where would i be

a no waste wednesday wishing it was valentine's day one more day this week or twice more in the months to come. maybe i could be more honest about the love i feel in my life. i know and feel to be a better lover of my life, family and friends now than when i was at eighteen, or even twenty five. so now it is thursday...

1. mojo burrito show/exhibit of old and new work (12 pieces at the least). march 4th through march 31, 2006. thanks to my friend matt. 5
a. four new pieces (two already done)
b. business cards (kate you got the link?)
c. more slides of older work
d. framing framing framing it all up.

2. DG picked it up last night @ "thanks a million for shopping a books a million"

3. B/D picked it up last night as well. couldn't help it. such incredible inspiration. i am also looking-shopping mac's. i may embarass myself here, but i do not care. things are changing in my life and i realize there isn't going to be a whole lot of judgement coming this way anyway. but i applied for a line of credit and only got a $1000.00 bucks. so my mac will have to wait until i save a little bit more moolah. i mean a grand is nothing, right? a mac 5 is up there in the 2500-3 g. price range. i have goals, you know, ideas that aren't going to be squashed by anything or anyone.

4. the ultimate guitar school i've though i haven't check this site out completely i'm sending it kate's way for j3 a.k.a josiah. there maybe something fun here for the whole fam.

5. started the biggest loser on february 14th, 2006. goal weight loss is thirty pounds. my body mass index tells me that i am obese. wouldn't you know it. i'm supposed to be one hundred to one hundred and ten pounds. hell! i'm going win the $300 bucks. i've got 12 weeks, that's 2 and 1/2 pounds a week. you may think i'm crazy...whooohooohooo!

over and out.

one fish two fish

blue fish, yellow fish. i could not believe my eyes last weekend when kate, josiah, eden and i trekked down to the largest aquarium in the world. yesterday i got my first roll of film back from the excursion and feel just as overwhelmed with wonder as i did while walking jaw dropped through the maze of people last sunday. i really hope my jellyfish photos come out as well or better than this roll. i cannot imagine that if i had gone snorkeling in hawaii, i would've seen as many fish as i did in my visit to the ga aquarium. i couldn't wait to show you all and felt after seeing andrea's flickr set that i'd bust in glee. fishy glee. i'd also like to welcome you, urge you, if you haven't already to take a look at kate's quar-um fotos. all i did this past weekend was work at the rx, read the martian chronicles, eat veggie soup and guacamole. walk and think. although i did see my parents on saturday morning at the tin roof bistro, which was super special, nice and delicious. i am fairly independent and do not see my mom and dad as much. at least lately. i suppose i go in phases. i've been tagged and i did not think i would be but...

four jobs I've had:
NK Lawn & Garden
Nature Center Camp Counselor
Substitute Art Teacher
Pharmacy Tech
Patient Accounts

four movies i could watch over and over:
amelie
rushmore
big fish
city of lost children

four places I've lived:
3314 mtn view drive
st. elmo avenue
templeton CA
market street

four TV shows I watch:
david letterman
art 21
history detectives
sunday morning with charles osgood

four places I've vacationed:
boston mass
nyc new york
hawaii
salmon creek falls

four foods I love:
pastachios
garlic pasta
bryers vanilla bean with sunflower seeds
cream cheese

four sites I visit daily:
hotmail
flickr
new eyes
sitemeter

four albums I can't live without:
beck's one foot in the grave
leonard cohen's best of
nick drake's northern sky & five leaves left
bright eyes

four places I'd rather be:
in my bed asleep
in my own studio space

four random items in my purse:
too many lipgloss(es)
pic disk
vitamins
buttons/like 3 or 4 lighters

tag you're it:
jessica
kim
vicki
michelle

that's it dude this kinda stuff where's me out.

to post or

not to post, without it i feel a little less of my life is moving forward. oh how i love my blog and our fine blogworld. i haven't had a whole lot of time. i was too fortunate to be in atlanta over the weekend with the k. fam for josiah's third birthday. we went to the new largest aquarium in the world aquarium on sunday afternoon for like 4 hours straight. found my own way to harry's after a weary turnabout in marietta and went thrifting, which i've not done in about a century. we had a glorious time and i felt i might've redeemed myself after stupidly missing josiah's second bday.
i came back on monday night through the very severe though southern winter weather. (so it wasn't as bad as or as beautiful as this or this). i spent most of the day on tuesday helping my friend out, but happened to old navy and bought a pretty little summer top which i'm not hesitating to wear today. even though the waking temp was about 24 degrees. i must say that i'm going to have to kick things up. i have got to stop being such a putz and finish the projects i say i am going to finish.

i was too fortunate as well to get a sweet, rather delicious mailorder from amy @ kingpod. although i do not think i got a subscription, which i regret terribly. oh well. i am still going to have fun. i am going to work on my cards for a sweet card swap with jm @ scraping and jesus this weekend. i am so looking forward to a more creative spurt. i will i will. and on top of that kate is making some real nice paintings, congrats in welcoming oil back into your life!

and by the way, i've mentioned before that i often get a lot of my fotos ie. the one above from a site called veer. i typically will leave the emblem on the right hand corner so that you'll know but i wanted to reply to what mecozy asked about the dove piece being mine. it isn't! it is from veer and on that one i did crop the logo. there is everything there @ veer. fonts and fotos galore. kate and i sometimes marvel that the stuff "falls" off their site so easily, but i attempt to always give credit when asked. the fotos are usually taken by individuals and so on and so forth, so i'm not so sure where the dove (last post) came from. so sorry. on this one the very top i did a search using the key word "owl" because i love how so many of you out there love the owls, thought this might find you a bit more inspired.

i've gotta work all weekend. i'm so glad you all like my postcards. cannot wait to see the gallery open. i have gotten 7 out 10. hope to see the final three come in soon. i'll attempt to post pics soon.

drowning in ideas

so last night i didn't do a thing creatively speaking, i did do my nightly walk. and yesterday when i got home, three postcards were waiting for me from all over the place. and because i forgot about extra postage on sending my cards out to foreign places i had several returned to me. oops! so sorry gals. they're on their way. i also had my journal wrapped in some really nice paper from kate. thank you kate. thank you, i just love the dear postcard and the the guitar to remind me of josiah. i cannot believe that the last time i wrote was in november, not actually true, but close to being so. today i feel exhausted, due to lack and late night sleeping patterns. a lot of that seems to go around-no sleep that is. i have started excercising, i mean really excercising and pounds are seriously falling off, no lie, no joke. last february we did the biggest loser thing here at the practice and i lost about seventeen pounds. when i went to my doctor, he told be that since the year before i had dropped a total of twenty two. over the weekend i dropped another five, so i'm down to...um well um i'm not getting a good reading so i'll let you know another day. i am drowning in ideas. i must contact a few people. i've got a painting i paid for waiting to be picked up. i must finish the apron, cut and all pinned ready to run through the sewing machine. spring packages are on the forefront as well as a painting for aaron and laurie's home. i also have had someone ask me to work in a film-documentary style. we shall see. i'm too tired to talk anymore. walking 13 flights of steps daily with walks in the evening, wearing me down, just a bit.

munch on art

i was just finishing this exact post about an hour ago, when wham bam thank you ma'm, all a wash. the disappearing act of the day! i have been debating all day, mulling over whether or not i should go ahead and post my one and only entry into the postcard swaporama. finally i decided to go ahead and show n tell.

firstly and foremostly i am completely inspired by zak smith's illustration of thomas pynchon's gravity's rainbow. geez! whatamouthful...yum! so if you've ever caught up with it all, you'll notice i've stolen, not so shamefully though, the top right hand corner drawing. i mean i mean i mean, i drew it free hand and totally achieved a more original color thingy, but the windmill reflection in the eye is a direct _____. so sue me, or be praised zak!!! everything else is well mine, really! and the yellow bird is exactly like the lovely ornament that kate gave to me for christmas. i have slides of all the beautiful christmas tree's, mine having been all birds this year. i am so pleased with how my postcard came out. i should have sewn though and i should have finished all four designs. and i think i will but on a rainy day. i have put the original of 'der hund' in my etsy shop, so if you feel so inclined to pur-chase the piece and make it yours, your welcome!

i am having a real busy day, and so that's it...