So I am going to try to start posting again, and what better month to try than National Blog Posting Month...
Okay so the best I got so far today..
I am at my parents, my little sister came home from the weekend and we are both being lovely and lethargic all over my parents leather sofas. My Mom comes in the room with my sisters laundry. She randomly tells my Mom she exchanged the bras my Mom mailed her for a smaller cup size, we all then go into how genetics has dealt us a bad hand cup wise. My mom starts then badgering her lengthy torso and I tell her jokingly it's all your fault that my shirts are never quite long enough. She then says "It's better than having too short of arms!" Annie chimes in "like a dinosaur?" And my Mom ends the conversation with "Yes, it's better than being a dinosaur."
We went to lamenting over tiny boobies to declaring being it better than being a dinosaur in less than 2 minutes.
Yes, I do believe all have undiagnosed=untreated ADD.
So every other day or so I get someone faving this photo of mine on flickr. It's really not an amazing photo it is the quote, and it's not my art I just happened to walk by it and go "hmm pretty."
So someone just sent me this.. not really sure how to respond. Because I have never sold a print. Well except for my brother paying me to take some pictures at his wedding which i really shouldnt have let him pay me for. I like to say he bought my external flash so I could take crappy flash photos (really they were really crappy). Anyways... I am thinking free. With the quote and all. though I didn recently lose my lovely underwater camera at the rennaisance festival. so whatever she would want to pay could start going towards the new point and shoot fund. I don't know..
hey this is possibly the weirdest message you may get today but... i commented the other day on your photo of the grafitti of the Hafiz quote, asking if you took that picture....its all over tumblr and various places. i would like to know if you sell prints, or well, really. i want it for postcards for my wedding invites! what do you think? how much would you want for the rights to print it? i understand if you'd rather not at all, completely, its just i'm in england and we have crap grafitti over here! also, getting over there to snap my own photo of it.....not really going to happen! haha...
--oh and the move went well :) never thought it would happen. my new place is quiet still not quite used to quiet. its nice and big though and lots of closets. most of the boxes i have yet to unpack i was able to fit in my closets :) only thing I don't like is this place has a couple centipedes (hates them) much better than the bats and mouses the old place had.
sometime this week I will hunker down and buy a new external hard drive so I can stop avoiding pictures and flickr.
I hope you all are well and warm. Yay for fall. even when it snows :)
Feeling a little better about packing: -Most of bathroom packed -toy box packed -cd's packed -1/3 of desk -1/3 of clothes
This week i want to get: +necklaces packed.. need to work out a way not to get them all tangeled +dishes I won't be using for the next 3 weeks +rest of desk +books +dvd's +wall decor/ remaining decor in general
obviously most of this will likely happen on the weekend but the easier stuff i can work on at night. I have a feeling 3 weeks is going to go quick.
My most viewed picture on flickr by far--it seems like every other day someone new has faved it--craziness that potentially over 57,000 people have seen this picture right?
Anyways, I started out the week kind of mopey and mad but then this man who causes the strife created this big wave of happy calm. And it has settled in me the past day or so. It's nice. It's not perfect, I still am not very fond of me but I am okay with where I am at the moment. Which isn't as easy as it sounds.
Yesterday I got off work and crossed the street to catch the bus, I passed the Orpheum and saw the rush line for 'Phantom of the Opera' starting and I passed it and then walked back thinking what the hell my only plans for tonight were to run uptown and then maybe do laundry (though being that it was 95 degrees out--not as likely that I want to be running up and down 3 flights of stairs a few times). Anyways. I had never seen it before. I loved the corsets and dresses and curtains. I had a very different view of the Phantom-I thought of him being all bad ass Master like, and being some kind of seductive Marilyn Manson like twisted weird bad that you would feel sorry for Christine in the end that she chose that one guy. But nope--I was so wrong--maybe it was the guy playing him but he was so weepy and annoyingly over dramatic I seriously wanted to kick him. lol (even more funny that i might describe myself with those words at times). But other than that the night at the theatre was fun, good music, cool atmosphere. I love the theatre.
I just realized I have read 6 books this year, that is probably how many I read last year as a whole. Granted, the books this year nothing literary genius, and profound, just fun reading. But still I am getting back into the groove of things. And I have discovered reading really helps my anxiety. With kind of going kaput on the gym the past month, the reading took over it's calming effect.
Last weekend I got to spend with my secret boyfriend (lol) and his boy. We went to cup cake saturday at the mitre box (the second one I have gone to--they are so good!) And then we took on a couple play grounds and played and stopped by my parents to drop off a gift for my little sisters 19th birthday--and picked up what they brought me back from CA--I even tested my prankster skills on my sister--which was better recieved than I thought they would be.
We went back to J's place and swam--and I got to use my underwater camera! evidence: (yes that is me and my umbrella in the pool)
Lots of unmentionable fun was had.. I wish every saturday could be like that.
Sunday it rained all day, we got breakfast at The Modern. And I came back and caught up on my 365 project--i'm just barely trying--I need to give everything more effort.
Anyways. This weekend I am hoping to got to Cinco de Mayo and see a friend I havent seen in forever--and her new place (my social anxiety is through the roof--insaneness--plus I know i will taking a cab in the middle of the night back to my city and that is freaking me out even more--hopefully i will drink enough not to notice it as much<-bad). Oh and May Day Parade is Sunday! *hoping for warm sunny weather* I hope to break out my fake diana this weekend for the parade. I need to start taking more pictures.
ps. Because of the 'I dreamed a dream' lady--that song seems to slip in my head at least once a day--at first it was okay and now it is annoying.
I may be the only girl I know that doesnt own a hair dryer, so i am not sure my hair will ever look like this again. *tempted to get hair dryer* And i have said it before but i love my hair dresser there is something about him that makes life feel lovely.
My mom has stuff going on today. I am kind of worried, I hope it all turns out good.
Oh and more good news my period is nearly gone--yay! My girly bits are enjoying not being invaded by blood capturing insturaments. Yes. whoa tmi.
This is photo is from my 365 project (i am seriously going to finish this one really), the only one I have liked so far this year.
This morning I heard on the radio, that women can determine sex of their child by what they eat. Weird right? But I thought you new mommies out there might want to know. Apparently if you eat a lot of cereal and sodium, that leads to a boy. The girl I sit next to at work is due in a month or so, she is always eating cereal, she desperately wanted a girl, but she is having a boy. I don't know how true it is though, but apparently some british study was done.
Lord, I wish i had long pretty hair. If genie in bottles existed pretty long red hair is what I would wish for first, and then all those proper do gooder things. well at least one. Goodness, I am selfish.
Friday night, how I remember it, which isnt amazingly well, was me being happy, just a naturally kind of happy with myself I looked at myself and I wasn't thinking how much weight I "should" lose or what I was missing, I was just looking forward, to the next morning, to the weekend. Which is a rare thing, the person that I would say is closest to me has been telling me lately how I thrive on being miserable lately. I can see where he gets that, but I don't find that to be true, because when I am miserable I am really not living at all. which is to say I don't live much. I think maybe it is because I have taught myself keep the things that make me happy so close that sometimes I hide them from myself. I think I do this because since I was pretty young I have a history of people taking away the things that make me happy. I think that is because I let myself rely on other people so much. And without there being a lot of those people, you lose one and there is no backup. Anyhow, I am pretty sure I have hidden those things so well, I have misplaced them, and it is when I am happy that i have hope they are not lost. I hope this makes sense still without the specific details. If not it just prove, I really over think everything.
This is my first time trying to post through flickr. I hope it works, I won't find out until I get home though because flickr is really the only fun site my work lets me see.. at least there is one :)
Monday, that was me, waiting to see what was going to happen next. And now it feels like all the good that happened afterwards has been undone. I sit alone with my tongue too much, and it is so restless it just wants things out and better..
But good has come from stress. I have lost 7 lbs since whenever i weighed myself at my parents last weekend. It certainly doesnt hurt me to lose weight and it is nice when it happens just nothing seems to make my mouth happy besides yogurt and cheese. Though I still insist on feeding it coffee everyday and trying to wean it back to liking the awful things that make me big like I am. but my mouth isnt as thrilled like it once was so I think I am going to try tea tomorrow. I don't think I have truely had a tea phase since my first year of college.
This weekend I am in the cities. (yay) Lately I have been going homebecause my parents ask and I can't say no. because i am retarded but it is always more relaxing in minneapolis, I just miss the seeing country, and fields and trees and how it feels safe there.
I have serious big things to buy this weekend including a printer a dvd player and perhaps an eisel. even though i think most of my class painting will be at school but we can do extra credit projects, and it would be cool to get her input. I checked out my instructors site and her work is awesome she make collages out of mainly magazines. but magaines that are shreded down and have resin over them and really have the appearance of agagts in a way, I wish i had gone to her show last weekend, they remind me of gustav klimts little circles up close.
Yesterday my plan was to do the bike ride thing but then it got hot, and I decided to just about nothing instead. Except I did play around with my camera, and a mask I got that Renaissance Festival.
Not feeling great today allergies leaves my throat all icky for the past couple of weeks the taste is off and my jaw is all tense and i couldnt think of why that was until now. *lol* dirty.
ooh and i am hoping to journal more via flickr 365 and just my own little journal. and hopefully that means it will happen here too.
I can't wait for work to be done for the day. oh has anyone here been to east cedar beach aka hidden beach? do they really have a mud pit?
So a few odd things I have witnessed this weekend, that I don't recall noticing but maybe with all the news of the RNC being in town my sensors for police behavior is up. Friday night around midnight (maybe closer to 11:30) there were squad cars surrounding a building one building down from being kiddie-corner Orchestra Hall (i think it is behind the Hilton) blocking parking ramps and all that.
And then today I was on the corner of LaSalle and Franklin and happen to look over at the traffic coming down the street and there were two cops in a white unmarked mini van. Maybe all the borrowed policeman didnt come with cars? Or maybe they are in unmarked vehicles for a reason--anyhow when i noticed this I turned around and on the back of the car were the numbers "81".. it's curious observation is all.
So i really didnt get done much of what I intended to get done tonight. But my photoshop came in the mail and it only took me 3 hours or so to figure out why i couldnt get it to activate (goodness really i am so ignorant sometimes it's ridiculous). But I attempted my first try at texture (I used to do this with my first computer and I didt call it texture,it feels more like a double exposure, but it makes me so excited I can do it again.) I am hoping that I will teach myself enough to fix my brothers wedding photos, I edited the terribly and my mom wants 8x10's and such of my sisters senior portraits by Christmas. So I want to work on editing them with more than picnik.
(i love catching people in the air, i wish i knew how to dance with other people, ooh and seeing people hold hands is the best, especially when two boys hold hands it makes me smile, even when it means nothing--i am not explaining it right)
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someone got me a paid account! but it says anonymous! i wish you werent anonymous i'd like to thank you and send you something pretty--if i knew who you were.. but thank you!!
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going to see Prairie Home Companion tonight with my parents, my sister txted me this morning with all caps and I thought she was pregnant or something but aparently it was something else not so good that she wants to share with me..I was going to go home this weekend, but I am going to be selfish and stay where i live and hopefully accomplish things i always say i wish i had time to do such and such, it would be nice to make something..
+ Has anyone every taken a university painting class? That might happen to recall what they ask you to buy for the class, I am kind of freaking out about the cost of things. And yes i know if i would just stop my retail therapy i wouldnt be worrying but.. retail therapy feels so good. argh.
+ my parents are bringing my bike back to me tonight! I am excited! I think i might pedal around a lake sometime this weekend. Maybe Harriet. So i can go rose garden and bird sanctuary and take some cemetary photos. I am so looking forward to fall I bought an orange tshirt yesterday I was so excited about it and I have all this orange yarn that is begging to be used. it seems like every 2 years or so i go through an orange obsession.
and i kind of like it but.. my pysche needed something new, different, a change.. so i said hey, temporary color shouldnt kill my hair. hopefully. Was going for bright red. it looks more magenta *giggles* it really does.
so i am not so crazy about it, but it'll probably grow on me. and it will wash out by the time i get a hair cut next (i am thinking right before school starts again :) i havent had one since my birthday!)
Okay.. so an attempt at documenting my trip with pictures. It's late and hopefully i will be better with words about it when I am more away but it was what vacations are supposed to be I think, relaxing and fun and all that.
I wonder how many crazy people have this same personality type. I feel awfully crazy today. But i bought a suitcase for my trip! Only 3 days of work left!! yay! +
The Big Read thinks the average adult has only read six of the top 100 books they've printed below.
01. Look at the list and bold those you have read. 02. Italicise those you intend to read 03. Underline the books you LOVE. 04. Reprint this list in your own LJ so we can try and track down these people who've only read 6 and force books upon them.
001 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen 002 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien (it is one of those unfinished things) 003 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte 004 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling 005 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee 006 The Bible (parts..) 007 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte 008 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell 009 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman 010 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens 011 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott 012 Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy 013 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller 014 Complete Works of Shakespeare (parts....) 015 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier 016 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien 017 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks 018 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger 019 The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger 020 Middlemarch - George Eliot 021 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell 022 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald 023 Bleak House - Charles Dickens 024 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy 025 The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams 026 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh 027 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky 028 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck 029 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll 030 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame 031 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy 032 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens 033 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis 034 Emma - Jane Austen 035 Persuasion - Jane Austen 036 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - C.S. Lewis 037 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini 038 Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres 039 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden 040 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne 041 Animal Farm - George Orwell 042 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown 043 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez (i think i have bought this book 3 times and never finished it only to lose it or sell it) 044 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving 045 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins 046 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery 047 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy 048 The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood 049 Lord of the Flies - William Golding 050 Atonement - Ian McEwan 051 Life of Pi - Yann Martel 052 Dune - Frank Herbert 053 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons 054 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen 055 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth 056 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon 057 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens 058 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley 059 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon (i was just recommended this book by the marvelous laurenis 060 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez (again a book i have bought and not finished at least twice. grr.) 061 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck 062 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov 063 The Secret History - Donna Tartt 064 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold 065 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas 066 On The Road - Jack Kerouac 067 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy 068 Bridget Jones' Diary - Helen Fielding 069 Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie 070 Moby Dick - Herman Melville.. another book started and never finished 071 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens.. and again 072 Dracula - Bram Stoker 073 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett 074 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson 075 Ulysses - James Joyce 076 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath 077 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome 078 Germinal - Emile Zola 079 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray 080 Possession - AS Byatt 081 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens 082 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell 083 The Color Purple - Alice Walker 084 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro 085 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert 086 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry 087 Charlotte's Web - EB White 088 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom 089 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 090 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton 091 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad 092 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery 093 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks 094 Watership Down - Richard Adams 095 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole 096 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute 097 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas 098 Hamlet - William Shakespeare 099 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl 100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
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The cool thing is most of the italicized ones I have read excerpts from. The shameful thing is most of the bold ones, I hardly remember.
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