More photos, and NERDS!

It seems that Sundays are just getting to be lazy slug days, so here are some photos. I was accomplishing things, I swear!:

Sashiko and Vlogbrothers

So much love.

 

 

 So for readers who don't know, The Vlogbrothers are vloggers... Who are brothers.
They are totally amazing and smart fellows (John, the elder brother, is an awesome New York Times bestselling young adult author, and his brother Hank is an environmentalist/head of a record company/creator of VidCon, a Youtube convention that I WANT TO GO TO), who encourage their viewers to make the world a better place and think about issues complexly.

They spearheaded a movement for their viewers and the world to embrace being enthused about things and people, specifically encouraging such obsessions that will make you a smarter, more thoughtful individual. Some call it nerdy. They call it NERDFIGHTERS. (Not like fighting the nerds, but like being a freedom fighter.)

To demonstrate my love for Nerdfighteria and all that it stands for, here's a quick example:
The rallying cry of a nerdfighter is the phrase, said in many a video, "Don't Forget to be Awesome."

This has also been shortened to an initialism, which has become the name of Hank's music company, and is a good reminder for life in general. That's maybe why...

It's tattooed on my inner arm.

 Along with this, which is not a nerdfighting quote, but which I'm pretty sure that any nerdfighter will agree with:

Other inner arm. It says "I am still learning" in Italian.

Now
1: You know the things that I need to remind myself of every day

And

2: You can identify my corpse, if need be.

Now

3: I am hungry and am going to eat dinner.

I need to go to bed,

So I'll just leave you with this bit of amazing.

Enjoy:

You're welcome.

Late with a post, but here it is!

Today was pretty terrible. I hate crying at work, and I really hate when people who have no idea how to do my job tell me how I am not doing it properly, when I have been doing everything in my power to make the business run as smoothly as possible.

But, I managed to make it through the day without taking any headache meds (trying to save my stomach lining) but it was mostly thanks to some surreptitious Sashiko that I smuggled into the office:

Because I busted out the macro lens for the Sashiko photo (y'all deserve better photos), I decided to take some detail photos of Joan!

Enjoy!

Those eyebrows and ears are microscopic...

Torso shot!

 Just need to finish Joan's books and Pen necklace, and then this girl is good to rule the office!

The evening got significantly better by meeting that boy I like for dinner and a movie; We went to the AMAZING Landmark Loews Jersey to see the original "The Producers," as part of their "Screwballs and Screwups" weekend. I love this theatre-- if my readers are ever in the Jersey City area, they must try to see something at this extraordinary 1920s movie palace.

I am tired.

I need to figure out a way to write during the day. These posts are getting sad.

Today was gross.

I felt icky and vomitocious all day, so I skipped going to get blood drawn this evening and just came home.

The only things that will make situations like today better are reading some Game of Thrones, cuddling up on the couch to watch Seinfeld with the boy, and

 

working more on Joan.

I need to take better pics of her... All of her skin is done in microscopic single-threaded backstitch and stem stitch. 

I really need to remind myself that these are towels, not museum pieces. Nobody cares if her ear stitching is the sort of thing that I really should be doing with a magnifying glass.

But it still makes me so proud.

The next project to tackle with some embroidery is a project that is much bigger. Roommate and best friend/best man Alex is a gifted cartoonist, who has developed a family of characters that (fictionally) reside in the crazy turreted house at the end of our street. They are rather Addams-like in tone, but much angrier and more neurotic. I have a series of embroideries planned, so that he can have someone do something with these characters. I don't think that I will be able to make all of the smaller, individual portraits before we move to foreign parts, but I want to see if I can get a group portrait done by his birthday. Blamsfords, here we come!!

Accomplishments of the Day:

1:Day from hell at work, where everything went wrong

BUT

Decided not to care too much.

And that made all the difference.

2: Went through 200+ applications for stockperson jobs (not technically my job, but something that we have figured out that I am quite good at doing) and narrowed down the search to nice people who know how to do the job for interviews over the next few days. It feels nice to potentially be able to offer a good person employment, and to have a supervisor that I am not overly fond of let me do something I am good at AS WELL AS admit that sometimes my judgement is better than hers.

and

3: Joanie got a face/Outfit:

 

Looking good, Joan. Looking good!

Lazy sluggy day, full of stitching!

In the best possible way.

I've been embroidering all day on my Joan Holloway/Harris towel:

Still working on Joanie...

but the typewriter is finished!

Embroidery is perfect for sluggy days.

I think that I am falling in love with stem stitch. It looks so ropey and pretty... It is funny that it took me YEARS to figure out how to do it. Now I can't stop!