wait, homework?!

I have been editing imagery for work all day and all night. I am finally forcing myself to call it quits for now. Where did my relaxing Monday night go? I feel like this is going to be an extremely busy week based on the events of today...

[[ crappy screenshots. perpetual loading screen. photoshop really didn't like my huge files! ]]

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Oh man, this week was intense! Things at work have been progressively getting busier and busier and I feel like today kind of kicked my ass. But, no mind, it is officially the weekend!!! And I have some fun things planned. Oregon State's Pinkout was tonight, but more on that later. Tomorrow me and Pat are taking a trip to IKEA (danger danger), hopefully we/I don't get too carried away. I love that place.

[[ sunny sky contrast. silly bright bule polish (la girl : disco - deejay) never mind the chipping. owl. ]]

"it's not like we kill people... on purpose..."

I hardly ever get any time just to myself, which is fine, because I do not really like it anyway! Leave me alone for more than a few hours and I start to go insane, I just have no idea what to do with myself. That being said... Tonight while Pat was working and everyone else was out of the house, I decided to take advantage of a free living room and watch one of my favorite movies from high school, 'Jawbreaker' (granted I was not yet in high school when this movie came out).

As far as films go, it is not a great movie. But in terms of movies for teenage girls, it is way up there for its dark dark humor. I was a little young for 'The Heathers' originally, but I hear that this movie is a poor version of that, so I feel like I should probably check it out soon.

[[ jawbreaker screenshots, 1999. ]]

My favorite things about this movie were/are:

1) The clothing: No one dresses like this in high school. They are risque with a retro vibe, and the color palates are great.
2) This theme carries over into their houses/bedrooms/cars/locations...
3) The soundtrack is not too shabby.
4) This movie is super weird and pretty messed up... what more could you want.

midweek inspiration 1

I have been thinking that I need some more regular features on here, and since I collect inspirational imagery on a daily basis, why not start by focusing on an artist or work of art of some kind that I am interested in, or want to talk about each week? And since I could really use a pick me up today, Wednesday it is. (I think I will work on the title a little)...

Today has been a beast if a day, so I wanted to pick something whimsical and imaginative. Thus I am posting about some beautiful oil paintings on wood by Marisol Spoon (who as it turns out is not one person, but a husband and wife team). I love the sort of odd portraits and vibrant colors, like you are in a fairytale of some kind. The following are my favorites.

[[ "stella of the sea". "rose". "evelyn". "a long trip to tea time". ]]

weekend adventures 16

What a glorious and relaxing weekend I had, finally! I stayed in Corvallis with no agenda at all and it was fantastic. I was feeling really overwhelmed towards the end of the week with projects, so it felt great to just kick back and play it by ear. (I do not understand that expression).



friday
After I got off work everything was seriously mellow. Believe me, I was counting down the minutes this time. I went home and worked on compiling some images from that blasted painting to post, made me and Pat some dinner, relaxed, and went to sleep. Thats it, and it was grand.


saturday
After sleeping in, me, Loki, and Pat met up with our friend Rory and his six month old white lab Harlow at a nearby field so that the dogs could play for a bit. It was crisp outside, but extremely sunny. An very welcomed weather condition in my book. It was one of those days where it just felt great to be outside, so we ended up washing both of the cars (the Subaru especially REALLY needed it). Later that night we had some people over, and the guys played many games of beer pong, while I watched. The night ended with me and Adam sitting in the living room watching 'Back to the Future' (a seriously fantastic movie), while everyone around us fell asleep. I heart Marty McFly.

[[ puppy play time! loki and harlow (white lab). she is so damn cute! ]]

sunday
Hayden and Tony played video games. Pat went to work. And I, got in to trouble... I intended to simply go to Michaels to swap a picture frame for a larger size, but I ended up next door at TJ Max buying all kinds of business for the house. Oops. I got some pretty sweet stuff though. Guest bathroom makeover is officially in the works! (evil laugh). ... But, more on that later.

[[ shiny clean sexy car. michael j. fox is a badass. decorations for my bathroom project. candlesticks before... ]]

That's about it. A nice relaxing weekend in Corvallis. I feel much more refreshed going in to this week.

snow leopard

So... I am a little bit behind on my computer updating. In fact, I have been putting this off for quite a long time. Tonight I finally upgraded EVERYTHING. It took me about five hours, partly due to the fact that I had over 2,000 images to upload from my phone. Yuck. I have a little bit more to do, but by tomorrow night all of my programs should be up to date and good to go!

Here are some of my favorite misc. images I found while sorting:

[[ "everything is going to be ok" hot air balloons on 34 on a very important day. birthday bouquet from my love. seaside oregon over the summer. literal kid in a candy store. birthday bouquet version two, this one was a bit more... natural? beautiful crisp fall day in corvallis. apples. megans monster mash monster plush edger?, made by colleen. ]]

Ok, it is seriously bedtime. My brain is fried.

j & t

Sorry I did not post anything thursday or friday, my week got a little out of control busy. I meant to post some pictures of the painting that I did for Tiffany earlier in the week, so here we go now. Unfortunately I have pretty terrible pictures of it from my phone because I could not get to my camera at the time. Sad day. Hopefully you get the idea, and even more hopefully she likes it. I had to include my wrapping job at the bottom because I was pretty pleased with myself. P.S. It felt great to be painting again.

Have a great weekend! Hopefully I can get caught up on sleep/cleaning/relaxing, things I have been seriously neglecting lately.