i want to make foam.
i'm watching the world biker build-off on the discovery channel. it's amazing, especially because it's the brits the aussies and the u.s. dudes, and it's so cool. holy snap it's so cool. i think i've found what i want to do in life. ok, maybe not, but i've found some new inspiration. and the foam...they were pouring their own foam for the seat cusion. whoa.

and, some bad news...talking to bike shops, someone suggested that maybe my frame isn't still intact. i actually will like to think otherwise, and i will hold out until the end...hmmm...i want to start riding again. i'm getting antsy. although i did go to a yoga class with my mommykins today, and i realized just how weak my shoulders are compared to the rest of my body.

green pants comes in on friday, and i couldn't be more excited!

the new car (who might already have the nickname of turtle) is now insured, which is excited, and tomorrow it gets properly registered in my name. car and renters insurance is so much less expensive in charlotte...maybe i should just stay here forever. probably not, but it has it's perks.

also, the quilt is coming along well. it's going to be small, but a girl has to start somewhere. it's all from scrap fabric i've collected over the years, some stuff from the rag cabinet in the laundry room, and some cool terrycloth from washcloths. i think that's cool. i have no idea how this will turn out, but if it's like any other vj project, it will have a lot of personality and lots of flaws in craft(wo)manship.

speaking of wo-things...what ever happened to bobby womack?

[now the australian team is painting their bike. holy holy cow, this is amazing. this is amazing, i want to paint things in a paint booth.]

what else...
today my brother left on the beginning of his country-wide journey. off to oakland and lake tahoe for a couple days of r&r and skiing with his girlfriend and her family ("oh, kirk just made shannon's christmas by coming out here. just made her christmas." -my brother's girlfriend's mom), then he flies back here for a football game with dad, and then he and a friend drive from charlotte to miami for the orange bowl, then he drives back here...then he drives back to school. wow, that's lots of moving around.

um, tomorrow, i'm nervous to see if i have to get an entirely new bike or not. hmmm. i'll have anxiety dreams about l'il dude.

i have about 8 gazillion things that i want to do: jade plant fix (i happy to have found little healthy growths that i can replant just incase), quilt, learn to knit, make myself a bag, get back to work, do the books for 2004, [um, hello? it's almost 2005? 2004 is almost over, where did it go?], find the right floral fabric scrap (hopefully on a vintage dishtowel) to stitch onto my favorite, 8-year-old balck skirt that i've painted in one too many times, and read read read!

ok, time for some honey ginseng mint tea and the HUGE fortune cookie i got for christmas.