So I belong to a group of Geek Girls here in AZ. They are a wonderful bunch of intelligent (and hot!) women who like to get together, have fun, and not bitch and back stab at each other. Which really, has been my whole problem with finding long lasting girlfriends with the exception of a few.
So last night I went to a Goal Setting Meeting about Time Management. This meet-up is run by Shauna who is trying to create a whole program about setting goals and getting people to pay for it. Lucky for me, it's free to the Geek Girls.
So, last month we talked about goal setting and this month it was keeping our goals during such hectic times. Shauna gave us a lot of good ideas on how to stop making excuses and asking why we procrastinate or are so busy.
So, I'm gonna use a few of her ideas and apply them to my "rocks" which was from "7 habits of Highly Effective People" and you have to take the big ricks (the stuff that s uber important to you) and put them in your bucket and then fill in the gravel (the day to day drudgery that fills our lives).
My rocks (in no order in particular):
Sleep
Eat
Evan/Family
Friends
Exercise
Art
Work
So I want to focus on these in my life and tie my goals in with them.
A few things I'm going to read: iwantmorebalance.com and "The 4 Hour Workweek" Also as homework for the group was reading "The Alchemist" which everyone assures me is life changing.
Now my goals for the month!
Finishing 2 art pieces for the month plus an art sketch from life once a week
Socializing with the Geek Girls 5-8 times.
Blogging twice a week!
Weighing four pounds less!
Exercise 3 days of cardio a week and 3 days of weight lifting a week. No time constraints. Plus Wii fit Plus in the mornings.
House stuff: paint our bedroom and office. Evan won't let me clean out the gutters.
Eating habits are being vegetarian every other week.
So here's to the next month!
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
Friday, March 26, 2010
Little by Little
So, I'm an elementary art teacher for those of you who don't know. I switched from middle school to elementary mid-year. It was not a good half of the year.
So now I am smack dab in the middle of teaching the little ones and I must say for the most part I love it. Sure, it can get challenging and aggravating but I do enjoy it.
Today stuck out to me though. On some days I have two classes of the same grade level. Today was my double third grade.
The first class came in (honestly not my favorite, good kids...they just don't get along with one another) and we had to move seats around then I wanted to show some slides of abstract art and talk about how you illustrate feelings with abstract art. I had already had them try to draw some feelings in a previous class and now I wanted to show them some real things and they could change their ideas.
They kept interrupting one another and me. They wouldn't stay on topic and I even had someone ask if they could start the art stuff because this was boring. (insert rage here) I spent the last five minutes of the class half-berating them and half-pleading for them to start acting like actual third graders and not kindergartners (although out of my 5 classes of kinders only one acts like that). So after a harried class my next third grade came in.
Talk about a bipolar age.
They were WONDERFUL. No seats had to be moved, we got right into our discussion, we actually discussed what they saw in abstract art, then what they felt from the colors and shapes. We talked about Picasso's Guernica and they were oh so close to figuring out it was about a bombing. We discussed Frank Stella's shapes and how one of his pieces was a beach. The discussion was going so well with people raising their hands and listening to one another that I even had to put time limits and calling on less kids. Then I passed their papers back and they re-did some of their sketches and colored in things. When I told them we were making watercolor paintings out of their sketches on real watercolor paper you could feel their excitement in the air. "Real paper, like a real artist"
I totally heart this class. They seriously have given me one of the most fulfilling teaching days I think I have ever experienced.
Also a positive note: My first graders did pinch clay animals and except for a couple broken pieces here and there they came out okay. I fired two classes worth of glazeware and have at least two potential art show pieces from that (it's in a few weeks!) and loaded up a kiln before I left with the last two classes. I'll probably have one or two from those classes too.
I live sculpture making so much more than vessel making. The other teacher that taught elementary only ever had the kids make different kinds of cups (small pinch, big pinch, small coil, big coil mug) BORING in my opinion. So I had my first graders make pinch animals. Any kind they wanted. Next year I'll do more things with the clay, like relief sculptures, greek vessels, mini-busts, and boxes. The kids can do it. You just need to expect more from them.
That's what I'm doing. The kids always tell me how hard my projects are but they love my class even though it is so hard and they complain. But their projects turn out great. Expect more and get more.
So things are good on the teaching front. Getting more and more comfortable every day. I'm already planning on what to do for next year if I have a job. I already know what I'll do if I don't.
Want to know?
I'll drink and cry myself into oblivion for the first week. Then update all my resumes and whatnot and go get a retail job until I find teaching employment.
I hope to avoid that.
Lets end on a happy note...I got married! Once I get some more photos and possible long videos (I have some short ones) I will do giant uber post.
So now I am smack dab in the middle of teaching the little ones and I must say for the most part I love it. Sure, it can get challenging and aggravating but I do enjoy it.
Today stuck out to me though. On some days I have two classes of the same grade level. Today was my double third grade.
The first class came in (honestly not my favorite, good kids...they just don't get along with one another) and we had to move seats around then I wanted to show some slides of abstract art and talk about how you illustrate feelings with abstract art. I had already had them try to draw some feelings in a previous class and now I wanted to show them some real things and they could change their ideas.
They kept interrupting one another and me. They wouldn't stay on topic and I even had someone ask if they could start the art stuff because this was boring. (insert rage here) I spent the last five minutes of the class half-berating them and half-pleading for them to start acting like actual third graders and not kindergartners (although out of my 5 classes of kinders only one acts like that). So after a harried class my next third grade came in.
Talk about a bipolar age.
They were WONDERFUL. No seats had to be moved, we got right into our discussion, we actually discussed what they saw in abstract art, then what they felt from the colors and shapes. We talked about Picasso's Guernica and they were oh so close to figuring out it was about a bombing. We discussed Frank Stella's shapes and how one of his pieces was a beach. The discussion was going so well with people raising their hands and listening to one another that I even had to put time limits and calling on less kids. Then I passed their papers back and they re-did some of their sketches and colored in things. When I told them we were making watercolor paintings out of their sketches on real watercolor paper you could feel their excitement in the air. "Real paper, like a real artist"
I totally heart this class. They seriously have given me one of the most fulfilling teaching days I think I have ever experienced.
Also a positive note: My first graders did pinch clay animals and except for a couple broken pieces here and there they came out okay. I fired two classes worth of glazeware and have at least two potential art show pieces from that (it's in a few weeks!) and loaded up a kiln before I left with the last two classes. I'll probably have one or two from those classes too.
I live sculpture making so much more than vessel making. The other teacher that taught elementary only ever had the kids make different kinds of cups (small pinch, big pinch, small coil, big coil mug) BORING in my opinion. So I had my first graders make pinch animals. Any kind they wanted. Next year I'll do more things with the clay, like relief sculptures, greek vessels, mini-busts, and boxes. The kids can do it. You just need to expect more from them.
That's what I'm doing. The kids always tell me how hard my projects are but they love my class even though it is so hard and they complain. But their projects turn out great. Expect more and get more.
So things are good on the teaching front. Getting more and more comfortable every day. I'm already planning on what to do for next year if I have a job. I already know what I'll do if I don't.
Want to know?
I'll drink and cry myself into oblivion for the first week. Then update all my resumes and whatnot and go get a retail job until I find teaching employment.
I hope to avoid that.
Lets end on a happy note...I got married! Once I get some more photos and possible long videos (I have some short ones) I will do giant uber post.
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
New Artage
I have two new pieces! Two! In one month! Holy Goodness!
This doesn't usually happen folks, allow me to wallow in my excitement for a moment.
So we had two pieces to work on this month. I had my "Illustrate Your Sense" from my ongoing project from "The Creative Grab Bag" and I also had my yearly foray into the annual Gunmetalblack contest.
So without further ado: Common Sense Bingo
Common Sense Bingo by ~SyntheticPlatypus on deviantART
Another picture to add to my ongoing series from the book "The Creative Grab Bag"
This one asked me to illustrate my senses. The good thing about this book is that it has other artists using the same cards and I looked in the book to see what other people had done. Two people had done the same thing where they used food.
Well, I didn't want to do that so I went in a completely different way. Common Sense. Which is what I would like to think that I have a lot of.
Though my fiance' (soon to be hubby) has little to none. Several of these spaces are based on real-life things that he has done. Which to me are hilarious, so it's okay that they happen.
I based the bingo card on those really old kid bingo games from the fifties. So I used only a few colors for the whole thing and simple line drawings. Except for sketching out the initial idea this whole thing was done on the computer. Nothing was scanned for this.
The Sea Queen
The Sea Queen by ~SyntheticPlatypus on deviantART
This is my 2010 entry for the Gunmetalblack Contest. As I stated in an earlier journal entry I have entered this contest since 2006 and have always enjoyed it immensely.
So now we have the Sea Queen. Which sadly is on the absolute last page of GMB's Art Gallery. He has a ton of these underwater characters and flipping through his gallery inspired me with them.
So here is the break down of how this went. I picked the Sea Queen for my entry, then I printed a full size picture of GMB's original work. I then sketched out Sea Queen in the sketchbook very lightly deciding which details to keep or tweak or discard entirely (like I say every year, the detail, dude.) once I had the initial design down in the sketchbook is where I decide how to pose her. Now luckily the way I sketched her originally was pretty damn close to what I wanted anyway so it was cake from there.
I then took the sketch to work and made a copy of my final lines onto three different pieces of colored construction paper and decided on the medium blue-green which I thought look the most like water.
I then took my colored pencils and colored her in oh so carefully. I outlined different parts of her with black and other various colors.
I really enjoy how she came out. I believe her to look very regal like she is welcoming you to her part of the sea and with the way the colored pencils worked with the colored paper was fantastic. It was also very fun to work with her tentacles (although not to the extent of the original picture, yowzah).
I hope you all like her as well!
...
Now I need a new card to start working on. Which will be (drumroll please....)
Design a Character or Set of Characters.
Now this plays to my strengths a bit!
This doesn't usually happen folks, allow me to wallow in my excitement for a moment.
So we had two pieces to work on this month. I had my "Illustrate Your Sense" from my ongoing project from "The Creative Grab Bag" and I also had my yearly foray into the annual Gunmetalblack contest.
So without further ado: Common Sense Bingo
Common Sense Bingo by ~SyntheticPlatypus on deviantART
Another picture to add to my ongoing series from the book "The Creative Grab Bag"
This one asked me to illustrate my senses. The good thing about this book is that it has other artists using the same cards and I looked in the book to see what other people had done. Two people had done the same thing where they used food.
Well, I didn't want to do that so I went in a completely different way. Common Sense. Which is what I would like to think that I have a lot of.
Though my fiance' (soon to be hubby) has little to none. Several of these spaces are based on real-life things that he has done. Which to me are hilarious, so it's okay that they happen.
I based the bingo card on those really old kid bingo games from the fifties. So I used only a few colors for the whole thing and simple line drawings. Except for sketching out the initial idea this whole thing was done on the computer. Nothing was scanned for this.
The Sea Queen
The Sea Queen by ~SyntheticPlatypus on deviantART
This is my 2010 entry for the Gunmetalblack Contest. As I stated in an earlier journal entry I have entered this contest since 2006 and have always enjoyed it immensely.
So now we have the Sea Queen. Which sadly is on the absolute last page of GMB's Art Gallery. He has a ton of these underwater characters and flipping through his gallery inspired me with them.
So here is the break down of how this went. I picked the Sea Queen for my entry, then I printed a full size picture of GMB's original work. I then sketched out Sea Queen in the sketchbook very lightly deciding which details to keep or tweak or discard entirely (like I say every year, the detail, dude.) once I had the initial design down in the sketchbook is where I decide how to pose her. Now luckily the way I sketched her originally was pretty damn close to what I wanted anyway so it was cake from there.
I then took the sketch to work and made a copy of my final lines onto three different pieces of colored construction paper and decided on the medium blue-green which I thought look the most like water.
I then took my colored pencils and colored her in oh so carefully. I outlined different parts of her with black and other various colors.
I really enjoy how she came out. I believe her to look very regal like she is welcoming you to her part of the sea and with the way the colored pencils worked with the colored paper was fantastic. It was also very fun to work with her tentacles (although not to the extent of the original picture, yowzah).
I hope you all like her as well!
...
Now I need a new card to start working on. Which will be (drumroll please....)
Design a Character or Set of Characters.
Now this plays to my strengths a bit!
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Runaways
I am a huge fan of Runaways. No surprise there, it's one of the more popular comic books that have come out within recent years transcending that gender barrier that comics are known to have.
You know that barrier...Boys like Super Heroes, girls like Indie.
And pretty much with the exception of Batman for me (though I do not avidly collect his books) that was me to a T.
Then Runaways happened.
I just reread the first nine trades of that and rekindled my passion for it. Gosh Darn that is a good series.
Runaways Marvel Site Go Here for a quick Synopsis. Though it does not explain the current arc.
I will say that this is a series that there is no character that I don't love. Every single one of these "children" have real personalities...well as real as one can get for having super villain parents and inheritable powers.
I will also say that the pairings of art and story have been topnotch and I was worried about the Terry Moore and Humberto Ramos pairing. I love Terry Moore..I love Humberto Ramos...but Terry Moore had so much on his plate and Humberto Ramos's style is just a little cartoony..I wasn't sure if I could love it. But thankfully I did and the did their story arcs.
According to wiki There are two volumes of books I am missing...so this so needs to be rectified. The book is also on hiatus while they were hammering out some new story lines and getting the writer and artist up.
It's an all female team. This should be interesting to say the least!
You know that barrier...Boys like Super Heroes, girls like Indie.
And pretty much with the exception of Batman for me (though I do not avidly collect his books) that was me to a T.
Then Runaways happened.
I just reread the first nine trades of that and rekindled my passion for it. Gosh Darn that is a good series.
Runaways Marvel Site Go Here for a quick Synopsis. Though it does not explain the current arc.
I will say that this is a series that there is no character that I don't love. Every single one of these "children" have real personalities...well as real as one can get for having super villain parents and inheritable powers.
I will also say that the pairings of art and story have been topnotch and I was worried about the Terry Moore and Humberto Ramos pairing. I love Terry Moore..I love Humberto Ramos...but Terry Moore had so much on his plate and Humberto Ramos's style is just a little cartoony..I wasn't sure if I could love it. But thankfully I did and the did their story arcs.
According to wiki There are two volumes of books I am missing...so this so needs to be rectified. The book is also on hiatus while they were hammering out some new story lines and getting the writer and artist up.
It's an all female team. This should be interesting to say the least!
Friday, March 5, 2010
The Annual Gunmetalblack Contest
So, for the past few years I have entered this : Linkage and have had a good run with it. I won a year, got fan prize another year. I got some really neat prizes for it too. Cause Sir Gunmetalblack is an epic artist.
Year I won Grand Prize
Year got Fan Prize
Now the reason I bring up this contest is because, honestly, you can see my work GROW as the years progress. The year that I won I did two entries, so it will be a bit lopsided. But take a gander at the years.
2009
2008 Fan Prize Winner
2007 Entry 1
2007 Entry 2 Grand Prize Winner
2006
Wow, 2006...really? So here come 2010. I am currently working on a sketch for this character, Sea Queen She is turning out exactly how I want her to right now and it's just in the pencils phase. I think I will turn back the clock on media though and try to do something a bit different than my usual computer work. I think I may do colored pencils with some mixed media.
We shall seeee.
Year I won Grand Prize
Year got Fan Prize
Now the reason I bring up this contest is because, honestly, you can see my work GROW as the years progress. The year that I won I did two entries, so it will be a bit lopsided. But take a gander at the years.
2009
2008 Fan Prize Winner
2007 Entry 1
2007 Entry 2 Grand Prize Winner
2006
Wow, 2006...really? So here come 2010. I am currently working on a sketch for this character, Sea Queen She is turning out exactly how I want her to right now and it's just in the pencils phase. I think I will turn back the clock on media though and try to do something a bit different than my usual computer work. I think I may do colored pencils with some mixed media.
We shall seeee.
Monday, February 15, 2010
Consume
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Finished it!
After working on and off for a month I finished it!
Yay!
I started off by listing everything I used that day. I wrote it all in a little notebook I carry around. Then I figured I would have it all start off in the one thing I consume first thing every morning.
My cup of coffee.
I then drew out the rest of everything. In whole form (thus the cow and chicken) instead of just drawing literally what I used. It was fun in that way.
I scanned it in to the computer. Inked it first. A bit different than normal. I used colored inks instead of all black like I normally do. Then did all the base colors and added the shadows and highlights.
add a signature and voila.
I am pleased.
Monday, January 25, 2010
The Creative Grab Bag
Well,
with all the vacationing, engagement, moving, fixing up the house we have moved into, and wedding planning, plus work, and getting sick (still am), I come back to the blogging world for a real quick update.
The house is going swimmingly well. We've had a few sagas here and there (dare not mention the Kenmore dishwasher) and lots of paint everywhere, including our dog...things are getting done. Evan and I made a fan for the office. We were so happy when we turned it on and it worked. We hugged and watched it go around and even got Gala in there for a group happy hug.
I will put up some pictures soon, especially of my giant bookshelf. I researched how to decorate a bookshelf and it looks quite arty.
Work is well. I am teaching animation to the majority of my classes right now. It's awesome fun, but I will take a break from that after this and focus on some classic art the kids should learn about.
I am arting right now. I have this book called the creative grab bag and in the back of the book there are cards that you tear out to give you something to make art in. The book itself has what other artists have done using the topics in the cards that the book has. So after reading the book from cover to cover and getting inspired I decided to tear the cards out and finally do the creative grab bag. So I shoved all the cards into a vase we have and had Evan pick me a card after I shook it several times.
"Illustrate Your Consumption"
So I am. I have the pencils done from the other day and I am currently in the process of digitally inking the thing. I really am messing with how I've inked before and hopefully this will work. I m also toying with the idea of doing a photo collage of this as well because it would be utterly ridiculous and awesome.
I also have made a scarf which I think I may try to sell out of yarn using the hand knitting method I learned from my altering t-shirts.
I am also in the process of trying to consign my work at a store. It would be my prints that I did last summer, but if that works I could consign my t-shirt fashions and illustrations as well.
We'll see, I'm not counting my chickens before they hatch.
with all the vacationing, engagement, moving, fixing up the house we have moved into, and wedding planning, plus work, and getting sick (still am), I come back to the blogging world for a real quick update.
The house is going swimmingly well. We've had a few sagas here and there (dare not mention the Kenmore dishwasher) and lots of paint everywhere, including our dog...things are getting done. Evan and I made a fan for the office. We were so happy when we turned it on and it worked. We hugged and watched it go around and even got Gala in there for a group happy hug.
I will put up some pictures soon, especially of my giant bookshelf. I researched how to decorate a bookshelf and it looks quite arty.
Work is well. I am teaching animation to the majority of my classes right now. It's awesome fun, but I will take a break from that after this and focus on some classic art the kids should learn about.
I am arting right now. I have this book called the creative grab bag and in the back of the book there are cards that you tear out to give you something to make art in. The book itself has what other artists have done using the topics in the cards that the book has. So after reading the book from cover to cover and getting inspired I decided to tear the cards out and finally do the creative grab bag. So I shoved all the cards into a vase we have and had Evan pick me a card after I shook it several times.
"Illustrate Your Consumption"
So I am. I have the pencils done from the other day and I am currently in the process of digitally inking the thing. I really am messing with how I've inked before and hopefully this will work. I m also toying with the idea of doing a photo collage of this as well because it would be utterly ridiculous and awesome.
I also have made a scarf which I think I may try to sell out of yarn using the hand knitting method I learned from my altering t-shirts.
I am also in the process of trying to consign my work at a store. It would be my prints that I did last summer, but if that works I could consign my t-shirt fashions and illustrations as well.
We'll see, I'm not counting my chickens before they hatch.
Sunday, December 13, 2009
Happy News
I'm engaged!
Engaged!
ME!
WOOOOO!
I had the most perfect weekend with the most perfect guy ever.
Serious.
We went to a work party (his) at the Mondrian...this place is a hotel with restaurants and clubs...very ritzy and very surreal. The party started in the white room and literally everything was white. There was an open bar where I enjoyed a couple Tom Collins which after sipping several other people's drinks I found that the Tom Collins was the way to go.
I was quite the social butterfly, talking to many of Evan's co-workers, joking with them, and whatnot. It was nuts, I'm never this talkative.
So after a few hours and me camping out for appetizers coming through the door we were moved to the Red room and true to it's name it was all red. The thumping techno music was the perfect background to the random girl painting in the room and then the dancer who pranced on a glowing table and was doing handstands and backbends and dancing on the ceiling.
Craziness.
We spent the night on the tab of the company (thanks!) and we woke up, ate some delicious breakfast and went to out next destination which was secret.
It turned out to be the Hyatt in Scottsdale. It was GORGEOUS. Sprawling lush grass, full grown palms, acres of pools and spas, and extravagant rooms.
We pranced around the Hyatt for awhile. Literally, they had an ipod tour that we listened and followed. We found a pond, and then the massive amounts of koi, we took a dip in the hot tub under cascading aqueducts, and went to see the new disney film The Princess and the Frog. A good film, but not the best in Disney history.
Then we came back and got dressed for dinner and went to this SWB, South West Bistro where we sat in front of a fire and enjoyed chicken and asparagus. After the Bistro I was led to something very cool that we saw on the tour...a gondola ride!
Real gondolas from Venice with Gondoliers that were hired for their wonderful voices and not for their driving gondola skills. They were trained on the job. So, it was dark and the lake was uber quiet and so peaceful. We hopped in a gondola that was covered in tea lights and given a blanket to cuddle under. So we were paddled to the middle of this lake and our gondolier started to sing an italian love song about this guy who loved his girls beautiful lips and just wanted to kiss them all the time. So in the middle of the song Evan gets up and gets on one knee and he proposes! Very short, very sweet, "Sara, will you marry me?" and I'm freaking out saying "Of course!"
It was very romantic.
We got back into the dock and we went inside and sat down got a drink and listened to some romantic flamenco and Spanish guitar and we retired back to the room and we relaxed.
Then we came home today.
I'm in ecstasy with the happiness factor right now.
and we are in the process of buying a house too.
Hello Future, here I come!
Engaged!
ME!
WOOOOO!
I had the most perfect weekend with the most perfect guy ever.
Serious.
We went to a work party (his) at the Mondrian...this place is a hotel with restaurants and clubs...very ritzy and very surreal. The party started in the white room and literally everything was white. There was an open bar where I enjoyed a couple Tom Collins which after sipping several other people's drinks I found that the Tom Collins was the way to go.
I was quite the social butterfly, talking to many of Evan's co-workers, joking with them, and whatnot. It was nuts, I'm never this talkative.
So after a few hours and me camping out for appetizers coming through the door we were moved to the Red room and true to it's name it was all red. The thumping techno music was the perfect background to the random girl painting in the room and then the dancer who pranced on a glowing table and was doing handstands and backbends and dancing on the ceiling.
Craziness.
We spent the night on the tab of the company (thanks!) and we woke up, ate some delicious breakfast and went to out next destination which was secret.
It turned out to be the Hyatt in Scottsdale. It was GORGEOUS. Sprawling lush grass, full grown palms, acres of pools and spas, and extravagant rooms.
We pranced around the Hyatt for awhile. Literally, they had an ipod tour that we listened and followed. We found a pond, and then the massive amounts of koi, we took a dip in the hot tub under cascading aqueducts, and went to see the new disney film The Princess and the Frog. A good film, but not the best in Disney history.
Then we came back and got dressed for dinner and went to this SWB, South West Bistro where we sat in front of a fire and enjoyed chicken and asparagus. After the Bistro I was led to something very cool that we saw on the tour...a gondola ride!
Real gondolas from Venice with Gondoliers that were hired for their wonderful voices and not for their driving gondola skills. They were trained on the job. So, it was dark and the lake was uber quiet and so peaceful. We hopped in a gondola that was covered in tea lights and given a blanket to cuddle under. So we were paddled to the middle of this lake and our gondolier started to sing an italian love song about this guy who loved his girls beautiful lips and just wanted to kiss them all the time. So in the middle of the song Evan gets up and gets on one knee and he proposes! Very short, very sweet, "Sara, will you marry me?" and I'm freaking out saying "Of course!"
It was very romantic.
We got back into the dock and we went inside and sat down got a drink and listened to some romantic flamenco and Spanish guitar and we retired back to the room and we relaxed.
Then we came home today.
I'm in ecstasy with the happiness factor right now.
and we are in the process of buying a house too.
Hello Future, here I come!
Wednesday, December 9, 2009
Part I-A Post of Love (a warning!)
The other day Evan said something that made me bug him for a bit before he would let me know. He said that there were tons of tiny reasons why he loves me and why I am perfect for him. He didn't want to tell me any because he didn't want me to feel weird or change anything, but I promised I wouldn't so he told me one. How I say "Aloha" every once in awhile when I answer the phone or when he comes home. It kind of made go, awww.
So it got me thinking...what do I love about Evan? Many things...tiny things that he doesn't notice he does, but that I do.
So...I thought a list would do. Plus, the dear boy says he never reads this thing so I thought it would be good to get my thoughts out. So part one of a long extensive list.
1. Evan tries to load the dishwasher. He can't. At all. He is horrible at it, but the fact that he does and then runs it though...it is heartwarming.
2. Evan is always on the quest for knowledge...in EVERYTHING. I love how he throws himself into research. It just takes over his whole mind.
3. The big laugh he lets out every time we watch an episode of BullShit and Penn says "FUCK!?!!" during his narrative.
4. The way he curls up on the computer chair while he programs. It's cute and almost catlike.
5. Evan hates the lights in the apartment, they're too bright for his eyes and he does everything with the lights off. Showering...shaving...computering...all of it. Is cute.
So here are the first five. There will be more of this eventually!
So it got me thinking...what do I love about Evan? Many things...tiny things that he doesn't notice he does, but that I do.
So...I thought a list would do. Plus, the dear boy says he never reads this thing so I thought it would be good to get my thoughts out. So part one of a long extensive list.
1. Evan tries to load the dishwasher. He can't. At all. He is horrible at it, but the fact that he does and then runs it though...it is heartwarming.
2. Evan is always on the quest for knowledge...in EVERYTHING. I love how he throws himself into research. It just takes over his whole mind.
3. The big laugh he lets out every time we watch an episode of BullShit and Penn says "FUCK!?!!" during his narrative.
4. The way he curls up on the computer chair while he programs. It's cute and almost catlike.
5. Evan hates the lights in the apartment, they're too bright for his eyes and he does everything with the lights off. Showering...shaving...computering...all of it. Is cute.
So here are the first five. There will be more of this eventually!
Sunday, November 29, 2009
I can't ride my bike with no handle bars, no handle bars, no handle bars
I really can't.
I have the balance of a...something that has no balance. Really.
I have been struggling finding something to do that is active and fun in the evenings that 1) Does not tear the shit out of my knees like running and 2) does not want to literally kill me like rollerblading. I took a NASTY spill (3 times!) the last time I went rollerblading and I was pretty much done. I now have a nice gross patch of skin on my arm that may never be the same. It's all healed up but still, I would rather not. I also had the biggest bruise on my bum ever and it took two months to go away. I felt dead sexy with those two things, let me assure you.
So, after months of pining for a bike. Make that years (I haven't had a bike since I was 10, my mom didn't want me to ride on our dirt road where I lived in MI and riding back and forth on our driveway had little appeal), I was finally able to get one. A REALLY NICE one.
Thanks to my folks. Oh goodness, thank you to my folks. They came to visit (the leave on Monday, much sadness) and they really outdid themselves with the gift giving. I won't go over exactly what they gave but it did help out immensely and then my om took Evan and I shopping for some more things. Evan got clothes that he DESPERATELY needed. Seriously, the man hasn't gone shopping for at least two years. We got some major good deals at Macy's too. We went yesterday and avoided the Black Friday crowd. According to receipt Evan got 500 bucks of clothing for only $200. These were some nice things too, Calvin Klein and whatnot. One shirt was $55 and it rang up for $8.99 and then my mom had a coupon too! I need clothes but I am working on my body so I opted for asking my mom and dad for a bike.
We had looked online and found a really nice and cheap Schwinn cruiser at Sports Authority so we popped over and they don't carry Schwinns in the store, online special only. Screw them. So there was an actual bike store in the next mall strip so we popped over there and I saw it. This beautiful streamlined, pink and grey, complete with matching basket in the front cruiser. I was in love at first sight. My mom said okay and she bought it for me. I could have cried. So we loaded into Evan's car and drove back to my brother's to drop off my mom so my dad could take her. I made Evan get my bike out so my dad could really see it (so he knew exactly what he bought me). I rode around the block before we put it back in.
Apparently while I was riding with my goofy-ass grin of sheer delight my dad said to Evan that he doesn't know why he buys anyone any gift if they don't love it as much as I love that bike.
So we bid goodbye and many thank you's to my parents and came home. Where Evan strapped on his roller blades, I got my bike, we grabbed the dog and we went to the dog park. It was awesome fantastic fun and I would like to ride my bike everywhere now.
Thanks Mom and Dad.
I have the balance of a...something that has no balance. Really.
I have been struggling finding something to do that is active and fun in the evenings that 1) Does not tear the shit out of my knees like running and 2) does not want to literally kill me like rollerblading. I took a NASTY spill (3 times!) the last time I went rollerblading and I was pretty much done. I now have a nice gross patch of skin on my arm that may never be the same. It's all healed up but still, I would rather not. I also had the biggest bruise on my bum ever and it took two months to go away. I felt dead sexy with those two things, let me assure you.
So, after months of pining for a bike. Make that years (I haven't had a bike since I was 10, my mom didn't want me to ride on our dirt road where I lived in MI and riding back and forth on our driveway had little appeal), I was finally able to get one. A REALLY NICE one.
Thanks to my folks. Oh goodness, thank you to my folks. They came to visit (the leave on Monday, much sadness) and they really outdid themselves with the gift giving. I won't go over exactly what they gave but it did help out immensely and then my om took Evan and I shopping for some more things. Evan got clothes that he DESPERATELY needed. Seriously, the man hasn't gone shopping for at least two years. We got some major good deals at Macy's too. We went yesterday and avoided the Black Friday crowd. According to receipt Evan got 500 bucks of clothing for only $200. These were some nice things too, Calvin Klein and whatnot. One shirt was $55 and it rang up for $8.99 and then my mom had a coupon too! I need clothes but I am working on my body so I opted for asking my mom and dad for a bike.
We had looked online and found a really nice and cheap Schwinn cruiser at Sports Authority so we popped over and they don't carry Schwinns in the store, online special only. Screw them. So there was an actual bike store in the next mall strip so we popped over there and I saw it. This beautiful streamlined, pink and grey, complete with matching basket in the front cruiser. I was in love at first sight. My mom said okay and she bought it for me. I could have cried. So we loaded into Evan's car and drove back to my brother's to drop off my mom so my dad could take her. I made Evan get my bike out so my dad could really see it (so he knew exactly what he bought me). I rode around the block before we put it back in.
Apparently while I was riding with my goofy-ass grin of sheer delight my dad said to Evan that he doesn't know why he buys anyone any gift if they don't love it as much as I love that bike.
So we bid goodbye and many thank you's to my parents and came home. Where Evan strapped on his roller blades, I got my bike, we grabbed the dog and we went to the dog park. It was awesome fantastic fun and I would like to ride my bike everywhere now.
Thanks Mom and Dad.
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