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XOXO! Hope the sun is shining down on you wherever you are!
♥-L
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
Today Is An Etsy Day ♥
XOXO! Hope the sun is shining down on you wherever you are!
♥-L
Wednesday, April 20, 2011
Birthday Girl Dreams
My Birthday List Of AWESOMENESS
UPDATE! This is the current state of my Birthday List Of Chores!
Check it out! Okay, I am feeling much better. I figured out some plans for my birthday with my family and my friends and had a pretty great night all things considered (read: all good things). When I started to get down to business on this list with KC tonight, I realized the insane amount of apprehension I was feeling while I was picking out the records to put on the stereo. What brought it to my attention was the sudden rational thought that I LOVE RECORDS! And I love MY records, and so why am I feeling so tense?! And in the handful that I picked was "Joe Cocker!" the self-titled LP, which includes one of my FAVORITE happy time lovie songs of all time, "Darling Be Home Soon." I could write a whole post on Joe himself and how much I love the way he and his band orchestrate their music, and how powerfully they transform the songs that they cover. But Again, I digress... I'm listening to that song right now and I feel like each swanky swish of the shakers and the hammering of the piano are breaking my anxiety up into little pieces and shaking them out. It turns out I AM SO GLAD TO SHOOT THE MOON! So if you paid close attention to my last post, thanks for listening, it was a great relief to have you to talk to. (I just can't stop)
So as promised I knew that I needed a little medicine to re-focus my energy to the positive. Here is my BIRTHDAY LIST OF AWESOMENESS!
These are the things I want to do for myself. Some of them are super fun and some of them are going to be really challenging. I decided this year as my resolution, that I would seek out the happiness in where I am right now... but what I realized tonight while "Bird On A Wire" (from the same aforementioned album) was playing... is that the hardest habit to kick is to stop focusing on the miscellany tasks that are waiting for me in the immediate future... or the perceived errors that I've made in the recent past. My brain is a freaking hamster wheel about that shit! And I've been really successful for the last couple months when stuff like that comes up. I can identify that whatever worry pops up isn't related to what I've got going on now and so I put it right back down. Unfortunately I realize there are some things that I do have to address before-hand. I had a great talk with Mom tonight about all that. For instance, vegetables that you want to eat! You do have to cut them up before you get to the eating them part... simple enough, right?
I'm really grateful to be where I am in life, and keeping myself grounded is proving to be a hard task, but I don't feel alone either. I think that most of the people that I know or come across online share themselves in this same kind of hard and honest way, and I realize we are all doing this kind of stuff together, alone, but really... together.
I will say, that as it's almost 20 after midnight, it's not likely that I'll go to my 5:50 Jazzercise class... but I feel gooood. And I'm looking forward to making YET ANOTHER LIST of squee-worthy things this birthday girl would be so delighted to get.
XOXO! I feel reset... I'm gonna spend some time putting some extra-sexy-happiness out there so that there may be a cushion for a cosmic-neighbor to plop on if they need it. Thanks again.
♥-Lisa
Check it out! Okay, I am feeling much better. I figured out some plans for my birthday with my family and my friends and had a pretty great night all things considered (read: all good things). When I started to get down to business on this list with KC tonight, I realized the insane amount of apprehension I was feeling while I was picking out the records to put on the stereo. What brought it to my attention was the sudden rational thought that I LOVE RECORDS! And I love MY records, and so why am I feeling so tense?! And in the handful that I picked was "Joe Cocker!" the self-titled LP, which includes one of my FAVORITE happy time lovie songs of all time, "Darling Be Home Soon." I could write a whole post on Joe himself and how much I love the way he and his band orchestrate their music, and how powerfully they transform the songs that they cover. But Again, I digress... I'm listening to that song right now and I feel like each swanky swish of the shakers and the hammering of the piano are breaking my anxiety up into little pieces and shaking them out. It turns out I AM SO GLAD TO SHOOT THE MOON! So if you paid close attention to my last post, thanks for listening, it was a great relief to have you to talk to. (I just can't stop)
So as promised I knew that I needed a little medicine to re-focus my energy to the positive. Here is my BIRTHDAY LIST OF AWESOMENESS!
These are the things I want to do for myself. Some of them are super fun and some of them are going to be really challenging. I decided this year as my resolution, that I would seek out the happiness in where I am right now... but what I realized tonight while "Bird On A Wire" (from the same aforementioned album) was playing... is that the hardest habit to kick is to stop focusing on the miscellany tasks that are waiting for me in the immediate future... or the perceived errors that I've made in the recent past. My brain is a freaking hamster wheel about that shit! And I've been really successful for the last couple months when stuff like that comes up. I can identify that whatever worry pops up isn't related to what I've got going on now and so I put it right back down. Unfortunately I realize there are some things that I do have to address before-hand. I had a great talk with Mom tonight about all that. For instance, vegetables that you want to eat! You do have to cut them up before you get to the eating them part... simple enough, right?
I'm really grateful to be where I am in life, and keeping myself grounded is proving to be a hard task, but I don't feel alone either. I think that most of the people that I know or come across online share themselves in this same kind of hard and honest way, and I realize we are all doing this kind of stuff together, alone, but really... together.
I will say, that as it's almost 20 after midnight, it's not likely that I'll go to my 5:50 Jazzercise class... but I feel gooood. And I'm looking forward to making YET ANOTHER LIST of squee-worthy things this birthday girl would be so delighted to get.
XOXO! I feel reset... I'm gonna spend some time putting some extra-sexy-happiness out there so that there may be a cushion for a cosmic-neighbor to plop on if they need it. Thanks again.
♥-Lisa
Tuesday, April 19, 2011
It's My Birthday List Of CHORES!
Fun right?! My 29th birthday is this Thursday... and can you believe Gogol Bordello cancelled on me?! They were coming to the university to play but alas, will do so no more.
I have been mentally overloaded with this gray fog of chores that I've been ignoring, things like cleaning the kitchen and prepping the veggies for miscellaneous quick meals. Which also means that I've been spending a lot of money on prepared food... and that my body is REALLY MAD AT ME (and so is my bank account)! At this point I think I could put brussel sprouts exclusively into it for a solid week and it would be happier than it is now. I might even (by averaging) make some of that money back. Brussel sprouts can't be THAT expensive? Right?
But I digress. It turns out I can't seem to plan a single thing that sticks this year, it's NOT JUST Gogol Bordello. And I'm having some feelings about that too. I don't usually put too much stake in age, and I've been saying that I feel 45 for about a year... but to really start the last year of my twenties... I'm kind of not stoked about it. I think I'll be happier to be 30! It's like that number is just hanging above my head... "29" whispering things like "get it while it lasts!... remember how FUN your early 20's were? Well NO MORE OF THAT! Remember how soft and elastic your skin was and still is for now? THAT'S GONNA GO TOO! And those dark spidery veins on your ankle are HERE TO STAY SISTER! GOOD LUCK because here begins the LONG DESCENT INTO THE GRAAAAAAVVVVVE!"
I exaggerate because really I'm feeling pretty good about being in my thirties, I've got no qualm with them and most of the people that I know in their thirties are pretty f-ing HOT and I'm really not worried about that at all... it's just this 29! Teasing me! Telling me it's over! Blarg.
Alright. I see that I'm shame spiraling here so I'm going to make my next post one about ALL THE HAPPY THINGS that I have to look forward to in this next glorious year... AND a pretty things fantasy birthday wish list. One thing I'm ESPECIALLY excited about that I spied thanks to Deer Donna! I was catching up on some of her older blog posts today and found the CUTEST THING EVERRRRR!!
XOXO
Thanks for letting me vent ya'll.
♥-Lisa
Saturday, April 16, 2011
PRESENTS!
Whoa!! So cute! I received my package from My Girl Thursday in the mail! I posted about my win in a Scissor Quirk giveaway here. I am in love. I'm not sure exactly what I'll do with these beauties... but they are so fresh. They make me reconsider decorating... doing a major purge to make room for more things like this.
ALSO! I may have mentioned my urge to crochet here... inspired by the very same lovely Michele at Scissor Quirk. My recently re-located crafter-lover-feminist-historian-dynamo friend Marissa taught me how to make THESE!!!
Hyperbolic crochet washcloths! I am participating in a craft swap set up by Kelsey at Artichoke Designs and I'm going to surprise my partner with them! If you haven't already checked out the connection between crochet and hyperbolic space here is a FANTASTIC explanation of just how NEAT this is! Money opening quote: "It's roots go into the fields of mathematics, marine biology, feminine handicraft, and environmental activism- it's true." Thank you Margaret Wertheim ♥
I love it when craft and science make babies! Tell me about your favorite couplings of craft and science!
XOXO-Lisa
I love it when craft and science make babies! Tell me about your favorite couplings of craft and science!
XOXO-Lisa
Thursday, April 14, 2011
Doin' It Our Way!
I am inspired to make some loopy cursive L's for all of my shirts! I just signed up for the Red Velvet Dream Job E-Course! And I am amping myself up by constantly humming the theme to Laverne and Shirley in my head. Elsie and Emma are a sisterhood! But screw the bottle factory... these women MAKE THEIR OWN BUSINESS! Elsie recently posted on being a workaholic and still having a life which was a super refreshing and inspiring look at the glass from the point of view of where I want to be. Then a blog I recently started following called The Veda House posted an amazing response to Elsie from a point of view nearer my own... so while I am practicing patience and diligence and trying to pump myself up... I am also having to soothe my frustration and "unsuccessful" feelings. I'm hoping that through the "course" of this experiment I can help shape my future to something more pliable and Lisa-like... but while I pay the bills, I have to keep the faith. I believe it wholeheartedly a plan of babysteps... and I will just keep babystepping and someday I find out that I've babystepped all the way to my destination of self-employment, craft-love, and dog-having happiness. ♥ Also, it helps that I have a partner and friends that are SUPER supportive. I am not powerless. But I am in a rock and a hard place in my mind.
Weigh in on this with me please: How do you juggle having the money to do things, but not having the time? And if you shift that balance in the opposite direction, how do you compensate? ALSO... is babystepping a bad idea? When do you just f-ing BABYSPRINT?!
All my love!
-L
PS For kicks!
PS For kicks!
Sunday, April 3, 2011
Tattoosday Confession!
Hello Dear Readers!
I was thinking this morning about the interview I did with Dumpling over at Ain't Nothin' for her Tattoosday featurette, which may post this coming Tuesday! Huzzah! And something new occurred to me that I wanted to share.
BUT also... I was fighting the fraidy-tiger inside of me that was apprehensive about all of the amazing things that came gushing out of me when we sat down to talk. As Dumpling is a near and dear friend to me I sure admitted a lot of things that are true. And SOME things that I, most of the time, like to gloss over to protect other people in my life from hearing things that aren't going to smell like beautiful bouquets of lavender and sweet peas to their particular noses. (And Mom I know you're reading this... but take comfort that you are not the only person in my life I'm thinking of as I write this! You have company! And I love you!!)
However I do find that as I get older I have the urge to be genuinely honest with myself, and about myself. But this, I have a hard time with. I just want SOOO much for EVERYONE ELSE AROUND ME TO BE HAPPY!!! And I can handle ANY DISAPPOINTMENT that comes from that compromise, right?! "Wrongo goatface!" says my 7th grade teacher Mrs. Boyer very clearly in my mind... and then she also says, "PRRRROOOOOOOOOOOOJECTION!" which means I now must speak louder! Or she's going to take me out of the field trip and make me sit in her car and listen to Willie Nelson... (which never did sound like a terrible alternative... it always sounded like a good idea to get out of a bad field-trip, a just-in-case scenario if we happened to go to the cardboard box factory, or the like).
Anyways, that all wasn't my revelation, that was my tiger-taming. My revelation was this: it turns out I don't get tattoos just because I like them, and I like art and color, expressing my individuality and having art on my skin... and it turns out that I also don't get them because I'm 100% comfortable in that skin... The reason I get tattoos is because I'm trying to work out who I am. There are soooo many things that you can be in this life and with options like that it's dizzying to put it all together. It reminds me of when I started learning how to play D&D I was mesmerized by the tiny pretty sparkly shiny dice! I loved rolling them and the causality of your fate. But my FAVORITE THING was the Zocchihedron... a 100 sided die. FYI: a Zocchihedron is a trademarked invention of Lou Zocchi of GameScience dice... outside of the realm of dice, a 100 sided polygon would be a hectagon or a centagon and a one MILLION sided polygon is called a MEGAGON!!! So cool! But I digress... I started to think of this as my new totem. Bright and crystalline, clear as glass letting the light shine through and bounce off every corner. I thought it expressed the way I feel about myself as a multifaceted person with different interests and people inside of me, sometimes the sweet little sparrow, sometimes the purposeful buffalo, sometimes the dancing elephant, and sometimes the fraidy-tiger. I've been thinking about all the little beasties inside of me and have been wanting to art them out. The background image of my blog is all that I've done so far... we'll see how it goes.
So it turns out that THIS is why I get tattoos. My belief is that there's no greater charge in life than to know yourself to the bone and to also know your full potential. Whenever I come to grips with knowing a part of myself, I want to commit that knowledge to permanent memory. The exciting and awesome thing about tattoos for me, is that I get to do that AND totally cut my imagination and creativity loose! And the commemoration of learning myself equals a piece of art and the comfort of ritual, because really (read: historically) I think that's the basis of tattoos in all cultures. Ritual. I celebrate myself with my tattoos.
Which begs Walt's reference:
"I celebrate myself,
And what I assume you shall assume,
For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you"
-A Song of Myself, Walt Whitman
All my love and honesty... I hope we can all be cool about whatever craziness comes out of my mouth! The interview hasn't posted yet, but these are my thoughts about it... beforehand I just wanted to get out. And to all the people who don't already know me like my friends and family... WELCOME! You're getting it all fresh from the start. HUZZAH!
♥ Lisa
I was thinking this morning about the interview I did with Dumpling over at Ain't Nothin' for her Tattoosday featurette, which may post this coming Tuesday! Huzzah! And something new occurred to me that I wanted to share.
BUT also... I was fighting the fraidy-tiger inside of me that was apprehensive about all of the amazing things that came gushing out of me when we sat down to talk. As Dumpling is a near and dear friend to me I sure admitted a lot of things that are true. And SOME things that I, most of the time, like to gloss over to protect other people in my life from hearing things that aren't going to smell like beautiful bouquets of lavender and sweet peas to their particular noses. (And Mom I know you're reading this... but take comfort that you are not the only person in my life I'm thinking of as I write this! You have company! And I love you!!)
However I do find that as I get older I have the urge to be genuinely honest with myself, and about myself. But this, I have a hard time with. I just want SOOO much for EVERYONE ELSE AROUND ME TO BE HAPPY!!! And I can handle ANY DISAPPOINTMENT that comes from that compromise, right?! "Wrongo goatface!" says my 7th grade teacher Mrs. Boyer very clearly in my mind... and then she also says, "PRRRROOOOOOOOOOOOJECTION!" which means I now must speak louder! Or she's going to take me out of the field trip and make me sit in her car and listen to Willie Nelson... (which never did sound like a terrible alternative... it always sounded like a good idea to get out of a bad field-trip, a just-in-case scenario if we happened to go to the cardboard box factory, or the like).
Anyways, that all wasn't my revelation, that was my tiger-taming. My revelation was this: it turns out I don't get tattoos just because I like them, and I like art and color, expressing my individuality and having art on my skin... and it turns out that I also don't get them because I'm 100% comfortable in that skin... The reason I get tattoos is because I'm trying to work out who I am. There are soooo many things that you can be in this life and with options like that it's dizzying to put it all together. It reminds me of when I started learning how to play D&D I was mesmerized by the tiny pretty sparkly shiny dice! I loved rolling them and the causality of your fate. But my FAVORITE THING was the Zocchihedron... a 100 sided die. FYI: a Zocchihedron is a trademarked invention of Lou Zocchi of GameScience dice... outside of the realm of dice, a 100 sided polygon would be a hectagon or a centagon and a one MILLION sided polygon is called a MEGAGON!!! So cool! But I digress... I started to think of this as my new totem. Bright and crystalline, clear as glass letting the light shine through and bounce off every corner. I thought it expressed the way I feel about myself as a multifaceted person with different interests and people inside of me, sometimes the sweet little sparrow, sometimes the purposeful buffalo, sometimes the dancing elephant, and sometimes the fraidy-tiger. I've been thinking about all the little beasties inside of me and have been wanting to art them out. The background image of my blog is all that I've done so far... we'll see how it goes.
So it turns out that THIS is why I get tattoos. My belief is that there's no greater charge in life than to know yourself to the bone and to also know your full potential. Whenever I come to grips with knowing a part of myself, I want to commit that knowledge to permanent memory. The exciting and awesome thing about tattoos for me, is that I get to do that AND totally cut my imagination and creativity loose! And the commemoration of learning myself equals a piece of art and the comfort of ritual, because really (read: historically) I think that's the basis of tattoos in all cultures. Ritual. I celebrate myself with my tattoos.
Which begs Walt's reference:
"I celebrate myself,
And what I assume you shall assume,
For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you"
-A Song of Myself, Walt Whitman
All my love and honesty... I hope we can all be cool about whatever craziness comes out of my mouth! The interview hasn't posted yet, but these are my thoughts about it... beforehand I just wanted to get out. And to all the people who don't already know me like my friends and family... WELCOME! You're getting it all fresh from the start. HUZZAH!
♥ Lisa
Friday, April 1, 2011
Crochet ♥
I am SUPER in love with these pictures and crafts! Normally I prefer knitting to crocheting, but it looks like now is the time for me to groom those skills! How can you knot (hahaha) when things like this exist in the world!?!?!
As I was typing up all of this KC sent me this AMAZING LINK!!! I DO love me some BUMP'n'JUMP! In fact, often times I find myself unwittingly humming the soundtrack from level 1! I'm thinking maybe I'll have some Tetris inspiration, or maybe T&C Wood and Water Rage, or perhaps even TMNT?
I want to know, what's your favorite NES inspiration?!
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Scissor Quirk's precious bowl-o-circles! Source ♥ |
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And her *hearts* and cute scalloped triangles! I can't wait to see the finished product! Source ♥ |
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| Strumpet's Crumpet's AMAZING 1Up! Source ♥ |
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| Etsy crafter anenemyairship made this amazing rug featured on CMYBacon! AMAZING! |
I want to know, what's your favorite NES inspiration?!
♥-L
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