January 23, 2008

• Mehh!

  Well, I’ve been a blog slacker. This goat pretty much sums up how i feel about that:

  So there.

  A brief summary of what I’ve been up to:

  - I have not made any new year’s resolutions, and have boycotted the idea entirely. I know lots of people go through this, but this year, if I resolve anything at all, it’s to not set myself up for self-disappointment. I have a seriously toxic issue with thwarting myself before i even get started, and then being all half-assed as a result, because I get all hung up on the process, blah, blah, blah, and hoo boy, I’m bored of talking about it already.

  So yeah. I’m freaking brilliant. i just have to let it manifest on its own terms.

  - I cut my own hair, which is probably one step crazier than the last haircut I got, at that place where nobody spoke english. This time i just went in the bathroom and whacked it all off. And you know what? It’s totally awesome.

  

  Whenever you get your hair cut the rule is you have to make loads of stupid faces at the camera to show it off.

  

  And then take a nice one to send to your mother.

  - Spent a weekend in miami beach, which was amazing not only because of the warm sun and beautiful water (the jellyfish tried to get me!) and oh, loads of incredible cuisine options, but it also made a serious dent in my aesthetic perspective. Like, everything i’ve created since we got back has been… brighter. I am now obsessed with art-deco and mid century modernism.

  

  Plus, it’s a really groovy neighborhood, which was a hella surprise to me since I’d pretty much chalked all of miami up to being yet another vapid resort wasteland fringed with crime and poverty. But Miami Beach is actually kinda artsy & funky, like my neighborhood here in chilly new england, but of course with the benefit of the ocean and more fashion. We even took teh bus like the locals do, and contemplated the possibility of someday living there ourselves. Awesomesauce. I will be elaborating later.

  -Damn, I love airplane rides. I don’t understand how people can just sit there and not be fascinated by the fact that this ginormous winged hunk of metal has flung itself in the sky and is soaring through the clouds at breakneck speed while the landscape glides by far below like an infinite patchwork ribboned with silver. I must have been a pterodactyl in a prior life. I love having wings. I was pretty much glued to the window the whole time. I mean, Damn.

  

  Of course, waiting in the airport is yet another excellent excuse to make stupid faces.

  -Sooo. Been knitting and shit. I have made loads of stupid hats. Not while in miami, though… i dunno if you can even get yarn in miami, it’s too warm to even think about wool. But I bought lots of colorful yarn and I’ve been making quickie bucket-hat type things, and attaching retro vintage plastic flowers to them. They’re sorta like oilily-whimsical-30′s-ish. Maybe I have a picture to give you an idea. Oh, yes, yes I do.

  

  -Been plotting to move our crammed studio space, which resides in our second bedroom, out into the much larger & brighter livingroom. And vice versa. Since i pretty much have to drag my larger projects out there anyways,
  and i find myself knitting out on the couch, because the sunshine in the
  window is nicer. There is this coffeetable we are in love with, which the whole
  interior-design concept is centered around. It has a glass top with
  little divided compartments underneath, which is perfect for displaying
  the kinds of things we tend to hoard on our travels. Like beads and
  rocks and shells, because we are magpie-squirrels.

  
  now…..

  
  later…..

  This also means i can set up a gallery/ classroom/ lounge/ workspace for any future ventures. Ikea will be helping us achieve this. Oh, yes.

  -Speaking of future ventures, Matty and I have been taking an art class together, just a silly free-for-all painting & collage type of thing. It’s been a great chance to get out and DO SOMETHING at least once a week, and talk to some other people. Afterwards we go out for a beer and get all excited about new projects to work on, and then we’re all pumped and uber-creative for the next couple days.

  Some recent art I made, and a painting matt did of mountains at night:

  

  

  

  

  One of the other things we are working on is a collaborative blog (because the internets are just desperate for another stupid blog, right? Yeah. Shut up.) where we can post the funny drawings and cartoons and artwork and videos we’re always coming up with. I’m telling you, we are silly silly snarky people. And we are going to inflict ourselves upon the world!

  -On a side note, I would just like to say that I love Matt. He’s the greatest thing ever. He makes me feel like a summer day.

  -And last but by no means least, last week we gave Ugmoe a bath, because he’s a dirty little varmint. Here’s a picture of him being wet and angry about it.

  
  
  
    
  
       

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