so much

good.ness.

it has been a busy week... or well 10 days since i've posted. alot has happened since then. i feel like i've been pingponging back and forth across massachusetts like crazy.

recently i've been in a bit of a funk. my best friend has left for army boot camp. she left on wednesday.. and just knowing that she isn't available to chat or to drop in on is getting me down. i'm thrilled to death and excited as hell that nichele, rain, crystal and amber are going to be by my side, but i will definitely feel her absence that day.

the real kicker.. she finishes boot camp THE TUESDAY AFTER I GET MARRIED. so upsetting.

i miss her, and i know she is doing a great thing. it's all very difficult to process.

in honor of her leaving, i spent most of last weekend with her. i had lunch with some of the skillsUSA folks and then later saturday night, i met her mom who was arriving at logan and her brother who was picking her up. i went back to springfield with them and spent the day bbqing and relaxing by their pool with her, nelson, nelson brother joel, and k-sans family. it was an excellent afternoon. i will post some pictures of that later on when i upload a camerafull to my computer.

i also managed to fit a trek out to framingham in to see jennifer weiner read.. i'd only read one of her books before, but i loved her style.. her reading was really fantastic too.

the monday after that, i picked up the invitations from the printer. i've had great reviews of them, and i think they came out beautifully. like many other details of this wedding, i am completely in love. in the past 10 or so days, i've sent out the invitations and received the cake cutters, the girls gifts, the favor boxes, stickers, and ribbon in the mail. i'm really excited about the favors... they will fit the camp atmosphere perfectly.

i've booked the dj AND have an appointment to visit the caterer next week. it looks as if we will be having more southern traditional food than northern.. i just pray that steve doens't turn into the bbq snob i know he can be. anything bbq that is not to his specifications is dubbed "yankee bbq" and that is usually that.

tuesday,i sent out the invitations!!! after the post office, rain and i ventured down to mashpee to visit suzi at her cape house.. the weather was total crap, but we had such a wonderful time. we went to the beach and i am absolutely envious of the warm water the cape has. while nahant beach is gorgous.. it's freezing!

after tuesday, everything slowed down. it was nice to sit still and relax. i spent alot of time with steve which was really nice. most of the time we are zipping in different directions him playing games and me off to do artsy things.

the rest of the week was spent working on the house and trying to get all orgnaized. so far, there is still quite a bit to do.

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i started this blog at work.. and am now finishing it at 2:30 in the AM. i am set to drive to camp tomorrow morning.

tonight i had a wonderful time. nicole met me at work and we went out to dinner. the day itself was extremely taxing thanks to denise and her snide stupidity. when nicole showed up at 8pm it was a godsent. we went to the middle east for dinner and played a very enjoyable game of "there's your boyfriend". the wide array of people in central square make this game amazingly hilarious. after dinner, we headed around the corner to tt the bears place to see bleu. he lives in LA now and is hardly around.. which is very depressing, musically at least. of course he didn't dissapoint. nicole had never seen him play before and once he started she totally fell in love (and for all of you who haven't downloaded his CD yet.. get moving!). he gets the crowd involved and by the end of his set you end up so charged up.. it's a bit magical. i also picked up the physical copy of his cd.. it's really amazing.

shameless plug: GO BUY BLEU'S CD!!!

one of the songs bleu played will definitely be played at the wedding.. the lyrics are so similar to steve and i's relationship and meeting it's almost eerie. these are the lyrics:

"boy meets girl"

i've got a tune for the bride and the groom and how they got to here
it starts out with a boy and a girl who met in senior year
she hung in with the outside crowd while he disapeared
but the square and the rebel fit together like the trebel and the bass in their ears
it's like twisted sister meets mr. mister
it's like a rolling thunder meets a careless whisper
it's like jesus jones and the rolling stones and a game of twister
it's like boy meets girl.

he went to boston and got a little lost in a frozen stare
she looked at him with an LA smile and wondered if he cared
he said, someday when the polaroids fade and we cut our hair
we'll look back and laugh because the queen and the jack made a perfect pair
it's like twisted sister meets mr. mister
it's like a rolling thunder meets a careless whisper
it's like jesus jones and the rolling stones and a game of twister
it's like boy meets girl.

its very late. i should have just finished this at the end of the weekend once i come home from camp.. but that wouldn't really work out because then i would be even farther behind on the blogging.

i am headed to camp this morning for camp bonnie braes 90th anniversary. it's the oldest camp in the USA. *swoon*


yes.. i am running away to camp... be back monday.

7 days later..

it seems like my goal of updating every day has fallen through the cracks. it sucks yes... but the good news in all of this is that i am getting a heck of alot of stuff done. my goal for today is to finish the invites COMPLETELY and send them to the printer.... not to mention changing the RSVP dates... *sigh*

my house project is coming along swimmingly.. my only problem is trying to get steve on board. he's very scattered, although he will claim that i am the messy one. i call BS. i'm no angel in the clutter department, but what happens when you put two serial clutterbugs in a house and then leave them alone for, oh, say 3+ years is that you have a great big mess on your hands. what made it even worse, is that diane, affectionately referred to as "bitch", left so much stuff behind in the house that i STILL to this day haven't been able to get rid of it all. yes. still. it's very aggravating.

i am hoping to have a yard sale sometime in the next couple of weeks. getting organized to those proportions may not be doable, but i'm going to give it a shot.

i like to think that a large part of my motivation comes from the music i've been listening to. i recently found my lily allen album hidden away on my computer. it's one of the things i simply forgot to reload after the great itunes crash. today i also downloaded bleu's new album "a watched pot". yes, it's a shameless plug, but his music is friggin amazing and it's been SO long since he's put out an album.. go buy it. you'll love it.

cirrus continues to grow quickly. she (and she is a she i recently discovered) has started to get bold like her mama. when cumulus comes to the edge to do her leap into my arms, cirrus now follows. she hasn't made the leap yet, but i think she is getting close. she also recently started eating solids. she loves the yogurt dandelion drops just like her mom. she sometimes nibbles on the craisins, but definitely prefers the yogurt. she's so cute and wonderful to cuddle.

well.. more updates later.. but in the meantime.. go download bleu. you'll love it.

In the name of art

Recently I've been on a kick with drawing with colored pencils. It's
something I'm not terribly fond of but am taking on to make myself
draw. I'm currently sitting at the diesel cafe drawing my plate, sans
brownie :) It's glass and metal which means it is incredibly hard to
draw.

I've been drawing now for about an hour... My view is not as starkly
contrasted as the photo of the plate would lead you to believe. Not
even close to being finished.

cirrus sprouts!

little cirrus is growing like a weed. she (at least thats what i'm going to assume for now) has nearly tripled in size and has seemingly boundless energy. i've also noticed that she is the most vocal kit i've ever seen. she is constantly calling to cumulus and imitating sylvesters calls. it's really pretty amazing.
the one picture that isn't fuzzy. it's impossible to get her to sit still!


catching all 3 in one shot.. pure luck. cumulus in the foreground, sylvester in the back, and cirrus to the right.

life in general otherwise has been very quiet, but very busy all at the same time. i've been a bit overwhelmed by all of the wedding stuff there still is to do, and trying to get our house squared away.. it's a bit dizzying.

again.. more updates coming soon.

monsoon season

apparently, it is monsoon season in new england. i swear, the humidity is ridiculous. if it was warm like it's supposed to be here in MA and we had the rain we're having now... most people would probably be nested snuggly in front of their AC's not to be seen until it had cleared... maybe that's just me. the humidity is so nuts up here that the ancient unfinished floors in my apartment look like they are wet.. showing decades of spills and messes that you can't see when it's dry. sort of like when you assume you've gotten a stain out of a white shirt... then you go under a blacklight and there it is! besides that, all of my paperback books that aren't sandwiched on shelves are starting to curl their covers and when i paint.. nothing ever really fully dries.

i'm really pretty much over it. i'm ready to go to the beach and to go kayaking... painting on boston common and roaming around downtown. this is my plea rain... please go away.

other than hiding out from the rain.. i've continued to re-organize the house.. something i've been doing now for about 3 weeks. yesterday i pretty much turned our bedroom upside down and pulled out every piece of clothing we owned. if it didn't fit, into a donation bag it went. if it did, it was properly organized into its proper drawer space.. turns out.. we still don't have enough room for all our clothes!

see how exciting life has been?

my next project is books... then my art cabinet.. (the studio is finished), then more kitchen.. then.. i might be done. then it would be about maintaining my messy ways. (steve too).

in other interesting news.. i may have a job to show up at soon... a friend asked me if i would be interested in being a department supervisor, and honestly.. i could stand to have a regular schedule. the cool thing is that it's an artsy place so i would still be able to freelance.. i'd just be out of the house more often. might be nice.

in other fantastic news.. i get to see one of my favorite belgians soon. i recently got chat beeped by lech, one of the foreigners to stay at my apartment in cambridge for the last TSD shows.. it was lech, and also jeroen and stefanie that stayed.. i recently also reconnected with jeroen on FB.. its so ridiculously wonderful to hear from them. i absolutely cannot wait to see lech and introduce him to stephen. (i'll make sure to say hi for you aunt trudy!!)

well... enough excitement for now... back to work!