stephanie is: 
sleepy…
so yea… i’ve been quite busy. i’ve been working, so that is good. freelance business document layouts, some icon illustrations, etc. i’m helping my aunt redesign her website. i’m trying to get a bunch of chrismas-present afghans under way, as much as i am working, i still think i’ll need more money this month. i am hoping to get more icon design work. illustration is good.
hm… so my weekend was busy and nice. friday i got another assignment – due monday, so i worked on and off on that. satuday evening we went to one of dan’s co-worker’s house for a pool party slash cookout. it was thunderstorming when we got there, but it stopped raining so all the little girls there got in the pool (everyone has little girls except on couple, sheesh!). i managed to change into my swimsuit and board shorts, then stood there, frozen by the pool for a good half hour. stupid shyness. i am much better than when i was little… i eventually convinced myself to just walk into the pool then take my shorts off afterwards. that got a chuckle out of the host (who looks just like nathan lane, i swear!). simmah! i had my bikini bottoms on. i just couldn’t deal with walking into the pool with my pms-ass hanging out. gah. i swam around for a while and my hair tried to strangle me. obviously i couldn’t take pictures of myself while swimming. that little blobbie one in the top left is the best you get. danny brought me a towel when they annouced dinner was ready. i ate salad and a veggie burger in my suit, a sweater, and my towel. my hair was dripping oceans behind me. i was wearing the pretty earthy necklace that i had tried to sell on ebay, but got no bids. your loss! after deener, they announced dessert. i had brought 5 boxes of cupcakes…. yes, i spent all morning baking 3 types of cupcakes. i very much did not wat to see another cupcake. i had a sliver of chocolate cake and some fruit salad. we sat around an talked to dan’s coworkers and their wives. most of them were russian. russian girlies are pretty. cyka, will you be my russian girlfriend? i felt much more comfortable, so i took pictures of the little kids. and of course if you take one little girl’s picture, they ALL beg you to take pictures. i got a lot of great shots that the parents want copies of. that was saturday.
sunday we drove to columbia to visit my daddy. we stopped at the columbia mall (so big now!) and got a 40% picture frame with our store credit (those evil shelves). i gave it to my daddy with a new photo of me. we went out to eat at don pablos. i had a taco sald – no meat or dairy, mmm. we had THE SAME chatty server as last time. just our luck, huh. he wasn’t too bad though he came close to covering my dad in salad dressing (that i didn’t order anyway). afterwards i voted ice cream so we stopped at friendlies long enough to eat some. back at his place i grabbed 3 of my old books and 5 of his to read. mm books. we drove home. that was sunday.
this week i’ve been working, but i said that already. my girlie time started yesterday, and thankfully i haven’t had cramps. that has been a sometimes thing since i was 13. woo fun. i just have lower back pain and some ooshie tummy, both easier to deal with. and the worst is over now.
hm. we are very out of food. yea. we need to do grocery shopping but i wasn’t up for that tonight. so i had salad while danny had pizza. i wanted pie, but got none.
one day, the pie shall be mine! oh, yes.