A bento beginning

Brown rice, black eyed pea and turnip curry, carrots, and wheat thins. The top layer had an apple, half an avocado and trail mix as well.
For a bit now I've been packing myself lovely organized bento style lunches to take to school. Between theater and classes I don't always have time to sit down and properly eat lunch, so I enjoy having little snacks I can grab through out the day. I also love the clean, clear organizational nature of bentos. I've been trying to take pictures of my particularly pretty, organized lunches, so I'll try to post them from now on. Here will follow a few lunches from past days.Brown rice, black eyed pea and turnip curry, carrots, and wheat thins. The top layer had an apple, half an avocado and trail mix as well.

Beans and rice, peanut butter pretzels, a banana, half an avocado and a date on the side.

I got fancy. :P Its basically deconstructed sushi. Tofu (teriyaki sauce on the side), carrot, cucumber, avocado, rice and little bits of nori.

Another weekend.

Again, I've tried to make my weekend as productive as possible. I spend the week being busy and I often can't wait until its the weekend. I guess is not the sleeping in and laziness I look forward to, but having time to re organize my life and get geared up for the next week.

I spent the entirety of today cleaning up my room. I gave up when I wasn't quite finished, as I felt the need to be social. I'll probably finish up tomorrow morning. I may yet make some blondies, but I don't have all the ingredients right now, but am perusing the substitution options.

Tomorrow the plan is to cook some pancakes (freezing lots for breakfasts this week), some more cleaning and babysitting in the afternoon. I suppose I should do homework somewhere in there too. :P

Anyways,

I hope you've been enjoying your weekend,

~Mer

Hello Stickpad.

Today is a day of productivity. I just need to find a way to counter waking up at 11:30. I don't particularly like sleeping in on weekends, feels like I've wasted the day.

Today's main events will be:

Babysitting

Giving a friend a hair cut.

Homework

Cleaning the apt.

Also planing out some awesome looks to go along with my new boots!

Anyways, more to come,

~Mer.

I feel silly adding to this blog, when I could just start a new one and not have to admit that I have those sporadic posts from the past. But oh well. I never did finish that key wristband. I started it. Never finished. It also doesn't help that I seem to find myself without a camera right now. I'm hoping to fix that soon.

I heard an interesting description about myself the other day. I was described as "Frighteningly talented." It wasn't to my face, but told to my roommate who repeated it to me.

In most things concerning design/art/theater I do try to over achieve and impress, so I guess its working! I worked especially hard last term in my "Elements of Design" class, as it was the required introduction to design class, and I wanted to stand out of the crowed as someone actually majoring in design. Once again, it worked! I was asked to design one of the sets for the following school year (this coming spring term, yikes!) and more or less fast tracked through the design sequence.

So, I'd say "Frighteningly talented" fits me well enough.

:)

~Mer.

Lack of Keys

One problem I've been encountering a fair amount this month is forgetting my keys. Since hooking my keys to my belt loop with a carabiner isn't quite cutting it, I've decided i need to make myself a wrist cuff to tuck my room key inside of. I stumbled upon this tutorial for one (literally, stumbleupon.com) and think I'll take the basic idea from it, though its a pretty simple idea. I'll probably replace the velcro with buttons. And maybe just a flap instead of a zipper.

I'll post pictures of the process and final product when I'm done. :)

Back again.

Over a year later. I'm going to try this blogging again. As far as the last post goes, I'm currently in my Freshmen year at Southern Oregon University studying theater with a minor in visual art.

With once again starting this blog I'm hoping to focus on my crafty, sewing, artsy adventures, which I've been doing a fair amount of during my first month of college. So enjoy. ^.^

Fancy Meeting You Here.

So it has been a while.
A bit under a year in fact.
But I'm back.


It is the summer again, and being as I am not working, I am supposed to be focused on finding myself and preparing for the future. Though I've not gotten that far on that. perhaps with a little though focusing, I can accomplish that.

My latest art inspiration has been the though of cardboard boxes, painted white with some sort of house paint. Then I shall place a weight inside, and sharpie on top *attached to a string, for safety* and place it in various places about town. Most likely will be some of the local coffee shops where frequent the artistic types.


As goes my life, I am getting ready to enter my senior year of high school, and I am daunted with the decision of choosing a college. Let me give you my thoughts on some of my prospective choices..


Cornish: Located in Seattle, Washington. I would enjoy this college because it has both a good art community and a thriving theater. I would be very happy to major in visual arts with a minor in technical theatre. I do enjoy the city of Seattle, however I shall be visiting next weekend and shall give you my better opinion. I have not visited Seattle in a few years.

Pasific North West College of Art: Located in Portland, Oregon. This college is a bit closer to home. Around a two hour drive. Not that I drive. :p But oh well. Clearly they fit the art description, However other then that, I do not know much about it. I shall visit soon, and tell you more.

Oregon College of Art and Craft: Location, Portland, 0regon. Again, closer location. I visited a few months past and enjoyed the atmosphere immensely. It is much smaller, around 200 students. The campus is quite foresty and had a wonderful collection of buildings. Two down sides would be that there is no theatre program, however they do have connections to other colleges that I could take classes at. Secondly, they do not have many 'out of high school' students, meaning I would not have a great amount of people my own age with which to bond. However in the past, I've learned thats not always necessary. =] I was very taken with their curriculum. Their focus is entirly on art. In your four years there, you take four classes not directly related to art. These are classes such as history *art history*, math *artistic geometry* and english *describing art in writing*. I would find this structure an amazing relief to my coming four years.

Southern Oregon University: Located in Ashland, Oregon. This college is known for their theatre, which poses good and bad bits for me. I would still be focused on art, and a minor degree in theatre, however I wonder if it would be difficult to get a good theatre experience where everyone is so competitive there. Financialy, this is the most logical choice. I quite like the town of Ashland, and have a good amount of friends who are currently attending SOU.


University Of Oregon: Location, Eugene, Oregon. I have always known of this college, being as it is the closest other then the college town I live in currently. The city is know for their thriving art community and I do believe I could recieve a good art education here. They are also the financially logical choice, being a state college and costing around 5,000 as apposed to 40,000 that non state colleges cost. I hope to tour this college in the near future.


Well, thoes thoughts were nice to get out onto... blog.

~Mer.