11 posts tagged “happy fun time”
If you're a fan of Reno911 or Kids In The Hall or just good sketch comedy, MARK YOUR CALENDARS: July 14, 2009! Just in time to work up a good hangover for the sixth Harry Potter movie coming out the next day. ;)
I used to watch this show growing up with two of my BFFs. We spent many a day rehashing the amusement, so this is exciting. :)
Full post with info over here: http://adviceandfables.wordpress.com/2009/04/23/the-state-on-dvd/
Some folks have asked, and I wanted to clarify. For anybody that was keeping score: May 28, 2008 will be our seven-year anniversary. We’ve been sort of off and on for a decade now, so anybody that says we haven’t put in our time is crazy. Official engagement date: March 18th, 2008. Aw snap! So yeah, we leveled IRL. It was a pretty casual mutual decision of sorts, but I am proud to say that I’ve learned to laugh and cry at the same time. :))
I’m happy, Jason’s happy, Brak’s happy. No date set yet or anything like that, our main goal right now is to purchase a home, which will take anywhere from 12 to 36 months. [Sweet Hebus let's hope for sooner rather than later.] Then after that we can start planning for some sort of celebratory function. Beach life is fun for a little bit, but five years will definitely wear on your patience - especially when you live in Spring Break Central. Ugh, give me a gated community on the hills of LJ anyday. It’s just right there, COME ON.
In the meantime: let the mimosa-drinkin’ begin! :)
Uh, we updated our status. Statii. Because it's not fo' realz until you update your MySpace/Facebook/Friendster/Twitter/Flickr/Amazon, right?
http://www.myspace.com/pantherqu33n
http://www.myspace.com/theoriginalstupidpunk
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8" x 8". acrylic. adorable as well as evil.
[i don't do well when photographing paintings.]
[discovery: inexpensive canvases don't yield the best results.]
Yesterday was so good. Today will be the same on a smaller scale. I'm pleased because my depression seems to be lifting which means my creative & manic phases are picking up speed. A recap of events in the past 24 hours:
Met up early with Daisy at HH for excellent food (and I just remembered I can reheat the leftover banana-brownsugar-flapjack for breakfast now, high five). Got done and wandered over to Jamba Juice while searching for a nonexistent pawn shop. It reminded me I should go there more often instead of Starbucks [which also reminds me of a new piece I'm working on]. We are in mutual agreement of how nice things are when A) we get up early and go adventuring and B) you aren't distracted by nine million people and can pay attention to the shops. I didn't realize how many little cafes and boutiques there are between downtown and South Park... we didn't get on the freeway at all. Nice!
Blick wasn't open so we went back to her place to kill an hour and I looked through the book of Camille Rose Garcia's work that Daisy had just snagged in LA. It was pretty and I wanted to eat it, but I settled on just encasing it with my soul for a little while. Camille's MySpace is also edible. Daisy's cat Cocoa is beautiful, by the way, but a megademon.
Blick was open by then so we checked that place out for an hour or so. They should just change the store's name to WANT. Bought a new sketchpad, some uber-cheap 8"x8" canvases (canvii!) and coveted pretty much everything in sight. Enough to where I purchased more. I cannot explain how excited I am about my new tabletop easel. As a matter of fact it was so excited I sketched out the New Secret Series [coming soon to the drunkbunny collective], as well as filled up 2 pages in the sketchbook with stuff.
It was somewhere around 1pm by then so I went to Old Town (alone!) - this is where I got a lot of sketching done - ventured around Bazaar del Mundo and down to the graveyard... and bought a skull. They didn't have a book that scratched the particular itch I had (something illustrated going over lots of Dia de Los Muertos info), so Paco the Skull of Infinite Wisdom is now on our entertainment center. He's proudly guarding everything, oh yes.
Picked up some food from Ranchos and after digesting headed out with Eric to Lestat's for a couple hours. We geeked over typography and the goodness that is Micron, and I finished up the canvas sketch that will be painted today. Then we stopped by various places to visit friends at work, and I headed home to pass out right around 10 or so.
KittyMa0w is now here to tell me to get off the computer, so it's time to make tea and get out the paints. My goal later is to get more non-Myspace entity for the DB collective, so that I can have a place for my in-progress work.
Here's hoping I don't fail. Mmm tea!
The party went well. Really well. Cleanup this morning sucked but it was fun. I think we had about 60 people turn out, but it never seemed ultra crowded. All the bubbles mixed and things went well.
Good job guys! :)
Or if you're not logged in... 
Radam, Special Ghosts, and Sandy... who is VERY excited about the beer
Me and that one guy, I think he's Eye-talian
J and Bobby... I mean um, a random troll
Look! A bee!
J and April being precious
Mephistopheles, Brad, Tom, Morgan (hiding), and parts of Melinda
Brad!
A guy and his wench
Liz, about to club me. Like a baby seal.
The crew
Brad and Eric, mid-Spark drinking
Brad gets down.
The Village People
Me and T-Dizzle (after he got rid of the Saw costume and the trike)
That last sentence sums up a lot of things. I don't even know where she's buried, but I digress.
I've been reading this book (the one in the picture) off and on for the past few years. From one of the editorial reviews...
There are two ways to create happiness:
The first is external. By obtaining better clothes, better shelter, and better friends we can find a certain measure of happiness and satisfaction. The second is through mental development, which yields inner happiness. However, these two approaches are not equally viable. External happiness cannot last long without its counterpart.... However, if you have peace of mind you can find happiness even under the most difficult circumstances. (Read both reviews here.)
This is not one of those books I feel should be read cover to cover after its' first reading; instead it should serve as a collection of notes to visit on those days when you need to focus on something other than your immediate circumstances. Much like the Bible (for those of you who put stock in it, and I am aware that some of my readers do not), you shouldn't take each word literally. Instead, you should absorb what you can, letting it sink in slowly, like a good wine... enjoying each moment and learning from the translation, instead of wondering if one fish really can feed ten thousand people.
In flipping through the pages today, a section on enlightenment caught my eye. I could go back and copy verbatim, but here's the part that I recall: the path to enlightenment comes from obvious things. Observe your surroundings instead of trying to jump right in. Remain calm, go with the flow. See if you can look at the whole puzzle and take that in; for matters of disagreement, wait until all parties can discuss things like responsible people.
There you have it - and here's hoping it will help those who can't see the forest for all those blasted trees.
Fun in La Jolla, and now I'm heading out front to watch J surf and maybe go play in the water myself.
Got some really nice shots this morning, more to come.
And to make it pretty...
However, I can always tell when GirlTime[tm] is approaching, my mind starts to wind up just a little too tightly and my moods swing back and forth like a ping-pong match. Add that to the trials of being bipolar and you just don't want to be in my head, it's not a pretty place. I was supposed to be on Lithium but refused because I like not being a zombie.
So! During tough times my goal is to focus on one good thing happening right now, if not a small list of good things. Today must be okay because I've found three. My cat, a cup of Jasmine Green Tea (thanks, Twinnings!), and being four levels away from getting a mount. A bit of WoW Geekery - since my character is a warlock, she'll be getting her normal mount for free. If she manages to attain level 70, then the Hawkstrider won't be free, but that's okay.
Just read that Perez Hilton will be getting his own show on VH1. IM ON UR TEEVEEZ, FXSKIN' UP UR LYVZ. You know, it's all fun and games until someone gets a punch in the face. VH1, can I have a show? You guys will take anyone, apparently. The problem here is that people complain about how terrible it all is, but I can guarantee that show's ratings will be at the top of the charts. Is it that celebs are that stupid, or that America has that many gluttons?
Oh! I saw HP&TOoTP* last night. Speaking of EPIC LEVEL 75 BATTLES (which we were, clearly), if you want to see one, go watch the movie. GEEZ. I won't do any spoilers or anything, but go catch up on the books before this one leaves theaters. That movie definitely showed how things transitioned from Happy Candy Wizard Fun Land to crazy evil stuff. The effects (especially the EPIC LEVEL 75 BATTLE) made me miss using my 3d/animation/artsy talents. It made me want to go back to school and render things for ten hours. Geeeeeeez.
Okay, partake in some photos that I just snapped.
*harry potter and the order of the phoenix, duuuuh.
This song is too hott for some of you, and that's alright, but it makes me move as soon as the first beats drop. I had to share.
Something else I have to share, which is not going to be blogged anywhere else until a little later this week, when details are more set in stone. So here's my announcement:
We're moving. Buying a place, to be more precise, buying a townhouse to be more specific.
Wait, let me say that again. I'm going to be saying it a lot because it's not sinking in for me.
We're buying a townhouse.
What the f//k?
It's nice. Not Bird Rock nice, but Mission Valley nice. Nice enough to where I'd feel comfortable having house parties. It's across the complex from the place we lived in when I first moved here. Crap! I love it. I love that it will be in Affordable Range. We're in counter-offer status right now and I'll hear back from the seller tomorrow. She's sleeping on it but I think she's got her mind made up. If that offer just doesn't sit right (i.e., a tad too high), we're going to pick up this other townhouse, the one already listed at what we're offering.
Photos and whatnot will get posted when the deal is more solid. There are only about ten up online, the ones posted by Prudential, and it only shows about half of the place, but they still show it off. It has a bathtub. It has a hot tub! I'm excited. You'll get to see soon enough.
Here's the short version of everything. I've been keeping way quiet but it's been tough. You know how it is though when stuff doesn't fall through and you've told everyone. Argh.
Anyway: we've been looking at places to buy for awhile. About a month ago I saw this listing on Craigslist, and J said "call the realtor". We took the walkthrough and the realtor was a sweetheart. That whole unemployment thing I had going wasn't exactly good, and it was listed at 315,000, so there was a lot of delay and we pretty much put it onto the back burner for an unknown amount of time. Then a lot of good stuff happened for us all at once, including the listing price dropping to 300,000. This bumped it into our budget bracket, so last night we went and made an offer. That brings us up to today, and the paragraph up top there.
I didn't want to post this everywhere yet because Vox still feels like more of a Journal, and less of an RSS feed. I know people read my Vox, but I know they write in their own as well, and it feels more like a happy tight community and not all commercialized like MySpace, or even LJ. Is it terrible to feel more of a loyalty to a blogging community that I have been on a sixth of the time that I've been on LJ? Who knows. It's nice to just be able to write though. You guys know what I mean. So play nice and keep my secret, okay? ;)
I'm anxious, excited, scared, chill, the whole gambit. Jason and I are buying a townhouse. Geez. Geezly Crow, even. We could waffle* around forever but the way things are progressing, we're going to have the keys to a new place by the second week of May. A place with a hot tub AND a bathtub! Woohoo!!!!
In conclusion, things are as fantastic as I could have ever hoped, finally. Everyone else is having babies, getting married, getting engaged. I'm getting a house with the guy I love. Sweet.
If it had been easy it probably wouldn't feel as good now.
This message has been brought to you by Fatman Scoop & The Crooklyn Clan, who want you to drop, come on come breathe in breathe out. Ohhhh snap!
*omg, i never get to use that properly. woohoo!!
