CherryTwisterSuckerPop

[avad]

I present to you the latest in silly hairdos...I will call it the CherryTwisterSuckerPop. Much like my LoopBraided-BirdofParadise (LB-bop) but much easier to create while tipsy. Twist, double up, secure w/cherries and fan out the 'featherflops', Wa-LA!.;)



Add stripey socks and blue boots to otherwise dull outfit and I feel a bit more ready for... Somethin(!?)
After a strange moody day of Inexpressibles, this was quite needed. At first my mood was Railing against leaving my hermitage(as per usual)....but finally I got some work done...and felt able to trick/treat myself into some social sillyfun with B and friends.
Occassion? Bday party and house-warming gathering of some friends we hadn't seen in a while next town over. We dressed up and brought an electric blinking cake-slice and a big plastic salamander (as per the custom of our homeland).
I accepted my sweet hostess Joanna's 'house-drink' dubbed the 'Red Ass'. If I know these two, it probably has a bit to do with some spanking ritual I'd best never ask about. Her hubby JoJo (with cake in his ear)introduced us finally to all the reptiles and amphibians they own. Lots of silky small snakes and a velvety leopard gecko I took a liking to.Then he had a 'talkin-to' us about buying a house (they just bought that one)and I don't know what to think. On the one hand he's admitting that it's Absolutely Killing him, he has 3 jobs and is Miserable...and then he's saying we have to DO IT NOW because it's the only way you'll make any money in this place (selling it in a few years). Eek. The talk was scary. His eyes!*sigh* rent and mortgages and jobs ohMY.
Later I had a Really good heart-to-heart with my girlie Meg. So much I'm just learning about her. Ugh, what a sweetie. *sigh* Wish I could wave a magic wand and make now easier for her. She has some Awesome art ideas that I can see she's going to channel a lot of it into which is good....but will also be a difficult process in its continued focus on areas of lingering pain. Hope it can be an exorcism of sorts.

My allergies were going nuts because of the dogs and finally we had to leave but it was worth it.
Even with my red ass hangover this morn.;)

Comments

[unluckymonkey.livejournal.com]

AWESOME hair, dear. You ALmost make me want mine back. But why bother when I can just look at it on you? And, DHU you're way cuter than I hotstuff. ;)Buying a house IS always a good idea as renting is like throwing your money away but it's be better to buy in a place that won't break you and is ina neighborhood that is up and coming instead of "there." I'm sure you know all this. Someplace with "character" that needs a little fix-em-up but not so much that you're lost at sea. Homes are insanely cheap ehre! :) You could live for a song and then use all the money you save to travel across the US marketing your work! :) Not buying it are ya? :(

[avad.livejournal.com]

Sah helpme, if I hear One more of those self-deprecating "I'm not cute" fishin-for-compliments nonsense outta your ridiculouslycute-and-you-know-it mouth, you're gonna git the whopping you deserve!
Now, on to the house thingie.
*sigh* It's all trade-offs, I know. But it's really hard to put a value on what I feel here. I think it's worth so much. And moving away may make it financially easier in only some ways (expenses but not income). I lived in Lousiana for a while...paid Nothin in rent, made Nothin at jobs, had no real arena/support structure for my art. Vicious cycle.

And then, like I said, there are the things you can't put a dollar sign on...like how I feel safe here...how I can sit at my magic bay...and I have 'special spots' all over the place. How it's a mixture of country and culture...with fields and open spaces and a network of artists and musician friends who I've gotten to know over years and years...How I can both retreat and come out every once in a while...
I have friends who moved away so they could have a big house for less than you'd pay for a shack here...but for me....home is the whole township and all these immeasurable things and I'm really happily entangled here.

[unluckymonkey.livejournal.com]

Oh I'm not sayin I'm not cute at all jsut that I think YOU're cuter of course! Cause I think you are. :)

Yeah I'm worried about losing the living space we ahve here if we were to move. I ahve space to do anything I like and DO ahve a total freedom from social requirements. there being none here whatsoever. But a network of people who know and understand me and people with which to hang out would be a nice change and one has to give something up for that. I fantasize that we could move away, I could make connections in chicago, then we could move back to this loft as I love it so but I'd ahve the resources etc to make a living visiting chicago regularly and the ability to get into culture etc there w/o having the cramped living space for a bazillion dollars. happiness is worth more than owning a place any day. It's true. I jsut hope someday I can find a place where there's a good balance for me. :)