Friday! Friday!

thank you, thank you, Secret Pal!!!

Yahoo! It's time for the weekend!

I'm going to karaoke tonight...and a wedding tomorrow.. and on Sunday, I'm playing piano for this church in Athens (!). Listen to how they found me....two ladies who attend the church came to karaoke night on a Wednesday last month and they heard me sing a song. I ran into one of them in the bathroom (!) and she asked if I would be interested in helping out with their music ministry at church. Turns out they need a pianist, and I am a pianist, and well, it just all worked out. So, if this goes well on Sunday, I may have a paying gig as a church pianist every Sunday! And here's the cool part... the church ministers to the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community in Athens. So their congregation has people of all religious backgrounds and social backgrounds, etc etc. It seems like it's going to be a pretty cool place. I personally have always had some problems with the lack of acceptance in a lot of organized religion, so yay for a church who loves everyone. Hopefully they love my piano playing too....

In the knitting front, I will be working on my almost finished critter knitter blanket this weekend (click to enlarge)and also finishing up my cavewoman tank. I wore my Chevron Tank out last night and got lots of compliments on it. Of course, the knitting friends were more complimentary, but that's because they KNOW what goes into actually finishing an article of clothing. The non-knitters always say, "Are you going to sell those?" (Umm, no. Not after I spent so many hours knitting it. I'm going to wear it until it's falling apart. And if I knit you one, you better wear yours out too.)

By the way, the Wal-Mart here has a clearance rack with all kinds of crap on it, including yarn. Now, a lot of it is acrylic yarn, but I found a supply of Bernat Cotton Tots for $2.75 a skein. Not bad! 100% cotton, and pretty yarn. So if you need a couple of skeins for a summer tank, maybe you should check Wal-Mart. They also had Homespun super discounted, just in case you haven't made your No Sweat-Pants yet, or you want to make a pretty scarf for a Christmas present...

Okay. Enough with the discount shopping. I can't afford to buy anything anyways. That's way I'm counting on my bartender friends to pass a few drinks my way tonight, and my closet (and probably my friend Leslie's closet) to provide me with an outfit for the wedding on Saturday. Because I'M SAVING MONEY. Because saving money is cool, and I'm too cool for school.

Feeling punchy, is it 5:00 yet?

Have a great weekend!

Oh! I was playing with Photoshop today, trying to figure out how to make a regular photo look like a cartoon, and I made this using a tutorial I found online. Isn't Bella fabulous as a strange pink cartoon?

Posted by Carrieoke on April 23, 2004 4:12 PM | Permalink