End Result of Monday

Quiches from earlier today. Tea and pannetone right now. Show on Germany on the Travel Channel. I really really feel the wanderlust right now. France, Iceland...Germany.
I give Inglorious Basterds an A+ by the way, go watch it! And watch Kill Bill if you haven't already!


Ten days until my birthday and 27 days until snowshoeing in NH!

Garden in November

Listening to David Bowie on YouTube and making four quiches. Swiss chard and fennel quiches, that is. YUM. One to eat tonight and three to freeze for holiday purposes. Fennel is a very beautiful plant, I would recommended growing it to anyone. Swiss chard is great, as there is no time frame as to when you can eat it. Baby chard is great, and it's even outlasted the frost quite spectacularly here in central Connecticut. I had some great broccoli rabe, but you have to pick it after it buds and beofre it flowers, which is hard for people like me. Green onions and leeks came up great this year--very usable; also managed to grow some fantastic romaine lettuce--however you MUST eat that before it bolts because it gets terribly bitter. Very pest/disease resistant, the above mentioned items.

I killed my patchouli plant, and also the pineapple sage should have been re-planted at some point, but overall I'd say I grew some successful things this year.

Today, I have to get my necklaces onto my ETSY site, and ship a vase I sold to Texas. I have to really make some sales this year! Pictures of quiches coming soon!

Revelations

I had a discovery today, pretty mundane, yet crucial at the same time. I have been rolling clay that is way too wet. The dryer it is when you roll it out, the flatter it stays...I hate how little things escape me. This is probably in the Handmade Tiles book. I need to go back to school; study up on a few things. But I am overjoyed now that I have an answer to my problems!

I need to get those table tiles made very very soon soon. And some more trivets for Kristen and Max...oh so busy. I need a place to work with good ventilation. There's nothing like a day of utter waste to motivate.

I did visit the Escher exhibit today, before I got tired. It was pretty crowded, but I think his hyper-detail reminds me of Van Eyck and Gozzoli, and that is appealing to me.

On an Island

I've just cracked the lid of my kiln, and am waiting in suspense to see how my glazing came out. Praying to the fire gods that my pyramids fired white at cone 6. The entry for the juried show at the New Britain Museum is today, and I am so nervous about it. It comes down to: am I really good enough, or do I just get in because I submit sculpture? This year I am moving away from the high-detail work to my abstract trilateral-pyramid schemes. Should I call them schemes? Or sets? Arrangements?

I am probably going to put a halt on ceramics for the winter, due to the ventilation problems; I don't want to shred my lungs with glass any more than I already have, I can feel them aching right now. But now what else am I going to do? What can I focus on until the weather warms up? That's a really tough question.

I need a ball mill to mix my bulk glazes in, and desperatley need a pug mill to reclaim my clay. Unfortunately, these cost about the same as my CR-V. My option is to try and take a ceramics class at Central, and use their facilities, because that will cost significantly less. I need to get back into the academic side of the art world--I've been on my island too long.

Hangovers and Sad Monday

I'd say we had a good weekend, birthday party for Aaron on Friday before work, then I spent all day Saturday making my costume. We went out to a good Halloween party at a bar with no cover and decent beer AND a sober driver! To top it all off, I think I even comported myself well for being decently sloshed and I don't remember saying anything that might come back to haunt me. Meg did puke in the car on the way home.

Sunday I got to just chill and spend the entire day/night yesterday as if it was one big sleepover party with my boyfriend. Only because he was hungover--our one morning to sleep in together since our anniversary, and he spends it in agony. It wasn't so bad, I felt pretty much fine. I was drunk enough to sleep in my makeup and with un-brushed teeth, and a little dizzy in the morning. But it was really like a sleepover party, we got take-out pizza and ate Halloween candy and watched movies all day/night.

Today, however there was aggravation. I am sorry that the USPS is not doing so well and can't afford to pay their employees, but for the love of God the line of wackos at the post office was a nightmare. Get your shit together before you get to the counter. Check to make sure you have your wallet with you! That kind of thing. Arrg. The stupid car dealership fucked up the vin number on my car, so they have to take it through emissions again, which is totally an inconvenience for me. Fuckers. I tried to call to do it today, and I got put on hold for a good long time before they just picked up the line and hung up on me. I tried calling back, but the phone wasn't ringing which was really weird. So I have to call again on Wednesday and talk to the registration chick. Just fucking great. Since my cleaning schedule got all screwed up, I have to go straight from one job to another tomorrow. BOO.

In other news, I spent the day putting drums on Ebay and Etsy. Hopefully I will make a couple sales to pay for my romantical New Hampshire weekend in December. Aaron and her BF might rent the other room in bed and breakfast. That way we can do things together some of the time if we want. Well, I should try to get some sleep for now.