The Gauntlet - day 7

girl with an "owl" like design

today is still my birthday

30days finished!

self portrait 30 out of 30

one of the stories i've grown up with is this family myth that my great aunt was a california raisin girl. like the girl that is pictured on a number of sunmaid raisin boxes.  this sort of idea as well as the fact that i always love the fruit crates that feature someone carrying a basket of fruit really inspired me to do this. well... i also went to the farmers market and ate a ton of fresh delicious cheap fruit today.

22nd

it was really nice temperature-wise today, so it felt really nice to relax a bit. but it also was great to actually want to do something like obsessively clean the house as well as i could. well i didn't do much besides cleaning the bathroom, dusting and cleaning all the mirrors in the house. but then again, we're out of furniture polish and it wasn't cool enough to make me want to vacuum. but there's always tomorrow for that.

it was extra nice to clean since i was the only one home for a few hours...

portrait 21

me and the dog

tensions flare in the summer heat

you know how people say that tensions flare in the heat? its really true. well it sure helps to have MONTHS of tension build up before hand, but anyways.

today was a really bad day. except that i had a donut for breakfast. that's pretty awesome.

newwwwww bangs

well not really. today (or yesterday the 9th) is my nana's birthday. she's 77 this year. so we had a family dinner at her favorite mexican restaurant.   before me and my sister drove down to the dinner, I took it upon myself to cut my bangs. they were getting ridiculously long.

it even inspired today's portrait. and there are two things to notice. 1. i always think i'm thinner than i actually am (unless i'm in a dressing room. then all hope is lost and i feel like a killer whale). and 2. I like my bangs short. like almost half way between my hairline and eyebrows short.


bonus realization: 3. the font for my post titles is perfect for today. it totally makes you read it with teen girl squad intonations.

the newest host of the view

sometimes i spend my night thinking about how nice it would be to go to sleep early and actually wake up while it's still morning. but then i remember the view is aired in the morning. and then i hate each woman who hosts that show just a little more as my face contorts into a very serious scowl.

today's portrait is a tribute to my hate for the view.

original unfamily friendly last line: "surrounded by bitches"

midnight postin! yeah!

no art for you today. instead a deep look into my inner workings. well not really that deep.

please enjoy this photo i found in the garage. I'm about 90% sure it's actually me. because the hair looks like mine. by the time my older sister was that age her hair was longer. but we did look really similar when we were little.

packing peanuts!? WTF IS THIS SHIT?

besides bursts of emotion and disbelief, i am also prone to shaking presents to figure out exactly what they are.

i was watching matrix yesterday with the family and at one point we all got really quiet. of course I was the one to break the silence by laughing.  but any-who, what had happened was that we all had the simultaneous thought that my cousin (whose current wardrobe is between mafia and hot topic) is actually aspiring to be keanu reeves.

its really uncomfortable to hold your hands like that. also its weird that keanu does that leg thing. its not cool.

unfortunately he's a bit short and a bit uh.... i dont even know if he owns a computer.