to-do list. I really need to do laundry, but I just wasn't up for it. I stayed up late last night watching Buffy and knitting, and then I slept in this morning. It's been too long since I could sleep in. I went to thai food for lunch with Khya, which was fun. We went to a place in ballard that I can't remember the name of. they had this amazing appetizer where they bring out all these littls dishes with things in them, onions, ginger, peanuts, chiles, tiny lime slices, coconut, and you wrapt it all up in leaves and put tasty sauce on it. they were amazing! and their phad kee mao rocked too.
I took rosie to the park to play frisbee today. she was very well behaved. i put her on a big long leash and let her drag it around, so she can run after the frisbee but i can stil catch her if i have to. there were other dogs walking by, and kids on skateboards, and she didn't even care, just kept on chasing the frisbee and bringing it back. and then some guys brought their dog over to play frisbee, and she chased that dog for awhile. but she didn't try to fight him! even when he tried to mount her! AND she came when i called. My little girl is growing up!

busy busy bee

oh so busy, with the worky and the birthdays and the doing of stuff. I feel like I have lots to write about, and nothing all at the same time.
I've been trying to eat Raw. I need a better raw cookbook, or rather, non-cookbook. I am interested in trying it to a certain degree, but I don't think I could be hardcore about it. For one thing, how do other people ever have you over to feed you? what the hell do you tell them? "make me a salad?" It's hard enough already being vegetarian and not liking potatos. But on my own I'm giving it a half-try. I know I won't go all the way with it, because i'd have to give up beer, and coffee, and probably pop corn which would REALLY not happen. and I hate the idea of never eating food that is really hot. Like soup. Some cold soups are ok, but most are not.

long day off

It's been a busy day. I got up bright and early to drop Rosie off at the vet. When she was a puppy she had a little eyelash growing inside her eye, and it gave her a weepy eye. they plucked it and cauterized it, but it seemed to have come back. Her eye was weepy again and last week she kept rubbing at it. So I took her in. $175 later, her vaccines are updated and her toenails are trimmed, but they didn't find anything in her eye. "It must have fallen out." Well thats great. Hopefully it won't bother her anymore, and hopefully I will never again pay $175 for stuff that would normally be $30. Though this isn't the first time, and probably won't be the last either.
today I got the wrong Buffy DVD from Blockbuster AGAIN.....it must have been en route before i deleted all the other seasons from my qeue. but I also got something RAD in the mail that made me feel better:


Aubry, my "big" sister (not older, just taller) sent me presents! I love them! It totally made my day. The picture doesn't do the tank top justice, the colors are really amazing. there are lots of different colors in each skull. Not only is the tank top awesome, but the dinosaur pen.....reminds me of something....oh yeah! ME!


dino battle! cori vs. AL- i'm not sure, but I think I'm getting my ass kicked.

exhaustion and frustration

exhaustion: finished day 8 of working.....one more day until i have a day off. It was going ok until today, i have been so sluggish and tired. i got home and just couldn't go to craft night. i felt too zombified. I'm very disappointed, I even made cookies, but i had to go to bed. I went and sorta half slept for over an hour. i feel better, sort of, but i'm going back to bed real soon.
frustration: for some reason blockbuster online is sending me my dvds out of order. NOT ok when you're on season 3 of Buffy, and they send you season 4. I got another DVD today, expecting the right one, and again it was season 4. WTF? I've been emailing them, but of course they're incredibly not helfpful. "Disable your cookies" " use internet explorer" "delete all the other seasons from your qeue" or "add them as a set" which I DID, dammit! I miss netflix.......but I really like my blockbuster in store coupons. crapholes. oh the disappointment of receiving the wrong Buffy DVD's.......

techno trash

It would just never occur to me to put a computer in a compost pile......



or a tv in a ditch.

random trailers

I picked up a CD at work today that I thought was blank, but it wasn't! it had this awesome picture! the trailers are lovely, and check out that car.....

jobbie jobs

Theres a little game I like to play called "How many jobs can Cori have?" Sure, I've been complaining about working too much, but what's one more job? Anyway, I've sorta been offered a temp job, 6 weeks, $12/hr, doing photoshop and data entry website work for an online wine distributor. It sounds awesome, pays better than the other 2 jobs and is more along the lines of what I want to be doing, photo editing/photoshop/post production work. So far I have no info about what the hours are, whether its part time/flexible or full time. I am determined to do it either way, but I'm not sure if i will be able to swing it. I guess I'll jsut have to wait and talk to my bosses when I get more info. i probably won't hear back from the temp people until Monday, so I have all weekend to stress about it.
Well, thanks to Ransom my bike dilemma has been resolved. He said "Don't put money into that bike!" or something along those lines. So I called the bike guys at Second Ascent and re-negotiated. The guy I talked to this time was VERY helpful, he said that its not really necessary to replace the rims and stuff, but he will do a good thorough tune-up, and things should work much better for more like $30, which is way way better than $150. This way I can still ride it and not die, since my commute is quite short anyway, and I probably won't ride in the rain too much. (which means, in Seattle, i may never ride....) But that was a big relief. And I don't have to butcher my bike. Thanks, Ransom! I just really needed someone to tell me not to do it. I'll be saving my pennies for a Bianchi.......
On a random note, I'm totally addicted to the new album by the Eagles of Death Metal. I <3 it times a million, and I really <3 this pic:



tee hee.....i think he's got to go.......
but seriously, no other guy looks quite that good in those glasses and that mustache.....and those PANTS!

Bike dilemma

I dropped off my Panasonic tourist bicycle at the shop yesterday. I am having second thoughts.......the bike guy pretty much thought I was crazy to even bother putting money into it, and said it wouldn't make that much of a difference. basically, he's going to give it a tune up, put on a new back rim and gear hub so the brakes will work better and the gears will shift better. but it's all going to be about $150. Now I feel weird about it, and if I change my mind I could probably call and stop 'em before they do it. But I can't decide. I don't know if I could get a better bike for $150, and I like this crappy old bicycle. I mean, it's a Panasonic Tourist, how cool is that? and I just want the brakes to work so I can ride to work without crashing. Is that too much to ask? but I'm replacing it's original steel rims, (because brakes don't work on them) and I feel like I'm butchering it or something. Not that its worth anything, even "all original" but i'm some sort of sick purist.
This is the bike I would buy if I had a lot of money: The Bianchi Bergamo. and I would buy a Burley Cub bike trailer to tow with my Bianchi Bergamo. and then I would put Rosie in my trailer and ride across the US on the Transamerica Trail!

Daydreaming Escape Plans

Today I was having strong runaway urges. When i told anatomist we began to formulate a plan. it started with leaving tonight for mexico. i was going to pack us some lunches and we were going to have to stop at my parent's house in eugene to pick up my tent. Then we decided we would have to stop in Portland to kidnap Pulpshopgirl and in Eugene to kidnap Sierra as well. We reasoned that we would need more tents, but then realized that when we kidnapped Pulpshopgirl we could also steal her truck and trailer. I decided anatomist had better leave work early, but she couldn't get out of downtown because there was a protest. She said I would have to steal a helicopter. So I stole a chopper and picked her up on the roof of her office building. We choppered to Portland, where we landed in Pulpshopgirl's yard.

good news, and badly finished bikini top

yay! Pulpshopgirl finally posted her big news.... Looks like Luke is gonna make an honest woman out of her! So next summer two of my bestest girlfriends are getting hitched. Pulpshopgirl, and anatomist. I've never been in a wedding before, and now I'll be in two. I'll be dropping duckets on bridesmaids dresses, shower presents, wedding presents...... And, since I'm special, I get to be the maid of honor for Pulpshopgirl! Which also means I get to plan the bachelorette party.....hmmmmm, it may be a ways away still, but the gears in my head are already grinding. I'm really excited, 'cause these boys my girls managed to find are actually deserving of them. and that is saying a whole hell of a lot, coming from me in reference to these girls. The funniest part though was the way Pulpshopgirl broke the news to me, she started with "I have to tell you something, but don't be mad....." I'm not mad! Though it's definitely a trip, in the abstract sense. Wha...? you're getting MARRIED?

I got an e-mail the other day from Kungfuramone about how excited 20 year old me is right now about me wrestling.....it got me thinking, what would we have thought 5 years ago if we could have a glimpse of where we are now? would we be excited about our future lives, or horrified? disappointed?

and now for the sad part.
I've been working on this bikini top for what feels like ages, thought its really been about two weeks. But i really messed it up. trust me, it looks a lot better off than on.



the triangle parts are fine on their own, but I messed up in attaching them to the string that ties in the back. I think i could fix it, but i can't figure out how to get the crocheted attachment part to unattach........ugh. oh, the frustration! but now I know, and I think I know to modify the pattern to make it different and better. But I may just have to start the whole thing over again. And this is only half the bikini! ARGH!

yay for bluetooth technology

every once in awhile i take steps to utilize the technology i know i am capable of using but do not take advantage of. sometimes its after a few drinks. well, how bout that bluetooth? I am familiar and quite fond of wireless internet. but i just hooked up my new phone to my lap top with this whole bluetooth thing. Cool. My phone is just sitting there, and i can access it with magical invisibleness.
tonight i played games with some really fun people. we played apples to apples. i like the theory where the cards you win reflect your personality. these were mine:



I think they're appropriately contradictory.

today was my sixth day in a row at work. this week has been crazy, for lots of non work reasons, but also because of too much work. the crazy work part has been the bosses being out of town, and all the machines breaking. murphy's law and such. today i managed to get some chemicals on my watch which then got on my wrist, and i had some sort of allergic reaction. after all my years of working with photo chemistry, i've never had this happen. lucky for me, my coworker often has her young son at work and she happened to have some desinex (somethign like that) diaper cream on hand. it was soothing, but i smelled like baby but for the rest of the day. and it got white marks on my shirt that looked like those "embarrasing" deodorant marks the commercials try to make you live in fear of.



i am shaking my diaper rash cream smeared chemically burned wrist and blazing fist of fury at the chemical spilling machine after unclogging it's second paper jam.

and this is what i stare at most of the day. i decorated the penholder myself, btw.



well Pulpshopgirl has some big news that i wish she would hurry up and post about so i could start flapping my yap about it too, but I guess that post will just have to wait.

beautiful blender

I <3 my new blender.



i got it on sale, which only makes me <3 it more.

i'm a team player

We had our first wrestling meeting today. at least it was the first one for me. Kamaria and I figured out a name for our team, we're the Pop Roxxx! we're going for a pop star theme, Tom is going to be our manager/father. we've got lots of good ideas for outfits and makeup and whatnot, we just have to think up some really good pop princess names. Evilcat thought of Britney FearMe and Christina Agony.....so something along those lines. But we're shooting for sister names, I just can't think of any good rip-offs of Jessica and Ashlee Simpson, and Britney and Jamie Lynn FearMe doesn't work because with two it becomes plural, and FearUs sounds kind weird, yadda yadda..... But I'm really really excited about wrestling, and every week we get to meet up with some people from Seattle Semi-Pro! They're going to help us train. How cool is THAT?

now back to crafts, today I framed the little embroidered birdie anatomist gave me!

Finally Felted Footies!

Last night I felted my slippers!


There they are. I was wearing them while they were wet so they could form to my feet, hence the plastic bags. Look! They fit!

Had a fabulous time at April Fool's Dinner at anatomist's this evening.


I think this picture deserves more than a thousand words. But i'm too tired to think of that many.