what i'm up to..

it's always few and far between posts for me, but hopefully with summer that will change. 

i am enjoying a few days off work that were supposed to be used to pull off a garage sale but, um, well...that isn't going to happen. we just have way too much on our plates right now and that got put on the back burner. don't worry-it WILL happen, just not this weekend. 

instead, we are trying to get a handle on this mess of a house. i say we, as in, me and dan. cayla is in the process of moving out (sad face), and dan and carly are moving in. the house is out of control, but we ARE making progress. dan and i got the garage cleaned out yesterday, and i've never seen it sparkle so much before! we have to move the furniture out there and we will soon have the 'man'sion/party room well on it's way!

here are my goals today: clean room/bathroom, do all laundry, jog a couple miles, bake cookies, and when dan gets off-unpack and clean/reorganize kitchen, move furniture into garage, reorganize and clean living room. ambitious, huh? yeah... i'll let you know how that goes...

in addition to all of that, i need to: bathe my dogs, mow, put chemicals (ew) in my pool, repot the garden plants we bought today, repot some other plants, and clean my car inside and out, just to name a few things. siiiigh...isn't summer supposed to be relaxing? 

i bought a fresh sweet basil plant today, and i can't wait to make mozzarella, tomato, and basil. yummmy. we also got a grape tomato, roma tomato, and orange and green pepper plant in addition to the cucumbers, chives, and cilantro we've already planted. i can't wait for them to grow so we can eat them! i think dan and i might go to farmers market tomorrow so hopefully they've got some good stuff, although it's still early in the season. 

i am loving the weather right now. we went to the nature center yesterday and walked a couple of miles. it was really nice to get out and enjoy the fresh air. i'm going to try to get out again tonite for a jog with rylee. 

last thought-i'm going to bake some cookies this evening. i want to make double chocolate mint cookies but i'm having trouble finding any vegan recipes for it. i think i could just take a regular vegan chocolate chip cookie recipe and add some cocoa and use some mint chocolates instead of chocolate chips, but maybe i'll keep looking. i'll post what i figure out! :)

all the loooove.

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it's such a lovely day out. i could be getting so much done. what am i doing...that's right, nothing.

just a few things-

3 1/2 weeks until finals. terrifying and wonderful at the same time.

this little pretty is what i want right now. buy it for me.

and my current artist obsession is james jean. check him out-pretty fantastic.

my new favorite show is u.s. of tara. watch it. i devoured 12 episodes in a couple of days, therefore, they need to make another season. now.

there's my random updates fer yah. boring. yeyyy.

i decided to skip class and start spring break early today. i went to my first class because i had critique, but we got out two hours early so i decided to just come home. my plan for the day is to take a nap (it's been months since i've been able to nap!), get a massage, go to the gym, relax some more, and grab a drink at mudlounge tonight. 

it feels great to not have to worry about school for a bit. things are progressing with both of my photo projects so i feel a lot better about that. bfa reviews got pushed back 2 weeks as well so i don't have to stress so much about having enough work to show. 

when i began this blog, i had much more on my mind but it has all escaped me now... i'll come back to it later when i remember what i wanted to say!

friends

i find it funny how some people can completely eliminate a person out of their life and clearly not be affected by it... 

i read in a magazine today that a person needs to have 10 close people in their life to feel content and happy. the longer you've known the people the better as well. i don't know that i have 10 that i would say i spend time with regularly, but i've got a lot more than one. i think i'll work on building up a few more good friendships because i find having good friends important and crucial to any person's well being....  

just a little frustrated by some things today.

on a brighter note, i got a lot done today. i started shooting for my color class project. i got a couple rolls of mannequins done at the flea market so i'm excited to see how they come out. i also got about 6 working prints done for medium which is a huge relief. i need 8-12 by next wednesday and i've got about 6 or 7 more i want to print in the next week and that should be a breeze considering we've got 2 class periods between now and then. i also got an A on my AOA essay test, and an A on my annotated bibliography in contemporary. this semester is going well so far. 

i'm a little anxious about my upcoming BFA review simply because i don't have a lot of work done for this semester, but i think i'll be ok. i think i'm nervous because i don't have any more bars lined up for medium. hopefully i have a few more let me come in. 

i'm considering training for a 5k for the end of April. i did 3.25 miles on the treadmill at the gym today, but i know that running trails is a lot harder than running a treadmill so we'll see where i'm at in a few weeks. 

off to bed so i can get up early and head to KC to go to the Gregory Crewdson lecture at the Nelson with a bunch of the photo kids. 

miss maeberry

new addition to my family: miss maeberry (mae for short), a sweet little rescued boston terrier that i adopted last weekend. she's taking a while to adjust, but she's progressing. she's obviously the one on the left with the big smile on her face. rylee is the horse that thinks she belongs on laps. and then there's my lovely roommate!

my parents and brother came down to meet mae and see rylee yesterday (oh and visit me, their daughter, too). we had a barbeque and played with the dogs. dogs being rylee, mae, and their two-bristol and hurley. ya i had four dogs here last nite. the nite before there were five, though. three of my friends brought their dogs over so needless to say, mae has met the whole extended family now.

its gonna be a busy week. thursday i'm going to the nelson on thursday to see gregory crewdson with a lot of people from the photo department, which should be fun. wednesday i am getting up at 6am to go shoot more for my bar project at dennis' place before they open. after that i'm hitting up the flea market to get some mannequin stuff done for my other project. this weekend is julie's birthday celebration, and sunday i need to write a 5 page paper, study for an exam, and get to work in the darkroom for my 2 critiques next week. i have to have 5-8 prints in color (i've got 4 so far) and 8-12 prints in medium (i have 0 so far...). fuuuuun!

it's been really nice here lately and i wish it would stay that way. things are so much better when it's warm out! i'm sure we'll wake up to rain in the morning which could be okay if it wasn't cold rain...

once again the stress has returned. it's coming up on midterm and i have almost nothing to show for this semester photography-wise. i am doing my bfa review in april and need to have a substantial amount of work to show for that, but we haven't even started our projects in color. i just need to get my butt in gear i guess. 

i am glad this week is over, though. got an 'a' on my contemporary exam and i think i did well on my AOA essay test today. i also got my annotated bib turned in for contemporary and just need to figure out my paper now. agh...it's just neverending sometimes. 

i get so frustrated that i don't ever have time to work on stuff for myself--projects that i want to do. i like the work i do in school but sometimes i just want to spend a few hours working on something thats not going to be graded. or even catch up on some reading. or watch a good movie. i guess that's what summers are for..

gonna go drink some tea and finish a comic.

oscars

i have a 5 reference annotated bibliography due in contemporary art history on tuesday and at this point, i don't really even have a clear idea of what i am writing about/researching. i checked out a ton of books on the beat era and was planning on writing about art of this time, but i can't specify the direction or focus on my research. needless to say...i'll be up for a while tonite and tomorrow. ugh. any suggestions welcome...(distractions also welcome.....)

titled this blog "oscars" only because i'm watching them and writing this instead of doing the damn bib. i don't really have anything to say about them except i am glad slumdog is winning a lot, and i'm really happy that heath ledger won best supporting actor. 

i guess i'll go do some freaking research now.

i finally caved and let people convince me to check out some comics/graphic novels. luke bought me sandman, and i think i'm going to get y: the last man as well... i haven't started any of them yet, but i'm secretly excited. shhh. ;-)

nothing too exciting today. just did a few things on campus, had lunch at kaldi's, had a good workout at the gym, and ran around target, barnes and noble, and walmart (bought nothing) this evening with dan and julie. we drove to rendezvous and they were so busy there were no tables, so we just went back to dan's and watched supersize me. that was a pretty entertaining/disgusting/amusing etc. film. ironically i ate carrots and peanut butter, a clementine, and fresh apple/carrot juice while watching it. 

my house is looking slightly bare and in disarray right now. amanda moved out taking some of our decorations and things with her, so i guess i'll either have to make some things to decorate or take a little trip to the flea market. either sound fun to me. :-)

and lastly, today is my four-year anniversary with luke. he makes me happy and i can't wait to see him wednesday. we're gonna get massages (of course) and then i think we'll go somewhere fun for dinner and see coraline.

he will also finally be bringing rylee home to me. her surgery went well but my mom has been watching her for the past week. it's kind of tough to go without your dog for a while when she's constantly there. don't judge me.  

(i'm kind of bored if you couldn't tell..)

i am procrastinating big time...

i have a test in my AOA art history class tomorrow and i have not studied. at all. i've attempted to about 12 times now, but have gotten distracted by something every time. imagine that.

example: book shopping today at book castle-bought 6 new (used) books consisting of palahniuk, vonnegut, and a couple others. 

i should probably finish "on the road" (kerouac) and "the historian" (kostova) before i start any of them, but i just love opening a new book. 

alright...i should study and drink coffee. here's a parting gift. it's an oceanic wood carving. you just learned something new. you're welcome.

audios!

what's this?

ahh, yes, an update..

i am just sitting here, at home, on my couch, on this lovely, gray, saturday afternoon. i don't know when the last time this sort of thing occurred, but i am certainly enjoying it... i think.. i was supposed to work, but jess needed more hours, so i let her take mine. i should probably work considering the fact that i've been on vacation the last week, but hey, what's one more day when your paycheck is gonna be small anyway? and you can never have too many days off work..unless of course the bills aren't getting paid...then it may be too many...

anyway..

like i mentioned, i just got back from vacation. luke and i went to breckenridge so he could do a little snowboarding. it was a great time. we ate, relaxed, snowboarded, hot tubbed, walked around town, watched tv, and went to bed at 7 everyday...hahaha. no, really though, we did get in bed at like 7 or 8 everyday that we were there. it was lovely. i say i boarded, but really i just fell down the mountain. i've only been on a snowboard once previously and i've never skied so i was definitely an amateur. we went up the lift one time, it took 2 and a half hours for me to get to the bottom, and by the time we did, i was done and exhausted. i did ok after a while i think, but i definitely felt like i had whiplash all over my body from all the falls i took. i'm glad to be home, but i do miss luke. spending that much time with him just reminds me how much i miss him when we're apart.

other than that my break was pretty unproductive but nice. i went home for a couple of days to see my family over christmas. this year's christmas was pretty low key. i never really got in the spirit, so i felt kinda bummed at how anti-climatic the season was. maybe that's just what happens as you get older.. 

oh ya, last semester ended pretty well too. i got an "A" in my photography class as well as my printmaking class, and a "B" in my art history and ceramics classes. i was pretty well expecting the grades i got, although i thought i would get a lower grade in my photo and print classes. i just felt like i could've given more to those two classes, but i was really happy i got the grades that i did. especially in my photo class...i think it's probably pretty difficult to get A's in upper level classes, so i'm really excited i was able to get one in my first upper level photo class. 

my schedule this coming semester isn't too bad. i have two art history classes and two photo classes. i only have one class at 1pm monday, wednesday, and friday, and i don't start class until 11 on tuesday and thursday. i think i'll have a lot more time for myself this semester. i am doing my BFA review to be accepted into the photo program so that will take up some of my time, but i'm thinking it won't be too terribly stressful. 

i guess that's about all... maybe i'll update before 2 months pass again :-)