12:02 early Monday morning (4 July 2011)

Steampunk Octopus

Today was interesting.

I went to LDS sacrament meeting for a few minutes to watch my friend's baby blessing. Despite the fact that it seems no one in their church has any public speaking skills, the words of the blessing had good meaning and I appreciated them. Then Lisa, Aubs, and I snuck out for coffees and brekky at Eistein's before returning for the luncheon where I found Sara and her boyf. I chatted with them a while, then as I was checking the time on my phone I noticed thena had texted me to let me know she was in my house. I laughed and hoped Caleb was wearing clothes...and tried to wrap myself up so I could leave but I didn't want to go yet because Aubs and Lis had just got there and I still wanted to talk to Sara anyway... but I pulled myself away because I didn't want poor Thena to sit there awkwardly in my house in case my husband was in the shower or something. Luckily he wasn't in the shower and he was wearing clothes. While Thena and I bleached/dyed my hair, watched stripper documentaries, and painted steam-punk-themed animals on clipboards, he worked on the shed all afternoon in 110 F heat and got a lot done.

I am so proud and in awe of a) his ability to work in swelterdom and b) his general carpentry skills. Something I've noticed in a lot of my male friends is that if they're extremely academically bright, they tend to lack skill/interest/talent in mechanics and vice versa, so I think it's really awesome that my best friend has both mechanical skill and extreme academic prowess. Also awesome is the fact that he is quite definitely the sexiest man alive. Anyway.

This has been one of the best weekends I've had in a while. also my hair looks so freaking rad I don't know what to do with myself and I did the best octopus painting I've ever done! and i'm so excited that my shed will be done by next weekend~ yay caleb and yay thena and yay for friends all around.