JAM!

I made Strawberry jam on Sunday! It was so easy. I even chose to make the 'harder' cooking required jam instead of the freezer kind. Totally easy, and great for gifts and stuff. And I'm not intimidated by the idea of canning anymore, which was the whole point of the exercise.

I figure, with everything I've planted, I'll have way more harvest than I can eat, so I should learn to freeze and can everything, and jam was my very first canning. I bought myself a big pot to heat the jars in, and, with the help of my knowledgable husband (who had canned before) we have eight perfect jars of jam!

I know, I know...how much fun can jam be? but I had a blast and have a huge sense of accomplishment. I can't wait until I see rows of canned and pickled vegetables from my very own garden on the shelves!

Fabulous HAT!

Some of the fabulous costumes from the movie The Fall just arrived (they'll be on display at The Landmark) and I got to try on this amazingly GORGEOUS hat. (if you watch the trailer, its the white hat with all the crystal dangles on it!) I'll make Jeremy help me post the pic up here, cause its so fun! :) YAY for working in the movie industry!

Yoga

Today I did half an hour of an hour class, and it focused a LOT on stretching my hips...its taken until 3:30 pm today for my hips to feel normal again! Yes, they feel good, but ow!!! I had to rest multiple times during the class....hmmm, I guess my hips are stiffer than I thought! (no comments boys!)

Requested to Blog

So, its been too long since I wrote something, I'm told, so here goes:

Work is working out fine. I like the people in the office and its so much more interesting than accounting for some boring manufacturing company or something like that. I do have a lot of work now, cause I'm spending all this time cleaning up mistakes that my predesessor made. ARG. I think I'm almost done with that though.

We also have several more movies coming out, so things are already starting to pick up, and will get really crazy busy in the near future. This is the latest release: The Fall - May 9

I had a great time this week, hanging out with Cindy and enjoying my space with Jeremy gone at GAMA, but I am also looking forward to tonight when I get to see him again. :) I miss my husband!

Ooh, I ordered BareMinerals foundation on Tuesday, so I'm really looking forward to getting it. My skin looks so red today. I also ordered some books on canning and a jam recipe book. I'm gonna buy a ton of strawberries at the farmer's market on Sunday ($6 for a flat!) and make jam and stuff. Get myself trained and ready for when the tomato plants explode with fruit. :)we have five so far in our plot and will probably have another two or three....plus some I have at home too....Tomatomania!

Things I get paid to do

Chat online
Research stuff for my garden
Send jokes to my friends
Talk about sustainability and politics with my boss
Read random news and surf the web
Blog
Watch screeners of movies (ok, this one is kinda work related)

and, in the near future, possibly:
watch TV
play poker
crochet

Don't get me wrong, I work......when there's work. But we're so slow right now that I have to find anything I can to keep from going insane from boredom. And my boss Paul is pretty cool. He says if everyone else gets paid for a full day (salary), then I should too. :)

It will be great when I have more work....then I can complain about that instead. ;)

Good exercise

So I take the metro to work. And its usually great. But today, my bus driver was off in her own little world and didn't stop at my stop (and yes, I did pull the stop chain, and yes, the sign at the front of the bus did say 'stop requested') So what did she do? She said I'd have to wait until the next stop, and then get on another bus to go back to my original one. Arg! Very frustrating.

And then, as I'm walking to the bus stop, I realize I only did 10 minutes of yoga today, and some exercise would probably be good, and in any case Sunset doesn't look that far away (I'm on Santa Monica and Fairfax, for those who know the area.) Sure its uphill, sure its a warm day, but why not?

10 minutes later, I'm at what I thought was Susnet. Nope, its Fountain, and I still have another 10 minutes to go....arg again!

It ended up being a good walk, and good exercise, but not something I'm doing again any time soon. Fairfax is all uphill and it is HARD!

Massive Update

So its been forever since I wrote. Here's the lowdown: Gram died and we had her memorial on Feb. 15. It was beautiful, and though I miss her a lot, I know she's with me. Also, I got a new job as a Staff Accountant at Roadside Attractions (indie film distribution), which is awesome. Everybody's nice and low key, and as Paul, the controller and my immediate boss, told me: 'the owners have made it a very humane place to work.' Super flexible and kind. :) They also pay what I was looking for, so that's a huge plus.

I'm still teaching voice, and trying to figure out how to work it in around my job. I'm not working ren fair this year, though I will be visiting a lot.

And now to current events:
This weekend Jeremy and I went to the Grove to see 21 with Camile, Matt, Cindy and Don. Awesomely fun movie. We also had a blast at the Grove. The guys did guys stuff, and we girls got our makeup done at the MAC counter in Nordstrom's. I love MAC, cause they only hire makeup artists to work their counters, so they know what they're doing. No walking out looking like a hooker. :)

It was totally funny though, cause halfway through, this woman comes up to one of the artists and starts talking to him, and then starts talking to us, like she totally knows us! And she kept changing topics, like she couldn't keep anything straight. An she wouldn't go away or take a hint. Too weird. She was nice enough, but weird. I am totally looking forward to going back to the MAC counter....hopefully without our new friend.

Jer and I also stumbled upon a lot sale at NBC for the show Passions: all the costumes, furniture, props....VERY COOL. We got a bunch of amazing high end stuff for less than $60 total! It was a lot like shopping a flea market, but it was worth it.