comments.

i fixed my blog.
so comment away.
comment until you cannot comment anymore.
and then go make your own blog so i can read it.
goodbye.

ps i have started my first ruffled arm warmer - so far its a success it think.

true amanda fashion.

ok.  i have to surrender. 

i have spent the last two hours trying to figure out how to make the post a comment link at the bottom of my entries work (so that you all can leave me comments - thus one of the main objectives of this blog) and its not working.  i simply cannot waste any more of my day on this problem.  if you have insight, please help.  

and i understand html as well as any intelligent person does.  but if you tell me to find some kind of nonsense code in my edit profile box that doesn't exist, then please spare me your help.  also, please do not send me to a link that is not found or has errors.  or tell me to expand my widgets or whatever and then when i do it, nothing happens.

so today is like the fourth day that kyle and i have taken full advantage of the fact that we are on vacation and have done completely nothing.  we've been by each other's side nonstop, watching one movie after another, staying up all night and sleeping all day.  letting the candles burn all day long (cause we haven't left the house), eating delicious leftovers and drinking nothing but beer and liquor.  i only took a few breaks to wash the dishes or make the bed.  its been quite lovely.

i thought i would never want this bliss to end, but after almost a week of doing nothing, it has sorta made me feel stuffy and languid, which is going to motivate me to wake up on monday morning when i have to go back to work.  thank god i don't hate work, otherwise we'd have some mega depression on the horizon.  a part of me is excited to roll out of bed when its still morning and put on something smart and spray some perfume and GO.  get some fresh air.  listen to NPR again.  see the everyday faces and have the everyday conversations.  hopefully it won't get monotonous until somewhere around mid-march, when i will happily welcome spring break.  and after spring break, the thought of summer brimming in the near future will probably be enough motivation to have some zest for the last month and a half or so.

so it'll be ok.

i have to direct my first production this spring.  we're doing willy wonka jr.  i have $327 in my theater budget.  i sheepishly admit that i have NO clue what i'm doing.  i guess i'm just going to wing it.  and assume that next year will be better.  that's the way i generally like to operate.  when i don't know exactly what i'm in store for, or when a project seems huge and unmanageable, i just break the process down into extremely manageable portions by procrastinating and doing only what is necessary to get through the present moment.

 for instance...choreographing the disney show is a HUGE task.  huge.  there's like 20 songs plus two long medleys.  i have tons of visually stunning ideas and inspiration pouring in from everywhere (movies, performances i've seen recently, music, etc.).  to manage this task, i probably should have started a binder like 3 months ago, designed a skeleton of formations and basic choreographic ideas for each song, and then as my ideas ripened and blossomed, add/change/edit/develop my design.  

but um, i haven't started.  like, not ONE dance move has been written down.

and we start this week.

so in the true amanda fashion i will be up all night the night before working until i fall asleep.  and then i will use some after school time to finish the rest of the song, then scramble to fix a weird section in my head on the drive there.

and it always turns out pretty good, but never my best.  and i feel like that is the story of my life.  

always good, never the best.

anyway.

i am really excited that i am getting good at knitting.  i was searching for patterns all night last night and have decided on LOTS of projects.  i want to be a super-knitter.  i want to have an etsy.com and sell my stuff.  have people commission me to make knitted things.  hats, scarves, cardigans, accessories.  its going to be a slow-starting business though.  i have only made scarves, which is like the no-brained project.  i have this cool pattern that i plan to start today.  i have this cool knit tricks book that has a lot of gorgeous projects in it. the first one i attempt will be the ruffled-edge hand warmers (see the picture at the bottom far right of the book cover), followed closely behind by a ruffled neck scarf and a cozy shrug.



i am making sure that i leave enough time for myself to do projects. to me, its a priority. at least it will be this year.
so if you can figure out how to leave a comment, that'd be wonderful.
if not...start a blogger.com of your own and share your thoughts with me there.

i made a wishlist on amazon.com that i plan to take seriously. as an avid shopper, i feel it is important document what i am currently interested in. so go see what i want.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/registry/wishlist/3010ZYYHL02RN/ref=cm_wl_rlist_go

i'm off to spend quality time with my mother.