christmas time is here

it's weird how the whole world seems decorated all of the sudden.

Halley was here this past week and it was SO FUN. we hung out at the cowgirl a little, went to the folk art museum and the goergia o'keeffe museum, got wasted, saw glass blowers at Tesuque, walked around a sculpture garden, watched Alpha Dogs with Justin Timberlake, went on a hike at Ghost Ranch, ate lots of delicious new mexican food and drove all around Santa Fe. She got to meet everyone and everyone got to meet her. it was lovely.

Here is Halley coming out of the glass blowing place:

This is halley and John (this guy i met who just graduated from Brown. he went to Ghost Ranch with us):

These are pics of Ghost Ranch (Georgia O'Keeffe lived there for a while and did lots of paintings of it):




I have Amenity's (my cousin's) car now and my quality of life has skyrocketed. now i can do thinks like buy groceries or go to Albuquerque or a movie or dinner and it's amazing.

I'm waiting for snow so i can start work at the ski basin.

I went to a grant writing workshop on saturday which was kindof cool. i want to start making more art and putting my stuff out in to the real world and trying to get noticed. it occured to me that my comics might only be interesting/engaging to people who know/love me because they are the only ones i have ever shown my work to. this is a hypothesis i aim to test by creating some sort of collection of things i have done and sending it to people i dont know or putting it in stores like davi's and seeing what happens. i really feel strongly about wanting to share and communicate and be recognized for what i am doing/thinking so i want to start DOING and CREATING more. i need to research places where i can find things like scanners and fancy computers.

I am at Jarratt and Dinah's right now about to have dinner. It's nice when i come here because they both do their own thing and so do i so i get to check internet and just relax while being around family but with no pressure to socialize or perform or anything like that.

work has been SO SLOW lately. it's fun because i get lots of days off since barely anyone needs to be there since barely any customers come in but i am also making NO MONEY.

i am thinking about stopping drinking. at least for a while. it's just getting old. and expensive. but its also SO fun and liberating. i'm not sure.

i'm going to join a gym here because i want to feel better about myself and more energized.

i'm going home in 2 weeks. yeeee haw!

it's sunday night and i'm exhausted. elle and kevin were away for the weekend which was so nice. it didnt really make that much of a difference but just knowing that i could come home to a place that was all my own for a brief moment was nice. i had to take care of the dog and cat which was a little stressful, however. the cat has turned into a treacherous DEMON and the dog is so big and weirdly unresponsive that it creeps me out.

and im out.