At the end of July, Shibooya turns 2 years old. To celebrate, I’m budgeting to give the blog a professional redesign and proper maintenance, or as the kids are calling it these days, I’m going Web2.0. I don’t know what that really means but once I find a designer/coder with reasonable rates I hope it means that Shibooya will look and run a whole lot better.

My Hello Kitty sewing machine is pastel green, portable and so far, relatively easy to use and although it looks like a toy, it’s a suitable sewing machine for “beginners”.

My Hello Kitty sewing machine insists that I’ll be “Sewing Pretty with Hello Kitty” but after completing my first sewing project, I’m thinking Janome has a lot of explaining to do.

My sister and I picked out patterns and fabric to make retro-inspired aprons. The pattern turned out to be unnecessarily difficult to understand making the sewing project confusing and aggravating. Of course, instead of starting off with a simple project, say a slouchy hobo bag or even a cute fabric card holder, we decide that an apron with scalloped edges and pockets is a perfect starter sewing project. Having already made pajama pants and a few purses, my sister had more experience with sewing than I did. Still, we were still unable to figure out why marking scallops on the right side while basting it to the wrong side and having the raw edges lined up and—well, you can see why I was ready to rip out the seams and my hair.

After about 8 to 10 hours total spent on the apron, I finally finished it last night. The seams are sloppy, the scallops not perfectly rounded but the sizing is fine and I love the fabric.

If you’re a fan of Heroes and you’ve watched the show since the first episode, I’m sure you were stunned by Nathan’s dramatic arrival just before his younger brother went nuclear and I’m sure you were touched by his final show of bravery as he whips Peter up into the sky before it all went kablammo. But were you also dumbfounded that nobody bothered to make sure that Sylar was permanently dead and instead, allowed him to slip unnoticed into a sewer? Or that Peter could’ve just absorbed Nathan’s ability to fly on his own? Has anyone figured out why Matt Parkman, possibly the show’s most useless and annoying character, is still alive (although I was really relieved to see him eat it when he attempted to face down Sylar on his own)?

However, if the show remains true to comic book form, superheroes–er, excuse me, people with extraordinary abilities rarely get to die just once. Perhaps we’ll get to see Nathan and his sissy-yet-attractive younger brother in season two.

Over the weekend, my mother offered me an old, white dresser and suggested that a fresh coat of paint could revive it. I was skeptical, but two coats of brown paint and new pull knobs transformed the dresser into a piece that fit right in with my Asian inspired bedroom. And yes, that is a pair of panty hose on the floor. Don’t judge me.

I have two very boring term papers due in about two weeks and haven’t even begun proper research on either topic. I know I should probably take my final semester seriously but I’d really rather take an actual dump on these assignments than have to crap them out.

So, instead of getting a head start on what will probably be a busy week, I spun yarn:

This is my first attempt so, clearly, I don’t know what I’m doing. I’m pretty sure it will unwind if I so much as breathe on it so I’ll go ahead and just leave it on the stick. I’m also knitting socks but I haven’t learned to turn the heal yet so perhaps it will end up being an inappropriate cozy for something long and phallic.

Do you like the new layout? I do.