events 9-7 to 9-26

Life has been busy and awesome, I can't even remember all of it.
Work is busy right now with AIDS walk today, Crestwood crawl in 2 weeks and a bunch of events for fall and winter coming up.

Tues 9-21-10 Chris and I both went to tye die class at Daniel Day Gallery and made awesome shirts:

Thursday I put up a page on first giving and managed to raise $300 toward AIDS walk in less than 24 hours.

Friday, I baked all day for the cakewalk fundraiser at AIDS walk.

Yesterday was our friend Joe's birthday and we played a ton of rock bank and a board game called homesteaders. He had an EXCELLENT Mocha Caramel Sea Salt cake from Dream Cakes.

Today was AIDS walk and I walked in the drippy, humid weather with my friend, Kat and her two babies and we talked about roller derby and how babies change your life. More importantly, We honored the millions of people who live with, have been affected by or have died from this disease, many of whom I have known personally because of my work at Birmingham AIDS Outreach by being one of the many pairs of feet in the walk.

AIDS Walk is Sunday!

AIDs walk is Sunday and we can use all the help we can get!
here is my fund raising page

Painting from 9-7-10

The inspiration for this was... don't know. Originally, I wanted to cover up something colorful with shades of grey and black, which I did. I made some veiny/nervy looking jaggedy lines all over the blank canvas in bright colors, dried them with the hairdryer and then started putting white, grey, black and a very light grey/blue all over the page so and then scraped it with the ruler like I normally would for the background of the picture. Then, I kapt adding blue and pink and yellow accents by walking my fingers all over the one edge. Then, I tried to create a splotch or a puddle of dark/muddy colors in the middle and it didn't quite look the way I intended--I wanted a void in the middle of the page but it. SO then, I scraped a heart into the cloud and it just evolved from there.
The words on the picture are from this song:



This is probably one of my favorite paintings and it really really wandered waaay away from the original idea, but somehow still has the same essence.

9-1 to 9-8

Um...
Labor Day weekend we played a lot of video games and
Art class was this past Tuesday and.... that's about it.

Events 8-15-10 to 8-31-10

Um, it's all kind of a blur but here's what I can remember:
On Fri 8-20-10 we left for Chattanooga to attend Gamefest South and play lots of games. You can read more about it at Meepletown.com. While we were there, we consumed some of the best food known to man. Of special note is the cake at City Cafe Diner: they have about 70+ different varieties that they make and about 30-40 on hand any given day and they're amazing (we had midnight craving and seven sins). We came back Sun 8-22-10 tired and happy.

Tues 8-24-10 was art class.



Saturday 8-28-10 we got to see our friends Amy and Allen. I knew allen could cook, but the dinner he made was beyond my expctations... soooooo tasty.
Sunday 8-29-10 we played ping pong in the morning and had some of our gaming friends over to play Space Alert in the evening.

Today I was off work for some "me" time and got my hair trimmed and re-colored by my friend Zaque. Still love the haircut, REALLY LOVE the new color!


Other than that, today I ran errands and Chris and I wrapped up the day with board games and TV.

Events of the last... month or so?

Um... lots of things have happened since my last post.

Hubby was without a job for a short period of time due to differences with the management where he worked but he starts a job on monday. The couple of weeks where we weren't sure where we going to get money from was really stressful, but it's all straight now. Now i can stress about other things ;). Hubby seems so much happier not to be at his previous job... YAY!

While all this was going on, my Friend Zaque at Aveda institute cut and colored my hair, did a FABULOUS job and made sure I didn't have to spend too much since the budget was tight at the time.

I keep gushing about my hair and I think Z and hubby are both tired of hearing about it but I really love it! He has a knack for creating styles that work well with my hair's natural tendencies.

I went to art class last week and made a "lovely" painting.

Well, it may not exactly be a masterpiece but it was fun to make and I got to catch up with my former co-worker, Ashley while we painted.

I don't remember if I announced it on here or not but back about mid June, I decided to stop eating and drinking anything sweet to try to get rid of my cravings. The cravings aren't much better, but I've learned that I can ignore them and they will pass like everything else. Also, staying away from sweets altogether for 2-3 weeks was enough for my taste buds to adjust so now most things taste too sweet and I can't stomach more than a few sips of soda or a few bites of cookies/candy/etc.

Last but not least, I have a big super secret project going on that I have done a lot of work on but I am not ready to announce what it is.

Week 7-4-10 to 7-11-10

I don't remember a lot of details at this point because of all the fun stuff I did, but this past weekend, I went to Play on Con 3 in Birmingham, AL. Photos of the shenanigans can be found on the Meepletown flickr feed.