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Happy Independence Day!

1) I love love love today. Patriotic music and barbecue smells everywhere! It’s a hot day, so I’m sitting inside cleaning and taking breaks with the intrawebs. I have no real plans for today except to go out to see Elvin Killerbee tonight. I know Seth and I will go and get fireworks, but I don’t know where we’ll play with them. There are a few options that mostly depend on other people. I know I want a margarita. Yes!

2) I really hope I won’t be going out tonight alone. It sounds like that may be the case. Hm. Well, even if I do go out alone, I’ll be out and not really alone anyway. I doubt it. She’ll go. We’ll have fun. Tomorrow we’ll regret having so much fun, but it will probably be funny.

3) I found out some stupid shit about a supposed friend and her real intentions regarding her ’surprise visit’ Sunday. I’ve been ignoring her (millions of) calls and I got a new number anyway, so I may not have to speak to her again. If I wanted friends like her, I’d go back to high school. No thanks! I hope she decides to stay where the hell she is from now on.

4) I need a new job. Life sucks when you’re broke.

Lucy!!

I got a puppy. she’s a 3 month old black lab. She was intended to be a police dog, but the cop decided he wanted a German Shepherd instead. He gave her to his girlfriend, who couldn’t keep her. My boss went to the pet store to get her Shi Tzu some food and saw her. She told me about her, had them hold her for me and here she is! I love her to pieces. She always has fun. Here she is:

   It’s been a bit. I guess getting over that really bad night took a little longer than I thought. There was screaming. There was crying. There was door slamming. Not fun. Scary. It’s over now, and I remembered St. John’s Wort, thanks to a commenter. Thank you, Erika. I haven’t given Seth any yet, as he seems to be doing O.K. right now, but It’s helped me feel better.

Saturday, Gary and I went to a Martin Atkins seminar at Insomkneeacks. It’s mostly directed towards musicians, but there was a good amount of information that applied to any entrepreneur/artist/promoter/businessperson/regular guy. He’s also pretty funny. Partly because of his sense of humor and partly because he’s neurotic and appears to be afflicted with ADD.  It was 100%  good experience. It’s a shame more local musicians were there; he could’ve helped improve the music scene. It certainly needs help.

Today was full of eating ice cream, taking pictures of a farm, watching Sex and Breakfast and cleaning up. Tonight was drinking homemade spiced cider, playing rummy, and my feet freezing on the porch. I’d say it’s a good Sunday. Seth was good. I wasn’t tired all day. It will feel good to go to bed, though.

The photo is of a small field with 3 cows in it. The colors haven’t been touched up. The contrast was gorgeous. The color of the grass is so pretty. There will be more photos on my Flickr soon.

Leo from ZenHabits (one of my favorite blogs. top 2 if not #1)  recently opened a new blog. It focuses completely on writing, and is geared towards all types of writers. Check it out at Write To Done.

I’m home alone. It feels so fucking nice. I haven’t been feeling like going anywhere. It will at least save people from my complaining about my belly. Also, I don’t really feel welcome where everyone else is. Rachel called to check on me. That was nice of her. It’s not her fault I don’t feel welcome. Doesn’t change the truth, though. Eh, it happens.

I find out tomorrow about that job I supposedly got with GP. The woman seems to be blowing me off every time I call, telling me that it should be Friday, Monday, or Tuesday, depending on the day I call. It doesn’t seem like a company of that size would do that. I suppose I’ll find out. I’ve gotten a lot of calls since I went to this interview and was told I have the job. Some of the interviews I’ve turned down, some I’ve made for after Monday, which she said would be the latest I would know.

Tuesday, I have an interview at a downtown company for a Document Scanning Specialist position. I’ve weaseled all the information I can out of them through email; they don’t have a website. If what I’m thinking is correct, the name is pretty self explanatory and that’s what I’ll be doing. I imagine that could get old pretty quickly. It really all comes down to the job at GP paying more. I’ve never been the type to choose money over happiness, but I’d rather be miserable and be able to afford school than be happy with a dead-end job.

I’ve been trying to get rid of the block in my head. I haven’t created anything digitally in a while, save for the Nikki Stardust thing I made to post on her MySpace comments. I’ve got a few new pages in my sketchbook, but nothing overly creative. I’ve been starting things and then getting up and walking away. I leave it open to that page so I have to see it every time I walk by. I’m always afraid it’s going to go away forever, but I find that I’m usually in need of trying something new when I have creativity block.

I want a recliner! i found a method of meditating that won’t kill my knees. That seems to be my trouble with meditation. Seated fucks with my knees so bad that I think about it too much. I was gonna get a recliner anyway for reading, and now I have another reason. I still would love to participate in group meditation. Oh to live somewhere it exists. Like say Every Tuesday at 7:30PM. Yeah, like there.

Just for fun, a photo of my art desk (freshly painted YAY!) with the open page and a million gazillion art supplies. Oh and a stack of journals and paper samples.