7 months = 213.057949 days

7 is known to be a magical number, a perfect number, a lucky number ..

there were 7 dwarfs ... there are 7 seas ... 7 deadly sins ... 7 virtues.

When people are ecstatically happy they refer to it as being in "7th Heaven" ..

In baseball there's the famous Seventh Inning Stretch ..

7 is a number that cannot be divided into evenly,

7 is an awesome movie starring Kevin Spacey and Brad Pitt ..

7 rhymes with heaven ..

But whatever information you can think of when you hear the number 7 ..

the most important thing about that number is that ..

Paul and I have been together for 7 months today!!

Although not *together* together right now ... we will be soon =) As you can see from the counter on your right hand side.

It's a long story about how we got together so I'll save that for a rainy day. For a long time, nobody knew about our relationship. It's a great story though =D so someday I'll tell it.

But for now I'll just say that it's been the best 7 months of my life and I cannot WAIT to see him again. I cannot begin to tell you how great he is, how good he is to me, and how much I love him. He knows all of this already because I tell him everyday, multiple times per day .. haha ;)

I just wanted to shout from the Blogspot Rooftops to the rest of the Virtual World how much he means to me .. he means the world to me!!

Happy Anniversary Paul!!! I love you!

Tigons, Ligers and Bears, oh my?

Ligers

I didn't know there was such a thing.

Would you not straight up SHIT in your pants if you saw that thing running toward you?

South Park

If I was a South Park Character ..

Get your own South Park character here

Hell's Kitchen

Did anyone happen to catch the season premiere of Hell's Kitchen tonight on Fox? Those of you in the Pacific timezones still have a chance.

I normally hate reality television (well, other than The Apprentice)
but this show is super cool.

Gordon Ramsay has got to be one of the rudest, toughest professional people in the world. He makes Simon Cowell of American Idol look like Tinkerbell.

Catch it if you can ..

and if you can stand it, watch Nanny 911 beforehand too. It's full of bad parenting and screaming, bratty children who get told off and taught how to act right by some snooty British nanny (no offense to anyone reading from England, but it's the truth, and she DOES straighten their asses up). I thought that I wouldn't be able to stomach it, but it was actually great for a laugh.

P.S. thanks to all who signed my GuestMap!

Today

I'm still highly impressed with the collage option on Hello, haha .. I don't know why!

Anyway, my dog Andy, aka Drew .. aka Panda .. aka Rooney ... well, he is one of my 3 dogs. And .. a painting I did earlier today. I'm not a flower person but I do like the way they look when painted.

Pin my Guest Map!

I see I get quite a few visitors here daily .. but no one ever pins my Guest Map. I'm not trying to be an attention whore .. I'm just wondering who stops by.

Go sign! Please? =D

I'm wondering who some of you are ... especially the ones visiting from Bellsouth.net.

Thanks!

Final Project v2.0

part of my final project for painting .. v2.0 .. click to view, it's better that way.

It's taking on a whole new look. I went crazy with sponging on the magenta, and also threw handfuls of wet sugar and salt all over it (as you can see from the white areas) ..

Taking a picture of it kinda helps me to see what it might look like when scanned or when I mess with it in Photoshop (IF I do .. that is, not sure yet)

What I'm thinking about doing now is painting some streetlamps on watercolor paper .. and in different sizes to make it look like they are close up and further away. I'll stick them on with just something to make them stay long enough to scan it .. because I'm really happy with the way the painting itself turned out and want to keep it, but without the other stuff stuck to it, that's just for scanning purposes to make it a digital image for my final.

This may sound weird, but somehow when I look at this painting it reminds me of my last birthday, when I was in Amsterdam. I'm not even sure why, but it does.

I wish my digital camera would show the true colors .. because the pinks and purples of this are much richer in real life. Almost burgundy in some places .. while in other places, almost hot pink. It works well, and I wasn't sure if it would.

Who knows what the finish product will look like. This is just Phase 2. I have another week to work on it. It could take on a whole new look .. AGAIN.

1200 milligrams of calcium

Magnetic Poetry and Flowers. The flowers picture was actually taken by me earlier today.. I'm not a big flower lover, but I really like the way these turned out.

I worked most of the morning and evening on my final project for painting. I scrapped the idea below, the red & black is a bit depressing and not the feeling I want to convey. I covered my canvas with strips of brown paper bag, tissue paper, and coffee filters, and painted over them with a deep purple and a little magenta. Tomorrow after it's more dry I'll probably add some more magenta to brighten it up a little. It has a leathery look at the moment and I like it.

I'll let you know how it progresses. I'll still be adding to it up until it looks finished to me. Long way to go.

Final Project

Self Portrait

This is just a sneak peak of it. For my final project in painting I'm going to do a mixed media piece .. paper, canvas, acrylics and found objects .. *maybe* scanned and mounted after all is said and done, I don't know yet.

Eyes censored for privacy issues. I'll post the work when it's finished.

Can't get There from Here

It's not just the title of an REM song anymore, today it was the story of my life.

My painting teacher was impressed with my Blythes but unimpressed with the way they were presented. I hung them on the corkboard during the critique on Tuesday in plastic, protective sleeves which tended to hang strangely, even when tacked on all sides.

So .. she advised me that it might be neat to blow them up and mount them. I had no idea where to do that and I knew my school didn't have the equipment to handle the job. She advised me to head up to Even-Smaller Anonymous University because they had a great lab for handling big print jobs.

So .. I went.

And I got terribly, terribly lost.

The town is even smaller than the one I live in now, but I still got horribly lost. I took the wrong exit. I entered the residential area. I ended up in Bumfuck Egypt, feeling carsick, headachey, and needing to take a piss really BAD.

I found a strange market that looked a lot like an old general store you'd see in a badly sepia-toned image of a "ghost town", you know .. like those places made up to look like ghost towns but they actually aren't?

Tumbleweeds, crickets chirping, you name it.

I went inside, and a lady who seemed as if she had been smoking Kools since age 4 gave me wrong directions AGAIN and would not let me use her restroom.

I had nearly decided to go home and try another day, but I was so damn close! I've lived in huge cities and never gotten lost like this. I've bragged about my keen sense of direction. When I FINALLY took the correct exit and saw the school standing in all it's glory, I had to hold back tears of joy.

Ok, not really.

But it was a wild day, and I *hate* getting lost. Especially in these tiny towns that barely make a dot on a map when you try to find them.

The Reward:

My Blythes are printed onto 17 x 24" glossy Lustre paper and soon to be mounted onto foam core. It's my first large work and I'm proud of it .. I hope there will be many more in the future.

The easiest way to get out of a math test

Two huge bags of a white powdery substance were found on my campus this evening.

Math test was cancelled til Thursday.

So they are calling it an Anthrax scare.

Probably just someone really wanted to get out of a huge test, I mean it IS near the end of the quarter.

*sigh*

And I studied so hard!

Now I gotta study more til Thursday else I'll forget it all.

Stupid bastards.

*UPDATE*

Don't get all excited, it's not an update about the anthrax scare.

It's an update to say I've just completed my last Blackboard posting for the quarter! whoo hoo! Those things were a real pain and I'm glad to be done with them!

Don't Control my Remote Control

I wrote an essay this morning in English class about censorship. It was an argumentative essay and I took the stance that the government should stay out of what we watch on television or what we listen to on the radio.

What's more offensive: images of death, destruction and war .. or a quick flash of Janet Jackson's breast during the Super Bowl?

What's more offensive: seeing Nick Berg decapitated on national television during prime time viewing hours, or hearing Howard Stern utter one of the Seven Dirty Words on his radio show, which was known for years as being filled with sleazy talk?

What's *really* more shocking?

What's easier to explain to a child: why we are killing people in other countries, or why Janet Jackson has a naked body under her outfit .. just as we all do?

We have the power to turn the channel if we don't like what we are watching. We have the power not to sit down to watch at all. But when the government dictates what they believe is offensive and what is not, that is where the unfairness starts.

While researching, I found a website called TV Watch. Who really knows if petitions such as this do any good? Perhaps they do.

If you want to make your voice heard over the people who think it's ok for the government to control what we watch or listen to, go here: TelevisionWatch.org.

"I disagree with what you say but will defend to the death your right to say it." ~Voltaire

Bog Bodies

I am loving my Hello software, it's the coolest.

If you are wondering about the picture, it's my next attempt at either practicing drawing or painting, but there is a reason why I chose this particular picture to draw or paint later.

I saw something on tv a few years ago about the Bodies of the Bogs. Go read about them if you want the full story.

Basically, these people were buried (somehow) in peat bogs. No one is sure how they ended up being buried there, but the bodies were well preserved in the bogs. I remember one man they showed actually still had whiskers on his face, and close up you could see each and every pore on his face, each scar .. he had been lying in the bog on his side, and you could see how his face was pushed upward, just as if was meant to be that way.

They looked like carved statues. Some had hair, some still had their clothes that were in good shape, some had nicely manicured nails (well, as nice as it can be for a dead person).

So they may not be beautiful to look at .. but I'm just amazed at how the peat preserved the bodies to look so statuesque.

Click here for more pictures/stories .. The last picture on the right hand side is the man with whiskers I spoke of above.

Once Again ..

once again presenting .. KC!! (the Sunshine Band couldn't make it tonight) .. my boyfriend took this one .. =D

KC

Right now, he is pondering how much he hates me .. and wondering if there is any wallpaper to be ripped to shreds. Actually, I'm just testing my Hello software.

That crazy Jonathan Swift!

Ok, I'll admit, I didn't recognize who the hell he was until I realized he wrote Gulliver's Travels (which I admit I've never read, but still, I've heard of it at least)

Anyway, for my current English class I was assigned to read his essay "A Modest Proposal", which he wrote back in 1729. To be such an old essay, it's a pretty easy read.

If you enjoy satire and you've never read the essay, but want to, Click Here ..

At first read, you may think Swift is insane (and maybe he was, who knows). Satirically in this essay, he suggests that the Irish should eat their offspring. He says there are too many starving children, and too many parents who just keep breeding and cannot take care of their kids. So .. to remedy this problem, he thinks it would be best to fatten the child up til they are one year old, and then eat them, whether as a fricassee or a ragout.

Baked, broiled, stewed, or roasted .. doesn't matter to Swift.

Being a non-breeder, I found it pretty humourous.

Fall Quarter Schedule

Monday & Wednesday

Math 101 - Basic Algebra & Geometry 08:00-09:50
Arts 106/Digital Foundations - Photoshop, Maya, Freehand, & QuarkXPress 10:00-11:50

Tuesday & Thursday

Arts 101 - Black and White Drawing 10:00-11:50
English 112 - Composition and Research 12:00-1:50

My Blythes

Watercolor by Me, Digitally Enhanced by Me using Photoshop 7 .. for painting class at school.

Flowers by Me

Maybe if I fill this place with my artwork it will be more interesting for me.

Watercolor by Me, digitally enhanced by Me ..

Looking Forward to it ..

It may not be like the original but I'm sure Depp will make it most interesting ..