i'm feeling lucky...

it's been a long time, been a long time...

i'll wear my badge: a vinyl sticker with big block letters aherent to my chest that tells your new friends i am a visitor here: i am not permanent.

yesterday was my last day of Art In New York summer class. woopteeDOO is all i have to say about that. i am so glad it's over. no more trekking my ass around the city in the sun and heat aquiring a headache within 15 minutes (and lasting all night).

my final assignment was a 3-5 page paper on a museum of my choice. i chose the Philadelphia museum of art. tommy and i went last thursday and it was uber-fun. we perused through their permanent collection - all the while i was trying to figure out what the hell i'm going to say in my paper. cause critiquing a museum isn't as easy or brainless as it sounds. cause the place is huge and it's hard to really focus and observe everything you should be, especially when you go in there, not knowing what the direction of the paper is. so i took lots of pictures which i ended up not even using in my presentation. i had planned on making slides, but it's a good thing i didn't i would have looked like such a geek - no one else had any visuals.
on the first day of class the professor handed out a sheet of museums to choose from or we could suggest one ourselves. so yesterday he went down the list as the order in which we would present. and since i suggested one myself, i had to go last! LAST! and i hated every minute of it. being last sucked cause everyone went over their 5 minutes so i was up there with everyone dying to get out of class. so i think it really had a negative effect on how i presented.
BUT i don't exactly care. that damn paper is overwith and i can actually start having a summer! which i am so excited for!

lots of stuff happening. where to start. little things first.
seamus is now three months and one week old. he weighs 12 lbs. he is getting alot better with the biting, but he's still pretty spazzy. he's only had about 5 humping episodes. and they were pretty mild. haha. gross.
ok now real news.
carl and jasmine are having a baby! whee! i am pretty damn excited about this actually. they will be very cute parents. it's still pretty weird for me to imagine carl having a baby... and being a dad. but i think it will suit him when the time comes. and needeless to say, jasmine will be a great mommy.
so they found an apartment in what i guess is considered edison. they start to move next week. i'm gonna be the only one left here. the last of the baby chickens. but i can start to set up a little work station for myself down here in the basement. i'll unpack my drawing table and all my crap and set it back up. it'll be nice to have a spot besides my room, again. and carl might be leaving the computer here and getting another one so that will buy me some time before i have to get my laptop.
SO!

oh! my nephew, michael, just turned four. FOUR! i can't believe he's 4 already!

today tommy and i are taking out dad's to a trenton thunder game. we got tickets for them for father's day. it's going to be a rizzo-mickelsen fusion! so trenton had better win cause they are the minor league yankees and both of out fathers are huge yankee fans. so it should be lots of fun :) iv'e been looking forwad to it. i AM looking forward to it... as i sit here, still in my pajamas, eating a toblerone bar and drinking coffee.
i am a picture of health.

chris is having a party of sorts at his house and it was supposed to be saturday but now it's moved to tomorrow. and since i've gotten really lazy lately, i cant remember if i'm working tomorrow. i think i am, until 8:30 and so it tommy so we'll see if we can make it. i don't see why not.
but apparently now the party is themed. so we may be dressing up... all of this, tommy has yet to find out.
and speaking of work, i am leaving the flower station. and while i'm going to be paid more at KaBloom, and do much more design work for weddings and such, i'm pretty upset about leaving. :( i really like the people i work with in princeton and anglea has been such a cool boss. i'm sure the people at kabloom will be nice too, they all seem like they are. i just hope i'm not working with a bunch of high-schoolers or 18 year olds. bah. so this weekend might just be my last weekend there. cause i should be starting at kabloom on the 6th, or so, of july.
i'm gonna cry!

i can't wait for the 4th. it's one of my favorite hilidays, but for some reason, it often ends up being shitty. last years was horrible. i was just so angry all night.

so then the 5th, angela and i are going into ny to fabric shop for the dress i'm making for her. i'm psyched to be making something that i know will come out great and that someone will actually wear. years of making pointless garments for class that only fit a dressform is just somehow unsatisfying. angela has a wedding back home in england in september so i have just about 2 months to finish it.
i'm also making a skirt to wear to tom's cousin john's wedding. and that's at the end of july so i really need to get working on that. it's looking good so far, it's draped already, mostly... yikes. i'm not the most focused when it comes to doing things for myself.

so that's about it.
i'm off.


"i'll be the fire escape that's bolted to the ancient brick where you will sit and contemplate your day."