Fire revisited....

....the doors the firemen have kicked down have mostly been replaced now. The apartment that caught fire's still boarded up.

This morning I looked into the dumpster the Insurance guys put out to throw the ruined doors and frames and such.

They've started to throw out the burnt belongings of the woman whose apartment it was. A badly singed papa-san chair. What looks like a twisted air-conditioner. Clothing. It was very sobering, very heartbreaking. She literally lost everything she owned.

I feel lucky not to have been in the same boat. There but for the grace of some really good fire-walls go I.....

Cruising the Blick catalog....

*drool drool drool*

OOoh, they have bound notebooks that don't buckle if you use watercolors....

It gives meeee....a cunning plan.....

Art supplies: the ongoing addiction...

I stumbled onto the Blick Papermaking section....
*Insert avaricious whimpering noises here*

I keep wanting more space to work in. Space I can't really afford since rents are still pretty high in the Cities.
*Moneymaking circuits cut in--I could get a second job be more agressive about marketing hang onto various landlord's ankles and scream until they give in or call the cops beg knock over convenience stores offer my fortunetelling services to the rich and famous steal the Board member's BMW's and sell them to chop shops sell kisses make a big green Mojo bag whine snivel cry beg whiiiiiiiine....*
I'm lucky; I know I am, lots of people have it worse so I shouldn't be such a covetous creature....

Okay, what I really want is one of those Lowertown Loft-spaces. I covet those spaces with an intensity usually reserved for chocolate and bath goop; always have from the moment I laid eyes on them. It's sad. The lifetime goal I've been working for my adult life is to have such a space to work and show work in. I get closer with every year.
But I'm not there yet.

And that freaking catalog doesn't help, with alllll the lovely things I could fill such a space with....

More spring rolls....

Unckiephill and I had lunch at the Lotus today...I brought my art catalog and we drooled over things a little...and he gave me a belated X-mas present. (I'll save that for a later post.) With it was a card saying,"WARNING;FAIRY DUST IN USE BEYOND THIS POINT!" with a stick figure, complete with fairy wings spreading glitter around....

Unckie Phill, You're the best Older Brother I never had....

*Budgeting for stuff*

Just playing with the calculator and my paychecks...I'm doing better than I thought financially lately. (Eating a lot of peanut butter probably doesn't hurt.)

Now once I ditch some of the stupid extra crap Qwest is making me pay for (ha!)....