Book Surgery

This is seriously amaaaazing.  It kind of blows my mind the way that he got all of these book pages to flow together so well.

Hanging out with the SunGod babies

I feel a little like a factory.  One that specializes in the making of SunGod baby amigurumis.  I posted the prototype for this pattern ages ago (based on a 2d graphic), and now I've perfected the pattern for ease and cuteness.  They're starting to overwhelm my storage though :)

I did use this pattern tutorial to make their awesome little bellies.

Colored cobblestones

Balboa Park is such a pretty place to go walk around and enjoy the wonderful San Diego weather.  And all the museums!  We went last Sunday and saw no less than 3 weddings going on, it's getting to be wedding season I guess.  This is a quaint little alleyway in the Artist pavilion.  I think the thing that most got me about this area was all the pretty colored cobblestone effects.  Seriously charming.  Plus, during the day, they have independent artists selling their work. 

P.S. Boyfriend didn't quite manage to get out of the picture, he's over there on the left side.

Don't break the chain.

 Lifehacker is so useful.  This particular article popped up on my Recommended Items in Google Reader.  I'm using this idea to help me self-motivate to study for my impending doom, ahem, I mean MCAT exam.  See the details here and here (both at Lifehacker).

 

I've always had a problem with procrastination mostly because it's a vicious cycle.  I have found, in the past, that I'm usually just fine doing things just before they need to be done.  That reinforces the idea that I can slack off until the last minute.  I can't do this here.  The best thing about this productivity hack is that it is totally customizable.  This is usually a year-long thing, but I only really needed it for the following 80 days, and it converts really well to that.  Plus, you can set how much time you want to spend on your activity of choice or you can have multiple calendars for multiple activities that you want to accomplish everyday, like if I were to add exercise, I could print up a separate calendar for that.  As is, my calendar is pretty innocuous so I can add the X's directly to it.

I roughly calculated how many hours I need to study to be successful on the exam and divided that by the number of days remaining until my exam minus vacation days.  I allotted myself a prorated 4 days of vacation as based on a typical 3 weeks of vacation for a year so 4 days of vacation for 80 days (~5.75% of your total time).

And having it just above my computer ensures that I am looking at the thing constantly.

[I hand lettered the words following Brannboll on dafont as a base]

Right now,

I'm feeling like this.

via the brilliant Gemma Correll.

Actually, not just right now, this is me all the time.

Also (from How I Met Your Mother),


Especially starting at 0:14

Sucrette's Stockings

This is my very favorite pattern for little Christmas stockings.  I found it at Ravelry by Sucrette (the pattern is in French and English).  I think the shaping is pretty perfect and it's just the right size for a bit of candy and a little card.  Plus, they're easy to make mindlessly :)

I actually had a bunch of different colorways, but the previous pictures were lost in a tragic memory card accident (of which the cause is unknown), and many of those stockings had already been given away as gifts.  These are the two that somehow managed to hideaway all during the holidays and didn't get given out.  Perhaps I should hang them for some year-round cheer?

I love XKCD

I read XKCD all the time.  This one had me literally laughing out loud.

I guess I'm just a big fan of nerdy web comics :)