livin it up at the hotel california

i literally could not remember if i had a post for today or not.  weird.  a ramble.  anyway, a-rambling we will go.

last weekend i did something bad.  good, but bad.  i invested in some art.  i know, i know.  silly of me to do since i can now just MAKE my own art, but i can't photograph and photographs are what i bought (the price is the bad part - dont ask).  i can't wait to have a place where i can hang up all my art.  i'm starting to really amass a collection.  i got this picture that my aunt gave me framed (professional framed - paid quite a bit of money for it!) and got some fargo pics framed (which i posted earlier and am too lazy to go back and put a link in here of those pictures).  and i got this really great idea of some art that i'm going to start painting one of these days when i get my act together...

anyway, last weekend, i went to this art and design fair called ad 20/21 or something like that.  i mostly went to get ideas for my own art and, of course, found the french booth and started speaking to the photographer in french and then went and spent my life savings on some pictures.  not at all what i planned!  so this dude, alain, has spent the last 7 years taking pictures of the word "hotel" across 20 different countries and amassed 20,000+ photos.  he told me that he takes pictures of things that anyone can see, but people choose not to.  so he might take a picture of the shadow of the word hotel or the word hotel on the pavement or in the reflection of a window.  on his site he explains how the word hotel is disappearing because with the advent of internet, people have less reason to need to SEE the word "hotel" when they are looking for their actual hotel.  and you use gps to find the place, you aren't wandering on the street looking up for the sign that says "hotel."  its an easy concept and anyone could do it.  but no one else has.

so here are the two photos that i bought:

the first one is of a placard on a hotel that is so shiny (polished) that you can see the reflection of the street behind.  i love it because it is typicmment francais!  (typical french)  the french sign, the french car, the clothes the french people are wearing, the portfolio the dude is carrying.  love it.  love it love it love it.

the second one i love because the word "hotel" isn't straight and its in a bright color AND... as i asked the photographer "ou est le dix-sept?"  "where is the 17??"  does this hotel just not have a room 17??  its so curious to me!  that is of a hotel in nice, france.

what do you think of my new purchases?  what other pictures do you like from his site?

things that are making me happy

one word that makes me happy: creativity.

i might not even really like something, but if its creative, i will respect it.

this red ball project is really cool.

i want to come up with something really cool like that.

then there is this.

not sure if i'd like to stay there, but i think its so fun!  wait.  i WOULD like to stay there, but then i would flip the bed spread so the white side was on the colorful side and vice versa.

this next thing is super creative, but i'm pretty sure i would not do it.

what do ya'll think?

chega de sauddade (no more blues)

i can't sleep.  that is making me blue.  (ha!  reference to the song i'm listening to right now.  love that)

i hate not being able to sleep.  its part new bed, part new noises, part being alone, probably part the bubbly i had earlier tonight, and part restless leg syndrome.  AGHHHHHH.  restless leg syndrome is the WORST.  its the evening (morning?) after st patricks day (night?) and i can hear the fake irish in the streets yelling.  i imagine they dont realize there are people trying to sleep.  i'm at the point where my eyes are watering they want to be asleep so badly.  AND i really wish i could pull my feet up towards my knee - like in the front.  kind of like what you would do with a barbie.  remember she had those bendy legs and you would move them because it was weird and kind of mean?  i feel like if i could do that and give myself bendy legs i wouldnt have restless leg syndrome.  and i have that need to stretch.  oh i got new pajamas today.  they're super cute.  preparing for my hawaii trip.  woot woot!  i can't believe i just typed that.  i dont really get what it means.  am i meant to say it?  do people really pronounce the t's at the end?  i feel like it should be woop woop instead.  is that very 90s of me?  perhaps.  i am getting old.  and i have restless leg syndrome.  i wonder what i look like right now.

yeah, that is not pretty.  i just did photo booth.  eek.

ugh!  why is no one up to keep me company?  og right.  most people dont have restless leg syndrome!!  so stupid.  maybe i'll put on a movie on my laptiop.  i cant really see the screen very well.  not sure what i'm typing.

i'm going to try to sleeo again.

221 am.  over and out.  i hope

ho ho poor me gotta go

i'm pretty sure player is going to love this.



how fun!

i want to be in a japanese LED dance group

blood for poppies

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they're back!!!  and its totally fate!!  i can't even believe it.  what a ... twist of fate.  omgosh. my psychic told me i was on the line between fate and destiny or something like that.  is this what he meant??  i think he was talking about my professional life, though.  maybe i'm meant to be a garbage groupie!!  aghh!!

so tonight i stayed at work until after 8pm.  i got a TON done, but not the main thing that i was supposed to do.  which was fine, i decided to reward my hard work for the week with some sushi and then work from home on the project i keep putting off.  so i take the t (which i NEVER DO) to get sushi.  i get home and have my drinks (glass of wine, glass of water, and some tea - i have to drink in multiples) and sushi while watching 30 rock.  then i settle in to work on my project and i ordered some more painting supplies instead.  oops!  so i have some tv shows on in the background.  i wasn't REALLY watching.  so then i look to go through my dvr and get rid of things and i see shirley manson (LOVE HER) on chelsea lately - it was just starting.  normally, i just ff to the celeb and see if he or she is interesting.  tonight, i thought "hmm... shirley must be in some new tv show" and figured i would watch the whole thing in real time to see what was up.  i NEVER do this.  and she announces a new album!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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and obviously there has to be a tour to that.  so i zip over to the garbage website and find they're coming to boston in may!  its like FOR MY BIRTHDAY (practically)!  and i even have someone to go with!!  i just now have to get tickets.  what time do tickets usually go on sale?  9am?  10am?  eek.  i HAVE to get these.  who knows how long they'll tour... maybe i should go to nyc and see them.  and then toronto.  and where else could i go??  this is awesome.  this is 100% making my night!  my week!

in honor of that, i am posting some of my favorite garbage videos here.

oh, and maybe this is some sort of link to their new single

 

not sure what that does.  ha.

omgosh.  you can type garbage with just one hand.  i love that.

brain power

i, obviously, did not create this, but its very important and interesting.  from lumosity.

things that are making me happy

right ok.  so i'm starting to feel a little better.  took massive amounts of drugs last night so i could sleep.  almost couldnt GET to sleep - tons of helicopters and sirens (boston is on fire, btw - or was, last night, that is) and just general awakeness.  then i got to sleep and slept well.  am forcing myself to go to work because i have a kazillion meetings today.  dinner with kc tonight and then home to bed for some more r&r.

here is a video that i really liked.

i want to play eiffel tower tetris!

i'm sick

its official.  i'm sick.  its 346am.  i woke up at 257 and couldnt sleep because i was stuffed up.  i took a claritin d and have been doing stuff online since then.  UGH.  i even purposely went to bed shortly after 9 last night because this happened the night before, as well.  DOUBLE UGH.  i am
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i have a board meeting tues night, so that will 1) force me to go to work and 2) force me to stay late at work since i'm hosting the meeting!  TRIPLE UGH.  i just want to sleep...

things that are NOT making me happy

things that are making me happy

mad men is back (soon)! which means that hamm is out in force promoting it.  woo hoo!



also, on sunday i saw kids with friends.  wait.  no.  friends with kids.  ha! ... anyone else see it?  it was really good.  def recommend for my whole family and all my friends.

imma be

grr.  stupid spring ahead!  i woke up this morning and looked at the tv clock "10:17" and i was like, "really?? i slept THAT long??  eh.  whatever."  and then i looked at the radio clock (which is not automatic) and it said "9:24."  crap.  i forgot we were springing ahead.  knowing that we did just annoyed me.  i dont know why.  i'm also missing the 1030 yoga class on sundays that i like to go to.  but thats probably a good idea because i havent done yoga in SO LONG that i am soo out of practice.  i need to get back into it.  i'll try and make the 330 class, which is also considerably easier.

also on deck for today: painting.  i didnt get any done when i was in sacramento, despite lugging ALL of my paints and 4 canvases out there.  frustrating.  i was going to paint last night, but i popped in the wedding singer, to have on in the background, and i started to sketch what i would be painting and, of course, i just ended up watching the whole movie.  its actually really good!  much better than the 100th best comedy ever.  check this link out.  i might agree with holy grail, but the rest of the order is MESSED UP.  i have, however, seen about 85 of those movies.  wow.  thats kind of a lot.  pretty impressive, i'd say.

what else is going on?  yesterday i went to see a movie - good deeds.  it was really good!  i think everyone should go see it.  it is a tyler perry movie, but its a nice, heartwarming story.  that sounds lame.  just go see it.  actually, this would be a good test.  family: go see it and tell me if you don't like it.  if you don't, then i will know you truly do have bad taste in movies.    [ha ha, this is a reference to christmas where i dragged them to two critically-acclaimed movies and they didnt like either - i didnt like one, but the other one was really good]

oh!  so weird... last night i dreamt that james woods was serving me food and doing cartwheels.  and then he and i were speaking french.  but he lived in milan.  it was so weird.  no one cool lives in milan.  lake como or bust.

maybe today i'll do an expense report and a call report or two.  that would be great if i could do that for work.  get ahead of the game for this week.  i am going to be leaving "on time" a lot this week - i have a lot of volunteer things that i need to do...  i have a meeting one night to learn how to set up a lemonade stand with my little.  then i have a board meeting another night.  i should look into donating again, as well.  i dont think i did it at all in february.  eek.  not good.

i'm feeling antsy lately.  restless, even.  and i have been traveling.  not enough?  other things i want to do?  i'm not really sure whats going on, but i feel like i have to book trips to dozens of places: msp, pdx, nyc.  why am i feeling so antsy??  i dont know... thoughts?  maybe i should go to dc, too.

i also need a date to hawaii.  who wants to go with me?  all seriousness here.

i'm looking for some picture or video to end this dry ramble.  can't really find anything.  oh!  my brother homie got me into draw something.  its really fun!  anyone else on it?

ok, here's a video.  i like this song a lot. t he video is a bit too transformy for me: