Archive for January, 2006

self-portrait tuesday

My Grandma is super cool.  Really. 
This picture got her all kinds of grief from her fellow art students and her teachers.  The horrible humiliation of the poor child.  The child is me,  and this is one of my favorite photos.  She took a lot, me in the woods peeking out behind ferns, me blowing huge bubbles, me in […]

Today, Duncan is three-and-a-half. 
Yesterday there was a message on my machine from my best friend, she was weirdly vague about the reason that she was calling.  She said she had something that she wanted to talk to me about.  Also strange that she hadn’t called my cell phone when I wasn’t home.  I was curious, but […]

Unseen

One of my "resolutions" this year was an art journal.  I haven’t done anything artistic in so long, it’s nice, but frustrating.  It’s feeling unnatural,  but good at the same time.  The theme came from MamaSaysOm.

1.)  breath - Anna Nalick
2.)  stick shifts and safety belts - Cake
3.)  brick - Ben Folds Five
4.)  anything, anything - Dramarama
5.)  sherry fraser - Marcy Playground
6.)  groovy kind of love - Phil Collins
7.)  speak for me - Cat Power
8.)  naked as we came - Iron and Wine
9.)  honey and the moon - Joseph Arthur
10.)  this side of the blue - Sadie Newsom
11.)  banditos - The Refreshments
12.)  tv star - Butthole […]

O. used to talk in his sleep sometimes.  Duncan laughs in his sleep all the time. 
Sleep walking?  Is a whole different kettle of fish.
Duncan just got out of bed, proceeded to the kitchen and peed in the garbage can. 
What the fuck.
He cried the entire time and wouldn’t speak.  It took me a minute to realise that […]

MMS; mid-menstrual syndrome

Not sure if I just made it up, but I am suffering from it something fierce.  I am in the foulest mood.
While picking up a job application today a woman working at the store told me that I was dressed inappropriately for even applying, my shirt was too low cut.  I was wearing a v-neck.  […]

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