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Friday, May 16th, 2008
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4:42 pm
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did not, in fact, get the tickets. was ready at 12:00 but show sold out instantly. very very very upset.
despondent, even. actually cried over this. shut up. ;-P
[the worst part??? is that both phoenix shows sold out in less than an hour, while i was on the internet and the phone trying desperately to score two tickets for us. but the show in dallas a few days later? still has tickets available, even now!!!! i think a ton of l.a. people flooded the phoenix show, since it's so close and he's--wisely--not playing l.a.....either that, or phoenix is full of hundreds of rabid tom waits fans that i have never met and apparently need to. but my money's on the former.
but here's the real dilemma: my parents live in dallas. i'd love to go visit them anyway, and we'd have a free place to stay and use of a car if we can just get out there. the drive is about fifteen hours and pretty intensely boring. i make more money than mike--i would have happily bought him a ticket to the show, but i can't afford to get us both out to dallas if we're flying. and going without him isn't an option--we are team springet, man. what do i do? forget about the whole thing?? help!]
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| Thursday, May 15th, 2008
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6:39 pm
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our new fancy 'artist bio' portraits, taken this afternoon by mike and by me, respectively. what do you think?? i'm always impressed when either of us can take a decent photo--we're painters, not photographers! i call my camera the magic silver shiny picture-making box! it steals souls, for all i know! ;)
it would have probably taken a pro about five minutes to do what it took us an hour and a half to achieve, but i think we did pretty well. you know.
( [ click to see full-sized ] )
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11:59 am
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mike, me, my mom, my brother chris and my grandmother all went to the farm at south mountain [more pictures of the farm itself to come, eventually] for mother's day lunch [because no one really likes 'brunch.']. this actually served a devious double purpose, as mike and i are hoping [maybe] to have our wedding at the farm next november, so this served as a fact-finding, food-tasting mission as well. mission accomplished--everyone loved the food and the setting, and now we're really really hoping that this will be the place for the wedding. it was a good mother's day! :)
( [ more severely adorable pictures of my nearest and dearest this way....... ] )
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11:47 am
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10:26 am
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[ the triumphant return of.........daily outfit!!!! - 5.15.08 - uploaded to wardrobe_remix ]
[i've been missing my vintage dresses lately, dressing shamefully in the shabbiest of jeans and dirty t-shirts for work.......so i've decided to start hauling these out of the closet one one by one and wearing them again! currently rocking one of my favorite color combinations, mustard yellow & black....]
yellow sundress: vintage
black beaded cardigan: hand-me-down from mom [only for fending off the chill of air conditioning, since it's becoming summer here more and more with every passing day!]
black leather mary janes: mervyn's
giant black plastic bead necklace: target?
dork-tastic cat's-eye reading glasses ;)
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8:56 am
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biting my nails, waiting for friday. i'm so nervous that tickets will just sell out immediately, or that i'll do something wrong at the last second and end up with nothing to show for it. ha ha. siiighh. ;)
[i won't be happy until i have two tickets in my hand!!!.............well, until i have an email receipt for two legitimate tickets in my inbox, i guess. stupid paperless society! no satisfaction.]
current mood: nail-bitten.
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| Monday, May 12th, 2008
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10:14 pm
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fourth post of the day?? unprecedented!! just catching up on some old news & photos, in case anyone's been wondering what i've been up to..............
last friday we celebrated my birthday at the very swanky kazimierz wine bar in scottsdale with some good friends--in fact, 75% of our future wedding party was there! we hitched a ride to and from the place and so proceeded to pass the evening in a blur of red wine and merriment not usually seen when one of us is driving home. ahhhhhh, fuzzy memories. 'tis the stuff good birthdays are made of!
( [ onward, dear friends, for more debauchery and winery! ] )
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7:05 pm
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ha ha. so, thus far it appears i'll be spending my economic stimulus check on:
- tickets to see tom waits
- my new tattoo
- an accordion
...........short of maybe some booze and whores, i can't think of any possible better use to put it to! watch me stimulate the economy!! ;)
current music: tom waits, heartattack and vine
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5:28 pm - !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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ohmygodohmygodohmygod!!!! do you know what goes on sale at noon on friday???
tickets to see TOM muthafuckin' WAITS at the orpheum theatre, that's what!!!!!!
oh my god. so excited. you guys don't even know. i don't get excited. i am miss i'm-waiting-to-be-impressed.......well, not today!! this is a sign for sure, after all, it was one of this year's [half-joking] new year's resolutions. and i won't even have to drive hundreds of miles to do it, although i was willing [just spend hundreds of dollars, ha ha]. i already managed to see they might be giants, learned lace knitting, plus i got frickin' ENGAGED--now if i could just see mr. waits and learn the accordion this will have been a most satisfying year. ;)
[oh my god. i am so excited. i am like a kid right before christmas. you guys do not even understand.]
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3:22 pm
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Poll #1186775
Open to: All, results viewable to: Alli have almost exactly nineteen months to learn to play the accordion* so that i can play it at our wedding. this is:
[ * oh yeah, and get an accordion in the first place. of course. that, too. ]
addendum: does anyone on my friends list actually play the accordion? any advice of any kind?
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| Thursday, May 8th, 2008
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8:59 pm - nope, there's just no way around it this time.
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there's only one surefire way to cheer me up.
i need everyone to post a picture of a llama, right now.
thank you. ;-P
current mood: sigh.
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5:29 pm
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| Thursday, May 1st, 2008
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12:35 am - twenty-seven is gonna be good......
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........yay!! birthday birthday birthday! once again, many thanks to my mother for giving birth twenty-seven years ago today. much obliged!
mike gave me something shiny! actually, two somethings shiny: i got a severely awesome and very macho multitool with various blades, saws, spring-loaded pliers, etc.......score! and he gave me a pretty, shiny necklace. does this guy know his girl or what?? ha ha. ;)
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| Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
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5:49 pm
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also: tomorrow is my birthday! hee hee. the big two-seven. friday night we are going out on the town for some swank wine bar action with friends! and my mom is coming into town and i'm trying on wedding dresses!!
hooray friends, hooray wine, hooray mom! hooray for all these things!! ;)
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5:43 pm
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this one goes out to all my knittaz:
ohhhhhhh..........malabrigo! so nice, so soft, so luxurious, so dangerous! i want to knit everything with you. mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm. ;)
[currently hooking a lacy shrug for my mom for mother's day, in some gorgeous laceweight malabrigo. tiny yarn, teeeeeensy tiiiiny lil' hook = this way madness lies!]
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| Sunday, April 27th, 2008
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10:23 pm
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oh, and by the way, it has been a month since we got engaged [i cannot believe it's been a month already!!!], and i have only just stopped wanting to jump up and down and tell everyone i see that we're getting married! you know, friends, aquaintances, bank tellers, grocery store clerks, et cetera.
i mean, i still want to? but now i'm actually getting better at restraining myself. silly girl ;)
current mood: heh.
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2:24 pm
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for the last [almost exactly] five years, i have been dying to get my next tattoo.
recently, for some reason, this desire is reaching the critical stage. arrrrrrghhh.
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| Saturday, April 26th, 2008
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12:44 am
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ha haha haaaaaa..........up late working in the studio, was just midnight ninja-ambushed by two not-so-quiet drunken boys* bearing lawn ornaments for my garden! ha. trying to break into my house, eh?? my house is a total concrete stucco fortress!! ......uh, except for those few spots where it isn't so fortressy. heh. just kidding--thanks for the gnomes, boys! pictures to follow soon. bed now. ;)
[ *it's okay, i know them. ]
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| Friday, April 25th, 2008
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2:42 pm
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why does this seem like a bad idea to me? a thousand reasons, not the least of which is that, um, as an eater of food, i am pretty much affronted by this. because getting further from the land and moving into the laboratories has given our species the great malnutrition diseases of obesity and diabetes, widespread malnutrition even in an age [or at least, in a country] when most people eat too much. and the solution is to start growing meat in a petri dish? without the nagging problems, i suppose, of having a living, breathing animal attached to what we will now have to begin calling 'protein inputs' or something instead of 'meat,' since they will surely resemble real meat about as much as a mcnugget resembles chicken. ugggghhhhh.
no, but really, has anyone on my friends list read oryx and crake, by margaret atwood? shudder.
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| Thursday, April 24th, 2008
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10:42 am
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