Ordinary Is Extraordinary...12/24/2011

Not having a 9-5 allows me to spend my days like this....

And this couch I'm sitting on,

Poof! It's gone!

Sorry Lexi, I just couldn't stand to have 2 couches and a bench

in my living room......

Ordinary Is Extraordinary...12/13/2011

Zen moments in productivity...

Ordinary Is Extraordinary...12/04/2011

Daily existential crisis.....

 

Ordinary Is Extraordinary...12/01/2011

If you were a fly on my wall, 

you would see the dynamic of my relationship with chaton,

and then,

ohhhhh say about 2:30 in the afternoon, 

you'd see me, at my desk, with my feet up, leisurely reading...

Leisure being the key word here....

Ordinary Is Extraordinary...11/29/2011

...Yea, so, I've been away for awhile....I've had a major change of pace, 

as in, I was laid off from THE best job ever!

So, while I'm not working, I'm relaxing....

And while I've been away from my computer for quite some time now, I thought I'd

start to fill you in again on the every day things that make me soooo happy...

like, well, you can see for yourself.....

One for the road....

Today is the last day, for now, at the best job EVER.

Cheers to Geyrhalter and Co.!

One last coffee for the road.......

Ordinary is Extraordinary...10/26/11

So, I've been making a list,

of things I can do

now that I'll be unemployed,

well kind of....

I'm kinda looking forward to some free time....

Ordinary is Extraordinary...10/25/11

What is cool...?

This is pretty fucking cool....

I found it on the interweb...

Just an idea for another self-portrait,

perhaps.....

Ordinary is Extraordinary...10/24/11

Chaton,

he loves me sooo much,

he brought me a present-

a mouse....

Now that,

that's real love.....

Ordinary is Extraordinary...10/21/11

Kind of a juxtaposition...

but both have to do with

self-discovery/existential crisis....

And by the way,

Kate Blanchett plays a villain quite well....

Ordinary is Extraordinary...10/19/11

There are two sides, at least, to every story....

Here's one side of the tale,

through the eyes of chaton....

Ordinary is Extraordinary...10/12/11

Design and Branding,

That's the creative environment I am immersed in,

daily...

So much so that I took the initiative

to make our own dice to decide where to lunch

around here,

from these blank dice I found at the Urban Craft Center

up the street....

My boss was amused.

Ordinary is Extraordinary...10/11/11

My favorite time

is alone time....

A bit slow on the weekend update,

I know....

but you too know that I tend to run behind....

Probably because my head is mostly always in the clouds...

Some of my peeps....

For those who see me regularly,

you know that my boss comes up in conversation regularly.

If he was your boss, you too would talk about him as I do....

What can I say?

I'm in a pretty good place here at G&Co....

Thanks Fabian!

Ordinary is Extraordinary...10/05/11

I'd like to think that while I am away at work,

that chaton is up on my night stand, trying to see what

my Carl Jung book has to say about his dreams.....

Pardon my French here, but I really gotta get this off my chest.

FUCK CUPCAKES.

Unless you were made by my cousin Megan.

Otherwise you are probably dry and flavorless,

except for the frosting, for which I feel puffy afterwards....

Ahhhh, glad to get that off my chest....

Ordinary is Extraordinary...10/04/11

The sky was all sortsa colors

while I was driving home

so I stopped to memorialize this moment

on a strip of silver halide crystals and emulsion....

my ancestors

probably would not have done

such a thing.....

Some of my peeps....

Some more peeps from my posse...

I usually have dinner with them on Tuesday eve....

always a delight....

Ordinary is Extraordinary...09/26/11

I really think this image says it all.

Ordinary is Extraordinary...09/22/11

Keepin' it cool....

Some of my peeps...

So, I've realized, I know a lotta cool peeps.

So I thought I'd tell you 'bout them.

Starting with Rhea and Dan, because I just recently joined them on a field trip to the farmers market last Sunday.

So, these are my peeps: Rhea and Dan....

Ordinary Is Extraordinary...Monday, September 19, 2011

My teeeveee has been non-functional for almost 3 weeks.

When I turn it on, it shows this really neat pattern and emits a really cool glow

when all the lights are off....

But when I don't turn it on, I lay around reading magazines and think

about all the words I consume every day...

Sometimes I write them down.

And if I had time to relax, that is how I imagine I'd look....

Ordinary is Extraordinary...09/07/11

In sequence, part of my weekend looked something like this....

P.S. Don't take the brick-laying literally.

Ordinary is Extraordinary...09/02/11

Straight from the source....

I've been at the beach these past coupla days,

being hypnotized by the beckoning of the Pacific,

scribbling each moment of that lunch hour,

so that it becomes permanent;

in this little black book at least....

Ordinary is Extraordinary...08/22/11

Yes, my weekend was full of girl talk....

and cat naps dreaming of warm hugs....

Ordinary is Extraordinary...08/19/11

Hands free...again,

taking some time away from all the information

on the interweb...

I stopped to illustrate a few things,

for you....

Ordinary is Extraordinary...08/17/11

Ordinarily extraordinary:

-Wearing a ruffly yellow dress on a gloomy day in August; whimsical, no?

-reading vintage paperbacks (Ms. Joan Didion, where have you been all my life...?)

-staring at the clouds looking for nothing

Ordinary is Extraordinary...08/12/11

Here's a little bit of advice (not that you need it) I thought I'd share for the weekend...

Kind of inspired by Rhea....

Ordinary is Extraordinary...08/11/11

Ordinary is Extraordinary...08/08/11

So, I like to think about the things we carry around with us, and what they say about who we are; kinda the way we'd look at old artifacts from ancient civilizations and try to understand who they were...though with all the documenting we do today, there won't be as much to try and piece together. We'll have vaults and vaults of information of our lives, from what we ate for every meal, to how many times we sneezed!

Anyhow, this is what I usually carry around with me...

The other two elements are left-over from this weekend...

Ordinary is Extraordinary...08/05/11

Not much time to myself this week, I haven't had much time to draw,

I've been coming home every evening going straight to bed...

Retail therapy, always comforting on those blue days....

I drew this for you on my computer, pencil free...

Ordinary is Extraordinary...07/27/11

Happy Birthday to me...

A few things that make me so happy: mint in my coffee while listening to records....

For your listening pleasure...#2

Whoa!

Twice in one day!!

For your listening pleasure...

Soooo.....I finally got around to sharing playlists, via playlist.com....

So, anyhow, I made this list last Friday as I was wrapping up my day at work, looking forward to the weekend commencing the celebration of another year of yours truly.....

So I thought I'd share with you some of my current favorites, some old some new....

Happy early Birthday to me!!

Ordinary is Extraordinary...07/21/11

Welcome to my work in a week....

Ordinary is Extraordinary...07/18/11

The leisurely life.....

Ordinary is Extraordinary...07/11/11

Another long gap in between posts ...

A brief coffee break from my staring contest with the monitor

while my fingers get their workout on the keyboard

and I click away at the mouse,

sometimes along to the beat of the music provided by my boss....

I feel sometimes like I've become one with the computer,

so when I start to feel pixelated,

I head over to the beach....

Ordinary is Extraordinary...07/01/11

Yea....I've given less attention to the sketch book, but I have learned a few things recently, which kinda explains my drawings, w ell not so much kitty and my shoes, that's just me being observant....

But, so, I learned that often, what you're looking for is right under your nose....

Also, I have a pretty great job, in case you forgot, and one of the things that makes it so great is my boss. Yea, he may ask for perfection, but in that process of perfection in his name, it allows for me to learn from the many challenges I encounter, so thank you Fabian.

Ordinary is Extraordinary...06/21/11

Today is the first day of summer.

The 172nd day of the Gregorian Calendar.

Today, and mostly every other day of the year for me at home looks like this...

except not quite grey....maybe I'll use my colored pencils next time....

Ordinary is Extraordinary...06/17/11

Sometimes we fall,

and it's cool, so long as you can pick yourself up and carry on...

I got scraped knees- something I've always been afraid of by just the mere thought...

But after I got up, I took this as an opportunity to reflect upon this little trip and see it as a very cliché metaphor in life.

But, there's always something to be learned from these little moments you don't usually want to remember, so of course I had to stop and snap a picture, as a reminder.....; AND a little scuff makes me look tough....

Ordinary is Extraordinary...06/15/11

Books have been quite the distraction from my pencil making acquaintance to the paper in my sketchbook, but when I finally got down to it, I felt like my weekend was too good to skip...

I played Badminton with cousins this weekend, which was soooo much fun!

More sporting weekends to come I hope....

I've also been reading, listening to, rather, the Hunter S. Thompson bio, Outlaw Journalist, by William McKeen, it's been great company on my long drives to and from work; so I've truly grown to love and admire HST's contributions to culture and literature, more than I already do. Full of fantastic anecdotes, and not a dull moment. Also, it makes me want to re-read some of his books I already read....

He's probably one of THE most notable Americans, ever (in my book of course).

Annnnnd, speaking of notable peeps, I celebrated my lovely mom's birthday. If you know me pretty well, you know it's quite difficult for me NOT to talk about her. So, I tried capturing her in the form of a line drawing, but I couldn't quite get her right....not yet at least....Anyway, it was a lovely celebration of the day my mom was born....

Ordinary is Extraordinary...06/09/11

Hi,

Exercising my drawing skills yet again....

And trying not to banter too much, but rather, let the line drawings speak for themselves....

But what, might you ask, is so interesting about the few objects on my bathroom counter, that I need to illustrate such items?

Ohhhhh, only that they are only the few things I use daily, and are most always in the SAME place, EVERY morning, which is difficult for me as I'm quite the scatterbrain...so before I leave in the AM, after looking into the mirror, I apply some hair product, grab my glasses, watch and lipstick and kitty scampers in front of me to the door as we part ways for the day....

So there I went rambling......

Ordinary is Extraordinary...06/07/11

Some current fascinations:

kale

typing on my typewriter

Simone de Beauvoir

And yes, that green in the illustration below is from a few pieces of kale I smeared on my page.

And chaton's not quite drawn to scale, oops....

Ordinary is Extraordinary...06/03/11

Mixtape sessions, they're quite a blast....

I made one of my best friends a mix tape recently- a mix recorded on to a cassette tape, not a CD...

Haven't done that in years....

It was fun, but I forgot how long it took to make, and I wasn't very good at writing each song down so I made the tracklist in front of her...ooops....

Ordinary is Extraordinary...05/25/11

Hi,

I kinda got lost in this whirlwind of life....

still trying to play catch-up with all sorts of things....

One thing at a time though, right ....?

This might have a lot to do with why I haven't been able to keep you updated...