Vinnie and Andy all snuggled up. And the arm of my sparkly red office chair.
Thursday, February 12, 2009
Thursday, February 5, 2009
Hello My Dear Winners,
I'm sorry I've been so late in getting out your fabulous prizes. Hopefully they'll be worth the wait.
Mitzvah Mom's job finally got out the door on the 30th, and not a minute too soon as Jacqueline Sullivan arrived shortly after MM left the house. Jacqueline is staying with me until the 9th. So far I've taken the Official Meandering Book and Geisha Shrine Book. We've had an unofficial metal play day. Yesterday was a trip to Powells' Books and tooting around town. Today we're off to experiment with monoline printing with my friend Colleen and Jaki & Russell Svaren. Tomorrow Jacqueline starts a 3-day teaching stint at Collage.
My hands look atrocious. Between cleaning patina off metal and of course playing with paints in my chartreuse/turquoise palette, I can't get the green out from under & around my fingernails. I'm ready for Halloween, but so many months early!!
Mitzvah Mom's job finally got out the door on the 30th, and not a minute too soon as Jacqueline Sullivan arrived shortly after MM left the house. Jacqueline is staying with me until the 9th. So far I've taken the Official Meandering Book and Geisha Shrine Book. We've had an unofficial metal play day. Yesterday was a trip to Powells' Books and tooting around town. Today we're off to experiment with monoline printing with my friend Colleen and Jaki & Russell Svaren. Tomorrow Jacqueline starts a 3-day teaching stint at Collage.
My hands look atrocious. Between cleaning patina off metal and of course playing with paints in my chartreuse/turquoise palette, I can't get the green out from under & around my fingernails. I'm ready for Halloween, but so many months early!!
Friday, January 30, 2009
Wake Up Early!!
Saturday, January 24, 2009
Borrowed meme
Hello all!
We've finally gotten thru the snow and the subsequent flooding and we've actually had a week of SUN - we weren't expecting that until July!
I've got a Mitzvah Mom who's driving me meshuge (yes, short trip, I know) and she's been keeping me busy. I'm also doing envelopes for our public classical music radio station in trade for being an underwriter sponsor. Everything I know about classical music I learned from Warner Bros. ("Kill the wabbit...") Good thing there wasn't a quiz so they can say "This program sponsored in part by Alesia Zorn Calligraphy..." and then 15 seconds of how brilliant I am.
That's all kept me busy and off the streets. But I've sworn I'm taking the day off so CJ is keeping me off the streets with her meme questions...
Q What item in your home says Alesia lives here?
All the gargoyles? All the pen paraphenalia and antique pens? My lazy ( ! ) on the couch? Oh! I learned a new ( ! ) emoticon from Judy's daughter Cherie - { ! } cellulite ass. Loving that, although sadly too easily recognize that!
Q What is one thing on your living room wall? The Apostolic Benediction and Plenary Indulgence I bought a thrift store for $5. Sing it with me "I'm goin' to hea-ven, I'm goin' to hea-ven." For the non-Catholics in the crowd, it's a get out of jail, go directly to Heaven card. My Methodist-raised husband points out I'm neither Mr. NOR Mrs. William Lee, the names on the Vatican signed and sealed indulgence. I, the avid Law & Order devotee, reply that possession is 9-tenths of the law. St. Peter's down with that, I just know it.
Q What is one thing you have in your house from your childhood? A battered dolphin statue that I love dearly, no matter how many cracks it has.
Q What are three things we'd find in your medicine cabinet? A large selection of band-aids (we're a clumsy household,) advil and tums.
Q What are three things we'd find in your refrigerator? coffee, half & half and behold, the power of cheese
Q If you had to save one thing from your home, what would it be? Pets. The collective.
Q What is the biggest collection in your home? The aforementioned gargoyles, and many, many, many CDS.
Q What is the most embarrassing thing in your home that you hide when guests come over?
Hmm, clients come to my house frequently so it's usually picked up. Maybe the answer is my husband?!
Q What's the best furniture bargain you ever got? The home which houses our furniture. We bought it 6 years ago, it's more than doubled in price.
Q What CD or artist would we find in your player? In the car, The Pogues. In my studio, The Clash. In the bedroom, a rain and thunderstorm CD (we don't get thunderstorms in Portland.)
Q Do you do any snooping of your own when visiting friends? Nope. I don't want to look at my own dust & mess, I don't need to look at theirs!
Who's next?
We've finally gotten thru the snow and the subsequent flooding and we've actually had a week of SUN - we weren't expecting that until July!
I've got a Mitzvah Mom who's driving me meshuge (yes, short trip, I know) and she's been keeping me busy. I'm also doing envelopes for our public classical music radio station in trade for being an underwriter sponsor. Everything I know about classical music I learned from Warner Bros. ("Kill the wabbit...") Good thing there wasn't a quiz so they can say "This program sponsored in part by Alesia Zorn Calligraphy..." and then 15 seconds of how brilliant I am.
That's all kept me busy and off the streets. But I've sworn I'm taking the day off so CJ is keeping me off the streets with her meme questions...
Q What item in your home says Alesia lives here?
All the gargoyles? All the pen paraphenalia and antique pens? My lazy ( ! ) on the couch? Oh! I learned a new ( ! ) emoticon from Judy's daughter Cherie - { ! } cellulite ass. Loving that, although sadly too easily recognize that!
Q What is one thing on your living room wall? The Apostolic Benediction and Plenary Indulgence I bought a thrift store for $5. Sing it with me "I'm goin' to hea-ven, I'm goin' to hea-ven." For the non-Catholics in the crowd, it's a get out of jail, go directly to Heaven card. My Methodist-raised husband points out I'm neither Mr. NOR Mrs. William Lee, the names on the Vatican signed and sealed indulgence. I, the avid Law & Order devotee, reply that possession is 9-tenths of the law. St. Peter's down with that, I just know it.
Q What is one thing you have in your house from your childhood? A battered dolphin statue that I love dearly, no matter how many cracks it has.
Q What are three things we'd find in your medicine cabinet? A large selection of band-aids (we're a clumsy household,) advil and tums.
Q What are three things we'd find in your refrigerator? coffee, half & half and behold, the power of cheese
Q If you had to save one thing from your home, what would it be? Pets. The collective.
Q What is the biggest collection in your home? The aforementioned gargoyles, and many, many, many CDS.
Q What is the most embarrassing thing in your home that you hide when guests come over?
Hmm, clients come to my house frequently so it's usually picked up. Maybe the answer is my husband?!
Q What's the best furniture bargain you ever got? The home which houses our furniture. We bought it 6 years ago, it's more than doubled in price.
Q What CD or artist would we find in your player? In the car, The Pogues. In my studio, The Clash. In the bedroom, a rain and thunderstorm CD (we don't get thunderstorms in Portland.)
Q Do you do any snooping of your own when visiting friends? Nope. I don't want to look at my own dust & mess, I don't need to look at theirs!
Who's next?
Tuesday, December 23, 2008
Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow
... or not. Good grief, it just isn't letting up here. Today is day NINE of some sort of snowfall. We've accumulated over a foot of snow. I can hear those of you in snowy climes laughing at my whining, to which I reply - the next time the snow plow and/or sander drives by your house, run out and hug the driver. Really.
Portland is severely underequipped for the maybe 2 or 3 snow days we get scattered throughout a typical winter. Nine straight days hasn't happened in over 40 years. The only way my street will see a snow plow is if it's being driven by The Four Horsemen of the Apocolypse. Here's my poor little car, which last saw movement last Thursday. Poor baby. I'm just sooo grateful Safeway is a 3 block walk!
Friday, December 19, 2008
Perspective
Just read Judy's blog where she discusses the -15 wind chill in N. Dakota being a warm up. That ain't right, that just ain't right. I feel much better about our weather in Portland.
I was going to write my big bitch about the weather, but I'm listening to the post office workers getting ready to head out onto our icy streets and sidewalks. I'm very fortunate I don't have any place to be.
I was going to write my big bitch about the weather, but I'm listening to the post office workers getting ready to head out onto our icy streets and sidewalks. I'm very fortunate I don't have any place to be.
Sunday, December 14, 2008
Snow in Oregon
What the heck have I been doing for the past month? Working, I'm happy to report. Until this week, when I got a wicked cold. I believe I'll live to tell the tale. It's a nice time to be snowed in at home. We started getting snow at 8am and it's still going now at almost 2:30. I know this isn't that impressive to my friends & family in snowier climes, but we're not equipped for snow here. Glad I don't have to go anywhere this week!
I did pull on jeans under my nightshirt and throw a jacket on over that lovely ensemble to get this for you... my Buddha in the clawfoot tub in our backyard.
Today is very pretty but I'll be very happy to see may come around again!
I did pull on jeans under my nightshirt and throw a jacket on over that lovely ensemble to get this for you... my Buddha in the clawfoot tub in our backyard.
Today is very pretty but I'll be very happy to see may come around again!
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