November 17, 2006

Feast day approaches

My beloved Feast of Love (aka Thanksgiving) is almost upon us again.  I am filled with mixed feelings...  With me working and away most of the time, I have this lovely daydream about just lying around and watching movies and eating Indian food in bed.  I would be disappointed though, right?  I look forward to this day ALL year... 

In other news, Wednesday was payday, and I really want to GO OUT tonight.  Do some real dancing and debauch to my heart's content.  It's not gonna happen though.  You see this baby of mine is unwilling to let go of me for a second once I come home.  Pretty sweet, actually.  It's strange to miss her as much as I do. 

 

November 16, 2006

Ponderings from the reception desk

Answering phones, labeling files, faxing faxing!  I feel so professional, and at the same time desperately dumb.  It isn't that my colleagues here are miles ahead of me intellectually, but rather that I am restrained by my tasks here, continuing to use such a small portion of my potential.  Yesterday I had a fantasy...of returning to college.  What would it be like to be surrouned by art history and historians again?  I fantasize about going on and on in a classroom full of half-interested students about composition in Mondrian's paintings, or the linear nudes of Modigliani. 

I think it's important for me to realize how hooked I am about art.  It's not going anywhere.  Having a job feels so good though; I could easily see myself staying here for years and years.  People are nice, the pay is good.  I can't let myself be satisfied----funny phrase, eh?  I can't let myself be satisfied with doing the bare minimum in life.  Where will the passion go? 

November 13, 2006

yeah

The coffee I'm drinking is too strong.  It reminds me of the coffee - BAD coffee - I used to drink at Ganas.  I can't believe I put my stomach through that much torture.  UGH!

I have to let you in on a little secret: I LOVE going to work!

October 25, 2006

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October 20, 2006

times are a-changin'

Got a new house to move into. Went on a FABULOUS job interview yesterday and will go on another (different job) interview on Monday. Hannah will be in daycare soon. First holiday market coming up (first weekend in November). Clementine's crawling! Turning 27 soon too. It's ALL HAPPENING!

It's almost too much to write. Not sure how these next couple weeks will go. I keep reminding myself that all I have to do is get through it. I don't need to do it perfectly or without some insane outbursts of insanity. Just keep breathing.

hannah under the table

October 13, 2006

hannah's smirk






Flickr

This is a test post from flickr, a fancy photo sharing thing.

October 12, 2006

oh, clementine






September 01, 2006

my life lately

hannah and mama swing displays mama and child cone experience clemmy drives bottlecap magnets

August 19, 2006

enter the dragon

CRAFT-MAMA-TRON!

I have waited too long to start writing again. Today couldn't feel better. The sun is warm and bright. Sweet Hannah fell asleep on the walk back from the Market and was content to keep napping when I put her down on the bed. Clementine sits besides me chewing on a rubber duckie, making the cutest little cooing noises. And Pamela looks beautiful today; there is something about those charming lips, all darkened with lipstick, they get me everytime!

I'd like to know the amount of time I've written about being on the precipice of change. It is almost like the very thought of changing has haunted me and I have chosen to sit and wait -- waiting to see 'if' I am going to change with life, or if I am going to continue being the same while my situation changes. Last night some friends asked me if I am happy. I told them that I feel like I'm 'almost' happy. What is that? If I am close to happiness, isn't that good itself?

I keep waiting for that morning when I begin feeling whole again, as if we actually experience feelings of wholeness! This life change has already begun.

So for the new changes here:

name change: to CRAFTMAMATRON (think cute robot with tits, an apron, and a pair of scissors!).
blog change: more pics, more talk about the saucy crafting pam and i do all the time!, more talk in general!, more gushing about buffy!
life change: using a calendar, thinking about using a budget, taking time to have some perspective on things (even if that can only happen with the help of some intoxicants now and again!),