a day in the life of sleepyeve

Christian and I recently shot some publicity and production stills for our friends who are putting on the comedy “You Can’t Take It With You” at Broadway West Theatre Company in Fremont.  Here are a few from my camera:

Enjoy the rest of my several hundred shots here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/sleepyeve/sets/72157624387801337/

Slide Show: http://www.flickr.com/photos/sleepyeve/sets/72157624387801337/show/

Don’t forget to get out and support these guys as well – get out and enjoy some live theatre!

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I’m a little behind but I finally sifted through photos from my 30th birthday day of fun.  Some highlights:

Sock cake made by the fabulous Rosie

Awesome cupcake bouquet sent by my wonderful Christian

Chillin’ on the lawn chomping on some tasty kebabs

Smiles with Jayden & Kat

Baby Lily sporting the coolest cupcake hoodie ever

Just Dancing in the garage to Womanizer

Here’s the rest of the photos for your viewing fun.  Thanks for reading!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/sleepyeve/sets/72157624350200743/

(Slideshow) http://www.flickr.com/photos/sleepyeve/sets/72157624350200743/show/

I am starting to catch up on some photo processing and here are some cool ones of the bicycle diaper cake I made for a co-worker’s baby shower back in May (whose daughter was just born – yay!)

First bicycle diaper cake I’ve ever made

Here are the favors I put together for the party:

Everything turned out great and I was really happy with the cake, favors, AND pictures.

Want to see the rest of the photos?  Go here.

Thanks for viewing!

Today was a crazy, whacked-out kind of a day.  I went walking with my good friend Kat this morning and when I came home, our dog Lily was acting strange.  She was crouched over and ran around the kitchen that way for a bit, ran into the blinds for the sliding glass door to the backyard, then scurried under the kitchen table.  I thought that she maybe needed to do her business, so I opened the back door and let her out.  She darted out and headed for the grass.  I could see that as she was heading out there, she was trying really hard hold her stuff in until she hit the grass.  After she did what she needed to, she came back to me at the back door but was still doing the weird crouch walk.  Figuring that maybe she wasn’t quite done yet, I coaxed her back out to the grass.  Once she got back out there, she started walking around really strangely, then lost her balance, toppled over on her side, and kept trying to get up.  It was as if the back half of her body was no longer in her control.  She was shaking, kept trying to get up, but then just kept toppling over.  She did this a few times until she managed to limp her way onto the concrete part of our patio and puked her guts out.  Once she finished, she walked around a little more and headed back to the grass.  I had no idea what was going on and was in a panic.  Not knowing what to do, I yelled for Christian to come out so I didn’t have to watch this alone.  I asked him to try and contact the vet as I watched her collapse in the grass.  Her legs were bent funny, her body was shaking, and she starting whining.  I could tell she was as freaked out as I was.  I remembered that I had the vet’s number in my phone which happened to be in my pocket, so I called.  I got a vet tech on the phone and told her everything that had happened and she said that Lily might have had a seizure or stroke.  !!!  The office was closed today, but she suggested that I take Lily’s temperature and if the episode persisted or if her temperature was over 102.5, that I take her to the emergency room (which she mentioned would be pretty expensive).  While I was on the phone with her, I was able to get Lily to come off the grass and lay down on the concrete where I sat.  She was shivering and weak.  She laid her head on my lap and was drooling excessively.  Her back half was still shaking and seemed a bit out of her control.  I started crying on the phone because I didn’t know why this was happening and how I could make it stop, but the tech really helped talk me through everything and helped to map out my next steps.  After I was done talking to her, I let Lily rest there for a few minutes and just rubbed her belly.  There was nothing else I could do but wait it out!

After a little while, I was able to get her to stand up and walk back into the house.  The episode was over and now she was just really weak.  She went straight for bed and laid down.  She still had some drooling issues, so I grabbed a towel and wiped her down.  I sat with her for about an hour while she just laid there.  It was so sad to think about all that had happened and watch her lay her, so weak.  I couldn’t help but check her breathing every few minutes – I know, I’m crazy.  At this point, she seemed tired but okay.  I brushed her teeth and left her alone and she recovered some of her energy as the day went on.


Poor Lily had a hard day

Our friends Jason & Sharon stopped by so Jason could get a quick tutorial on some DVD functionality from Christian – nerd-type stuff.  Our friends Justin, Natalie, and their son Jacob came by not to long after to drop off some things and catch up.  It was a full house and I wasn’t sure how Lily would do with the troubled day she had.  Little Jacob is 14 months old and is the cutest little boy!  He has so much personality and such a charming little face. 

Jacob being cute

He took to Lily right away and she let him chase after her until he tired himself (and her) out.


Jacob & Lily

Gosh, a lot has happened today!

#1: I entered an art contest at work about a month ago by submitting 5 photos that I had taken. Two of them were just selected to be displayed and I was notified today!

This one is called “Black & White”:

And this one is “Serenity”:

They’re going to display them along with other winning entrants’ pieces in building C – the training/meeting/cafeteria building mezzanine for about 3 months. After 3 months, they will be moved to different locations in Sunnyvale or Santa Clara campuses.

Now I am desperately trying to get these printed and mounted in time to submit before the gallery opening. Yes, there’s a gallery opening! Here’s the info:

The official Gallery Purple opening will be on August 6th from 3:00 pm. – 7:00 p.m. in the Mezzanine area of Building C. Friends and family are invited to attend the event. Live music, food and beverages will be included.

#2: A show called “Forbidden Broadway” is playing at the San Jose Repertory Theatre through Sunday. Christian & I were able to get tickets from our friend Emily and went tonight. I had known about this show for a long time, having owned several volumes of “Forbidden Broadway” for years now. It was pretty awesome to see it live. It’s musical theatre parody at its best and I recommend to anyone who enjoys musicals; It’s a great laugh!

After the show, Christian and I went for froyo at Penguin Froyo in downtown San Jose. The froyo was great, the service was great, and the seating was great. Overall, I would also recommend hitting this up.

Thanks for reading about my awesome Friday Have a great weekend, Everyone!

I’m doing a quick blog update while the boys are out shopping for nerdy computer parts (by boys, I mean Christian and our friend Kevin who is visiting from L.A.)

I baked my cinnamon bread last night.  Yum again.  Cross one off the list.

I had crocheted a few things that were not on my list before I created my actual list, and wanted to mention them here:

Moonfruit – for a contest that moonfruit.com was having:

Cheetos Giant Cheese Puffs for a Co-worker as a thank-you gift for my free iPhone case (Giant cheese puffs are an inside joke):

A slice of bacon for my manager who gave me a WWBD (What Would Bacon Do?) Spinning wheel from Kentucky:

2 Cupcake Scarves that friends of a friend wanted to buy (they look indentical, I know):

And finally, sushi (maguro, to get specific) that I made for Kevin (our friend in town):

(JK – I hope this wasn’t disappointing.  Glad I already had this one cranked out to show you!)

I’m currently working on some bookmarks, but also trying to re-read Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince before the movie comes out Wednesday, so I might be a little slow in my crafting this weekend/coming week.  We’ll see.

I stopped by many booths at WonderCon in SF today. Lots of cute and creative things up on display and for sale. Cute fleece hats and creature ears were popular this year. I was intrigued by one booth that was selling pairs of furry clip-on cat ears for $10. They were all hand-made by the lady running the booth and her mother. I really wanted a pair… wasn’t sure what I’d do with it, but they were really cute. I decided to study the ears and make my own. Just so happens I have fur, felt, and a pair of hair clips in stock at home. So I made these guys:

Cute, no? I might even be brave enough to wear them to the Con tomorrow

Soo… I spent a few hours last night and today making these:

I was inspired by a project that was posted on a blog that I was very recently introduced to and totally ran with it. Ended up with 20 fabric bookmarks… Anyone like to read?

Woohoo!

Love you!

Spider that lived in our backyard for about a day…

Here are the photos from Saturday’s project:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/sleepyeve/sets/72157606808836166/

This is Bodbrane the Wizard working his magic:

Movie to come later this week!

Christian and I went shopping for our donation to the Back to School Drive being hosted at Yahoo!. Shopping was always my most favorite part about going back to school. We loaded up on tons of goodies for a low-income 6th-8th grade girl. We weren’t allowed to buy red or blue backpacks, so I chose purple (because pink was just a hair too girly). I hope she likes everything we got her.

Yes, that is Purell anti-bacterial gel. Cleanliness is important so don’t knock it.

If you have the opportunity, consider making a donation too. You can make a monetary donation or buy a backpack for some lucky kid. Visit the Family Giving Tree website for more info.

So… I meant to blog a lot sooner and I’m disappointed myself for taking so long. I meant to blog about what a cool birthday I had last week. Christian and I took a half day off of work to go see “The Happening” and then have dinner at Forbes Mill Steakhouse (which I highly recommend going to at least once in your lifetime… sooo good). This was the complimentary birthday dessert (kona coffee creme brulee):

I meant to blog about our trip to SB and LA to see Christian’s parents, the solstice parade, our LA friends, Santa Monica Yahoo! office, and the Nissan Live Sets Weezer concert. I’ll post all kinds of pics and write more about all of that later.

Today, I mainly just want to introduce you all to our newly adopted 1 year old Cocker Spaniel Lily (We were looking to adopt either Lily or a Lhasa Maltese mix named Violet – it was like an unintentional tribute to the Clemm girls, really).

So this is Lily right now:

She hails all the way from Southern California and made the big trip this morning, so she is a little wiped out. She is the most gentle, easy-going puppy I’ve ever met. She’s great and I can’t wait to see how we all get along together. More pics of her on my Flickr page here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/sleepyeve/sets/72157605858717361/

Enjoy the pics and I hope you all get to meet her someday!

Did you all just think to yourself, “Is she talking to me???” LOL! Love it

Today, I’m calling out TDog, a loyal reader and commenter!

Anyway, I got excited about the wedding talk, (especially since I don’t have to do any of it for my own wedding EVER AGAIN) I thought I’d post a few helpful things on here for you or anyone else who happens to be planning a wedding.

Here’s what I did for my wedding favors:

* White frosted mini take out boxes from Uline.com – the boxes themselves came out to about $.45 a box.
* Bought the ribbon from http://www.efavormart.com – I actually found them and bought off of them via eBay – super-smooth service. They have TONS of other wedding supplies
* Snowflake sticker from Oriental Trading Co.
* Mini glue dots from Michael’s:

http://www.michaels.com/art/online/displayProductPage?productNum=gc0276

* Personalized fortune cookies from Fortunecookiestore.com
* Truffle Hershey’s kisses from Target
* Glass stones from Walmart

Here’s adhesive info that might be helpful for your invitations:

Vellum tape:
http://www.michaels.com/art/online/displayProductPage?productNum=sb0070
Double stick tape:
http://www.michaels.com/art/online/displayProductPage?productNum=sb0072
Scrapbooking tape: (pretty much same as above)
http://www.michaels.com/art/online/displayProductPage?productNum=sb0068

And Here’s a blurb about the role of the bridesmaids:

Hope this helped some…

My early b-day present came in this:

Inside the box was this:

I love this guy!

Thank you for my awesome new lens!

I’ve been a lot flakier as of late with my blogging. Hard to keep up with it when I get busy and tired so often.

Christian and I took Wednesday-Friday off last week and went on a couple of outings. First off, coming back to work after taking a few days off was REALLY hard. I already can’t wait until the weekend ’cause man do I miss it!

Anyway, on our Wednesday off, we hit Santa Cruz (this was the day before the Summit fire started and no, we didn’t cause the fire).

I took this picture while we were walking along the beach.

While it was kind of funny to see a bird trying to squeeze the last drops of Coors out of this can, I was also pretty disappointed that the can was there on the beach in the first place. I mean, Santa Cruz did a really good job of placing bright red trash cans all over the beach and STILL this can was out there in the middle of the sand. I’m no tree hugger or anything (though I have nothing against most tree huggers) but REALLY PEOPLE?!

Anyway, that was my little rant for the day.