um, what day is it?

morning!

ok it's Wednesday and I know today is my celebrity letter day, but.....I don't have it in me, you see the holidays (and all the alcohol) has f-ed up my schedule, so my blog like the weekly garbage schedule, is off.

So did you all have a wonderful New Year's?

My bubs and I got all bundled up and walked into town where they were having a street celebration, now have you all seen the Bill Murray movie "Groundhog Day"? well if you have then you know the town celebration, well this was like that. It was sweet and everyone seemed so happy and well....it creeped us out. BIG TIME, I kept thinking "why are they smiling"

I am not sure what that says about me....but it can't be good.

So once we were creeped out we decided we needed drinks and lots of them, so we headed to our friend Steve and Ed's party, figuring we would stay for a while and get warm, have drinks, and then later once we were totally drunk would go back into town to watch the Ball Drop (or in this case, rise) and then watch the street performers...

little did we know the awesomeness of Steve and Ed's party.

ok, first....there were the strongest rum and coke's I ever had, it was basically just a giant glass of rum that sort of looked like coke. Then we had shots of something red and minty, it cleared my sinuses and hurt. Then there were jello shots, and more of that red minty stuff, then there was champagne.

all in all I was so sauced that I actually was singing Karaoke and worse than that....I was singing songs from Greece, which is probably the worst music on the planet.

there were also drunken renditions of songs about "the troops" and 9/11.....it was seriously brilliant especially when it is a duet with a gay man.

There was also a serious injury at the part too, when one of the rable rousers fell down and broke his ankle in 2 places while playing drunken Wii bowling.

yeah....people always say it's not a party until something gets broken.

so late that night (or early the next morning) we stumbled home, I for one was practically blind by that point, so much so in fact that I did not even realize the fact that I had a huge blister on my foot that by the time we got home was bleeding all over.

Yeah, I know...gross.

So yesterday after waking up still drunk to the sound of howling wind and my bubs telling me we had a down power line on our driveway....I spent most of the day just bumbling around and watching episodes of MASH season 1 on dvd.

I have a mad crush on Alan Alda, seriously he is really hot to me.

so, all that babble being said, yesterday felt like Sunday, making today a Monday that I don't want to work....and piles of work that I am seemingly behind on.

so there you have it, why I am not writing to a celebutard this week.

so what's new with you?

Happy New Year
xoxo

Goodbye 2007

well here it is my very last blog post of 2007, sigh.

sitting here in my jammies and having a morning coffee I realize that, I did it, I made it...I survived my first year of being an artist full time.

wow.

now if I can survive doing my taxes (my receipts are a total mess) then all will be good in the world. Actually strike that....if I can make it though the winter and the huge heating bills for this old drafty house, well....then I will be safe.

SO now that we are on the precipice of 2008 I know it's time for the old resolutions, yes...I need to lose weight, yes I know I'm not "fat" I am curvy which I am sine with, I love my curves I rather look like an old timey movie star bombshell than a stick figure....and I know my bubs loves me and my body....but still it would not be New Years if I was not vowing to lose weight.

So there you have it....

I also, need to manage my time better, I need to work a little more and lurk on the internet a little less, now I am not talking about blogging mainly about my etsy forum lurking and my obsession with celebrity gossip, I mean really...how many times to I HAVE to check Perez Hilton every day???? I am sure I can cut back to just once, right? I mean, I don't even know who half these people are.

I do need to draw more which I always say, but most importantly I really need to be less hard on myself, not everything in the sketchbook needs to be a masterpiece, and when things don't turn out....well, who cares.

I do need to broaden my horizons a little, and so far the beginning of 2008 will be doing that, I have some shops interested and gallery in MA too, I need to be unafraid of taking chances...I also need to work bigger and better, after recently doing a few larger commission projects I realized how satisfying it is to work on a large scale, I know etsy is not really the place to sell pieces like that as they are pretty expensive, but this may sound strange but there feels like there is something inside me that needs to work bigger, and I should listen to that.

And last but certainly not least....I need to get my health in order and start feeling better, no matter what it takes, not to sound like my mom, but I am sick and tired of feeling sick and tired.

there are countless more things I need and want to do in the next year, some I will share with you here when the time is right....some are things that are just all me.

ok enough of the long (inane) ramblings of me.....what are you all doing for New Year's Eve???

my bubs and I will be appearing at a local party and wandering the streets of our lovely little town, most likely we will be intoxicated, after all we will be walking everywhere tonight so we need to be drunk enough to not feel the cold.

if you do not hear from me tomorrow, well I am probably hung over.....so until then, have a happy and safe New Year....

oh and no Drunk Driving!!!!! Seriously people don't do it!!!

xoxo
j

Dear (Insert name here)

Dear Bing Crosby's Kids

how are you? Are you still alive? I sure hope so or this letter will go on deaf (or is it dead) ears.

Just this morning I was listening to a tape of the old timey Bing Crosby Family Holiday Special...it's awesome, filled with wonderful carols and all you kids singing. My favorite part is that it is sponsered by Charleston Cigarettes, the only cigarette with out a nasty after taste...it's smoooooooooooth.

or something like that.

Anyway, while listening I said to my bubs, I love Bing Crosby, to which he replied...you know he was an asshole, right?

really??? I mean I think I knew he had a problem with the joy juice and tended to be an oafish drunkard but was he really as asshole???

My bubs told me he read in a bio that Bing would get liquered up and then beat all you kids, and that you never wanted to sing or be on his shows, but the fear of abuse kept you in line.

That made me sad, much in the same way as when I heard the Nun from The Sound Of Music, in real life beat those kids too, that she did not bring songs and joy to the family but bruises and heartache.

so, Bing Crosby's kids wherever and whoever you might be...I just wanted to say, I am sorry he beat you and forced you to sing Silent Night in Latin on the radio...I hope if you are still alive that you can find joy in the holidays, I also hope you did not fall victim to the really awesome advertising plan from Charleston cigarettes....and you are not smoking a pack and a half a day of the only cigarette without that nasty after taste.....they're smooooooooooooooth.

happy holidays
Jennifer Gordon