holy crap it's frigging october!

Dear blog,

I've often thought about you longingly over the last couple of months, but, sadly, you keep jumping to the bottom of my list of things to do. Since my last post, not only have I started school, but I also started working 3 part-time jobs on campus.

Sigh. I know. Waaaaaah. Poor me, I have 1500 photos from the summer that I haven't gone through yet. Waaaaah. I'm basically working a 57-hour work week and paying for the privilege. Waahh. There's still a hole in my new home studio ceiling after 2 months of emails and phone calls to the builder. WAAAAAAAH!

Jeebus. All I can do right now is bitch and moan and it's so frigging boring that I almost fell asleep typing this out. With all the recent politicking and with the economy heading straight for the shitter, the last thing you need is to hear that junk.

So, until I get my shit together long enough to post again, please enjoy this little piece of Canadian heaven:

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Maybe it's just PMS but today I feel like junking this blog.

So I spent the whole day outside today...

I'm kind of kicking myself for not taking a camera along. Though I sometimes get tired of seeing and experiencing things through a lens or filter, rather than using my own eyes. I'm now doing a lot of reading, writing and sifting through a BAjillion pics and vids, which is taking forEVER. In the meantime, enjoy the work of Jim Stoten. Make sure you take a look at his sketchbook. Oh and I think I got a bit of sunstroke. Whee!

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i like to paint!

malberga002, originally uploaded by poopee shmoopee.

2007
24"x36"
acrylic on canvas

Today is a ridiculously beautiful day, but my allergies are going HAYWIRE. I've taken pills and nose spray but I still have a headache and my eyes are seriously light sensitive. As much as I'd love to be down by the beach RIGHT NOW, with the amount of pollen, the wind and high humidity it's best I stay inside. Le sigh.

We took Oscar and Luna (our 14-year old cat) to the vet this morning. Oscar was happy until we got him up on the table. He took his shots like a real trooper. Luna on the other hand started growling loudly as soon as I opened the door to her carrier. Everyone in the waiting room heard her spitting and screaming at the vet and me. He had wanted to clip her nails, but she was so pissed off he couldn't. Actually she hasn't let us clip them since we got the dog - 5 YEARS AGO! He told me the only was would be to sedate her - which would cost me $250. Yeah, like that's going to happen.

Last night I ate the largest boneless chicken roti I have ever seen

Seriously. I don't usually overeat but it was so good I just couldn't stop.



Usually we eat dinner before 8pm but it was 8:30 before we made it to Cool Runnings Carribean Restaurant and I was so hungry my stomach was hurting.



Dudes, I think that roti was actually bigger than my stomach, because about 20 minutes after eating it, my stomach started to hurt again. Bad news.



We walked home and for a moment there I actually considered purging it but realized how stupid that would be especially since it was in there by my own choice, and I remembered the last time I barfed. No thanks!



Anyway, the moral of the story is, when you're not hungry anymore, and there is still food on your plate...STOP.

Hey ya'll! I know for the last while I've been a bit of a blogbot, however, dear internet, it's about all I've had to give, of late. I just got a new part-time job, working on campus and have applied for a couple more which will start in the Fall. I've started a couple of new paintings, and am still getting used to our new home.

I also just started a Intro to Communication Studies: Media Messages and the Cultural Landscape. The prof is David McIntosh and I really like him. He's upfront, interesting and engages us in the discussion instead of lecturing (well it helps there are only 20 people in the class). The only homework I have, besides exams, is to write a weekly entry about my experience with media (any method of communicating messages) in relation to whatever issues we explore in the previous class.

So guess what guys... pretentious art school writings = easy, blogtastic must reads! HAHA suckers! Ahem.

I also have a list of things I've been thinking about sharing with you all, my steadfastly loyal 20 readers, here at the blog. Where should I start?

• cute pictures and/or videos of my pets
• written school assignments
• old notes my friends and I passed to one another in high school
• my old teen angst-filled journals
• slideshows/videos of my process in art making
• more links!

So the last month have been totally and unequivocally the busiest since last August, when Kirk and I decided to reno our condo in 3 weeks.

I moved out of my parents'house:


We moved into our new house:


My brother got married:


I was a bridesmaid:


I had a super rocking housewarming party complete with a fantastic DJ! This is one of the few pictures anyone took cause we were busy having TOO MUCH FUN. (i know this doesn't help you out right now, but next time i promise they'll be pictures):


I stayed up half the night working on a website (whose back end hosting is KILLING ME with it's lack of concern for what I WANT)and I just slept through the first 2-hours of my last 3-hr studio session for printmaking with a new edition of collagraphs due next week. Sigh. These are some of my experiments from last edition of monoprinting (oh and i also forgot to get pics of the ones i handed in):







OK. Must eat and get coffee now or I will never GET MY PAPER THAT IS DUE TOMORROW DONE. (sorry. didn't mean to yell. can you say panic? who am i kidding, i cant help myself. my dad is italian and my mom is french canadian. talking too loud is what what we do best, yo)

my brother got married last weekend!

i was a bridesmaid. sigh. i love my brother, my family, my new sister-in-law and her family, but if i ever get asked to be a bridesmaid ever again (especially when the wedding is planned for 3 weeks before the end of term), please shoot me. anyway, i'm having trouble uploading photos. here's a lovely video of the dessert table to tide you over.

funny or die makes me feel 99% less depressed

ok, so the worst part of february? THE SNOW and super rude people on public transit.

best part of february? my birthday (28th) and that when it's all over on march 1, we will be living in a home of our own!!!!!

i think i'm depressed people. it's valentine's day and i'd love to say that my husband and i are doing something romantic and lovely. my parents went out for dinner and i was hoping we'd have the house to ourselves for the night, but it turns out they'll probably be home before 9. on top of that loads of stress and shit going on (there is so much i want to write about, but am just the teeniest leery about publishing on the internet - sigh) that the most romantic thing we can manage is holing up in our room with a bottle of wine, cheese fondue and a movie.

is it wrong for me to wish this tv was going with us when we move in 3 weeks?

we...don't...need to say goodbye. we....don't.....need to fight and cry. we....we could....hold each other tight...tonight.

my life is in a bit of a shambles right now. we're living with my parents, school is done tomorrow and we're jumping through hoops on the purchase of a new house. i'll be back before long.

nablopomo - i suck

well i lasted longer than i thought i would. 22 postings in 22 days. soooooo clooooooose. sigh.

i've been moving and unpacking some stuff over the last 3 days. that plus homework means i've been putting in about 14 hours a day working and i want to lie down and sleep for a week. unfortunately it's the last 3 weeks of the semester, so i actually have MORE work to do. plus we're still looking for a new home.

oh and on thursday i had the absolute WORST cramps of 2007. we drove up to the lawyers' to sign all the closing documents in advance of tuesday's closing. that was the first snowfall of winter and the roads were pretty shitty. the whole drive back i was experiencing motion sickness and had to get kirk to pull over cause i thought i was going to barf. i didn't but when i got home i had some gingerale and felt a bit better. then i had a serious craving for steak and made kirk go out and get me one from the pub, which i inhaled in about 3 seconds. if i could find my camera cable i'd show you what it really looked like. this is the closest thing i could find on the innernet. it was medium rare and extremely delicious.


because i was so out of it, kirk rented a movie - slither.

needless to say, half way through it i started sweating and feeling uncomfortable. within minutes i was in the bathroom ralphing my whole delicious steak and frites dinner. it felt like i was giving birth through my mouth. i even had bits of steak and parsley and fries in my nose. then i took a handful of advil and slept for 10 hours.

we spent all day saturday and today moving the rest of our stuff with the station wagon and my dad's truck. last week i tried to convince kirk to rent a cube van and do it all in one trip, but he's pretty stubborn, so it's taken us the whole 2 days to get the rest moved. NEVER AGAIN BABY, NEVER AGAIN. kirk just went back to the loft for one last trip and is dropping off the keys tomorrow. poor shmoopee.

it's all grist for the mill

So, I'm kinda freaking out right about now.

I have less than a month left for school and have so much homework, that I'm a little worried about getting it all done. I've been so distracted 'cause for the last 4 weeks we've been looking at houses, bidding on houses, walking away from bidding deals gone wrong, then doing it all over again.

I'm also finishing packing for our move to my parents' place, which is happening this weekend. I mean, packing what was left after we moved stuff out in August. We're about 70% done.

I'm also kinda sad about leaving this place we've been in for the last 7 years. Walking everywhere, 100 restaurants within a 3-minute radius, being a 15 minute bike ride to school, lovely old victorian houses, sigh, I'll even miss some of the panhandlers and crackheads. OK, I won't rally miss them, but my point is that living here has been a rich, textured experience. This is the first home Kirk and I made together.



I know in the grand scheme of things, these are trivialities compared to the reality that many people in the world have to live with, but hey, they're not trivial to me.

Sigh.

Now I'm getting all defensive and weepy. It's prolly just the PMS or maybe it's the rain making my broken toe (yes broken) ache. I'm driving Kirk and others crazy with my emotional bi-polar-like outbursts over all this shit, but I can't help it.

sigh

so that thing i did the other day was attend a gala reception for the toronto french theatre's 40 year anniversary. my mom needed a date, so i went. it was...interesting.

well, the most interesting part was trying to get a picture of the governer general who was there and being blocked by her security. oh that and the bottle of wine my mom paid for but didn't drink.

so. much. homework. right now. i tried reading the news but i just ended up being all depressed. sigh. i think i'm totally PMSsing.

finally! now i own a piece of raymi!

hungover-raymi and i had coffee today. i really needed a batman t-shirt and she really needed to sell one, so it worked out great for both of us. read this and this if you want to know what happened.



PROOF!



current status of my panel painting. 75% done!


finally found something besides purses and accessories in H&M that doesn't make me feel like a big fat pig. ignore the socks. imagine opaque tights and cute shoes

when i was in 23 i used to have this recurring dream where i could sing like this. someday i will get over my singing in public issues. sigh.

progress is being made.

here is the current progress on the wood panel for my diptych project.







the best part of my day today was my visit with stefania.





i brought her some art nouveau/deco inspired source material and she tweaked it and is tattoing it on me!

this is the stencil we designed together.



this is phase 1 of 2.



this is oscar being bored.

there's a lot going on - and none of it meth lab-related, contrary to what yesterday's picture post might lead you to believe

for the last 4 days i've been working on one of the panels for my contrast diptych using plaster to smooth it out. well i didn't sand enough of it away and tried painting on it. as soon as it dried, the paint just started peeling off. last night i spent an hour trying to hand-sand it off. because it had cured, it was so hard that i just plain gave up.



dejected, i ended up going over to a friends' place for dinner, then came home and watching Dnevnoy dozor, which was pretty good. i was supposed to go to a birthday party (sorry tina!!!), but we didn't end up eating until pretty late.

anyway, the film is the sequel to Nochnoy dozor and second in Timur Bekmambetov's trilogy. It is all over though in 2009 with the Fox produced Twilight Watch in 2009. i actually enjoy watching movies in their original languages with subtitles - it adds a little more flavour when you can hear the actor's real voice/words/intonations. this last one is being filmed in english. oh well.



today kirk and i rented a storage unit for all our stuff while we stay at my parents' place.



we also went by their house to pick up our palm sander. kirk was wonderful enough to volunteer to sand all the shit off of my panel.



so i could basically start from scratch.

sigh. seriously, you guys, i wanted to cry. he's so lovely.



anyway, here's where I am so far:

under construction....back to posting tomorrow.

calgon take me away!