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(sorry I cut off the top, wanted to show the info-same with below)

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My blog page when clicked opens up a new tab on your browser window and my resume well just brings up my resume on the right. I am overall satisfied with it, a few tweaks here and there - create a patterned background, add more color, maybe add a java script and figure out how to make my background scroll further down, but that is another day's work.

...i just need the pixie dust

It's a rainy day & I am just sitting here at the shop staring out the window            
 ...pondering.
I'm supposed to be studying for linear algebra final but my mind just does not want to retain anything.


Lately my life has been evolving so rapidly I do not know what to make of it.
A few doors have been slammed in my face but for each one of those a new one has opened, greeting me with opportunities that I could not even imagine.

I need to learn to be patient, it is so hard when I have such a blunt personality. I like to lay things out on the table per-say and get straight to the point. I get misjudged by this; that tends to happen too much but oh well, I am starting not to care about that anymore.


The best way to describe how I feel right now, and it is cheesy as hell but, I feel like I am blossoming. "I'm spreading my wings" haha. But it is so true. I am going with the flow and trying to not worry about things too much. I am breaking down a barrier that I have and letting my true self shine through. Maybe it is all the positive thinking I have been doing lately. I have been trying to just roll with the punches and not let one little mishap bring my whole mood/day(week) down & I feel that I am the happiest I have been in a long while. Granted I have my days but overall, I love where my life is going - I do not know exactly where but I like it & each day holds something unexpected.

decipher me.

I:   bite the inside of mouth and cheeks a lot

     smile lately with a half-smirk

     place my fingers over my mouth; mainly when online

     in social situations, cup my glass close to my chest/windpipe & when standing I tend to point my feet together


lately my interest in learning about body language has heightened. I am not sure why,  just more intrigued. I have noticed that many of my own actions speak louder than my words.

I also found out that people with darker irises are perceived to be better looking due to it giving the effect that their pupils are dilated...so tip, keep this lights off & I now will be looking for that eyebrow flash.






Oh, I also have not made much artwork lately because I have been quite stressed with...well everything. But I have made an ah-mazing spring salad.

'cause they were there

 

'God Wouldn't Stay Dead'

acrylic & graphite on paper

2011

I made a 'hide-a-book' for a Christmas gift, you know the ones that have their innards cut out so you can hide nifty stuff...yeah that kind. Therefore I have all these torn out pages. I found the book at Goodwill, "Confessions of a Catholic Priest," quite epic. So these are just me trying to use them creatively while chilling and watching 'Breakout Kings.' I just played with the words I found and composed the pages accordingly.

wisdom.

'Wisdom: I loved her...'

acrylic on canvas

2011

One belated Christmas present down, one to go! My sister wanted a painting from her wedding photos so yeah, it is their wedding rings and a segment from the book of Wisdom. I kinda got lost after awhile with all the grays and white but it is a painting not a photo so it can have freedom from perfection and have a human quality to it. Or at least that's my theory. Next is Nik's, my nephew aka Pickles, quilt.

Another painting I did for Christmas was one for my padre. I completed it in a day and got irritated with the background so not my best work but still pretty epic.

'Favre (aka Glory Days)'

acrylic on canvas

2010 (not the greatest photo but eh)

 

some say I am rad...

ha.

it may be because I know the Napoleon Dynamite dance...

 

or that I may bust out some moves from Shakira (1:11 for sure was seen on Halloween)

I by no means am saying I can dance good, but yeah.
Other song I love to dance to are No Scrubs: TLC, Nelly Furtado: Maneater and lately when Black Eyed Peas: Just Can't Get Enough comes on the radio when I am driving, yeah, sight to be seen. ha.

I am still trying to learn this dance, or at least some moves from it...

 

Other than watching youtube videos and wanting to dance I finished another piece.

'Untitled'

acrylic on canvas

2011

Originally I envisioned like a mauve/pink instead of the light parchment color but I think my detest for red killed that. Usually I go with my intuition and stick to my first thought but I eased into a comfortable palette and am quite happy with the end result. 

superfluous.

On my mind:
   - my eyelashes; I can feel them touch my eyelids, quite bothersome.
   - fall semester; schedule classes.
   - create, create, create; and not just stuff I still need to get done but expand my horizons, test my creativity.
   - food; going to attempt an eggplant pizza recipe I found at work.
   - apartment search, still.
   - urge to dance.


I will keep this short due to my fear of being judged. But anyways, I really need to get back on track for working out, my spring break was too jam packed with stuff that I did not have time to make it to the odd gym hours. I caught up on a few other things; worked on a few paintings, cleaned, cut out hundreds of quilt patches, did some hardcore napping and now back to classes.

Here is one of the pieces I made:

 

'Vague.'

acrylic, gesso, graphite (and hairspray)

2011

it came about from a typography project I did and developed from there. It's nothing much, quite a play on words; love the font and the process - I was quite at ease making it, not flustered or worried about what the end project would but just went with it. Really like the human quality to it as well; I chose to leave my smudges and measure marks to give it a raw effect and show the process - plus I really love to mix gesso and graphite.