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24September | thank you cards
Well friends. After a long hiatus from card-making, I finally broke out my supplies and made a batch of thank you cards for an order I got... I don't even know how long ago. Oh well. This is why it's not my primary business. Anyway, here they are. I really have to figure out how to re-prioritize my time in order to do this regularly and turn some sort of profit: (click to enlarge)
 
So, it has been a productive weekend. In addition to those cards, I also cleaned my apartment, did laundry, saw friends in Hoboken, friends in the city, and did some prepwork for our team lunch at work on Friday. And I managed to get quite a bit of sleep as well. Wow! Now another Monday. Hopefully this week will fly by. ;) addendum: check out what i wrote a year ago... haha so hilarious and hopefully not still true.
17September | once again me
I went to Philly this past weekend to visit Diane - it was an impromptu trip to get out of this City That Has Become Too Much - and we had a great time... laidback and introspective, lots of talk about where life has brought us... and lots of yummy food. Mmmm. I also got to visit Infinite where I went to get all my piercings in college. For those not in the know or who have forgotten, I once had 8 holes in my ears: double lobe and helix in the left and triple lobe, rook and conch in the right. (see diagram for locationa) Since then I've taken all but the single lobes and rook out and they've pretty much closed up - but lately I've thought about bringing some back. The lobes are easy enough to do - I would just need to get some gold studs for the re-healing. But the conch was what I missed the most, so on a 24 hour whim I decided to just go for it and get it re-pierced:
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It's going to take 6 months to a year to heal, but eventually I want to put a hoop in it. I don't have any pictures of the old piercing with a hoop, unfortunately. I'm sure I have one inadvertently somewhere. Maybe next I want a daith. Hmm...
11September | i love new york
This past weekend the lovely Rhiannon came down to visit me - I hadn't seen her in close to four years so it was a very welcome reunion!! We explored Brooklyn and parts of Manhattan, including the Museum of Sex, Brooklyn Museum, and South Street Seaport. It was a tiring, yet fun-filled time :) We took an Art-Making workshop at the Brooklyn Museum to learn to make found art mixed media sculptures, taught by Arthur Simms whose work is featured in the Infinite Island Caribbean Art exhibit. We got to tour the exhibit quickly, and I was especially struck by this sculpture, Mambru. I wanted to get a postcard but they didn't have any, and they wouldn't let me take pictures. :( Anyway then we got to make our own found art sculptures. I was pretty inspired by Arthur Simms's work - the way he incorporates his found objects into a piece that speaks to a theme but also draws from personal anecdotes and memories. I poked through the bag of found objects that Rhiannon and I had brought (we 'found' them in my room haha) and decided that I wanted to make a sculpture that represents my current state of mind about love in New York City:
Title: 'I Love New York.' It's a dichotomy between romance and the taboos of sex - the heart is lined with pearls, but also bound to a tube of cheap lube. The watch represents the passage of my youth, and the bra strap can be both innocent, practical, romantic, and coyly sexual. Rhiannon made a crazy doll:
The best part was that everyone kept walking by and going 'that's so GREAT!! that's so surreal' and Rhiannon was like um it's an ugly doll that resembles a crazy lady from Boca. And no one really got mine. Haha!! Anyway, it was a really great time and I am going to have to make a trip up to see Rhiannon sometime as well. For now though... back to the grind. Oh New York...
06September | ah ha.
05September | knee update (etc)
Well, it's been a few days since my relapse into childhood clumsiness and I thought it was time to provide some visual supplements to my story. Hope you're not about to eat. (click to enlarge, if you really want...)  left knee. pretty bruised but not too painful.
That aside, it's been a whirlwind couple of weeks for me. I've been thinking nonstop about my life and decisions I've made, whether out of my own volition or been forced to make due to circumstances beyond my control, and again am emerging with an overwhelming sense of peace. And I love that I'm at the point where I can still feel this peace despite the turbulence that frequently surrounds me. Theresa got married this past weekend, and it was also the first time I saw Lauren since her wedding. It's really made me loosen my grip on my own heart and ideas about love - whatever it's supposed to mean to me at this point. Watching them openly give themselves to one other person, after having been through so much, was so encouraging to me after all of the emotional hesitation that I've experienced and watched my city friends experience as well. I don't know. We're obviously all in different places, but I also wonder if I'm in the wrong place for a relationship. Or whatever it is that I'm looking for. My life is never dull - and I love it that way. I love constantly rethinking, rehashing, re-evaluating. Everything happens for a reason, for sure. But it's not always immediately clear what that reason is and I'm welcoming the perpetual challenge of figuring that puzzle out.
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