It might not be in the holiday spirit, but we want to know anyway: What's the best present you received this year?
season five of desperate hosuewives.
Random quotes I love today :)
"There have been lots of ups & downs,
but ultimately, at the end of the day, that’s
what makes you who you are. we all know
how to laugh, we all know how to cry, & we
all know how to love back. we all know
heartbreak, but the world keeps moving,
& we keep moving along with it. &
Everything we experience helps us
realize how beautiful life really is.."
"life is about trusting our feelings and taking chances
losing and finding happiness, appreciating the memories
and learning from the past"
"This isn’t a perfect world…people get hurt.
you smile when you feel like crying.
you act like your okay when your falling apart.
but you gotta let go and move on…
Because there’s nothing else you can do."
Here are some sketches from last week completed whilst watching one son blow straw bubbles in his hot cocoa and the other son dancing to The Cure in his Hulk costume.
Your great mistake is to act the drama
as if you were alone. As if life
were a progressive and cunning crime
with no witness to the tiny hidden
transgressions. To feel abandoned is to deny
the intimacy of your surroundings. Surely,
even you, at times, have felt the grand array;
the swelling presence, and the chorus, crowding
out your solo voice. You must note
the way the soap dish enables you,
or the window latch grants you freedom.
Alertness is the hidden discipline of familiarity.
The stairs are your mentor of things
to come, the doors have always been there
to frighten you and invite you,
and the tiny speaker in the phone
is your dream-ladder to divinity.
Put down the weight of your aloneness and ease into
the conversation. The kettle is singing
even as it pours you a drink, the cooking pots
have left their arrogant aloofness and
seen the good in you at last. All the birds
and creatures of the world are unutterably
themselves. Everything is waiting for you.
What are you hoping to find under the tree this year?
i don't know. i'm not that much for christmas presents.. to me it's more important to spend time with the people i love. but.. as far as presents go, i wouldn't mind season five of desperate on dvd (which my bf has hinted he's getting for me) and money or giftcards to buy whatever i want for.
Whoa, doggies. So much snow here in Flagstaff. 26" last count. That means loads of shoveling and lots of toasty beverages.
I am considering entering the Mail Me Art competition (http://mailmeart.com/going-postal/submit-mail-art/), so I've been dabbling again in (EEK) acrylics. Been a long time since I've tried that medium. What's interesting is that my hand is applying watercolor techniques with acrylics... and I'm digging it. We'll see what happens. It's all school to me - all the foibles and weird experiments are so much fun, and since I can't be in college right now - THIS is my college. Or, maybe this is my built-in excuse for making a lot of tragic painting mistakes, the ones that I can't even stand to look at. Haha.
~C
Here I am. House smells of stir fry and so do my clothes. I'm jonesing for some rice tea. I've had a crazy fixation on hot sauce lately and consumed one two bottles of Tamazula this week all by myself. Not sure why. My little boy was super wild today and I'm not sure why that is either. I'm about to start a sci-fi book called The Child Garden. I hear my little town will be covered in a couple feet of snow tomorrow. Wheeeee! There's a good chance I will be sledding on Tuesday. I wish for more time than I have. I don't hardly ever wish a day will go by fast. Not even the bad ones. Well, maybe the really bad ones.
I've had a lot of characters flitting about upstairs in my mind. Here are just a few.
The one above is for Illustration Friday's topic: Crunchy. Funny, huh?
I just watched The Princess Bride, directed by Rob Reiner, again this week. Saw it when I was a teenager. Still one of the most wonderful films and utterly quotable! IF per chance you've never seen it... then add it to your Netflix cue or whatever. You'll love it. You can even see it with the kiddies.
There was a time In my life when There was no place
I'd rather be, Than with you,I loved you desperately,
On my mind all the time,I gave you every kind
of love I could give,You broke my heart
I thought I'd never live.Every tear that I cried
It made me stronger(made me stronger)
An' I don't want No-one by my side.
I got myself a single life-- it's bringing me joy,
Single life.
I'm living and now I've found I don't need you
Now I'm out on my own Single life feels so right!
I don’t know. I’ll be the bigger person, I just need to be strong
enough. I am strong at other things in life, believe me. My broken
heart will keep on reminding me that sometimes I will miss him and
sometimes I wont, but thinking of him is just a never ending force.
Sincere and honest truth, there is only one person who can fix it- the
one who broke it. But, it's something that he can't/won't ever fix. Not sure if I'd let him try. I'm finding that I can stand on my own, it's shaky and scary and utterly perplexing, but I can do it. Just watch.
Memories and floating and wishing and feeling all sorts of oceanic.
An idea that I'm toying with. It's toying with me, actually.
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