okay i love how when you sign up for an account on flickr, and you're setting up your profile, and you upload your little personal icon, the website tells you this when it confirms it got your file:

"your new buddy icon looks nice!"

also of note, i finally know the code to link something and have an image in this here blog without looking it up! there's html coding hope for me possibly... but probably not. i still can't do anything major without my crack team of specialists. (that'd be jenn and mark to you)

so this week's been kinda a crazy whirlwind of stuff and i apologize for ignoring everyone and not being on the computer - there's been no free time whatsoever at work, and josh's mom came into town this week and we've all just been hangin' out. she recently bought a house in new mexico, so the time we're gonna be able to spend with her's gettin' limited and that just stinks!

yesterday we went up to the fashion district in la so carole could find this one particular fabric she's been lookin for to make a bedspread. we spent a blissful 3-4 hours wandering into a billion different fabric stores and totally found something, rock on! also found a plethora of other things - i bought a cheezy headband with strawberries on it, a birthday present for my sister brittanie, fabric for two different fun skirts, some quality wooden feet to make an ottoman with, and a big chunk of sequiny elastic stuff to make one of those awesomely sweet sequin belts... the best part about that last one is i had seen those belts at forever 21 for $12, and i was like TWELVE DOLLARS!?!?! no way! so i bought the sequins to make the thing, not even thinking that yeah, almost every clothes booth in the fashion district would have the belts for $3. but mine will mean more because i made it? question mark?

the weird crazy awesome thing about the fashion district is you can find literally anything you want there. you want bootlegged dvds of movies that are still in theaters? done! you want contact lenses without a perscription? done! you've been wanting a polar fleece blanket with a huge ugly bootleg mickey mouse on it? done!you'd like a baby pet duck but you don't want the hassle of going to the park and catching one yourself? done and done, my friends! okay... maybe it should be more like if you want something sort of shady and possibly illegal, then go to the fashion district. but man is that place fun. we had an amazing time.

and today i must find some short shorts. for i hear there is a bday party of the short shorts variety next sunday, and i simply must have something to wear!