in. love.

This weekend I went to the Metro Arts Two Rivers Expo and found my new favorite thing. Last week was a little rough so I am quite grateful for those things in which I can find a little joy and peace. An Iowa City artist named Bekah Ash immediately won over my heart. I need to be saving money for a variety of important necessities but it would be SO SO SO much more fun to save money to buy one of her larger pieces. For now I settled for a smaller print but I am completely and totally in love with it. She has bunches of her work on flickr and I have already spent far more time than I should sifting through her work and drooling all over myself. I found the print I bought on her flickr site:


totally. in. love.

good thinking

As I did my daily perusing of blogs I came across a this video on Boing Boing. As soon as that nice old man started talking I burst into laughter. I cannot be entirely sure why it was so funny to me but for right now I will blame it on the fact that I am so congested I have become delirious. It did inspire me though, so I think I will work on taking more movies. I have recently become a little better at taking more pictures, as evidenced by the fact that iphoto has found a permanent home in my dock. For you non mac lovers, 1. shame on you, 2. that just means I use it a lot.

So I will give this whole movie thing a go and then maybe I will make something fantastic. Maybe. I am still in the process of thinking that thought (One of my favorite people said something like that in a meeting yesterday and I vowed to find some way to use it - success.)

Back to my beloved blogs and blowing my nose.

life goals 1, artistic ability 0

I know that I said if this project of mine didn't turn out well that I was going to delete all evidence of the idea. However, now that I actually managed to do something with all the pieces that had been camped out on my table for weeks now, I feel like I should get credit for not giving up before I started. I am also not convinced that it looks like something done by someone over the age of 7 (which is sad given it is tassels up through an M.A.). So I need a little help to figure out what to do with it to make it better. FYI I tried the whole white matte behind the tassel thing and it just looked really odd.

I forgot to take any pictures while I was actually making this trainwreck because I was too busy cursing and measuring without any real measuring device. Here it is right after I finished it:



After it sat just like that, on that very table for a few days, I finally got motivated to hang it on the wall, even though I will probably change it. I figure the wall is a good place to start storing things so that I can put different junk on the tables. Yea for fitting more junk in this tiny apartment! So here it is on the wall:


What you have probably noticed by now is that despite being from the same school, the black tassel is actually significantly shorter than the gold one. The idea was to leave space for the fourth tassel and to have an empty hook/pin for it. (I was thinking this would be good motivation, as if I would finish a Ph.D. just to avoid repositioning the tassels in a shadow box I will probably lose in the move anyways.) There is an empty pin but the pins are so small you cannot really see the empty pin unless you are up close. So now it just looks like I am horrible at evenly spacing. The small pins are nice because they don't really show from behind the tassels. I'm lost. Help.

I never knew how much disappointment was in my life until I started blogging.

lucky # 10193

Tonight was a fairly low-key Monday evening. Despite having a list of things that I SHOULD have been doing, I opted to do only the things I WANTED to do. I am not sure my should and want lists will ever become the same list, but now I can write them on the same piece of paper and I think that is a sign of real progress.

Something I always WANT to do is read blogs. In case starting a blog of my own didn't immediately make you think "THAT WOMAN IS ADDICTED TO BLOGS NOW," I should probably warn you that I really love blogs. I especially love reading them on my new laptop . One of my favorites, Dooce, is one of the greatest blogs in this whole blog-oh-sphere. If you don't read it you need to start. Not tomorrow, or even after you finish reading this post, right now. Don't even scroll back to find the original link, just click here.

Today on Dooce Heather announced a context for a Wii and Wii Fit. Well I, for one, was pumped for several reasons.

1. Winners are chosen by random which has got to up the odds of a nobody.
2. I really want a Wii so that I can take pictures of people (myself included) looking like an idiot while using it
3. Wii Fit increases the chances of people looking like idiots by a factor of 1 million.
4. My only current game console is Nintendo, yeah, NES. I can play Mario Brothers, Duck Hunt, Jeopardy, or Sesame Street. Moving my gaming up a few decades might be good for my karma.
5. I have grandiose visions of Wii parties where we play Wii Fit and drink to toast Heather every time someone falls.

Moral of the story? I really want a Wii so I posted on her comments to officially get myself in the running.

(click to see all it's glory in full size)

The winners will be selected randomly by their post number, therefore, until this is all over, my lucky number is 10193.

Comedy legend Mitch Hedberg one time explained, "My lucky number is 4 billion, that doesn't come in real handy when your gambling. I'm gonna need some more dice, 4 billion divided by 6, at least."

Well I would be in a similar predicament if it weren't for the fact that I do not roll any dice, let alone enough to ever roll a 10193. No, I don't roll dice, I read blogs. And I think that reading blogs brings me more luck than any pair of dice ever has. It's no wonder I WANT to read blogs. I am not sure any of the things I SHOULD do have ever gotten me even this close to a free Wii. I guess a Wii is the very thing that is preventing my WANTS and SHOULDS lists from coming together to form one, harmonious list. Maybe if I got a free Wii everything would just sorta fall into place.

Come on 10193!

Post #3

Although it might appear as though this is the first post on this blog I can assure you it is not. In fact, the other two posts from the old blog (and by old I mean new last week) will eventually get shuffled over here. I am only posting to announce my new membership in netflix. I thought it was going to be totally rad when I found out I could watch unlimited amounts of movies online. Then DOOOOHH!!! (That is the sound my head makes when it falls back in disappointment.) As it turns out netflix immediate viewing stuff is only available for PC users. Something about DRM stuff. After everything they have available cant some techny guy figure this bull crap out on their lunch break? Very frustrating to say the least.

I also have two new life goals - and by life goal I mean something I would like to do in the next few months but if it never really gets started then okay and we are no worse for the wear.

1. Recover the purple/silver/swirl chair in my living room so that it looks like something that I put into the room and not something someone guilted me into keeping. The chair is good - but not for my place. I will post some pics - probably of me looking confused over a pile of fabric, pins, and needles.

2. Memory box with tassels - this is something that will either catch on and everyone will be doing it or it will be dumb, which will force me to delete this portion of this post, and we will never speak of it again. I really feel like I can trust the interwebs enough not to bring up failed ideas long after they...well...failed.

Okay back to working on my netflix que/cue thing and then bed.