I'm working my way through them and adding descriptions... again... because I did a whole page worth of like 600 photos and Flickr lost my edits. *head desk* I even identified flowers and that grouse we saw on the trail. *sigh* Once I get all the descriptions up, I'll pick some of my favorites and do a quick write up ( Read more... )

I just want to take this moment to say that I've scored one of only 35 booths at Jonah's school fair at the end of September and I'm wickedly happy about that. I'm wickedly happy because last year, a kind of snooty lady gave me a sort of flippant response when I tried to sign up. She asked what I did and I said that I made jewelry and she said, in ( Read more... )

I am alive and... I'm not sure if I'm exactly up to well, but I'm okay, surviving, living, learning, doing...

( Let me tell you about ALL THE THINGS! )

We leave on Thursday on our first trip out West since 2005. I've gotten over my trip anxiety by immersing myself in reading and research and planning and stuff. It's been oddly romantic, the two of us on the couch every night with our laptops open, sharing links and building our trip itinerary and checklists on shared notebooks on Evernote. We make ( Read more... )

My LEEP procedure was today. I saw this chunk of flesh that was removed from my body. That was... interesting. Oh, and no werewolf-proof vagina like with the biopsy, which although it sounds like a feature you'd appreciate, it's so not worth the hassle. Trust me.

But Boston...

Perspective. I have it in scads.

Love and light.

I was just browsing the job board there and there's a job listing for someone who wants costumes based on Monopoly pieces and hundreds of other things... like a Taj Mahal children's bunkbed (in the $5000-$10000 range in NYC, I might add). It's like a treasure trove of creative inklings just waiting to be picked up by the right artisan who will run ( Read more... )

This is my next challenge. I thought at first I was shifting to a more extroverted phase, but really, I'm an introvert who's realizing the value of interactions and forcing myself out there into vulnerability land. There's this pull in me to recognize the importance of an "it takes a village" sort of mentality ( Read more... )

So, as I've been doing all this work on my own ego, I'm really sensitive to ego lately. And in the craft beer community, there's so much ego it's palpable. After the East Nashville Brew Fest a few weeks ago, he jumped on the community to write what sounded like a yelp review of the festival on a facebook group run by the guy who operates the ( Read more... )

So, okay, roller-coaster has been consciously shelved and things are going well there. When problems arise, I'm using and learning new meditation techniques to manage them. I'm getting better at it. I'm able to create an inhospitable environment so that emotional downturns can't really take root, though I still weather a little bit of their effects ( Read more... )

Wow, it's been a while since I've visited that space. Too long. It's mid-CostumingJuly! Need to get to work. Wait... according to The Now Habit, that's negative self-talk and instead I choose to get to work. I'd love to get to work! I'd love to pull out my sewing machine right fucking now and whip up something gorgeous. But there's other work to be ( Read more... )