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[17 Dec 2003|05:38pm] |
christian: i need your address, b/c i NEED to get you something through the mail
get back to me with that will ya?!
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[15 Dec 2003|10:02am] |
today has begun with a bang...
i went to work this morning feeling pretty shitty (a little under the weather) and i asked if i could leave for the day and make it up tomorrow.
the response i got: well, sure, go ahead and go home to rest.
to tell you the truth, i had no idea it would be that easy. i was worried the entire ride to work- what will he think, what will he actually say? most people do the call-in thing, but i didn't have it in me (remember christian and lauren- the phone is not my best ally)
so, in celebration of my day off sick, i think i will go get everyone's christmas presents. you see... being sick in my work place is no fun, but i think i can handle feeling sick elsewhere. it's terrible i know, but the day will be more productive i feel. and i will have caught up with a few things i feel i was falling behind on.
julie- i can't WAIT for my hot tamales
lauren h- i couldn't agree more!
lauren lebon- i wait on pins and needles
christian- it was soooo goood to hear your precious voice
molly- i miss you molly may
luke- you are in ny you lucky little thing you. go get 'em! woop woop woop
i've got all of you on my mind! and i am missing every one of you
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[14 Dec 2003|07:24pm] |
so this weekend i apparently gave my dad the biggest surprise of his "life" he said.
he left for out of town ( for a christmas party put on by his company) first of all who likes those, and more over who wants to leave town for one.
so his spirits have been low for a long time now (maybe a few years or more- he's been sick). he needed a little pick me up, and that's what i gave the man.
i snuck into his house, got panicked when finding out he had an alarm and then continued on my mission to set up a tree.
i "rummaged" through his attick to find the decorations needed to complete an official tree (it wasn't really "rummaging" though, it was more like looking through a very organized file at an office. he keeps everything in neatly piled boxes that have been efficiently packaged and labeled- mr. organized, mr anal)
... i eventually set it up, strung a few lights, hung a few ornaments and enjoyed being in his house, alone... with no music... blah.
but the product was nice.
and so he thought too
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[12 Jun 2003|08:12pm] |
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"WHA' HAPPENED"
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[19 May 2003|03:13pm] |
well SHIT
i just made one hopeful post and now have to knock that one down with this shity one- we didn't get the place (the house) apperently. i feel discouraged but we need to keep an open mind and our hopes up. we WILL find a place lauren and p.... we WILL.
and it will be amazing!
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[19 May 2003|03:01pm] |
i just read molly's post a few days ago... she was saying that there are times when she is in her room here and she just doesn't know what she is supposed to be doing.
i know exactly what you are talking about molly may. i feel completely anxiouse in my room (the dorms) for the most part and can't wait to find myself pumping out all sorts of fun things in my OWN room and having a wonderful and fun loving place with two amazing people- lauren and p! - guys- i can't wait to see what happens with this house today, but i thought we would find out sooner than we have.
today we will (hopefully here from the bearer of good (no great) news- that we will be able to rent this house, that feels just right!) ohhhhh.... i am on pins and needles
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[17 May 2003|12:59pm] |
well i feel like i need to re- introduce myself here... i have been gone for a while (at least from this little computer world). but rather, i i feel like i have really been HERE (aware and loving life)
can't wait to go home. it's not really that i need to GO away from here, but what i need is a break from work. i can't motivate myself at all to do any work at all... thus i have tumbled my brain around and around in this little room of mine for a while looking for "un-important" things for me to do to procrastinate. this is how it came to me actually sitting down for once and doing this little update here.
i am anticipating my older brother's wedding (well ofcoarse my "older" brother) or you never know really. no seriousely, i mean it. it's coming up in october. october fourth!!!! he's got himself a wonderful little woman. you bet, she is really neat.
i am so excited- i am uproaching the time... the time to go see "the mighty wind". yes it's true.
i am very excited. so i am off. but i am sad at the same time, b/c lauren will not be able to come with us. i just recieved a phone call (a very sad sounding girl stuck in the photo building doing WORK like a good girl. good for you lauren!)
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[03 May 2003|12:10pm] |
wel....
CHRISTIAN and SHELLY found a place!
why can't we?
p.s. i am more than ECSTATIC FOR you christian, you deserve it ... and... i know, we just need to do it (seek and we shall find)
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[28 Apr 2003|01:51pm] |
the cure to a downer i honestly believe is a little time to rock out by yourself. don't forget the danceing... oh no way! that is where the real stuff comes in.
i have felt somewhat blah (just a bit) and i took some of that medicine just now. you bet i did! a little aretha franklin, and some good music i associate with back home : well it IS called "greetings from new orleans". could that be why?
song list: "mother in law" ernie k doe
"ooh poo pah doo" jessie hill
"over you" aron neville
"barefootin'" robert parker
"blue berry hill" fats domino
"sea cruise" frankie ford
"working in a coal mine" lee dorsey
"land of 1,000 DANCES" chris kenner
(and lots of aretha)
try it out, maybe.
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[21 Apr 2003|11:43pm] |
again and again... this is cool
but now i have used them all up, should i really do this. YEAH, i should
i'm too impatient
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[21 Apr 2003|11:38pm] |
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this is for you christian!
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[21 Apr 2003|08:01pm] |
i enjoyed a coffee break with friend that i haven't seen in a while tonight. boy was that nice. talking over a really freshly brewed cup! ooohhh how good
i have been working on this pastell... and you know what i realized... i noticed that i have no motivation what so ever to pay the same amount of attention to the background(the filler) as i do to the subject... mainly the face. and that is something i need to work with... no, not even work with, i need to start all the way over. try a new approach- treat it all the same with all the same love and affection.
i think i am in an art rut. GET ME OUT. i can't wait to get CRAZY with PAINTS, and all SORTS of MESSY STUFF. that's my kind of thing! ha
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[19 Apr 2003|06:48pm] |
today was FUN
to say the least
KICKBALL- i haven't done that in years (well last weekend, but before then i hadn't played in years)
molly- i have to give it to you, you had spunk out there... diving for those fly balls. you were one with them! finally! and i want to do that, i believe that next weekend will be the time for that. i think that we found the ultimate way to settle a tie... forget over time! everyone should play paper-rock-scissors dance off. that could have possible been my highlight of the day to see everyone shake there stuff in our very enthused dace circle with a solid beat going (thanks to josh and our little friend Joe)
last night was just as amazing, but in a different way. total recall was total ly AMAZING. now normally i don't really have it in me to watch arnold on the big screen (much less any type of screen) but that worked for me last night. the humor ( or really the humor we found in it) had me going. and molly made an ingenious short to day for the big game with "screw you" on her back.
i can't pick a favorite part, i just can't
i also can't wait to see those folks again... thanks for putting on such a good show. loved the speech.
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[17 Apr 2003|02:45pm] |
ok... yes, yes, yes i know i haven't done this in a while ( a special apology to christian since you were the one who got me in this little community)
i have this great feeling in and around me today and lately i guess. you can say i have been happy as ever. i don't know why do you?
right this moment i am listening to the beatles tell me about penny lane... she is in their ears and in their eyes, there beneath the blue suburban skyes. "suburbia" for some reason makes me depressed... no offense to those whose homes are that. why, i don't know.
the reason i haven't been doing the updating thing is because sometimes i just can't see myself as a computer person... at first i was so involved and overwhelmed and excited and.... well, i just lost a little bit of that excitement when it got to be so gorgeous outside. i will make an effort though for sure (b/c right now i am enjoying myself and i am in the room doing this. so see martha- you can do it!)
i am excited about the movie tomorrow night at hamilton. the one i am sure all of you know about already (at least most of you who will be reading my post). to tell you the truth though i am not an arnold fan at all... can i sit through it? you know i think i can b/c i know i will be surrounded by such fun people... that's what makes me happy.
ok, well i am off to do sculpy AND maybe a bit of drawing for a while. i am getting into using pastel. never really knew how much fun it could be with the right technique and the right stuff. it really requires patients, a good mood and lots of layers.
just now going back through and reading some of this i see that i asked a lot of rhetorical questions. i am sorry that is annoying. you know what else is annoying, the fact that mighty wind is limited to only a few select cities. what is that! we were really looking forward to it and were let down not so softly. quite hard actually. i mean the way we built it up, and how it will be the ultimate movie of the year and they have refused to share that with the city of savannah. uuuhhhh. ok, i guess i can understand that this city doesn't exactly excude a culture that would demand such a movie come to them.
oh bla di oh bla da
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[09 Apr 2003|08:35am] |
it's been a while since i've done this
luckily, i got off class early and was in search of what needed to be done. and it was this of coarse. work.?.. phhu
all i can hear in the background is what tv daytime show my roommate has left on so kindly (sense the sarcasm please)... i'm not really a tv fan, and especially when it is nonsense gibber gabber gibblett like... some judge judy wanna be "contestants"...."i told her if she keep living her life like this, it's not gonna work... i come home and my stuff tore up. tore up"... judge: "stuck like glu, but ain't giving you no affection? "(i guess she means marraige)... the judge says so officially: "she said that she told you, that you said that her cousin was the one who told you... you sound stupid"
my reaction: WHAT?... does that make any sense and if it did, do you bring it to court? imagine lawsuit: Jones vs. Jones (affection fails)... leave it in the home
enough about the crap going on in the daytime tv world...
i'll update when i get an idea... my train of thought hasn't really pulled out of the station quite yet.
(wow that was bad, but i will leave it up to show all how corney i feel right now)!
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[05 Apr 2003|11:23am] |
to christian:
i just got off the phone with my momma, immediately rolled my chair over to the computer to tell you:
momma said:" give christian a pinch for me"... we love you
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[04 Apr 2003|11:58am] |
oh today....
last night i realized just how lucky i was to know you all. and i was smiling the whole way through; from inside and out. we ate doritos, had fun dancing with lauren's vinyls (of coarse), met her friend matt, played, lay on the floor- head on stomache in a circle with friends and laughed and giggled violently (or at least that's how christian put it) and more. i was happy to get to spend some tme with shelli (i spelled it right). i had yet to until last night and boy is she a fun girl... and if there is any way that julie will get this message, i hope that you had great success last night with your soul mate.
i've got nothing... all i will do toady is work, work, work. no fun. well maybe a little
my stomach feels weird today, and i don't like it. it's not a pain, but a flittery feeling. like it's floating and is trying to escape me. what's that?
and molly may- i hope your time with your momma has been spectacular.
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[29 Mar 2003|12:10pm] |
i just heard the perfect soundtrack music in my head for last night's occasion. it's louis armstrong's bluesy jazz/swing from the thirties and forties
a light slow tap of the snare, with a sensual piano accompanist, and later some dancin' horns if you like to livin' it up... and of coarse louis' strong voice
new orleans scene
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[29 Mar 2003|11:13am] |
well... i wish all of you could experience something like i did last night! we had an engagement dinner for my brother and his fiance. i am home in new orleans and with an entire new additioned family- my future sister-in-law's family (extended and all). AMAZING
we ate incredible mouth watering food at the oldest resteraunt in town, Antoine's. oysters fauche (my favorite)-fried oysters smothered in this SAUCE. i believe it has to be chocolate, who knows what makes it that magical but, oh, something in it does.it was lots of food accompanied with plenty of my favorite thing (laughs). for meeting for the first time, surprisinly our two families meshed unbelievably. there were no -" soooo... how is school going?" at the awkward moments of silence. just picture a massive table of two adjoined extended families crammed into one of the theme rooms at Antoine's (it was the REX room- lauren you would know- the most prestigious mardi gras crew that you can belong to. it's a silly ball thing down here), growing loud voices (i don't even think that was the alchohol... i just have a naturally loud family and it brings out the loudness in the rest), an incredibly happy and in love couple who this party was for held for, and plenty of loving family to support them. i can tell you i cried the whole dinner. my brother clincked his galss and gave a very emotional speech, which he wouldn't have been able to give before he met brit (the fiance), she brings out the best in him. ok... and then everyone of both families found it necessary to say a few things. it was speech after speech, then dinner, oh and more speeches. i felt ridiculous but didn't care (thanks to the wine) that i was crying in front of all these wonderfully fun people who i had yet to know before the night began. i'm always the silly one who gets mushy at times when others have enough will power to control there stuff. i just let it flow.
that sounds just like some other engagement party (when i went back over and read it) but to me it was hilarious and just amazing. our family is full of characters, just as every family is and you all know and love your family characters. so picture all those crazy ones brought together for this occasion, maybe it will make you smile and laugh. i know i did, i just can't explain how it really went... i am having a hard time with the details
tonight should be even more fun. my aunt and uncle are going to be the hosts of their engagement party. it's a cocktail one... and let me tell you i don't know exactly how to act, dress walk or talk at these things. i just don't know, and i am scared but thrilled for the rest of everyone.
i sipped white wine and did the southern thing (wonderful and odd, but in small doses)
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[27 Mar 2003|04:29pm] |
today is lauren's birthday.
Lauren: *** happy birthday to you, happy birthday to YOU, happppy birrrrthday deaar LAAAUUUREN, happpyyyy birthday to YOOOOOUUUUU! *** (fireworks and candles too)
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