Tuesday Tuesday. Late june 2011

Ok. I’m posting from my phone so there’ll be all kinds of correct use of capitalization. Which bothers me. I prefer the ee cummings approach, myself. But I don’t know how to make it stop. My phone, that is. Damn smart phone.

Miss cv is TOTALLY swimming under water now! It’s sooooo cool. All of a sudden things just clicked for her yesterday! And she’s crazy fast with her flippers. It’s soooooo awesome!  Of course, with all the time in these over chlorinated pools my skin is slowly wearing away…

Kent is a cool college town for sure, with a flavor I haven’t seen a while. Not that the days inn right off the highway was much of an indicator, claro. But learning from the previous night’s mistakes (read yesterday’s post) we called around a bit and were pleased and relieved to find that not only can one buy whiskey and the like, but one could do so up until at least ten pm. So after we got checked in and miss cv in the pool, gil set off with the gps programmed for the nearest liquor store.

And guess what.  Guess what!

It was an effing drive-thru liquor store! Gil returned grinning from ear to ear! He’s been bitching about the demise of the drive thru liquor store since right before we moved from new mexico they shut down the last one in albuqurque.  !

Now, there is one sad note to this story. Belugi, our vw eurovan, with her cargo carrier rack, stands 7 feet, 4 inches tall.  Too tall for the lovely drive thru liquor store. But gil persevered! He was enthusiastically invited into the supply room by the proprietor and offered browsing privileges.  Whiskey is still the goal, here, and apparently there was no makers mark, knob creek or even jack daniels.  The proprietor, again quite enthusiastically, sold gil on..saying “my friend, this is the good stuff, my friend.  42proof, see? The good stuff.”

Heck yeah it is.

the good stuff

So kent. The room wasn’t quite as clean as the night before, but Heated outdoor pool, drive thru liquor store, more cotton-tailed wild bunnies, and super nice folks all around goes a long ways.

Xoxo
Coco

tuesday tuesday. late mid august 2010

so enjoying being back in the studio.  finishing up a few pieces that have been lingering.  so keep an eye on the etsy shop – and more over, come to picnic in portland, maine this saturday.  i’ll have a table (with rayne of kittywitch!) sporting lots of new work and a variety of accessories and art.

xoxo
coco

tuesday tuesday. late july 2010

if yesterday was any indication, monday is not the best day for creative writing.  at least in my world.  i sat here and literally alternated between fits of white knuckled anxiety (thinking of all that needed to get done) and a brain numbing static (thinking of absolutely nothing at all).  i did this until i annoyed myself to the point of action and then the day progressed from there.

a few things about yesterday.

we had an amazing barn concert saturday.  crazy lovely.  didn’t do much at all sunday — which i’m sure added to the build-up of monday.  one thing that i did monday was set up my workspace since it gets cleared out to make room for the shows.  i needed to move a wooden chest from up against my jeweler’s bench back to its spot as a makeshift coffee table near the couch.  i don’t know if it was a semi-clairvoyant moment or a self fulfilling prophecy because right before it happened i knew it was going to happen and i dragged that heavy wooden box corner right over and into the side of my left foot.

it totally dropped me.  the pain did.  i’m lying there on the floor…kind of cross-eyed.  and pissed.  thinking – goddamn, i’m tougher than this.  it’s just a little physical pain.  not like anyone’s causing me emotional anguish.  i can’t cry or anything.  i mean, i would have if i needed to but it wasn’t like that.  but it really really hurt.  so i’m waiting for it to subside some so i can pull myself together. miss cv comes in and is asking me something about pokemon – i think – and pretty much not concerned about her mom on the floor clutching her foot.  i told her my foot hurt and we both giggled a bit.  we discussed how charmander evolves into charizard and finally charmeleon.  wait.  i think i’ve got that out of order.  but regardless.  i am now spongebob bandaged and have a bit of a limp.  and so it goes.

the other thing that happened yesterday is gil worked to right some of the wrongs with our new (to us) vw van.  the heater fan is acting weird so he pulled off a few panels around the dashboard and found…money!  not a ton – but enough to make it really amusing.  and again, it kind of made me giggle.  thinking of how life is full of these little frustrations.  with the cash were various little receipts for gas and other small errands…all dated from around early and mid 2005.  someone must’ve gotten into the habit of stuffing things in the ashtray. and it backed up a bit and made our fan start acting weird.  and the rest was history.

ok.  at any rate.  today will be a productive studio day.  mark my words.

xoxo
coco