5d mark ii + 25-105 = have i died and gone to heaven?

BEHOLD:

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didn't touch any settings, just put on the lens, stuffed in the battery and memory card (ok, not stuffed. i did it so gently i was afraid i didn't put it in all the way), took a look around, and pressed the big black button.

now i'm off to explore every nook and cranny of this expensive sucker.

feel free to click the image for a wonderful life-size cut of my boyfriend playing gears of war.

WOOOHOOOOOOOOO!

progress update + 5d mark ii = i'm so happyyyy

finished the bottom right corner!


AND i just ordered the canon 5d mark ii. not much more to say about that, except that i'm ECSTATIC!!!

mom on gchat + smelly things = i ♡ taiwan

my mom's in china, so we communicate largely through gchat, since it's quick, easy, and free. she often asks about how school is going, as she did tonight, followed by a very abrupt and random farewell:

我看報紙說中國有好多Amyway的人去台灣旅遊，有人說想要吃“娃娃煎”！哈哈！要油炸baby嗎？他們想吃“蚵仔煎”啦！他們不會說台灣話啦哈哈哈，我要去吃飯了．愛妳！bye

now i don't know what "Amyway" means (perhaps Amway?), but translated, this means:

i read on the newspapers in china that a lot of "amyway" people go vacationing in taiwan, and some people say "i want to eat 'infant omelettes'!" haha! want oil-fried baby? they want to eat 'oyster omelette'! they don't know how to speak taiwanese! hahaha, i'm going to eat now. love you! bye"

well, it's much funnier in chinese, especially if you know the difference between "wa-wa jian" and "o-wa jian."

i really want to go back to taiwan, and the cigarette smoke coming from the neighbors downstairs totally reminds me of being at the night markets, wandering through the messy array of street vendors, with all sorts of pollutants competing for lung space. same with the smell from the gutters on the sidewalk. it's funny how so rank and foul a stench can put such a smile on my face.

oh, how i miss you.

macbook pro + dslr = things i want!

sigh.


AND some coding just went wrong with the skin... must... fix.................



meh, good enough for now.

lots of thread + lots of backstitching = works in progress!

ricky came up with this idea last last christmas, while we were in taiwan. we passed a hoodie that had a sick design. looked at the price tag, totally not worth. "hey, why don't we do this ourselves?"

sounds like a good idea. we bought plain white sweaters at ross/marshalls, and i plotted a graph of blue painter's tape, mapped out the colors, then stitched away. but after a few months, i needed a break, and unfortunately, that break has lasted a year. i'm coming back to them now, since i'll be graduated (!) and working part-time in two weeks. this is my chance to really go crazy with all the things on my to-do list.

anyway, here's what mine looks like so far (sorry for bad picture quality, still using point-and-shoot!); the blue tape pieces left on there are what i haven't finished on the front yet:

close(r)-up:

i plan to finish the 5 colored crosses over the sleeves, the back, and the hood, too. perhaps also the hoodie strings?

for ricky's i was little more ambitious... chester showed me a t-shirt with a screen-printed inverted great wave of kanagawa-esque graphic, and i thought that would be really cool to stitch an outline of it onto the sweater. this one is taking considerably longer b/c of all the backstitching, but i wanted it really reinforced and sturdy to last all the wonderful years of wear to come. the blue tape of the whitewater is a rough estimate of future refinement, but here's where things stand with this one:


it also connects from the back of the sweater to the front on the left side:


phew. lots of work ahead of me. but i'm super excited to see the end result... stay posted!

daylight savings + only 10 more days of winter = rejoice!

i changed all my profile pictures because the current one represents an attitude, a mindset, a feeling that i've been missing for a long time. it's not that i've been depressed or anything, but this winter has just felt way too long, and i'm so ready for the sunshine to never end.

keepin' it short; here's me:

needle/thread + new button = better fitting jeans!

i realized why i like baking so much. it's arts-n-crafts you can eat. i love making things, especially intricate things. i love working with my hands and challenging myself to attend the smallest details for a glorious big picture.

i had the epiphany about baking yesterday, and i just thought of it again today, when i fixed a pair if skinny jeans so that they would fit better. all i did was sew a new button onto the waist for a slimmer fit, but i had such a sense of achievement, like i was single-handedly responsible for how well it fits from waist to butt to thigh to calf to ankle, like the whole thing was accomplished by me.

perhaps this is the along the line of me being easily amused, but i take delight in the little things in life. a smile, a hello. a daisy on the side of the road. a little puff of a cloud in the sky. a ladybug wandering on the hood of my car. the last chocolate pudding waiting for me in the fridge...