I woke up this morning with a fever and a childish wish for snow.
I love:
Riding my sweet ass bike!
Playing Bass in a doom metal band
drawing with my brush and ink
lifting heavy things
making awesome breakfasts
loving people
2009/10/27 18:39 Soooo, looks like I'm finally getting off my ass to go do something with myself...I'm moving to Asheville in December, staying till new years or right before, then heading to Arizona, then up the west coast or into Mexico. After that it get's a little blurry but come February I will be trying to get to Barcelona for a month or so...I have my work cut out for me!! SOOO tired of not doing anything and just working. The idea of spending so much of my time doing something for someone else is driving me crazy!! Each day I go to work for the last month I just want to run out or tear my hair out. I can't do it anymore. I need a break.
Looks like I'm spending tonight in Boston and the weekend in Ellsworth too. Yay! Nice to be doing the things I want with myself for once...it's been a while. Soooo, anyone I told I'd be making my way south, look out! It's finally coming together! :)
2009/10/07 22:40 Just got back from a trip to NH to hang out with my lovely friend Deanna. Spent the last day and a half at her school, cooking, having tickling fights and watching the food network. Weren't able to do much more than that to pass the time but that was plenty. She's one of the first people I can have a comfortable silence with since my friend Vik...or more so the first that it has been comfortable so quickly. We've only hung out maybe 5 times and can take naps and just "be". Nice cozy snuggle buddy, just what I need for the beginning of fall! :)
I also am now almost completely moved out of Alex's apartment. I found a room with one of my oldest and best friends, Stan. I've known the kid since I was about 12 and he happened to live right down the road. It's been a fairly painless move besides the lack of transportation being readily available. Besides scheduling help to move though, it's been a breeze! Been having a blast with him and my other roomy, Zach, already. Had a food/Tupperware fight the other morning while trying to do dishes and cook simultaneously and then ended the epic mushroom vs. glade container match with a Simpsons marathon. Pretty good start if you ask me. All I have left to do before my move is final and I am all settled is, build a loft! My room is SOOOOOO tiny!!
2009/08/24 18:01 I hate dates that are a flop. Eh, one out of a weeks worth isn't so bad I hope.
I found a place to move into, in town. Not far away anymore. UGH! I can't afford to move to NC now seeing as I have to move out of Alex and I's place. Luckily I've nabbed the next best living situation. I'm moving in with my best friend Stan and having to pay about $75 less a month! Now I can also finish a few more tattoo projects with Watson over the course of the winter and see about finding a piercing apprenticeship. That should prove interesting. I also decided I should start riding a free wheel every now and again. My knees have been killing me! Portland is SOOO hilly. I also missed going faster down all those hills haha. So far I'm on day two and only miss getting to skid around corners of downhill streets. Best thing ever...I can almost do a track stand on my free wheel...it's tough if I think about it, other wise I'm pretty ok.
Now back to watching Don Hertzfeldt cartoons and eating cold french fries. YAY!!
2009/08/20 15:55 Nick "Bear Trap" Reddy tattooed my left calf last night! I had him draw me a penta-bike! We have all the line work done for the bike and are going to put a goats head behind it with the words "Hell on Wheels" surrounding it most likely on fire or something equally as awesome. Next is on to my "Till Death Do Us Party" army tattoo. Nicks been doing these on anyone who asks and only accepts tips. The only thing is you have as long as it takes him to pour a shot and take it to pitch the idea. Anything said before or after said shot is taken is null and void to the design. Also! the idea is up for interpretation of Nick. So far, I have heard no complaints and seen only awesomeness be the result of Nick's designs. I am going to try to get a flaming monkey paw with an evil eye in it's palm. Having friends that tattoo is dangerous!
2009/08/18 17:57 Breakfast at Coyle St., french fries with strangers, Nacho plate with Parents. Tummy too huge to handle any more movement than my fingers typing this.
2009/08/13 15:35 Ended up having the few drinks, but not at Thomas'. Kayla of all people called me last night. I had met her a while ago at my friend Stan's. After a few minutes of talking we abandoned the party and just stayed on the porch for a couple hours chain smoking and talking. We had exchanged numbers but she would never return my calls. Come to find out she thought I was still with Alex...dunno how or why but somehow it got into her head. Luckily last night she figured out otherwise and asked me to come over to her friend Brandy's. We just hung out and watched a Jay-Z marathon for much longer than I would have liked and snuggled on the steps. Later we went out to karaoke and promptly left seeing as there was no one there and just drunkenly meandered through downtown till it was time for me to be on my way. We're supposed to hang out today but her phones dead! ugh. Can't get a hold of her. Hopefully something will work out.
2009/08/12 17:44 Had the day off today, started it off in a bit of a funk. I woke up to Alex kissing my forehead and saying goodbye as she was off to work. Some how managing to melt and break my heart at the same time. I tried to fall back asleep but was too restless so I was stuck, awake at 9:30. I stumbled into the kitchen to make some coffee only to find enough for half a cup which I still managed to brew one very weak but still sickeningly sweet full mug for myself to accompany my 2 egg breakfast. While drinking my coffee and eating my eggs I tried to think of something to do. This lasted until about 11:30...2 hours after my eggs and coffee had been consumed and nothing else of relevance had occurred.
I was going stir crazy! I finally decided it was either pull out all my freshly cut hair, yes Alex gave me a hair cut last night, or go for a ride. When I got into town I bought a bagel, made a tattoo apointment with Nick "Bear Trap" Reddy, my friend and apprentice under my current artist and then got a call from my friend Jake! I haven't seen Jake forever! He invited me along on an adventure. We were to go to the abandoned docks to explore. By the time we met up we decided to get lunch to take with us so we stopped at Sun Oriental Market and bought mochi, a pepperoni stick and some chewy sesame taffy. We had a small picnic on a beautiful side street in the West End and slowly made our way down to the docks with our full bellies.
The docks themselves were amazing! We got to climb all over these burnt up rickety beams protruding from the ocean some hundred feet out from the land. It was wicked sketchy but somehow neither of us were able to acknowledge exactly how dumb an idea this entire thing was. We just clambered over one dry rotted beam to the next watching our step as not to catch any of the rusty nails. After an hour or so of climbing around and talking we made our way back to land and went our separate ways.
After that adventure I just said hi to a few friends in town and am now home to rest for an hour or so before going out to have a few drinks on Thomas' porch to celebrate his 30th! Not a bad day if I say so myself.
2009/08/11 12:47 Fun in the sun including but not limited to:
1.skinny dipping in public pool friends and I broke into
2.riding mini-bikes down huge grassy hills and having skidding contests
3.eating the perfect pancakes in your underwear with a good cup of coffee
4.watching movies way too early in the afternoon to escape the intense heat
5.doing it all over again the next day
