monday monday. late mid august 2010

wow.  first monday back after a chunk of time away.  and keeping in line with the universe-and-the-way-things-work, i woke up at about 3:00 am this morning and obsessed about the list of things i need to do until about 5:45 am –  or around there — and then fell asleep.  i planned to get up around 6:30 am to start this-list-of-things-to-do, but i didn’t.  i woke up from a kind of annoying and mundane dream at 8:15.  and realized the situation.

so.  so i don’t feel like reviewing the list right now.  maybe later.

last night i was watching aretha franklin host a pbs pitch show segment named “soul rewind.”  the footage and music was so awesome that i didn’t mind the phone breaks tossed to the cheesy guy with the cheesy pinky ring.  i cannot and i mean i cannot get over the background dancing that goes on behind the singer in a lot of the 1960′s clips.  kind of go-go-esque flailings from grinning teens.  why o why did that fall out of stylie grace.  i’ll be working to bring that back.

i also could not get over the awesomeness of the 1970′s, light blue with dark blue satin trimed, uber-ruffled shirt tuxes sported by the stylistics in one segment.  it was AWESOME.  so there i am deep in thought about how to get my hands on one and whether it would be cooler for gil or myself, and how i really shouldn’t kid myself because i’d never ever never get gil to wear it. …and it hit me…

…  somewhere in my travels i’ve not only seen but held in my hands a photo of my gil, circa 1982, feathered hair and all his thirteen year old glory,  in that exact stylistics tux.   at a cousin’s quinceañera escorting an equally ruffled and frilled young lady down a church isle.

DUDE.

so now i’m really on a quest.  i wonder if that tux still exists out there in the corral family.  today i will try to focus on my work and not cruise the interwebs for a stylistics/quinceañera tux.

xoxo
coco

monday monday mid early august 2010

hol’e mol’e. this day has kicked my butt. and it’s over before i could get all wrapped up in a list.  nothing more, nothing less.

xoxo
coco

monday monday. early august 2010

wait.  i need a cuppa joe.  i think things will go more smoothly after that.

ok.  last monday schooled me on a couple things.  or really two elements that combine for one situation.  and seeing as it’s holding somewhat steady for this monday, i’m going to acknowledge the pattern early on and just take them for universal truths.

let’s review:
i wake up equal parts stymied and anxious on monday mornings.

so i think it comes down to making a list.  clearing the clutter and checking things off one by one.  would you accompany me, then, on my monday morning lists?  lovely.

this is what i need to accomplish today…or at least start today and resolve soon:
pay the internet bill. sigh.
pay electric bill.  sigh.
pay student loan bill.  … sigh.
mail rings to the person in canada
mail ring to person in los angeles
mail ring to person in portland, maine
set up studio.  again.  do not drag box over foot.  which is still bruised from last week.
finish resin on one ring to prepare to mail tomorrow
get ring to person in biddeford
package painting to get to new york
pack for a couple nights at my pa’s cabin
get bunny food
gather supplies to work on items for picnic while at pa’s cabin
re-learn how to burn a silkscreen in preparation for screening t’s for wassaic which is sooner than i realize.
track down pokemon dvd’s at a local library to ease the drive to pa’s cabin
clean bunny hutch
decide if we really need luggage or can continue to cram our travel into various shopping bags and whatever else lends itself in the moment.
get snax for couple days stay at pa’s cabin.

ok.  i can do this.  that’s not so bad.  it’s nice to see it written down.  kind of contained that way.

onward.
xoxo
coco