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Speaking of exploding tech devices, I have still yet to see if a Zune and an iPod will make each other die if you get them too close. Zune's are better...they get radio and that is awesome! Yay for NPR!
Oh, and I feel like I've missed something rather interesting. Being the way I am, all out of the loop and everything, could someone please tell me why there was all this crap about Scientology all over the news. I'm really not as sheltered as that makes me sound it's just that I can only really get back into the swing of things on the weekends because my weeks are EXTREMELY busy.
Anyway...
I am currently working on illustrations for a children's book by my friend Katya and on illustrations for the poem "Father William" by Lewis Carroll.
I got accepted into the art department at Georgia State so now all I have to do is find housemates to live with me and a job. I did get a couple of extra grants and sholarships this time around though which means I should have money to put toward a car and that will be handy.
Other than that not a whole lot is new. Ysabel is passing school with flying colors (whatever that means) and mom still hates her job. Looks like they (my parents and sisters) will almost certainly be moving up near my aunt and uncle come the end of the school year.
I am already working on my vegetable garden for this year, just working the soil at this point. I miss meat a little bit but not as much as I thought I would.
Alright I'm going.
I'm listening to WAMU, an NPR station out of D.C., and there's this awesome show on called interfaith voices. Perhaps the coolest thing about todays show is this...There's a guy named Brad Warner being interviewed on the show today. This dude is a punk rock musician turned zen buddhist.
He wrote a book called Hardcore Zen and it was easily one of the coolest books I've ever read. If you ever get a chance to read it then do, or go find the interfaith voices podcast on NPR.org.
I don think my sister's have seen a decent snow since the oldest was like 6 or something. We had a snowball fight. I lost.
- Location:Snowville, GA
After 6 months of debilitating periods the doctor said there is nothing wrong with my uterus. Just low calcium. I've had this problem before. Now I have shitloads of it in bottles.
The chiropractor said that I am definitely eligible for a breast reduction because the hunch on my back has become more severe even though I am losing weight. I also had a pinched nerve in my neck and that was not fun but she fixed that part.
Need: Health insurance
Calcium (have that now)
Psychologist
A really close friend that I can talk to face to face
Dog Biscuits
Cat Food
Cat Litter
Someone to write letters to (preferably someone who will write back)
Someone who wants a cat and doesn't care if it isn't fixed.
I think that's all.
And what better way to start of the new year than with a poetry competition, eh?
I stumbled across this in the NaNoWriMo LJ community.
It's the Friends of Acadia - Nature Poetry Competition.
By the way...it doesn't get cold here in Georgia but when it does it gets pretty friggin cold. Lows tonight at 22 (feels like 15). Georgia seems to have that go big or go home attitude.
Dad said no solstice celebraions in the house so I'm home celebrating Solstice in my head 'cause it's rainy and icky outside (winter in georgia per usual)... and the rest of the grove is already in full tilt boogie.
Dad and I just recently had a pretty big falling out about why I don't believe in god and somehow got onto the subject of politics (he's good at maneuvering a conversation to make it fit his interests) and why I don't "really" believe in gay marriage.
So here you go--
*sigh*
Ok, I think I'm done now.
Happy Solstice everyone.
- Location:Atlanta...duh!
- Mood:
sick - Music:The Christians and the Pagans - Dar Williams
I like our Christmas traditions though. We (mom and me) spend all day on Christmas eve day baking and then everyone gets new pajamas at 8 o'clock and then the girls go to bed and the adults (I'm included in that this year) stay up and get to play Santa. All of the santa gifts are left unwrapped on the hearth of the fireplace and all of the stockings are filled. Oh, and we hide the pickle ornament somewhere on the tree.
On Christmas morning we usually all get up pretty early but no one is allowed into the living room (where all the presents are) until every person has breakfast and/or coffee in his or her hands. We sit down and eat breakfast and then the two younger girls look for the one pickle ornament hiding in the tree (this is an old German tradition) and whoever finds it first gets a special present.
We always pick one person to pass out gifts and they have to pass them out kind of equally so no one gets a huge clump of presents all at one time.
The rest of the day is spent wither at relatives house(s) or just at home with the immediate family. The funny thing is that because we have so many relatives in so many places our Christmas ends up being 3 or 4 days long. For example, this year we are spending Christmas eve and Christmas morning at home, Christmas afternoon in Kennesaw then driving up to Knoxville to see another part of the family. We'll be there for a day. Then we have friends and family coming from Florida and California to stay from the 30th through the New Year. Okay, sorry I rambled.
<<<Just as a side note, I'm really horrible at keeping secrets so here's what everyone in my house is getting for Christmas this year. What do you want from me? I can't go around telling them can I?
>>Ysabel is getting Zelda: Twilight Princess for Game Cube and an autoharp
>>Molly is getting a Nintendo DS and a couple of games
>>Mom is getting a set of autoharp strings (the most expensive set of strings I've ever run across. $80 baseline)
>>Dad is getting a new phone model
***I am hoping for a new MP3 player. Keep your fingers crossed 'cause I can't get far without my music. Just please, no iPod's (blech)***
- Location:Atlanta...duh!
- Mood:
Dude. Wait...what? - Music:Dead Man's Party - Oingo Boingo
My Gender = Human
and that is all you need to know so stop asking already.
Also, please let my grandpa live through the holidays 'cause that would be nice.
Your frusterated inhabitant,
Leigh in Atlanta
- Location:Atlanta...duh!
- Mood:
frustrated - Music:Amy Ray and The Volunteers.
Here's some more artwork from my portfolio.
The last one is the new logo for my stuff on cafepress. You can see all that wonderful stuff HERE , but the store isn't updated as of yet. I'm going to go do that right after I get done here.
In other news, I ran into one of my friends from middle school in Little 5 Points today and she gave me a hug and now I feel wonderful. Today was a test of my patience and I think I passed. WOO!
My mom got an awesome raw silk, vintage dress, fish net stockings and the coolest high heeled shoes in the world. She looks like a pin-up girl and that is wicked awesome. Even more awesome is that she is going to a party in her new clothes tonight. Yay mom!
Ok I am going to go update my shop now.
- Location:Atlanta...duh!
- Music:Tribe 8
My dad, who has been working in Alabama all week long came home to a wonderful meal and was very pleased.
I've also recently accquired the Tassajara Bread Book, Tassajara Cooking and The Tassajara Recipe Book and so have been making all sorts of wonderful things but most especially bread.
Also lots of cookies with confectioners icing. Yay for the Holidays and cold weather that makes me feel like cooking.
I plan on doing a nice sunday meal but I'm not sure what yet.
Sigh. I feel great, a little crampy and a little grumpy but that happens every month, but... *shrug* Life is good, right?
I'm posting the recipes for the chuck roast (courtesy of Alton Brown) and the peppermint pie (courtesy of Paula Deen) below because DAMN they are just so friggin' wonderful.
Y'all have fun with that now!
- Location:Atlanta...duh!
- Mood:
chipper - Music:Fall Out Boy - Grand Theft Autumn
We left to go deposit some checks at a BOA teller and the machine at my grandmas card, which is how we have been paying for all of her meds. Needless to say mom had a hissy fit but we think we might be able to trnasfer her funds to my account until we can get a new card.
We had to go to Michaels so that I can get the stuff to make all of my Christmas presents for this year. One sixty dollar paycheck gone, well mostly. While there we ran into Ms. O'Connor (middle school teacher), Ben's mom, and Kit's brother, who says that Kit is doing fine and should be up and walking in a week or so.
Did I mention that Kit had both of zis wisdom teeth out and then found out that he was sick with what zi hought was a stomach bug but turned out to be Salmonella. Fun stuff.
So now I am knitting like crazy and trying to find a way to help mom out with this whole deal with grandma's bank card and oh, Ysabel is doing extremely well in school with the highest grade in math and literature out of the fifty-some-odd-person K12 family group that we're in. She also loves history, she studying the Catholic Reformation and Counter-Reformation and seems to be loving every minute of it.
Me? Wel, if things work out I might be able to start online classes through Georgia Perimeter College this coming semester so that I can still coach Ysabel through her lessons. If I am able to take classes come next semester I will be taking:
FILM 1010 - Introduction to Film
ANTH 1101 - Introduction to Anthropology
MATH 1111 - College Algebra ( I know, I know. I should have done that by now.)
ENGL 2121- British Literature
and
ART 1010 - Introduction to Drawing
Yay!!!
Sent in all of my paper work for the HOPE Scholarship today, should hear back from them within a couple of weeks and should be able to get in in on late registration if everything runs smoothly.
- Location:Atlanta...duh!
- Mood:
confused - Music:Amy Ray and The Volunteers.
Remember the people you love. There are many that I miss, past and present tense alike and to all fo you who could not be here for whatever reason, I hope that you and yours are well.
Edie and Donald,
my cousins Kyle and Ryan
Ryan's wife Jo,
Helen and Jeanie
Grandma Dot,
Grandma Ann,
Phil and Laura,
and Ben and Chae
Plus me, mom, dad, Ysabel and Molly
The house was crowded, the food was fantastic and good times were had by all.
Many thanks for:
-COMMUNICATION
-brand new 4-day-old babies in the family
-wonderful friends
-a wonderful, accepting family
-yeast infections (don't ask)
-a lover who survived another of zis family holiday get togethers
-a level head
-dreams (no matter how painful)
-being old enough to drink
-good, live music and bands who cover Frank Zappa tunes
-games
-huge turkeys
-crockpots
-pencils, colored and otherwise, with no wood on them
-sketchbooks
-cameras
-dogsitting for friends
--the list goes on but I have turkey in my system and am going to go pass out soon--
- Location:Atlanta...duh!
- Mood: content
- Music:Indigo Girls
It is currently 2:05 p.m. and I still have to teach 3 more hours of Math to get Ysabel all caught up.
Dad is probably not coming home from Birmingham tonight and mom and Molly are going to have to be home late from work/school tonight.
My friends Ben and Chae wanted to take me out tonight but, I have the Stomach Flu, typical fall-time congesttion and shit-loads of work to do tonight and through the rest of the weekend.
I am supposed to be house sitting for Wolf this coming week but have not heard back from her as of yet.
No alcohol (I'm too sick to go out) and no cigarettes (fall-time congestion).
Kit is leaving tomorrow for a week with zis family. (Wish zir luck, zi'll need it.)
And I have lost all 15,000 words of my story because I was a fucktard and forgot to back it up on my USB drive.
P.S.
Dear universe and other random conspiring events,
I appreciate you trying to keep me from getting drunk because I know it isn't good for me. I do, however, feel like I deserve a good meal and at least one beer in a public place on my 21st birthday. Please be nicer to me over the next week or five. I will need fortitude that sickness does not allow.
- Location:Atlanta...duh!
- Mood: Fuck.
NaNoWriMo is teh coolest thing in da history of evarz!
Seriously , this is easily the coolest thing I have ever done. Between homeschooling my younger sister Ysabel and filling my tattoo portfolio with fabulous things I have written about 1/5 of a novel. I feel incredibly accomplished.
Fall is such a creative time.
- Location:Atlanta...duh!
- Mood:
ACCOMPLISHED! - Music:Vintage jazz on NPR is the next coolest thing ever!
