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I need to find my jewelry making stuff. I went to Columbia State Park today with Tahleen, Tahleen's new boyfriend (boy isn't that weird to say) Stephen, and Lauren. We went to this gift shop, and I found some awesome gemstones for sale, ready to be turned into necklaces. They already had an anchor and a ring, and they came with free silk cord so there's no work involved. String the necklace, tie the knot, and go.
Anyway, the box said they were called fluorite octahedrons, but the pictures were so unlike anything I'd seen before, or searched for on the net. They're freakin' awesome. There were two small, kinda greenish ones, and one larger, kinda pinkish/purplish one. Since they were only $3 a piece, I bought all three, and now I'm going to have a necklace and matching earrings (and three pieces of silk cord).
We left after lunch, but about 30 minutes into the drive Tahleen got a flat tire, so we waited on the side of the highway (just a little two-lane deal) while Tahleen and Stephen figured out how to change the tire. Finally, a kind gentleman came and helped them get the tire off and the car jacked up. What were Lauren and I doing? Well... taking pictures of the Highway 108 scenery. I mean, I've never changed a tire before, and Lauren still isn't driving yet, so we just stayed out of the way, though I did help find the page in Tahleen's owner's manual on how to change a tire. It took about 30-45 minutes, then we were on our way.
The rest of the day was pretty uneventful - spent about 45 minutes walking around the cemetery, which goes all the way back to the pioneer days, but is still in use, making it the second active cemetery I've ever been in. I don't mind historical cemeteries, and for someone creeped out by death, 300-year-old cemeteries are actually kind of cool, but active cemeteries are unnerving. The couple of hours I spent at Arlington National Cemetery were different, because we were walking around from the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier to Arlington House to the JFK Memorial to the Iwo Jima Memorial, and then back to the car. Plus you're not really supposed to walk between the graves at Arlington, which is what we did today. Well, I walked between the graves. I don't think it's respectful to walk over someone's grave. Tahleen walked all over the place, and even stepped on a few of the short stones meant to mark the opposite end of a particular grave (nobody uses them nowadays; it's more of a historical thing). I love Tahleen like a friend/adopted cousin/younger sister, but that was poor behavior. Eventually, we headed back down to Columbia's main street and looked in the gift shops, which is where I got my sweet jewelry, which I will put together once I can find some French hooks and needlenosed pliers, which I can't do until I get paid, which will hopefully be tomorrow. (That's a lot of "which's.")
Woohoo - one week until Newsboys! Also got invited to see the local ballet company do Romeo and Juliet on Saturday, so this is going to be one busy weekend coming up! *is excited*
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