for summer

i know you have been dying to know the contents of the vd bag. last friday under the cover of darkness i crept out into the driveway and as covertly as i could grabbed vd bag and ran back in the house. and well... here it is:

just as sad as suspected. crumbling mint cupcakes with candy hearts melting in the frosting. addressed to aunt summer... no i dont know they were mint because i ate them , im guessing they are mint because they smelled minty. the whole thing had me feeling quite dirty.

behold another crime scene:

teddy bear massacre
for my best costume ever, evern tho it wasnt a costume party, but a masquerade party.
leg warmers that once were legs

and headgear

this morning i went to put on my boot and found in it this little gift someone had left me:

pretty damn cute. that is minnows "piggie" toy. its actually a my pretty pony type cat but kb for the longest time thought it was a pig and would tell minnow to "go get piggie". in all fairness it looks neither like a cat nor a pig but minnow seems not to care and likes to leave it in various places. yesterday i found it in the bathtub.

it's colder than you think

sunrise over the mortuary:

found these vintage notecards for 1.50 today:

the bird's bodies are flocked. ha ha . but they are.

and glass tiger: mini roar:

printing update:

the green went down on saturday

and then grey on thursday: (or do you prefer gray?) (or gris)

you can just start to make out the image now. these pictures are crap. i can see i should have taken a close up. god with so much time invested i can only hope the damn thing turns out.

the vd bag is still in the driveway and i decided that if its still there tonight i will capture it and bring it home. yes, i realize it may be filled with dog shit. in fact in this picture it most certainly looks like it is filled with dog shit.

this is what my computer screen looks like when i turn on the computer:

i mean this cant be good. so i fear i may be in the market for a new computer. its about the last thing i want to spend my money on. or anyones money. if im going to spend more than 5oo dollars cant it be on a trip to mexico? or italy . or france in your pants?

friday friday finally friday. i think im actually making friends here. i was invited to a masquerade party tomorrow. the host will be wearing a minotaur mask. for reals. and serving absinthe. i think im going to be wearing a paper bag on my head. it will be a great improvement.

on the gf front. i think i have officially fell (fallen?) off. yesterday i saw a seeded roll i could not resist and also some peanutbutter cookies--they were homemade fer christsake. and then today had a gardenburger with bun. and also i am officially smoking again. only 1-2 a night. but smoking ... i have permits for all the official stuff in case you were wondering.

didnt watch the ox-bow incident incidentally. i had the times wrong and wasnt interested in whateverother stupid cowboy movie was on. i did however watch some like it hot the next eve. and va va voom that marilyn is something to watch. god damn. she wears this topless dress that i dont know how got past the censors. you can see them keeping the spotlight above the clavicle while she sings i wanna be loved by you.. jack lemmon is not annoying in this movie either. i usually find him incredibly irritating, but i enjoyed him here. was tony curtis an asshole in real life? he seems like he could have been.

i think thats enough for now. a pleasant evening to you...

p.s. bytheby that title has nothing to do with anything and is just plain stupid. but i couldnt think of a title, and it is indeed colder than you think tonight. stay warm.

tcm is tcb

thank you turner classic movies for making a poor & lonely girl's nights a little more bearable lately. you tcm and the bottles of red wine that have been keeping me company. actually i do exaggerate, i think i only went thru one bottle the whole weekend (and a long weekend at that) can that be true? hmmm seems suspicious. also the spell check on this thing is not working. also all weekends should be 3 days long. also there should be no more 8 am classes ever anymore.
got up early today to finish my english paper assignment on "a place" and i finished it and then my prof didnt show up to class which is strange but at least it is done. great relief.
returned the 4 netfix discs that have been sitting unwatched at the house since before xmas. i thought i would (re)watch all the sopranos from season 1 thru, but just couldnt get into it but couldnt really admit i wasnt in to it so let them sit for yikes 2 months. im having a hard time coming up with movies i havent yet seen that i want to see. i may have to cut the membership soon. please, if anybody reads this, leave some suggestions in the comments. of course, you dont know what ive seen and havent seen but at least ill know you care or tried or tried to care...
ooh went to the home depot to get some hard board for my next painting assignment: a psychological self portrait...yes, thats art school for you
and spent over 3 hours carving linoleum that could have been done in less than an hour.
woohoo, time check and i have 8 minutes left at work, and then its home to robert osborne and the ox-bow incident, which im a little disappointed about tonights selection. looks dry and boring. unlike my left over beef stew.
sorry no pictures today. i think my computer is dying or dead.

v d bag

i found the above sad abandoned valentine's present sitting in the driveway this morning. that's broken glass nearby. im guessing it fell out of my neighbor's car or even worse was thrown out by my basement neighbors. they like to tell each other how much they hate each other around 2:50 a.m. at least once a week. i really need to crop the photo, its kindof driving me crazy.

this morning i tried my first gluten-free baking experiment. the results below:

they are rice flour muffins with chopped dried apricots and craisins and pecans and they are surprisingly super delicious. the money shot somehow didn't make it onto my flash drive so you get these 2 instead. dont fret i will upload later. maybe. if you're good. anyway, i cant believe they turned out to be edible...

and two of the minnow after she spent some time running around in the mud. pretty cute.

you know you're in utah when you hear someone say "oh my heck"... sometimes if they're really upset they will go all the way with "oh my hell"... dirty bounders, son of a biscuit

seriously

i just filed my taxes on line. i cleared 8445 dollars last year.

so what have you been doing?

i can tell you a few things ive been up to since last posting...
i found proof that jesus was black, and in a dollar store in utah, nonetheless. behold the black jesus gift bag. my dad was the lucky recipient at xmas.


next i flew to jxvlle florida for xmas where i witnessed the dead santa floating in my mothers pool, above. someone filled in as you can see, we still got presents.
i gained some weight, seeing as how this is what my mother considers breakfast:

poor dear gramps. he died jan 1, 2008. i got to see him tho for xmas and his last birthday.

i went up to nyc to see best friends little one. goes by h2e. darling. we're both trying to figure each other out in this pic.

rock center xmas tree.
ny left me a little exhausted this time around. in fact i think i had a mini nerveous breakdown the day before i left. too much holiday stress plus too many things to do people to see in too little time plus grampas death took its toll. i was very happy to return home, to utah. i literally felt the anxiety disappear as i crossed over the rocky mtns. oh yeah, but before that i had a lay-over at chicago ohare where i had the misfortune to eat a turkey sandwich that almost killed me. o god was that awful. 7 hours of puking and diarrhea for days. at least it didnt hit me until i was home in bed. but i managed to lose all the weight i gained over the holidays...
school started. and i dont know if im loving it as much as last semester. art history survey II, painting II, life drawing & anatomy, silkscreen & relief printmaking, english 1010. its alot of work and i kindof fell behind because.. ..oh yeah, i got married:




vegas style. i refer to it now as the shotgun without the bun wedding. kb got hired and so we decided to get hitched so i can reap the benefits of being a pilots wife. originally we planned on a one day in vegas court house ceremony, just the 2 of us- , but i told my mother and 2 turned into 35, with a dress and gold shoes and a real wedding cake and reception dinner with toasts and everything. we had the ceremony at this place called the little church of the west: adorable. its las vegas' only historic landmark. all this done with a week and a half planning. i tell you vegas is designed for this kind of thing. it was wonderful. getting married is like all your birthdays wrapped into one day. even if it was just for the flight privileges.
we retuned home and had our mini honeymoon pizza party with perrier jouet:

and one week later my pilot husband is gone to st. louis for ground training. oh well.

i voted:

got in "big trouble" for taking this picture (below). all the ladies seated were sweethearts, its just that ball buster with the grey ponytail that wanted to see my credentials. apparantly i need a press pass to take photos in a voting area or some unamerican bullshit like that. so i fake-deleted the following pic.can you believe obama took utah?! this is very exciting news. i felt bad for not voting for my man kucinich, but he dropped out, right after i ordered the lawn sign... the bastard pocketed my 43 bucks. thats ok. hes still running for u.s. congressman.

since returning to utah ive been sticking to my gluten-free diet, more or less, honeymoon pizza excepting. with great results, well mostly. my skin cleared up until a few days ago. i dont know if im on the right track.

and heres my latest print, 2 colors in. its a 8 or 9 color reductive relief print, 20"x20". the color is kind of off in this photo... but its really the only thing im interested in lately...

here are some things im not doing:

the dishes

cleaning the bathroom sink

putting away my clothes (those are suitcases from christmas)

these are the suitcases from the wedding

and these are 2 random pictures i cant seem to delete, so you get to see the stack of material ive been collecting for 2 years+, thinking im going to learn how to sew...

and the kenny rogers, the gambler slot machine. at least i knew when to walk away, i only lost a couple bucks, well maybe 5...

so there you have it.