How Odd

As I take down my Christmas Tree and retrieve the gifts which have been lying wistful under it for the past several weeks it occurs to me as i look at the bounty that I’ve reached a crossroads in my life.

I received awesome presents this year, however I have a cardboard box one foot square full of items which have made it extremely clear that I’ve become “that person”

Namely "that person" you don’t know what to buy for.

Here is a list of the items that tipped me off (mostly because these are the things I buy people when I don’t know what the hell to get them):
3 tropical fish Christmas Tree Ornaments
3 other misc Tree Ornaments
3 Boxes of Chocolate
3 Bottles of Red Wine
1 gift box of 6 french organic soaps
1 gift set of Jolly Orange Body Shop Products
1 Gift set of Pink Grapefruit Body Shop products
2 loofahs
Hemp Hand cream
Lip Gloss
A Back Scrubber
Peppermint Foot Moisturizer
Carrot Moisturizer (what do I use this for???)
3 bottles of scented hand sanitizer.
1 Karma Bath Bomb from Lush
1 Karma soap from Lush
1 Black Currant soap from Lush (Its the Jelly one?)
8 nail files
1 nail buffer

……. yeah. Either people are trying to tell me I have a massive BO Problem and need to take better care of my hygiene or I need to get a new hobby where all the paraphernalia isn’t expensive as hell.

*sniff Sniff*….. *Shrugs* Smells good to me.

And don’t get me wrong I totally love the gifts (I love the expensive smelly shit and now I can smell yummy all year! Oh boy!), after all I think a lot of thought must have gone into them since there isn’t one scent there that I don’t love. (Smells I hate include: fake chocolate, vanilla, and rose. Kudos on the citrus, hemp, pachouli and yummy black currant)

So maybe I haven’t become “that person" after all. Maybe people just know that I like to take showers with awesome smelling bath products, could send all day at the Aquarium section of the Zoo, and that I like to eat chocolates and drink red wine.

Yeah lets go with that.


-K


"And so it is
The shorter story
No love, no glory
No hero in her sky”

-Damien Rice “the Blower’s Daughter"

Romance

I’ve always considered myself a romantic and I’m a strong believer in fate. Then again I’ve grown up with the fairy tail blind date meeting of my parents at one Winter Ball thirty-one years ago.

He was a handsome university graduate bachelor in his late twenties, she was living at home, her twin sister married off the previous summer. Their parents were friends and needless to say desperate to get them married off, so that they could start with the baby making.

Hence the plot was hatched. The Winter ball was coming up, and my father would only go if he had a date, so one was arranged. They met, they danced, and my father came home and told his sister that he has found “the one”.

A year passes during which the had a some what long distance relationship

Then 30 years ago to this day my father pulls up in front of the local jewelry store and says lovingly to my mother “ I hear I should have gotten you a ring for Christmas, so we gonna get a ring or wha?”


Hey, I never said my dad was the romantic, but apparently that was ok by my mother because she said yes.


-K

“Doubt thou the stars are fire,
Doubt that the sun doth move,
Doubt truth to be a liar,
But never doubt I love.”

-William Shakespeare

Thank god for Apple

I have never been so happy in my life to have purchased an apple product and signed up for the Apple Care Protection Plan! I know there were some nawsayers out there who protested my purchase, some who even out right laughed in my face. "Your paying an extra $300 dollars for a protection plan on a Mac? but they hardly have any problems!!! You crazy.”

However when my adapter (you know that thing that powers my MacBook Pro AKA Baby Computron) decided not to work on Christmas Eve I was at a loss. So I call up my good buddies at Apple and kindly asked for a new one. And low and Behold! They said sure! where would you like it sent? No Charge! Just send us back the old one in a box that we will prepay.

I never got service like that with my PC!

Hot Damn.

Did I mention that when I went to the Apple Store in Toronto they fixed my computer problems ( I lacked apple dvd player on my mac for some reason…weird I hope I didn’t delete it.. :s ) at the genius bar while I waited (approx 5 minutes?) Now THATS What I’m talkin’ bout!

-K

"Once you go Mac, you never go back.”
-Me

Done Suckers

I don’t know what I was worried about. I finished that last commission in 2 hours and then had a nap (damn I’m good)

I checked my mail today for the first time in 3 days. I had 3 Christmas Cards and a gift ( I hope its slippers!). JACKPOT. Booyah gonna be a merry christmas indeed.

-K

"So raise your glass if you are wrong
In all the right ways
All my underdogs, we will never be, never be
Anything but loud
And nitty gritty dirty little freaks
Won't you come on, and come on, and
Raise your glass”

-Pink “Raise your glass"

Portrait

I have to finish my last Christmas Commission in the next 2 days for it to be picked up on Christmas Eve…and all I want to do is anything but draw…. Shhhhiiiiiiiiiiiittt. So many Christmas Specials I am missing. So much yummy egg nog not in my belly… sigh.. ok so in the mean time here’s new favourite song: Check it Out

-K

"Snowflakes in the air
Carols everywhere
Olden times and ancient rhymes
Of love and dreams to share”

Charlie Brown Christmas - Christmas Time is Here

wow I’m a slacker

Ok sooo I know is been a while, and I have no one to blame but my own laziness. Actually I have nothing to blame but my own hectic social life, which by the way was rather awesome and the fact that I pretty much destroyed my old laptop last spring and it took me awhile to remember all my internet commitments.

However, recent events that were put in motion by my arch nemesis (AKA figure skating) jumping through a rip in the space time continuum to the time when my body was at the tender age of six. There it attacked me in the most horridness way to insure that in the here and now, I would be most pitifully injured through the natural aging process. Bastard.

Not to be one to be one to focus on the negative (I’m sure the pain killers helped), I’ve spent little of the past 3 months of which I’ve been bed ridden depressed. Instead I spent the time bettering myself for the time when I shall be ready to face the world again.

Week 1-2: I caught up on pretty much every television show I’ve ever watched or wanted to watch.

Week 3: Started doing cross stitch (quickly lost interest) Ordered all my Christmas gifts online.

Week 4: Moved on to video games, and contemplated going back to school.

Week 5: Starting doing crossword puzzles and other puzzle games to insure that my brain did indeed keep functioning incase I decided to go back to school)

Week 6-7: Got commissions for some portraits, and processed to adjust my style so that I could create while lying down. Draw and watch ever home decorating show on television

Week 8: Sign up for NetFlix once I started to redecorate people’s homes in my head. Contacted my school of choice to discuss the program of choice.

Week 9: Watched a lot of movies

Week 10: Finally decided to get my act together when it comes to making money with my art. Ordered a tablet. Started creating business cards and contacted a friend who actually gets paid to help people start their business and another whose an accountant (who knew I had connections? *shrugs*)

Week 11: Wrapped presents and watched every Christmas Special EVER. Waiting for santa (Please bring me an ipod touch!)


I’m not really sure what to expect in the upcoming weeks, I’m getting better little by little so I don’t really care as long as things keep heading in this direction.

What I do know is that I have 4 portrait orders for the new year and 2 large painting orders and a request from an organization to donate a portrait for their online auction. so I guess every cloud has its silver lining. I probably wouldn’t have taken the time out of my schedule to get this project off the ground if this hadn’t happened. And since my new business is going to be named after this site I figure you’ll be seeing a lot more of me.

-K

"Oh we could do it any way you want
We only like you cause you're cute and young
You gotta work what daddy gave you, son
Go on and show me that you know how to use it
And do your duty
And get on the floor
Don't make a fuss just do it
Look out I'm fixing to thrill”

-Dragonette: Fixin’ to Thrill

Been a while

Wow its been awhile since I've posted anything... hmmm let me give you the run down on why. So I ended a almost 6 year long relationship, don't worry no hard feelings it just had to happen. However because of that I had to move, and quit my job and find a new job, and pack up my stuff (in a week) and unpack my stuff, repack my stuff and finally store most of my stuff, and finish my commission (which took a while cause I couldn't find my paints) and basically rethink my entire life/future.

Wow its been a busy couple of months.

Besides all that I didn't just move home and sit around my parent's basement I did the in the Run for the Cure in October (and yes it was a miserable cold sunday), took up the guitar (I can now play four songs in the finger picking style and 4 in the traditional strumming working on my 5th), Joined a gym, Lost 7 pounds (and counting), took up the sport of Curling (which by the way is soo much fun its crazy) and now am a regular volunteer with the local division of Junior Achievement and I am an advisor to the Company Program (that's right folks I'm helping to mold the future leaders of tomorrow, MUWHAHAHAHAHA!).

Hmm what else? Well I feel more productive and happy then I have in a really really long time. Positive out looks only and am really curious to see what the future has in store. After all if anything the past couple of months have taught me that you can't plan anything, just let the possibilities and fate guild you and you'll always find your way.


-K

"I wanna live life and never be cruel.
I wanna live life and be good to you.
And I wanna fly and never come down.
And live my life and have friends around."

-Coldplay "We never change"