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Wednesday, January 27th, 2010 11:58 pm
Today’s fave five were:
- Emailing back and fourth with a friend who tends to be a bit…funny on email.
- Getting rated on Swap-Bot with 5′s and hearts!
- Having people ask you for commission work! WOO HOO!!! Someone wants to PAY me for my work…AGAIN! It’s been happening so much MUCH this past year, and it’s the loveliest feeling I can describe in my art making experience. I don’t even know when I’ll be able to fit in all the commissioned pieces with thesis, but it’s just nice to know you work is not only liked but WANTED…
- ePortfolio’s class totally rocking my socks. Will Devin have a new flashy awesome site in a few months time? Stay tuned to find out…
- My man. I gotta say it. He’s really just the sweetest. I promised myself I’d always remain “relationship neutral” on my site, but I can’t help it…this man makes me smile from ear to ear and it’s because HE IS A GOOD PERSON. This good person also happens to be extremely attractive (go me), funny, charming, 100% comfortable with himself and willing to compromise when it’s right to and stand his ground when he should. He’s kinda awesome, and so I just can’t stay mum about him 100% of the time…
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Tuesday, January 26th, 2010 1:52 am
Today’s fave five were:
- The whispered words from someone who thinks I’m special followed by a funny story and a “ditto”.
- B96 having someone from the RP give a shout out for loving the “commercial free hours”. YEAH BABY! ROGERS PARK REPRESENT!
- Today’s most fortunate fortune cookie from my favorite Chinese food restaurant (Yummy Yummy- that DID bring love to my tummy) said, “You will have a bright future”. I hope you are right fortune cookie of fate…can that bright future be within the next 3 months while I finish up thesis? Thanks…
- MORE MAIL BABY!!! Swap-bot is the freaking best! I send two to three out a week and get two to three items through the mail in return. It’s just so addictive! It’s keeping me motivated to work in my studio on these cold nights as well! Today I received one of my 3 of Spades APC. Thank you TrishGray17!!! The timing on this particular APC seemed a little ironic (in a humorous way) and is DEFINITELY perfect for the upcoming Hallmark holiday – Valentine’s Day. Thanks again – it’s great!!
"I love you" APC, 3 of Spades by TrishGray17
- This weekend I finished up my two APC’s, the 3 of Spades, but never got around to posting them, so since I sent them OUT today, I’ll also post them today! I went for a different feel with these two cards compared to my first two, but I like them just the same. I think they are a touch more fun and light hearted – appropriate for playing cards I think! Anyway…I’m excited about these little projects, they are definitely helping me to stop over thinking my work so much and to just GO for it without worrying all of the time. (No time to worry, I just must do!) Who knew Swap-bot would be such a great thing for me? I get fun goodies in the mail, it keeps me going to my studio at least three times a week AND I’m having a blast building my collections and making new connections with various artists and crafters. I’d say that’s just a pile of wins!!!
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Sunday, January 24th, 2010 11:49 pm
Today’s fave five were:
- Getting to sleep in after sleeping veeeeeerrrrrrrryyyyyy soundly. Woke up craving PANCAKES!
- Having the perfect running partner to motivate me to get out the door for our run, devising the perfect plan to get our run in, hit The Bagel in Lakeview for PANCAKES, Starbucks on the way back for a Signature Hazelnut Hot chocolate all in time to be back by the start of today’s football games! BRILLIANT!
- Adding a new fishy friend to the mix – her name is Black Eyed Susie (Susie for short). She’s the cutest little speckled fancy gold I’ve seen in a long time. One of her eyes is white around the rim and the other is black around the rim thus the name. Currently she’s living with MU’s fish, but I kinda wanna bring her to work to live with Tangerine (my totally awesome Betta). Time will tell if that happens or not…
- Meghan having nine lives. I got a phone call from her today while she was being taking to the ER in an ambulance. Her message, “Can you meet me at the hospital? I think I’m ok, but want to make sure. There isn’t any blood. IT WASN’T MY FAULT DEV!!! It wasn’t my fault!”…Aw Megion!!! She is FINE – totally ok, but very lucky. Her car took a big ass hit. Some new driver clearly should not have his license for he was headed north bound, than in an attempt to make a U Turn heading south bound, freaked out, popped the curb then (my assumption here) hit the gas instead of the break which propelled him forward while still having the wheel turned causing him to crash straight into the drivers side of Meghan’s car. She got some pretty bad whiplash and will probably have a bruise on her left hip in a couple days time, but no cuts or anything worse fortunately. The car? Not in such great shape. Poor Meg…She kept giving me lip about if I was ok…apparently I was a little flushed in the face. Uh yeah…won’t/can’t deny it. Hearing my baby sister is in an ambulance on her way to the ER after a car accident sends chills down my spine. In the moment I was fine – hopped into action, called Terra to inform her of everything I knew, got to the hospital and was fine. Late on tonight? Eh…maybe I wasn’t quite so *fine*. I keep repeating, just so happy it turned out the way it did and no serious damage was done to her skinny little body!!!
- Coming home after what ended up being a crazy night dealing with ER stuff, making sure Meghan got to fill out the report with the cops, waiting for her car to get towed and then taking her to get an el pass for the week, I was exhausted. So I kinda treated myself to an 830 calorie McDonald’s meal. OH SHAME ON ME I KNOW…I couldn’t help it. Then I noticed I had missed a fun piece of mail, another swap-bot swap! Thank you Sam Jowers!!! My “La Muerte” 2 of spades is AWESOME! I absolutely love it!!
"La Muerte" APC by Sam Lowers
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Tuesday, January 19th, 2010 9:58 pm
Today’s fave five were:
- Not waking up to bad dreams.
- Being able to see sunshine most of the day long from an open office window!
- Looking forward to the goodies coming my from Swap-Bot in the mail. Today I received two of four I’m expecting: 1) my “free theme” inchies and one of the 2 of spades APC. Both were quite fun to open! CraftyWench you had made my inchies went with a vampire/faerie theme also incorporating a lot of green into the work which I love. She clearly had checked out my loves/likes list and drawing from that came up with something really fun and unique with me in mind. She glued the inchies down onto a giant puzzle piece which was so radically different than what I had done with the inchies I had made that I was surprised at first. But I think it’s really neat to see how she worked with a really solid theme and created an easily displayable work of art. THANKS CRAFTYWENCH (Christina)! My APC from Cocoa is really awesome too. I had checked out her website and actually was pretty sure I saw the two APC’s she had made. I ended up getting the one I secretly hoped would come my way, so that was pretty nifty. Anyway, a big thanks to both ladies for helping brighten my day and giving me something to look forward to in the mail! (click on the images below to enlarge them – my apologies the blurriness…I’m using my scanner since I can’t find my digital camera and it’s just not as clear as a camera would be)
- Having a running partner who is really working hard and kicking some ass! Way to go MU. Tonight we had our fourth run – what I was aiming to be a two miler turned into a three miler (accidentally) and we NAILED it! It was 30 minutes exactly and that was with a couple extra long walk breaks. It was not my intention to run quite that fast, but I felt like we were running at a comfortable (and slow enough) pace for a newbie. I’m going to work on bringing it down a notch, but really, we were doing a run/walk ratio of 6:1 so I guess I ended up feeling too rested and pushed it a bit to hard. Regardless, Mike did beyond awesome and I’m continuously encouraged by his natural ability. This is gonna be a great running season I think!
- McDONALD’S HOT FUDGE SUNDAE FOR DESSERT!!! Yeah, that’s right baby…I had me some Micky D’s. YEAH! I don’t know how many calories were in that bad boy, but it tasted so good…(there goes the work out from tonight!). I’ve been good all week though, taking the stairs at work, keeping a VERY LOW sugar diet (I’m killing myself with this) and being very mindful of what I eat. I think we both deserved a treat, and since I’m the only one who really has to work on slimming down, I think I’ll take the hit on the hot fudge as long as I work on being good the rest of the week. It tasted GOOOOOOD (almost as good as skinny feels
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