Ahhhhh. School is out for the year. I'll be doing a summer art program with the little kids at a local elementary school and working with a local non-profit during the summer. Yay! Hopefully the bills will get paid somehow. I'm not even going to stress about that right now...cause.....school is out ( Read more... )

Yesterday was the graduation for the class of 2007....all of the parents that no one has seen for 4 years show up to bask in their childs glory. But it's always great to see the kids graduate. They start with a freshman class of over 300, and only 50 make it to graduation. And it's mostly girls that graduate. The young men don't fare too well. They ( Read more... )

I went to court today. I was there for 4 1/2 hours. Come to find out that Babik (kid that stole my $) had another case against him for possession and distribution - a felony (ie. 18 viels of crack-cocaine found on him after he was witnessed selling by a police officer). Well they put both of the cases together. Babik plead guilty to both counts as ( Read more... )

This, I must say, is a great mural


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So I have a summons to appear for the hearing regarding the student that stole money from me. It's next week. I'm very nervous. I've never even been in a courtroom, much less had to testify in one. I'm goning to try not to think about it too much, cause I know it'll stress me out. Goddamnitt. Why did he have to go and do that?!!! And I know he'll ( Read more... )

Thursday night I went down to DC for the Rauschenburg art teacher workshop. It was truely amazing. I got to meet art teachers from all over the country, got to tour an amazing school (The Lab School of Washington) that is art based and exclusivly works with students with learning disabilities. I got to meet Chris Rauschenburg (Robert's son), who is ( Read more... )

Today sucked in many, many ways ( Read more... )

What a busy week. My little portrait making business/adventure has gotten rather busy. I'm working on my second commission and have 3 on the back burner! It was crazy because it was 2 weeks ago that I told the staff about it at our staff meeting. I had tons of people asking about portraits, but no one came to me...then this week...chaos! Not that I ( Read more... )

It's been awhile..I had to do it

Ashtons first meal
It was a couple weeks ago :)


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I must say that zillow.com rocks! You can type in an address and get an estimate. You can also see a color areal view of your house. Fun. I couldn't figure out how to save the picture though ( Read more... )