Ah ha! I have FINALLY updated my website! There are photos on there from January, which is forever ago. That's almost a year old! Anyway, check it out here: www.sarahcass.com!
There are new photos of Xiu Xiu, Parenthetical Girls, LAKE, Passion Pit, What's Up, The Terrordactyls, The Bundles (Kimya Dawson, Karl Blau, Jeffrey and Jack Lewis, Anders Griffen), Mike and Beth Dixon, Kate, Emmy, Jojo, and Brandee, Brie and Nathan Oberle, Blank Dogs, Bad Weather California, Karl Blau, Calvin Johnson, Abe Vigoda, Golden Boots, Epileptinomicon, Rose Melberg, and The Pine Hill Haints! SO EXCITING!!
The images above of Xiu Xiu and the PGs are the covers of a 7" jacket that can be bought here: http://www.upsettherhythm.co.uk/xxpg.shtml . I haven't gotten a copy yet, but I'm really excited to see it! Also, meet our babies!!
This is Ute (a boy) and Apache (a girl). Their brother, Smokey, went home with my co-worker, Joel Brazzel -- you can see CUTE, CUTE, CUTE photos on his blog here. THEY ARE ALL SO CUTE I CAN'T TAKE IT!
More photos:
Look at my husbro! He's cute too (and I don't think he knows I took this)! :)
In non-kitty-related-news, Joel and I paid a whopping $1400 onto our credit card this past week. YES! We are a couple of paychecks away from paying it off by the end of the year. It will SO HAPPEN. I also had my weigh-in on Monday, and lost another 1.4 pounds. It's moving slowly, but at least it's tipping down.
I got kind of an exciting email today -- I'll tell you more if things end up coming together. Exciting!
I pretty much have a billion things to write about, but I always want to post pictures with it, and never seem to have the photos with me, or I just plain forget, ever time I want to write something down. Either way, I'll update soon with new photos of our NEW KITTIES, our trip to orcas island, swap meets, Halloween, and whatever else we've been up to. The truth is, since the weekend, Joel and I have pretty much been glued to our TV playing with our new Wii. I love it. I lost 1.4 lbs (according to WW -- the Wii actually told me that I gained 6.4 within a day, and yesterday, I lost 8.8. I'm not sure that it really knows what it's talking about) over the weekend, and I've felt sore every day in a different place from doing different small exercises (my abs and arms are really killing me). It is the best! No more stupid stationary bike that takes up half of our kitchen, or trips to the gym in another city. Over it. I think that we are starting running club again, which could potentially be awesome if we really go for it. Stupid rain, though. Over it, also.
On the food front, Joel and I went to the Co-op this weekend to get a bunch of fruit and vegetables, grains and beans. I'm making it a point (at least trying it out this week) to stop eating as much processed/premade foods as I can. I've got enough new recipes laying around to really go for it and see how I feel (I'm sure it will be better), and see how much weight I lose (if any). This, with the Wii everyday, should hopefully get me somewhere. We will be making:
Zero Points Value Slow Cooker Soup Borscht Brussel Sprouts with Chestnuts Broccoli and Cheddar Quiche Spice-Roasted Butternut Squash and Onions Stir-Fried Bok Choy with Sesame Seeds Crustless Pumpkin Pie
We'll hopefully make enough for Joel and I to take for lunch each day. Yum! I am also going to cut out foods with flour and sugar (I turned down free root beer floats and cupcakes this weekend!), but not be totally crazy about it if we're at someone's house or something -- you know, just to make an honest effort not to eat that stuff. I'll give it a shot. My mini goal for the end of the year is to lose weight (I'd like to be at LEAST at the weight that I was at last year at Christmas time), and also to be down one dress size. I think that this seems reasonable. I have two months. I'll do what I can! :)
Last night, Joel and I met up with Melanie of Tender Forever to take photos to be manipulated on the cover of her new LP, No Snare. It was dark and raining hard, and we drove to Priest Point Park to go somewhere where there was no lights to take the photos. Of course our car battery would die while we were there for 5 minutes, and we spent the next hour to an hour and a half sitting in a cold car in the dark, waiting for Dirk to come rescue us and jump our car (thank you, Dirk!). He showed up, and wouldn't you know it, someone had come by to lock the park up (it was 7:30!). We walked to the entrance after a small freak-out between Joel and I (he had to be at work by 6am today), and Melanie luckily got the gate open (freak-out over). We snuck Dirk's car in, started ours, and directly went to buy jumper cables. The photos from above and below are my mini-documentations of the night. Joel summed it up on Facebook with: priest point jurassic park car battery death night with sarah and melanie. saved by the dirk.
I hope that you have a good day! I'm getting over a small cold, so Shawn took Mariella and I out to pho! So nice! I'm drinking lots of hot tea and water. I suggest you do the same!
Also, I rejoined twitter! Add me here if you want!
My co-worker, Shawn, just came in to ask if I knew about the boy in the flying-saucer-shaped balloon in Colorado. Is anyone else watching this? It's insane: watch here live. I hope everything turns out okay. Dang.
Today is so nice!! Joel got up at 4:50 am today, and woke me up along with him. I thought about getting up to exercise, or to do anything, but it was too early, and too cold, and too dark. I stayed in bed and tossed and turned for a couple of hours, and got REALLY POOR SLEEP. Bummer. :(
I did get up eventually though, and came in early to meet Kimya. We worked on the Bundles artwork (which is Jeffrey and Jack Lewis, Kimya Dawson, Karl Blau, and Anders Griffen - with a little bit from the Oly Free Choir!), and it's almost done!! We're waiting for the disc face artwork from Jeffrey Lewis, and then we'll get this puppy into production! I'll save the artwork preview until it's complete, but I can show you one of the photos that they've decided on for the artwork:
They are so adorable!
I've also been putting together a sticker to go on the Curious Mystery's LP's, and just got confirmation on a cute new LAKE t-shirt! I am so, so excited to see how they turn out! I think that Ashley and Eli did a really great job.
Speaking of LAKE (and Karl Blau), their new records came out last Tuesday! It's exciting to me for multiple reasons: 1) They're SO good!! 2) I got to put them together. 3) I took a lot of pictures for them! On the LAKE record, Ashley and I went to Lake Cushman and photographed the headboard in the lake, and her holding it up, and all of the details of the headboard. For Karl's, I photographed him, the portrait on the front was painted from the photo, and then I photographed the painting again to put it into the artwork! It all came around full circle. So fun. I love my job so much, even on the hard days!
Anyway, I'm going to clean up our place a little bit and get ready for dinner. Maybe I'll get things together to make some of these Slow Cooker recipes. How perfect for this time of year, right? And easy, too! Have a good night!
So, I keep going back and forth about whether or not I actually want to put any personal info out there on the internet, but I've gotten a few really nice emails from people telling me that they're behind me and are going through the same thing, so I guess it means I should keep it up. Thanks for the really nice words, I feel like I've got a lot of friends out there I didn't really know that I had, and I really appreciate all of the support. I'm with you too. :)
The past four days have been sick days. Sucks big time. We finished 7 seasons of Boy Meets World (not all this weekend), and all of the free Law and Order SVU's on Netflix. I just wiped through Season 1 of Law And Order: Criminal Intent, and am catching up on the new Desperate Housewives, Dexter and Californication. I try not to admit it normally, but I love, love tv. It's so nice to have on in the background, but even more nice when you're sick. I think I want to name our dogs Topangela and Mr. Feeny. Actually, I just googled Mr. Feeny and found a picture of a pug with the same name. I think it's PERFECT (since we want a pug more than anything!). Genius.
I'll try to update more when I feel better. Hope that you're all well.
Joel and I made an unplanned trip to Colorado this weekend (two days in the car, ugh) so that we could surprise our parents and grandparents. The drive was lame, but it's good to be home.
My grandpa was just diagnosed with cancer and doesn't have near enough time to spend with us left, so we'll be spending the week here hanging out with him and the rest of the family. He's starting chemo on Friday. Please pray for him, my grandma, and the rest of my family and send good vibes our way. Go spend some good times with your loved ones.
