Monday, July 8, 2013

If you're going to San Francisco, be sure to wear some flowers in your hair

So we went to SF...after much deliberation and because Josh always gets his way I drove, despite my valid argument of not wanting to put more miles on my car. He refused to take bus or train, event though those would be cheaper because I somehow ended up spending well over $160 on gas -_-
Anyways we got there at about midnight and Bryce informed us we would be getting drunk and going bowling. WE had 39 minutes to finish all the beer, luckily I don't drink beer so I just watched. At about 1:24 the boys opened their costume closet and proceeded to dress up. At this point I have no idea whats going on anymore and I was sober! After wigs hats masks and mardi gras beads were applied to everyone going (including me) we walked to the bowling ally where Bryce and his room mates are hated.We bowled got more beer from 7-11 and walked back home at 2:30. We proceeded to drink and catch up with Bryce since we hadn't seen him in a month then I fell asleep round 4:30 and at 7 Josh came and slept on the couch with me. We were suppose to start our epic adventure in SF at 9 am but when the alarm went off I made a pathetic attempt to wake up Josh and then fell back asleep. At 11 we woke up and I told Josh to go get Bryce but before he even got up Bryce came strolling down the stairs. "You fuckers I thought you left without me. The last thing I heard before I fell asleep was Josh saying 9 am I'll be back in 2 hours"
I defended myself claiming "Well I woke him up but he wouldn't get up, and I was too tired to make him get up." and Josh no remembering argued "My alarm didn't go off"
After more arguing about whose fault it was Josh and I went to 7-11 to buy him a toothbrush. On the way back he thought it would be a good idea to skate down the hill. Wrong
This is him after the incident in China Town
After much deliberation and despite my best efforts to get us to just stay at Bryce's we left for Walgreens to buy crutches...for 50 DOLLARS da fuck and champagne. We drank champagne then drove to Twin Peaks 

The drove to Haight Street where we ate at The Grind. OMG the food was bomb
I got the Upper Haight Godfather or something like that and Josh and Bryce shared a french dip, aren't they cute?! Not...
After that we picked up Derrick and walked to the trolley where Josh was struggling at this point but I got to ride and hang off the side...EPIC

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I was now satisfied even though we only did half the things because we woke up too late. Josh was in a lot of pain I suggested we go home but no, no one listens to me so we went to Dolores Park which was cool and Josh got to relax. At this point Bryce realized that one of Josh's cuts looked like a heart. Which surprisingly it does 
Then we went home ate, watched the Dark Knight Rises I fell asleep after it ended, Josh woke up after it ended and then we woke up in the morning drove to see his mom where she made us awesome crack cookies and a lovely dinner. On our way home it took 3 hours just to get to the grapevine from Fresno where there also happened to be many accidents and a huge fire. And that was my weekend in San Fran :] can't wait to visit again, where else should I visit next time??

Friday, July 5, 2013

Lets Make Things

Soooooooo I finally made a "bathroom organizer," with the help of my daddy of course! It turned out great! Usually my projects are kinda shitty because I get too excited and end up doing a sloppy job and not think things through, but my dad, being much wiser than I, had some great ideas I'm sure it would look like a five year old did it if I didn't have his help.


First we went to home depot and I looked through a lot of pinterest here are a view links you can check out too

Organize Your Bathroom

Weekend DIY: Bathroom Organizer

DIY Bathroom Organizer

Mason Jar Sunday

Mason Jar Bathroom Storage


So now check out those blogs I combined my favorite/easiest ways and I'll provide some helpful hints

What you need:

Mason Jars .99 each at the 99 cent store
(or anything else you want to use I have an alcohol themed bathroom Patron corks as my knobs and a Jack Daniels bottle as my soap dispenser etc. so I'm going to take Grey Goose bottles and cut off the tops to make cups. You can google how to cut glass bottles)
Wood $1.28 Home Depot
Hose Clamp $1.20 each Home Depot
Screws
Paint
Saw
Screw driver
Eye hooks
Felt circles .99 from the 99 cent store


First my dad cut the wood, we bought a piece of a picket fence because it was super cute, but you can use wood you already have or get molding like some of the other sites used. Unfortunately to keep the cute cut out ends we would have had to cut the middle then nail it back together. That was just too much work on the 4th of July in 110 degree weather, so we cut the ends off.

So now that the ends are off I was going to paint it but my dear ol' dad grabbed some old spray paint he had and painted it for me! (he put a nail in the back and tied a string on the wood so it would hang. I didn't see the point in painting both sides.)
While we let it dry we decided where we wanted the Mason Jars on the wood and where we wanted the hose clamps on the Mason Jar. At first I wanted the Jars centered and the clamps centered on the jar. But my dad said it would look better if the top of the jar was lined up with the top of the wood. Then we put the hose clamps a little higher on the jar so it was center on the wood. Confusing I know but you can see in the final picture how it looks.
After we decided that, we had to figure out where to drill the hole in the clamps. First I aligned the hose clamps exactly the same on each jar. Make sure the screw part of the clamp is in the same place as each jar so your finished project looks more uniform (once again this was my dads idea, he is so clever) once I did that I looked for the center of the back of the jar and marked where the screw should go. 

Then we completely opened the clamps. When lined the jars on the wood and marked the spot it should go and where to drill the hole in the wood. After that we got the drill, lined up our holes and put in the screws.
My next tip is to not use brass screws. My dad was trying to be fancy and wanted it to look nice so he got the brass screws but those ended up getting stripped. We got most of the screws in all the way, but they were still sticking out a bit. We had bought this little adhesive felt pads like the kind you put under your furniture so they slide easier, to put on the back on the wood in case the wood lay on the wall, so we put those of the face of the screws? I don't know what you would call it maybe head? That what you call it on a nail right? Anyways the part that you put the screwdriver in not the point side there. We did that so the jars would remain secure even with the screws sticking out. Then I put the jars in the hose clamps, tightened the hose clamps and bam! Well not quite first my dad screwed the eye hooks into the top of the wood so I could hang it 
see the eye hooks? He put them in a little bit at an angle so it would sit against the wall nicely. 
Then my mom, knowing that the only nails I have are the little baby ones she just bought me last week, gave me these Hercules Hooks which are pretty cool and strong hence the name. All you do is push them into the wood and turn no hammer needed! They sell them at Target I think 
I got the image off google


and that's it! My boyfriend was impressed and then said "Your dad did most of the work didn't he?" He knows me too well :]
While I was at Home Depot with my dad I took advantage of the situation (aka his wallet) and bought some other stuff to add to my itty bitty no storage anywhere bathroom. I'll post those later! Home Depot, and the .99 cent store are my FAVORITE places!!!!!!! and I'm bored now... bye