this and that…mishmashmosh

Posted on 26. Jan, 2010 by Princess Lasertron.

I love this way of storing tights–it is the easiest way I have found to keep them all organized and untangled in my drawer. I stuff the waist of each pair inside a toilet paper tube (or you can use a cut-up wrapping paper tube left over from Christmas!) and then wrap the legs around the outside.

A few sweet questions from you…

How do you and Dave keep your relationship strong when you work opposite schedules?

I have gotten this question a few times. I actually feel like we spend more time together than most couples who both work 8-5. I often sleep while he’s at work (which is three minutes away) anyway, so it’s not like we’re missing out on time together then. When he gets home I’m awake and we relax and spend the rest of the evening together, and then I go back to bed early in the morning. Sometimes we meet for lunch. We talk online all day. Usually we are also together all weekend too. We have always just been best friends.

How long will you stop working (if at all) when Alice is born?

Well, I haven’t really cleared any time for this year, but for May and June I am only taking five brides per month instead of fifteen. Hopefully I can finish those orders long before my due date and have several weeks to relax–right now I still have energy so I am just hustling to do about twice as much as usual.Then that will pay off after Alice is born and I will be all caught up. Right now I’m still ahead of schedule!  It is SO nice that I work at home.

Between now and my due date, I am also planning with three of my friends to bring something really big and awesome to the Omaha creative community that will take up a lot of time and energy for us–but luckily, there are four of us to divide the labor (and the spoils!). I can’t wait until I can talk more about that…probably by the end of February?

Post more pictures of Dave’s outfits!

Okay. This is him at lunch yesterday–pretty much all he ever wears is a button-up shirt, a sweater vest, and Diesel jeans. Add or subtract a tie, add or subtract a jacket. This shirt and vest are both Ben Sherman.  I should have HIM make outfit posts!

Working on my application for Omaha Fashion Week today…I have to make a Powerpoint Presentation. Welcome to the 90s!

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22 weeks: pictures from new year’s eve

Posted on 04. Jan, 2010 by Princess Lasertron.

On New Year’s Eve we went to Goo, a dance party hosted by The Slowdown (where we got married in 2007).

I was going to wear my favorite Karta dress and I was elated that it still fit me, but after I got my hair and makeup done and Dave came to help me zip it up, the zipper split.

While Dave worked hard googling “split zipper” and trying to fix it, I moped for half an hour or so because I couldn’t find anything else that fit and was remotely formal. But I think I did a good job of prettying up this big tent-y dress from Ryu. And luckily it was comfortable.

Dress: Ryu
Belt: Kimchi Blue
Tights: Forever 21
Shoes: Etienne Aigner

The theme was “masquerade” so we went as kitties.

What did you do to ring in the new year? Quiet and relaxed or crazy and wild?

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Megan and my trip to the hospital on Tuesday (spoiler: she’s fine)…

Posted on 16. Dec, 2009 by Princess Lasertron.

kits!

Hi everyone.  Mrlasertron here.  Megan and I took a trip to the hospital on tuesday morning.  She had been complaining of stomach pains and it got pretty bad the night before so we went to see what our doctor had to say about it.

We had an ultrasound done of her abdomen and it turns out one of her ovaries had a hemorrhagic cyst, which in layman’s terms means her ovary swelled up and was causing her stomach pain.  The doc says the baby is fine (and we got to see her kicking and squirming while they were doing the ultrasound), and that she’ll just need to rest for a couple of days and let her body heal itself.  But let me tell you oh man her ovary was like four times as big as the other one.  I also got to see her liver, kidneys, appendix, gal bladder, and pancreas.  What a treat!

Anyway she wanted me to update all her readers.  We’re fine, the baby’s fine, and we’ve been camping out on our couch catching up on Law and Order:SVU episodes (thanks netflix streaming!).  She also wanted me to say that all of her Cyber Monday orders were shipped on tuesday, except for the kits which she’s working on right now.  The kits will be sent out by the end of the week (I imagine I’ll be helping with that).

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hey dave

Posted on 20. Nov, 2009 by Princess Lasertron.

hey dave, on saturday let’s hang out and do stuff I want to do:

1. move some heavy things downstairs and vaccuum and maybe create a sitting area where you can sit and watch tv with me while I work

2. eat tofu from a restaurant

3. do our hair like the guest judge on the project runway finale

4. go to that maternity store in rockbrook

5. get ingredients for our contribution to thanksgiving dinner

6. let me teach you how to make a pom pom for fun

7. play with my new camera toy

7. go to some antique and thrift stores to look for cute furniture

…or we can do this NEXT saturday.

you are cool.
xo

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my best friend

Posted on 16. Sep, 2009 by admin.

I’ve been having a lot of fun with my husband Dave lately. Buying a house, taking a little time off work, and doing things around town (excited for Omaha Fashion Week this Saturday) has been awesome and I try to remember all the funny things Dave says to me:

dave: look! I have alllllll the kitties.
me: when I die when I’m 55 because I ate cheese and you live to be 120 because you never do, you’re going to become a crazy cat man.
dave: I’m going to buy 100 cats and name them alllllll megan.

dave: megan
dave: megan
dave: megan you can spell ‘wanker’ with amino acids. cool huh.
me: yeah.
dave: that’s my favorite one, wanker. if I was making a test, I would tell my students, “okay guys, draw the protein ‘wanker.’” I wonder how many times ‘wanker’ comes up in our dna code. like in a protein. like how often our dna codes for the protein ‘wanker.’
dave: megan
dave: megan did you hear that?
me: yeah, that’s really good

Yup, I like Dave. He works hard, makes me laugh, and does almost all of the chores (he’s the Felix to my Oscar). I recommend marrying your best friend.

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dear husband

Posted on 03. Aug, 2009 by admin.

dear david:
happy happy happy happy birthday. you are the sweetest, kindest man to ever be born.

love,
meg

For his 32nd birthday, Dave wanted to invite friends over and try his hand at making sushi. We started with traditional avacado rolls, then made asparagus rolls, and I think they looked great!

As the beer flowed, peanut butter rolls and frosting rolls were added to the mix…my boys will eat anything.

The sushi looked better than my vegan funfetti cupcakes (look how cute they were in the original picture!!! My cupcakes NEVER turn out like that). They look like a sheet of cookies but sadly they are just my schlumpy misshapen cupcakes.

But they tasted GLORIOUS.

About 15 people came in and out and we all ended up on the porch talking until about 7am.

I love our friends. Thanks to everyone who came over.

And David, I love you. Stay fabulous forever!

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this week in pictures

Posted on 22. Jun, 2009 by admin.

I went to the book release party of my friend Steve Gordon for his new book, 100 Habits of Successful Freelance Designers.

The beautifully designed and illustrated book is geared toward graphic designers, but everyone in the creative industries can gain knowledge and inspiration from Steve and the other designers who contributed to this amazing book.

And that’s us! Obligatory long-armed iPhone picture.

As I often mention, we have an amazing neighborhood shop that serves homemade ice cream in so many creative flavors. I deserved some after the Omaha Pillow Fight. (I even lost a button on my shirt!)

Turbo the Cat thought he deserved some too. But much to his dismay, he is an indoor cat.

This is a picture I took up the street from my house on Underwood, a fun local street filled with shops and boutiques, cute little restaurants, and this decidedly not-so-picturesque gas station. The clock is cool, though–I can hear it chime every 15 minutes from our house.

Part of a large flower order I just did that was super heavy on the rhinestones and vintage lace.

Getting ice cream (again), and Professor Lasertron giving a rare peek at his constant reminder of his hardcore punk past. It’s Thor fighting…Jörmungandr. I had to google the name of Thor’s dragon. I think he should finish the sleeve…see how Thor’s poor little foot just trails off into nothing? I guess that’s when Dave’s time was up at the tattoo parlor.

When I started dating Dave, he came to the lake a few times to swim and my parents couldn’t help but notice his tattooed arms and legs. When I told them I was serious about him, my dad’s first response was “Well I don’t want my grandchildren coming out with tattoos.” Funny.

I don’t have any ink and I most likely never will. Do you?

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Blog Hijack!

Posted on 09. May, 2009 by admin.

Megan I’m hijacking your blog today to wish you happy birthday! Today 23 years ago the coolest prettiest girl on the planet was born just for me!

<3 you bunches! Mr Lasertron.

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‘Tis the season I suppose.

Posted on 04. Feb, 2009 by admin.

Hi all, Professor Laserlasers here. Just like everyone else in the cold white north of Nebraska Megan caught a nasty cold bug. This, of course, makes her very unhappy (see pic #1 below) and as a result she will probably be working/blogging/emailing a lot less in the next few days while her immune system gets her better.

In the meantime I’ll be helping her spoon cheerios into her mouth, and clicking back and forth between TLC’s What Not To Wear and Lifetime’s Mommy Why? whenever I hear the corresponding grunt that means “change channels plz”.

I also have been making waffles because i bought the cheap cold medicine that requires you to eat with waffles instead of just taking it with water like all the other pills. As a scientist I should know the reason for this, but I’m clueless. I suspect its more of a sneaky attempt at marketting synergy between the waffle companies and Walgreens. Further testing is forthcoming…

xx oo,
The Prof

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professor lasertron’s birthday cookie

Posted on 04. Aug, 2008 by admin.

This is my chocolate chip cookie recipe! It is vegan (I am not), and it makes hands-down the best cookies I have ever tasted. They stay chewy just like out of the oven for days and days, and the dough also freezes well. Each serving has 2 grams of protein, if that makes you feel better about eating an entire batch like I did last weekend.

I think this recipe made a 12” cookie–our family of 5 ate it in one weekend, which isn’t really hard if you like cookies. If you decide to use the dough to make small, normal-sized cookies, I think this recipe yields about 2-3 dozen, depending on what size you make them.

Ingredients
2 1/4 cups unsifted all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
1 cup Earth Balance butter, softened (You can use butter if you really want to)
3/4 cup organic cane sugar (this is just granulated sugar)
3/4 cup firmly packed brown sugar
3 ounces of firm silken tofu (I use Mori-Nu brand that comes in a 12oz package. So, like, 1/4 of a package.)
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 cups (12 ounces) chocolate chips

Instructions
Preheat oven to 375ºF.

In a small bowl combine flour, baking soda and salt; set aside.
In another small bowl, vigorously whisk the tofu so it gets really broken up and fluffy. This will help it get really evenly distributed in the dough when you mix it up, so the more you mix, the better. It might resemble fluffy scrambled eggs.
In your mixer (or another large bowl), cream butter, sugar and brown sugar until light. Beat in tofu and vanilla until smooth. Gradually add flour mixture until combined. Stir in chocolate chips.

Drop by big spoonfuls onto a 12” metal pizza pan and spread it out evenly with your fingertips. I like to do this sort of in batches, like a quarter of the dough at a time. Bake 20-25 minutes.

OR, alternatively, drop by spoonfuls on an ungreased cookie sheet and bake 8-10 mins.

I really hope someone tries this! It’s absolutely my favorite cookie ever.

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