pink is in... my carpet

red koolaid added an interesting twist to my weekend... with a few short minutes left before i was to retire to my bed at 3.00 in the morning on saturday my good friend jon decided to 'accidentally' spill red koolaid all over my dining room table and carpet. oops. well that led to an exciting hour of cleaning in which we soaked the table cloth in the sink and scrubbed the carpet, as well as rifled through some very pink and very wet papers that had been on the table.

for now i consider it funny...

when i try to move out of this apartment with a relatively large pink stain in the middle of the carpet they may not feel the same way.

..to each their own i suppose.

Have a cow!

So last night I didn't necessarily have your run of the mill friday night in autumn. Sure I went on a hayride and watched people roast some marshmallows, but then there was that part where I toured a farm that has over 1300 cows, and produces about let's say 12,500 gallons of milk daily. I also was fortunate enough to be there at the precise time that one of said cows was delivering a calf.

It was such a cool experience for me, and the entire group that we were with. It was like being on the discovery channel. My friend hatch who is never without his camera documented the entire event. From the hoof first, diving entrance into the world to the momma cow licking off her little calf. It was a boy by the way. Not the best news for a farm that makes there living off of milk, but what a cool experience. Within thirty minutes the calf could stand up on it's own. It was an awestriking experience for me, but an everyday experience for Jeremy the guy who runs the calf section of the farm.

It's a Grey kind of Day

Recently I purchased the original soundtrack of Grey's Anatomy. (TV Show, Sundays, 9:00 PM, ABC). I do believe that I have blogged about the show before (ref: April 25, 2005). I love the soundtrack. Mellow but crisp. A few bands i know and several that i don't. I could listen to it all day, and I practically did today. Yay, for having an informal classroom where you can listen to your music and the students are different every 45 minutes so if you play it again they will never know. Oh, and yay for shows that hook me by playing the postal service in their commercials and hiring people that are in touch with some excellent music. YAY!

On a side note, tonight is the last of the freshman volleyball games before they will be split into helping out the JV on various nights this weekend. P.S. We just got our medals today from the first tournament that they were in, a month and a half ago. So I'm wearing some pretty nice bling around my neck right now. Just thought you should know... I'm lookin' good and sittin pretty. wink wink.

painting is silent poetry... poetry is eloquent painting

My little brother is going to be giving me a large canvas this saturday for me to paint a picture for him. Now he says that he really doesn't care what I paint, but I care and he isn't really helping, so I was wondering if you the good people who read my blog would have any suggestions. Greg loves his car, and so I was thinking of doing something with that... but cars... eh. Maybe abstract with just color? I don't know. Give me some ideas people.

Seeing Red

I actually learned about myself last week at school. I have been stuck in a blue and green (mostly blue) phase with my painting for so long I can't remember anything else... Last week I was having a bad day. The students were driving me nuts. To relax myself I started to do a drawing during the seventh hour study hall that I babysit, and I ended up not being able to stop on it. I by happenstance grabbed a red colored pencil out of the box and simply fell in love with it for the rest of the afternoon. I drew a girls face, no real expression, but all in red. A beautifully intense red. I could not get enough of it. I'm back on blue, but man if I led a troubled life my art would be in a completely different class.

Ok here's my new invention. I think that they should make mood paintings that change color to reflect your mood. How awesome would that be. Bill Gates had those ones that changed to your favorite when you would enter the room, I could do the same thing but with color. All I need is 1 million dollars, some brains, and a prototype.