Wow.  It's been a LONG TIME.  I don't know why, even.  I have been busy, as usual, but that hasn't stopped me in the past.

Anyway, lots has gone on since I last wrote.

The dolphins are on hold, but coming off hold tonight.  I have had a hard time getting to them this summer.  The Washboard Collective had to Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition to contend with, and, well, summers are always busy for me.  Also, I like to be outside, in the sunshine.

The show was meh.  We talked to a lot of people, but it wasn't the venue for us at all.  I will post pictures, but I'm procrastinating at work right now.

I'm also in a show at AWOL gallery right now, called the Square Foot Show.   All of the pieces are 12 x 12, and there are over 500 artists involved.  They actually had to move the event to a larger space to accomodate everyone.  I have to go pack and take a better look, as the opening was ram-packed.  It looked pretty interesting though.  Some of the stuff was amazing.  Some of it was crap.  I think I saw 7 or 8 paintings of fruit and they were all sold.  Don't people want pieces that are interesting?  Geez.  Bad taste is rampant!!  Anyway, I need to go back.  

What else...?  I don't know.  My cats are happy, I'm pretty happy.  Kat's in Greece.  I'm going camping this weekend, for the first time inYEARS.

Oh yeah!  Went to Seattle for Heidi's wedding.  I was a bridesmaid (and their witness!)  It was lovely.  It was held at a place called the Ruins, which is members-only.  It's not even on the internet.  I will post pics when I have them developed.  I also got to hang out with Sarah, my sis, which was also amazing!  And we get to hang out more in a few weeks!  How could I be so lucky?

That's the update.  I will be back with pictures.

via Loulou

I sent someone an email this morning that ended with:

"Good riddance - I won't be dealing with you anymore.  You're not only unprofessional, but an idiot to boot."

It felt SO SO GOOD.

P.S.  Don't mess with me, I'm craaaaaaazy.

I dreamt last night that I was in a hospital to visit my grandmother (Bebe, Dad's mom) who was suffering from acute alzheimers.  I was crying and crying before I visited her because I was sure she wouldn't recognize me or remember me, especially because it had been so long since I had seen her (perhaps because she actually passed away when I was 6 or 7.)  When I came into the room and walke dup to her bed, I asked her if she recognized me, and she said, "of course I do honey.  How could I forget that face?  You look so much like your father..."  

Is it crazy that I kind of think she was visiting me in my dream?  She said it with so much love in her voice!  Maybe I just want to be LOVED!

Mom just emailed me this picture.  This is my deceased dogs' granddaughter.  Her momma was Juba and Karma's daughter, Aretha (Franklin.)  She's beautiful!

I miss my dogs.  :(




I think I'm procrastinating.

There are snowflakes coming down right now that are bigger than my head, AND there's thunder, AND there's lightning.  I don't want to go to work in this.

I have 2.5 final drawings done for the book.  Um, yeah, that means that in a half a drawing I will be a TENTH of the way through.  That means, I'll only have 27 more to go!  WHAT have I gotten myself into, seriously?  This whole thing, of working three jobs, is wearing me a bit thin, I must say.  It's okay...Scott's coming soon and I will have 3 days off in a row.  (Yay!)

Ahhh!  The snow is crazy!  Apocalypse!

My baby brother's coming the week after next.  Yay!  

Visit with Mel = deluxe reading week vacation.

Love times a million.

I simply cannot understand why some people will not even acknowledge me when I speak to them in the store.  I'm not pushy.  I'm not loud.  I don't have boogers all over my face.  I bathe regularily and consistently smell good.  I even give them delicious free chocolates.

Don't they know I AM A REALLY NICE PERSON, DAMNIT?  Losers.

I have been wearing my glasses every day and doing porpoise drawings every night.  I have four eyes and no social life!  

I am a nerd, NERD, NERD!

But seriously, dolphins are so amazing.  They are magical creatures.  I should start airbrushing them onto sweatshirts and EVERYTHING.