what's new..sunday night February 05, 2007

new paintings are available on etsy.

I'm taking a red-eye to New York tomorrow night..

I don't know if it's just nerves about the upcoming conference, or just general carelessness, but I've been living a life lately that is straight out of a super slapstick-y movie. Here are two of my biggest blooper highlights from the week:

numero uno: I fell down our living room stairs the other morning, just like in the movies. I totally slipped, whoop! with my feet up in the air and everything. What made it even more cinematic, (or whatever) was that I was holding a bowl of oatmeal in one hand and a blueberry smoothie in the other. I have a vague memory of thinking..'I'm going to have to let go of these two things if I want to save myself.'..so up they went into the air and all over absolutely everything. Luckily, true to the movies, I was totally fine (nothing was broken at least..). Just a lot of blueberry clean-up.

numero dos: Yesterday I was riding my bike home from the studio in the evening. It was dark, I was cold and tired and really hungry by the time I pulled up in front of our house. It's kind of a tough ride, so I'm usually really exhausted and short on patience under normal circumstances. But for some reason, as I was getting off my bike, and walking it up the front steps to our porch, my belt loop caught on the quick release handle to my bike seat, and I could not get free from it! I also couldn't really stand upright because of the angle. So I had to half squat while I tried and tried to free myself, but it was totally impossible.

Meanwhile there was some random crowd of people passing by on the sidewalk, watching me struggle so I decided to just bring the whole thing inside, and into the light to see what could possibly be the problem.

There I was, doing the chicken-squat-struggle-dance with the crowd behind me, trying to fish my keys out of my backpack that I couldn't get all the way off my back, (so it's contents were spilling everywhere, by the way..) and the more I struggled with the keys, the more my pants started FALLING DOWN, (yes truly..) until I eventually made my way inside and remedied the whole debacle by wiggling free of the cursed pants.

Even though I knew it was the most hilarious, ridiculous thing ever, it wasn't funny.

Well now it's a little funny.

Ok, a lot funny.....

I hope to see all of you New York folks while I'm there! And for everyone else.. I'm bringing my computer with, so I will be sure to post all adventures, and err, misadventures at some point.

Also, my store will remain open this week, thanks to a very loving and handsome human who has offered to do my shipping while I'm away. Hurrah! So shop away for Valentine's Day!

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