After many years of living out of plastic tubs and owning a few pieces of modern particle-board furniture and movie posters, I've decided to finally put some time and energy into designing the room I've always wanted. My original pick for a theme was Steampunk, but I've been finding that my tastes run a little more traditional (and I can't find ANYTHING with exposed gears...), so I'm calling my own style Neo Victorian Laboratory. My plan is to get as much as I can from thrift stores, older relatives, yard sales, etc. I refuse to buy anything new unless I can get it on sale.

So far I've only bought 3 things new (2 solid wood stackable folding bookcases, and a brass apothecary lamp from Fred Meyer, all for $100 [original price $150]). I've been able to find another 40 accessories from local thrift shops including: a bunch of laboratory glass, random cool-looking bottles, antique brass and silver pieces, some leather stuff, glass telephone pole caps, old-timey wall thermometer, a faux old-timey clock (saw the same exact one at Fred Meyer for $40, I paid $5), and my best find: an antique solid wood and glass coffee table that was a steal at $36--but I happen to buy it on 'All furniture is 50% off' day for a sweet $18! I'm keeping a running total of everything I spend on this, so far I'm at $200, which is pretty good.


I took a few inventory-type photos of all my purchases so far:( several photos inside )

I still have a lot of old crap to get rid of, and I have and old dresser waiting in the garage so this is very much still under construction.

I have no cooking or baking skills (clearly) but I felt compelled to bake a cake. I had all the wrong equipment, not enough frosting, and no idea how to decorate it but here it is:



It's god-awful, I know; the fucking heat ruined the frosting. Seriously, I tried to whip it back to normal and was able to get it up to 'peanut butter' on the consistency scale. But it's 4 layers/ 2 tiers with strawberry glaze filling. And it didn't fall over so I'm marking it down as a win.

And yes, the black icing 'design' is the frosting equivalent of me scribbling on the cake with sharpie. Next time I'll just draw a mustache on it and save myself some time.

I'm posting this from my phone, in my car, in the middle of the night. Stupid fucking newspaper truck is MIA, so on top of being late I'll have to wait for 25 people in front of me to get their papers first.

Anyway, no one reads this so it would be just for me, but I am thinking about posting enrties detailing my return to 4-year university. I've been able to find lots of info/tips for 18-year old freshmen, but I've been hitting some unusual roadblocks as a 24-year old returning junior. And I haven't actually applied yet!

So maybe it will help someone else-or maybe I'll just look over it from time to time to remind myself how much work I've done to get here, blah blah blah.

Ok truck's here gotta go.

I didn't find out about this get-together at the White House until just now, (hopefully because I don't watch the news-not that no one else knew about it either...) but last I heard, Obama was in support of DOMA. Now it's like it never happened:

I thought I'd show off my Kink Bingo card, and see if anyone had any suggestions for the center square. I'm 99% sure that I'm going to go for the middle row (vertical).

And for the wildcard I thought maybe watersports or public sex.

( Here is my card... ) This entry was originally posted at http://landshark.dreamwidth.org/1027.html.

Title: Invention of Love
Author: Landshark
Pairing: Dean/Castiel
Genre: Crack? Sort of.
Length: ~ 400
Notes: An odd bit of fic inspired by this post about the rampant fandom cliches in the recent explosion of Dean/Castiel fics.

 

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