Known Knowns

Ok, so apparently I am the last person in the world to know about the damn Diva Cup. Here I was thinking I was being all progressive and this big trend setter, and it turns out that every person who’s brought it up to me (or vice versa) already has one! Women! We need to share these things with each other! :::pout:::

It doesn’t matter. I’m still checking my mailbox everyday, and seriously looking forward to my next ragtime, so I can try out my new toy.

Speaking of new toys, we got some workworking tools over the weekend. I’m a girl who loves tools, having been accostomed to using power tools since I was 13 years old. I went to a performing arts magnet school with a huge budget. I mean huge. We had a state-of-the-art recital hall, black box theatre, and a 1,300 seat auditorium. We put on three mainstage shows a year (Guys and Dolls, Little Shop of Horrors, Hello Dolly, etc), plus a bunch of little stuff in the black box and recital hall. It was intense. And I got involved in technical theatre pretty early on in the process. I continued in tech theatre until college. I admit that I look back on it and think it was insane that our teachers were letting teenagers use power tools. What were they thinking? It doesn’t matter now; I still love me some power tools and woodworking, so having a home “shop” is going to be lots of fun.

My true love is painting, though. I love scenic painting and did a lot of that in college. So, I’m really excited for Josh to crank out some nice furniture so that I can finish it. I have also been interested in re-finishing some older furniture for a while, so now maybe we’ll have the tools to do that. I’m also interested in working with a lathe and learning some segmented turning or pen making, so maybe in a few years I’ll get one. Add that to the freaking huge list of things I want to learn when I finish nursing school. (Pen making, segmented turning, stained glass, pottery, classical guitar, horseback riding, more advanced sewing…)

Our first project will probably be a couple of night stands and a bed frame from a book my parents sent me when they heard we were trying to do some fun projects together. I’ll post pictures when they’re done; it could easily be three years from now but hopefully not.