2.5 miles ran in 32 minutes!
getting easier...

i have found a perfect run playlist for me.
(non-Muse that is)
each song has a beat to it that i can really get into and feel like a running machine:

!!! - Yadnus
!!! - Bend Over Beehtovan
!!! - Must Be The Moonlight (Hot Chip Mix)
The Faint - Agenda Suicide
The Faint - How Could I Forget?
The Faint - Let the Poison Spill (Tommie Sunshine Mix)

i check the chk chk chk !!! myspace about once a week.
In hopes of new shows in the dirty south.
They've added a bunch of new shows - mostly festivals, none but Bonaroo in the SE.

But they have 1-offs in Detroit and Cleveland in July.
Sunday and Monday.

I'm getting the shakes again - like i need to travel around July in my little Suburu seeing !!! every night and boogying 'til I puke.

zomg.
i need help.

for anyone who is intrigued, i zipped and yousendited the newest !!! cd - Myth Takes.

I also included 1 song from the first cD that rocks my world - Me & Guiliani Down By The School yard.
I have fallen out of my chair more than once shakin' my butt to this song.

if you love it as much as i do, please consider buying a proper copy ...

i'd hate to be the one to takes the bread outta their mouths... but i'd love to be the one spreadin' the chk chk chk lurve.

http://download.yousendit.com/DA4E8BAF7A143AA5

i heart them so so so sosoooo much.
they make everything better. :)

*sigh*

OMG
3 hours since first LJ update and I can happly say I'm still feeling the creative hue.
And can't sit still or calm down.

But OMG - I decided to listen to !!! again.
Lord have mercy (wait huh what? these southern folk are wearing off on me) but i've almost fallen out of my chair 3 times now shaking my booty.
I forgot how much I ADORE !!!.
Holy carp.

I want to follow them around the world and eat their singer up with a spoon and bowl of cottage cheese.
Cause i lurve cottage cheese.
But omg they make me silly and fan girly.
and wanna dance my ass OFF.

I mean hello sally!


*sigh*
"hey? is this thing on? am i making any sense? everybody thinks i'm fucking crazy....." (yes those are !!! lyrics)

oh ya - http://www.myspace.com/chkchkchk

AND OH MY GOD
CASEY SPOONER IS MAKING A CAMEO ON YOUNG AND THE RESTLESS TODAY!!!!!!
HOLY CRAP!!!!
And guess who forgot to set her DVR last night in the throes of creative passion?
So, I'm going to go to the gym at 12:30 and watch it!!
LMAO!

In case anyone was worried - I am able to listen to !!! again.
I've been slowly putting their CD back on.
Now I just gotta make sure i don't shake my booty out of my chair.
That actually happened a couple of years ago when i first heard them on woxy.com.
I actually fell OFF my swivel office chair in front of 3 coworkers cause i was dancing/shaking my booty as I was trying to work to their song "Me and Guiliani Down By The Schoolyard".
Which they did NOT play last Saturday.
grrrrrrrrrrrr.

Anywhoosiiees.

I went to bed at 10pm last night and am so hyper today.
It's unfair i have to waste this sitting in front of a computer working.
Oh well.

This weekend is the collage class.
Super psyched.
I hope it's fun and informational!

Earlier I did my bi-weekly check in with my diet coach and the other girl answered the phone. She was the one who teaches the "beginner" classes I was in before moving onto the Maintenance class I'm now in with a different girl. Anyways she congratulated me on doing so well and told me she's been using me as a success story in the beginning class cause i've been adding in "regular" food but still losing more weight than before. So that made me feel good. YAY for losing weight. And having more energy.

4 more hours until the weekend.
The weather is so perfect right now.
Actually this morning it was brisk - the Coca-Cola sign said it was 43 degrees when i was walking to work. But i was super psyched cause i got to wear my favorite red hoodie again. I missed that guy.

I'm really worried about the Atlanta Water situation however.
All the newspapers and TV are saying it's a dire situation and there's only 2 more months left of water supply for the Metro area. I know too much about clean water issues methinks and I can't help but worry. Like i should go to WalMart this weekend and stock up on gallons of water or something.

you know you've seen a good show
when you want to listen to the artist's music
but it makes you too crazy in the membranes to do so.

i NEED to see !!! again.
Like, soon.
Dammit.

I've noticed the last couple of weeks my LJ usage go up up up.
I think it's cause i'm so bored at work.
I'm not ready to look for a new job though.
That, or my brain is SUPER active/creative in the morning and there's no other outlet for it.
As the day goes on, and by the time I get home, I'm brain dead so I gotta squeeze those mind grapes while they're still full of juice. (did anyone get that reference by the way?)

Anywho, some odds and ends that are on my mind:

*** I just went on a mini-Amazon shopping spree and bought 2 books and a DVD.
All were carefully thought out purchases, things I've been wanting to buy for a week or 2 now and will be very productive (i.e. not sitting on a shelf collecting dust):
1) 50 Meatless Burger Recipes
2) Wreck This Journal
3)Polyphonic Spree Austin City Limits DVD

*** I got 2 layouts and 2 daily cards done over the weekend. (http://groovcards.blogspot.com for the cards)
I started my "Gone" layout and hopefully will finish that Wednesday - there are pictures on my dead hard drive I wanted to use and tommorrow the Mac tech guy will be in my office and he said he'd look at the hard drive to see if he can get it running. So I'll wait to finish the layout until after that. i do have an alternative plan if I can't get the pics, but scrapbook pages are generally more fun with pictures!

*** There are now 5 challenges i want to particapate in - 4 due by the weekend. I found a new challenge blog last night - inkedscrapbookers! It's a blog community for tattoo'd scrapbookers and layouts about their tattoos!!!!! (http://www.inkedscrapbookers.com) How cool is that?!!! And why didn't *I* think of that? Anyway, I'm excited about that.

*** I keep thinking about Nik from !!! and his face is haunting me. baaaadddddddddddddd. My neck hurts today too - meaning it was a good show :D

*** This weekend is the 2 day Collage class at Binders Art Studio!! YAYAYAYAYAYAYYAY - I am tooo excited about this. I hope i'm not let down.... I hope I gain skillz and inspiration.

I was working on my "Gone" layout last night and realized it was waayyyy more mixed media collage than scrapbooking. I almost feel like I don't fit in anywhere - not in the scrapbook community, not in the art community - on one level I feel a little lost and desperately want to feel like i'm in an artistic community that appreciates my work and i can share, but on the other hand I think about the artists/musicians i do admire and realize that i admire them because they DID NOT fit into a mold or a community and they still made their own art/music and it's all the more special because it is unique. So, I think i should just keep doing whatever makes me happy and makes me feel fulfilled and it will be awesome, icing on the cake, if I can find others that are inspired and appreciative of it and I can take inspiration from them as well.

Well, wow, that was a ramble.

And now I have to actually work.
BUSTED.

Recap of our night in Athens, GA to see !!! (Chk Chk Chk)



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oh my.

my new goal in life is to quit my job and follow !!! around the globe.

i'll have to post details later cause i'm still a little tired (old ladies like myself aren't used to getting home at 3:30am anymore!) but...

Nik Offer should be nomiated for performer of the year and I am not just saying this because for 50% of the show his crotch was literally inches from my face (video to be posted later). He is a hot sweaty sex on wheelz kinda man and for the first time in a long time I wanted to fucking grab a man and lick his body like a lollipop up and down.


like this.....

...but eric was behind me so all i did was fake tickle his tummy a couple of times and rub his hair.

yea!
saturday and i again feel rested and awake.
a little shitty cause i didn't eat enough yesterday.
made a gorgeous layout last night that ended up not conforming to any of the challenges i wanted to do, but oh well. It's about the Polyphonic Spree and I've been wanting to do it since July but was waiting until the right layout popped into my head, and it did. I'll post it tommorrow probably.

TONIGHT IS !!! !!! !!! !!!
OMFG !!!
I just watched a couple of youtube vids and i am sosososososso excited I can't even contain myself.
it's the first show in a loooooonnngggggg time I'm actually stressing out about getting there early so i can be right up front. I want to dance, dance like there's no tommorrow - which is how they perform. I'm bringing my camera but it won't be a priority to take pics or videos.

I couldn't fall asleep last night cause i was so caught up in thought about this Fierce layout i wanna do. And what pictures I want to use and I think I'm going to do a page using old high school pictures. !!! Oh SHIT - thanks for reminding me, I need to get ink for my printer.

Friday nights rock. I LOVE going to bed not stressing out about waking up 6 hours later!

Off to Target for ink, Scrapchic for buttons, Krogers for bananas and laundry detergent and then home for a couple hours of scrapping before !!!

Hells FUCK Ya!

Horoscope For Today: October 5, 2007
Sometimes, when you're granted a wish, you don't always realize it right away. Something you've been waiting for is coming your way today, so you'd better open your eyes to see it. Dressed up in camouflage, it probably won't fit your physical ideal -- but it is perfect for you. Any adjustments you need to make to accept it are worth making. Choices you made in a work or school environment are paying off today, and you will be given a chance soon to enjoy an extended stay in luxurious surroundings.

oooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
that's exciting.
who doesn't like luxury?
(Not like i neccessarily expect this to come true, but if i drop off the face of the earth tommorrow, i am probably somewhere luxurious and just wanted to forewarn everybody.)

i feel SO much better today.
Crampies are still bad but i feel like my head is back for the most part.
I'd be embarrassed about all the moaning, bitching and whining the last couple of days if I didn't know that pretty much every woman goes through this once a month as well!

I am SO effing excited for this weekend!!!
OMG!

-Tommorrow I shall sleep into at least 8:30am (dammit)

-I am going to go to the Scrapchic scrapbook store to pick up some bulk buttons and probably other stuff i don't need but look like fun.

-i started the prep for my OLW "Gone" page between commercial breaks last night and am super psyched to get that page done. I hope it's as amazing as I imagine it will be :D Is that pathetic that I am now needing to "prep" my pages? Basically some of the embellishments I want to use I need to give 24 hour drying time too, so that's gotta be planned ahead. I hope they turn out usable, I'm experimenting....

I just LOVE, borderline obsessively:
1) using mixed media
2) using NEW media i've never used before
3) seeing said media take shape and mix with "classic" supplies
4) experimenting - it's like a total HIGH when something actually works well and looks cool!

-There are toooo many challenge pages i want, well need to get done if i want to make the deadline this weekend. AND I am absolutely DESTROYED that my external backup hard drive containing ALL of my old digital photos from the last 7 years is dead. They're trapped and there's no way to get them off! I'm trying not to be too heartbroken but it's killing me a little inside. I know I backed some of them up on CD's but the one's I am really looking for I apparently did not :(
Anyway challenges for the weekend:
1) OLW - Gone (due Oct 12 but i am so psyched i wanna do it now)
2) Dare Challange - Word Fierce (due Oct 8 and the photos i want to use are on the dead hard drive :( )
3) Stash Layering (due Oct 6 yikes tommorrow - but i think i know what i want to do here!)

I guess it's only 3, but it's still alot since i'm going to be gone half of Saturday!

-going to Athens tommorrow night!!!!! OMG I am crawling out of my skin to see this show! AND i was directed toward a supposedly delicious vegetarian restaurant which coincidently is co-owned by Michael Stipe. Now, I am not a fan of REM and think Michael is kinda whiny and gross, BUT he is BFF with Casey Spooner so there's that interest ... But OMG !!! better rock my world!!! I am even considering making a homemade tshirt tonight for the show!!!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHHAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa. I NEED PUFFY PAINT!!!!!!!!!!!!!

that is all.
time to sit through the next 9 hours until i am set free!

!!! - Infinifold.
This !!! gets more brilliant the more I listen to it.
This song, Infinifold really fucks with me.

I have no idea why I'm so enamoured with this song.
I found the lyrics online and have replayed the song 5 times now trying to figure out if it's the lyrics I like, the music, or the way they are sung.
I've listened to it riding MARTA and for some reason it's a good soundtrack for the ride.
I wish I had the mp3 to share, but i bought it off iTunes so it's "protected"

Some songs you know it's the lyrics that are special - like Muse's Butterflies and Hurricanes.
Other times i know it's the way the lyrics are delivered, like, um Namaste by Beastie Boys.
Other times it's the whole package, like, um "Emerge" by Fischerspooner or "Ruled by Secrecy" by Muse.

This Infinifold has me befuddled.

Don't wanna tell the story again
anyone who's everyone
already knows what happened
sorry shit worked out this way
was the only thing that anybody really could say when she walked in
the line is thin between sad and funny
and i can only really speak for me but i didn't see no one laughing
you can think of all the things you'd do different
nothings gonna change the fact that you didn't
nothings gonna change nothing

And if it sounds stupid to say
that all the world needs is a little more love
then how come it's so hard to figure out?
how come it's so hard to figure out?

you can scream and you can yell
you can bitch about the cards your dealt
but you'll feel it till the feeling's felt

cuz everything's been built on guesses
no guarantees of what the next is
time never pushes, it only presses

And no one talked the whole way home
everybody just stared at the road
and i rolled down my window
and leaned out leaned out
and watched the lights

I guess i do like the "if it sounds stupid to say that all the world needs is a little more love then how come it's so hard to figure out?" Maybe that's the MARTA relation.

and i like the "you'll feel it til the feelings felt" cause that's SO TRUE. At its most simplest you can't really change your feelings, only wait until a new feeling comes along. Right?

The last paragraph is so simple and captures that feeling of deep restlessness and contemplation so well.

huh.
looks like someone has drank their latte today. :)