pouty time.

here is my pouty list for today:
i didn't get my kitten
it is freezing in my apartment
there is no door to my back room, making the apartment much colder
i left my window insulation stuff at trevors studio
i cannot have a kitten until the 5th
my tv converter box did not come with one of the chords i need
the antenna is in the other room, so the converter box won't even work unless i move the tv

so i am just going to sit at the computer and eat oreos with peanut butter instead.


hmmff.

it's christmas. it's christmas time.

aahhh.
sorry, but it just isn't christmas without gunther!

bless you recyclops, and your cold robot heart.

i moved!

finally! i am no longer crashing at trevors every single night. and now i can say that i don't live at my mommas house. i have my own apartment, and you all should stop by and bring me a housewarming gift. or beers. or whatever, just come by and see me!

honk-shoooo

i am just writing this because i have not posted anything new for over a week. my life right now is full of school related activities. i have been working on print things like crazy. this semester i am working on three chicken shaped intaglio plates. they are a pain in the ass to cut out and file, but i think they will be really cool when they are all done. i need to work on my drawings more for sam. he let me borrow his plastic turkey named leroy. i need to get some drawings of him soon! also bookbinding is taking up SO much time, it is crazy. this week we are making boxes. i hope i don't eff it up like i did my first book.
today i had to present to a lot of people in the fine arts department for funding to go to the international southern graphics council conference. whew! i had to write up a proposal and figure out a budget and everything. i felt so grown up doing it. today we just had to go in and see if the board had any questions. a friend told me we did get funding, but not as much as last year. that is pretty disappointing seeing as there are the same number of students attending as there were last time. but it wasn't my fault, there were 19 different groups requesting money this year, and i am sure the budget isn't as big as it has been in the past. oh well, at least we got something!
i have been house sitting for my friend erin and watching a million dvds. she and jake have a gigantic dvd collection. they are in disneyland for their anniversary. i hope they are having the best time ever, and that they bought mickey ears. i better get a postcard too.
this month at the gallery stroll i will have a print at signed and numbered. i was able to get into the print exchange for this month. it is a halloween theme, and my print is jolene, of course. but she has three heads and is drooling. if you are in town you should go check it out! this will be my first time showing anything at gallery stroll.
AND! i am moving out of my mommas house soon. i am looking at two apartments tomorrow, and making my decision tomorrow too. i am really excited to move out without a roommate. trevor of course will be my part time roomie. and maybe sometime in the near future i will have a kitty too, but we will just have to see.

ha! seriously?

this is ridiculous. watch.

jolene print

is done, kind of. i have 24 pieces of paper, and have printed on 6 of them. eff. it looks pretty good so far, i guess. i like it, but it is a print of my baby. it is a two plate print, one red and one blue. the assignment was we had to print on quarter sheets, so 11x15. i think the copper is 4x6 or something. i honestly cannot remember, i am exhausted. anyway, this picture sucks because i took it with my cell phone. but here is jolene!

where in the world do you think you're going-o-ing-o-ing?

to the fair!!!!!!!!

boo hoo.

this is a total sympathy post. i just want everyone to feel sorry for me and bring me ice cream because i am sad and i miss my boyfriend. my favorite flavor is the private selection brand black raspberry and chocolate chunk, which as far as i know is only sold at smiths marketplace.

and they call it puppy loooooooove

this puppy, who has yet to be named, is SO CUTE! i got to snuggle her at megan and brittanys house tonight. fran and brittany and me took her out and watched her run around the yard and jump down and up the stairs about a million times. it was too cute. we got her to walk all the way up the big staircase too. i love her.

close close close call

tonight trevor called me to let me know that there were three raccoons in the coop, because the effing door was open, and that the chickens were all really freaking out. jordan had called him saying the chickens were all flying around the yard yelling really loud, and we needed to make sure they were ok. i borrowed the pathfinder and drove down to his studio so fast, and we pulled into the alley and turned the car towards the coop. sirius and esther were walking around the yard. i picked up esther and took her into the bathroom. jordan said he didn't know where jolene was. my heart dropped, i was so freaked out but i didn't want to think the worst had happened. we looked around the yard a little bit, and then trevor found her in the coop. she didn't look good, she was barely moving. i started crying and told him i couldn't look at her, that he had to do it. so he put his hand in and scooped her out of the nesting box. she slowly started moving and walking around. i took her inside too, and then sirius came in. i fed them some cheese and some bread to make them feel better, and maybe calm them down a little bit. i just sat on the floor and talked to them and told them they were all ok now. they ate all the cheese then squished together in the corner. i went out to talk to jordan, and he said he was inside the house, and he heard some noise in the backyard. it was already dark, so he knew something was wrong. they never make noise at night. ever. so jordan went out with the flood light and saw all three flying around the yard making so much noise. he walked over to the coop, and saw three pairs of glowing eyes. the raccoons were making noises like some giant creature coughing up a hairball. jordan started to get nervous, because they are mean little things. and three of them all crammed in the coop together would be so scary! they ran out of the coop and got back over the fence, and he said one tried to grab sirius through the chain link. he threw a log at the fence to scare them off, and esther decided to fly up onto the fence. sirius was running around the yard, and jolene was cowering in a corner. i am so grateful that jordan was home, i don't want to think about what would have happened if he had not been there. i am so glad they are all ok, probably really stressed out and scared, but otherwise ok. i hate raccoons. i want to call animal control tomorrow and see if there is anything they can do. there are so many pets in the neighborhood, and i would hate for something to happen to any of them.

owwwwww

1. Wii-arm
This happens when you over-play the Nintendo Wii.

Your arm begins to ache, and somewhat burn slightly... Using your arm for any kind of quick movements, or outstretching of the arm generates pain.
You get Wii-arm by playing WiiSports for 14 hours non-stop - Then trying to play Baseball, and finding out that you hit the floor in pain when you swing.
get this def on a mug
nintendo wii arm pain medical condition wii arm
by Sam Rees Dec 27, 2006 share this

i want this.

please!!!

bambi

this song is always in my head. i love bambi. ha ha ha ha that sounds so dorky. just watch the video.

baby jolene

so school starts in one week, and i am trying to get everything ready for a brand new semester of printing. i started thinking about what i want to do for the miniprint this year, it was hard because i didn't think i could ever out do "hoot cakes". i wanted to stick to the owl theme, but then i got to thinking about jolene. she is the perfect subject, she loves to have her picture taken and she is the friendliest out of all the chickens. so i took a bunch of photos but i am not sure which one i should draw from.

what do you think?

these are my four choices:
one


two


three


four

shark week night

last wednesday, august 5th, meggy and i had a shark week party. it was awesome. it was me, megan, trevor, and meg. meg came over in a fish outfit.
we made tuna sandwiches on cut out bread.
we served swedish fish and goldfish crackers.
we baked sugar cookies cut out in shapes of hands, whales, angel fish, and sharks.
trevor painted a wine bottle so we could all enjoy a glass of shark bite merlot.

hooray shark week!

 

good egg

sirius or esther laid the very first egg sometime today!!! we think it was sirius because it was in the middle nesting box, and there was a black feather in with it. brice found it today when he was checking to see if they had enough food. it is tiny and brown, and so cute! i can't wait to see if any of the ladies lay another one tonight!

first things first

it is only 14 days until my bday! (from today, august 8. not august 4...)
here are some things i would like:


free people blooming cirrus headband
@nordstrom
$28


circolo nesting tables
@pottery barn teen
$299


j brand 812 mid-rise pencil leg in ink
@jbrandjeans.com
$158


i want a wii! i want to play the new zelda SOOOO bad.

i know i will probably get nothing on this list, because i am poor and so is everyone else i know. but it is fun to pretend i am going to get all these things.

and she's buying a stairway to...

stardom!
why have i never seen any of these before? youtube stairway to stardom. they are all pretty wonderful



ps if i ever have lipstick on my teeth like that, please for the love of jesus, tell me.

catch up.

BEWARE! this post is real long and stuff.

trevor has been after me to update the blog. i have been super lazy lately, i blame the heat. anyway, here is what has been happening over the few weeks.

on the fourth of july, megan, jade, spencer, trevor and i went up to our friend ernestos house behind the capitol building to watch the fireworks. we could kind of see the bees stadium fireworks through the trees, but not really. the highlight of this part of the night was watching hiram creep out on meggy.







trevor and i went to dinner before the house party. he had never been to shanghai, and it was pretty much the only thing open that day. i got this great fortune after. i have been wasting my time printing apparently.





on july 15 harry potter and the half blood prince came out. everyone who knows me knows i LOVE harry potter, sometimes more than life itself. i always get so hyped up to see the movies and i am always so incredibly disappointed with them. i have a hard time separating myself from the books, and remembering that it is impossible to include everything from the books in a two hour movie. but still, all that being said, i went into this one with no expectations. i tried to just watch the movie and forget about the book. but it was still so shitty! so so so so so shitty. it was honestly one of the most boring movies i have ever seen. the previews tricked me. bah. anyway i don't want to talk about it anymore because everyone close to me is sick of hearing about it i am sure.
alex, sable, trevor and i made t shirts for the premier. i hated mine, it wasn't how i imagined it, but whatever. i made sables shirt, i don't have a picture of it, but it had slytherins locket on it. it was a real thing of beauty. alex made a snake nailed to a door, and trevor, oh man his kicked so much ass.





also i made brooms for everyone who rode bikes down to the movie.



i found my long lost twin sister at the black keys show at gallivan.
ps i am never going to another show there. it is completely miserable.



then trevor had his art show the next night, and me being a stupid girlfriend, i didn't take any pictures. i am a bad girlfriend. birthquake played behind model citizen and it was a real hot and fun time.
then saturday night there was a benefit show at urban lounge for the salt lake city film festival, and brice played in his other band, mammoth. i was mesmerized by the lights, and also by shanes drumming. also brice had a robot singing voice.

backyard, here i come.

armed with all the necessary supplies, and my blue and white sailor stripe bikini, i am ready to roast.

harry, harry potter

so one day when i decide to pop out some babies, one is definitely going to be named harry. and of course it is after harry potter. duh.
but for now i only love one harry. the hp. tickets were purchased today, i cannot wait.



only a few things in life really get me excited, and harry potter is one of them. i cannot fucking wait to see this movie, the previews look pretty sweet. if this one sucks, i am going to be so disappointed. at least until the next two come out. i always get really excited when i see the previews, then the movie ends up blowing big time and i just talk shit about it forever, then re read the books and think they should have a potter nerd directing these things. then the new previews come along and i get excited all over again. ha ha i have nothing to look forward to now that the books are done. this sounds sad, but it is true. very true.

i love you hp.

two months

until my bday. you can buy this for me if you want to, and lets be honest. you know you do.



go to:
www.adultswim.com and click on shop.
do it.

this is what i did today.

 

clickit

drip drip drop

the storm today was absolutely incredible. i have never seen rain like that, and the thunder was so loud and constant and beautiful. i wish my camera could have done it justice.

this is the piece of sandstone we found on the side of the house while digging up the old sidewalk. it looks like we have our own mini moat.


this is the rock again.


this is the dirt river from the moat, leaking out onto the sidewalk.

mm hmm.

this is kind of where my head is at right now.

no.

equals

before and after

so for the past few weeks i have been walking around looking like an abandoned animal. my hair was out of control. i was too nervous to trim my bangs by myself once they went past my eyes. luckily i have jessica cook. and now i can see! huzzah!




i am making a two year old face in the second picture. oh well.

click here for jessica:

donut induced dreams

i ate a donut this morning because my blood sugar was a bit low, then i decided to go back to sleep for a bit. while i was napping i had the craziest dream about mexico, ghosts, jesus, magic, and of course, harry potter.
i was in mexico with my sister and her friend jackie, and we were going to meet trevor and brice and some guy i have never seen. we stopped into this weird tattoo shop slash restaurant because it was raining really hard and it was really cold. the people inside seemed to think we were ghost catchers, so they started to tell us about this mean ghost that lived there that liked to dress up as jesus. so we went into the haunted room and there he was, pretend ghost jesus. so he starts throwing all these crazy spells at us, and me being the huge potter nerd that i am start throwing them back. then he conjured up a marilyn monroe ghost, not sure why, but anyway i totally expelliarmused pretend jesus ghosts wand because i know way more spells than he does.
i love you harry potter!

chills. super serious chills.
i cannot wait!!!!!!

we must praise him.

raptor jesus died for your sins.

it really is out of this world

no more!!!

i hate finals. they make my brain feel like this:

aaah spring.

i love the how the weather is changing. with each warm day i feel better and better. i don't care that i have allergies or that my bangs hold my sweat.

i am warm.
flowers are popping up and blooming.
birds are chirping.
i can make happy spring mix cds.
i can wear sandals.
i can wear tank tops.
i can watch the chickies in the yard with trevor.
i can get a sunburn.
everything is green and pretty.
i am happy.
i am twitterpated.

oh deer.

last night i had a dream about a hurt deer in my backyard. and i cried and cried and cried in my dream. then the deer tried to break into my house and attack me.
what does this mean?

also i had a dream that my mouse would scroll down again. it is so moody, it will only scroll up somedays, and down others. stupid mouse.

puddin.

so i usually about every month or every two months i get a new snack obsession. lately it has been chocolate pudding in a graham cracker pie crust.
oh my lord. i love it.
i don't know if it is because i grew up in utah, and jello is served all the time, or if it is just because pudding pie is delicious. but either way i love it to death. and honestly it is one of the easiest desserts to make. all you do is make a crust with graham crackers and melted butter and pour the pudding into the crust. that is it!
i love you pudding!


sorry danielle. i know you hate it.

babies

so the babies all have names now. from left to right we have
sirius black okubo
esther pat benatar dopp
and my little one, baby jolene littlefoot mack

of course i am most in love with jolene, she is the smallest and in my opinion, the most adorable. but the other girls (hopefully esther is a girl, we won't know for a few weeks. cross your fingers that she doesn't start to crow!) are sweet too. sirius does not like to be alone, she chirps SO loud if you leave her alone in the box. esther is kind of like the momma. jolene and sirius like to nestle under her wings. maybe it is because she is the biggest. esther is also the most calm, and she will sit on trevors shoulder and be totally happy. she is good at flying too, which is kind of scary because she might fly out of the box one day. who knows. jolene is really brave outside and likes to run away from the other girls really fast to check things out, just not for too long.
i can't wait for them to keep growing and for their personalities to develop more. and i can't wait for the fresh eggs!!!