Month: October 2006

SNL

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After this weekend’s completely unfunny episode of SNL, I’ve reached my breaking point. I’ve deleted the show from my the DVR series priority list and I’m not watching it again. It’s just horrible! MadTV is a billion times better even when it isn’t that good. The only thing SNL has going for it is the celebrity hosts, and that’s no longer that appealing when the writing is so awful. And here I thought Tina Fey was behind the shitty writing. Color me wrong.

SNL is so pathetic that even the normally funny Dane Cook sucked terribly last week, yet they are re-airing it this Saturday. WTF? His monologue wasn’t nearly as entertaining as the last time he hosted, although that’s his fault since he wrote the material, but the skits were downright painful as well. There are far too many political skits for my taste and weekend update is boring as all hell. Seriously, they should just cancel it already instead of dragging it through the mud. I don’t know why I’ve continued to watch it week after week when I rarely laugh anymore, but I’m done now.

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Scarecrow Festival

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After all the anticipation, I decided not to go see Employee of the Month, starring Dane Cook, today. I just lost the enthusiasm after watching a half hour special on it . I could be way off base, but it doesn’t look all that funny. Also, Jessica Simpson can’t act. She is another Neve Campbell: she plays the same character in all her roles. I just wasn’t in the mood for it. I’m not saying I won’t end up seeing it at some point, but I’m in no hurry.

Besides, it was way too nice outside to spend it inside a theatre, so we went to St. Charles’ Scarecrow Festival. It was fantastic, other than the parking situation, although we did luck out with a space nearby when we saw someone pulling out. Overall the fest was so much better than the Schaumburg one last month. The craft booths alone were great; I got a lot of cool bracelet ideas since half the booths were selling homemade jewelry.

After browsing the crafts, we sat by Fox River and munched on cheese fries for me, and a corn dog and fries for Joe, soaking up the sun and just enjoying the day. This fest is definitely one that we’ll be returning to in the future.

Bracelet

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Bracelet

After the disaster that is this necklace (which took entirely too long to make considering how boring and lame it is), I made the bracelet pictured here. I am pretty pleased with it, other than the fact that my crimps could be tighter. I see now why everyone buys the crystal and sterling silver. It adds so much to the look. I can’t wait to wear this to work tomorrow! The only hard part is getting it on. I have a small wrist to begin with so I think I’ll use toggle clasps in the future.

Cell phone redux

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Tuesday night I stopped deluding myself and put my SIM card back into my old cell phone. I’m done with the bullshit I’ve been dealing with ever since we “upgraded” our phones. We never had any problems with T-Mobile’s service until then. Suddenly we were getting dropped calls and poor signal quality to the point where it sounded like the other person had been dropped down a well.

I’m pretty pissed off about the whole thing, but I know there’s no point in calling T-Mobile because we’ve had the phones for two months now. When I switched back to my old phone, the reception improved instantly, so it’s probably not even their network that’s to blame anyway. What a waste of money, though!

Both phones are made by Samsung, so I don’t know what the deal is. Maybe when they pack all these other “features” into the newer models, like a camera (which I never used by the way), they sacrifice other things, like actually being able to hold a conversation without having to keep calling back because the call disconnects and then endlessly repeating yourself because the signal goes in and out.

That’ll teach me to upgrade, huh?

Seed beads are evil

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I’m very frustrated with this jewelry making thing at the moment. I hate the little seed beads with a passion! I see now why they aren’t used in most pieces. They don’t have enough weight to keep the wire I bought from twisting, and you can’t hide the knot if you use stretch magic. I heard you can use crimp beads with the stretch magic, so I tried that last night. It didn’t go well. The first crimp went surprisingly easy, but I ran into major trouble with the second one. I’d either break the crimp bead or it wouldn’t flatten enough to keep the stretch cord from slipping out. Eventually I ran out of elastic at the one end. In a last ditch effort, I tied the elastic to the jump ring with a double knot and put super glue on it. When I tried on the necklace, however, it gave choker a whole new meaning. Then when I stretched it slightly, the tied end pulled apart. I threw up my hands in disgust. I’m still mad thinking about it. I love the designing process but I suck at finishing. I know it just takes practice but I’ve grown to hate those little seed beads now. They are evil. I will try one more time with these things and then I’m giving up on this project!