Happy mess!

We can never have enough perfect wooden boxes!!! 

 

  

  

 

Debbie Downer here, again

I have become addicted to red Gatorade! And spicy V-8 juice. I am so tired of drinking water all day ... I made the shrimp spaghetti last night. And I am going to make a quiche today. I have been waking up writing a childhood autobiography. I was thinking I would just write it out quickly for the future. Weird. Today is my "fun day" collecting the kids from school.

I ordered some sweat pants and sweat shirt off of Amazon and reminded ONCE AGAIN not to buy from China. They make clothes to fit small Asian women, with completely different body styles than I have. I guess I am going to have to do OUT there and shop. Bri says she will be my personal shopper.

I spent the weekend raging against msnbc hiring Ronna McDonald! Yes, you heard that right. The insurrectionist who still insists that something was not right during the election and tried to help certify the fake electors! So I am boycotting them. Although I read that Morning Joe came out against the decision this morning.

I miss putting my thoughts down for the future and walk up every morning thinking of stuff to write about. Then start doing dishes or something and forget. 

trump's fines have been cut more than HALF this morning and his is why this asshole keeps doing his criminal activities ... because he gets away with it. When will this disgusting human be held accountable? 

So is there ANYTHING that humans can not destroy ... until our world is just on the brink of disaster? 

 

Joan Mitchell’s primary medium was oil paint on canvas, although she also created drawings and prints. Over the course of nearly five decades, she established a singular visual vocabulary rooted in gestural abstraction. Scribbled in colorful language!!!

I want a a big wallpaper like this in my place ... if I had a spot for it!

Blast of color with a dash of chaos

Nikta Ares intention is to depict the bond between the flow of energy and the chaos of movement luring the viewer to expand their own awareness.

My kind of book ... no reading required

I am back! Just had some homemade Indian food, talking to Bri about what is going on here and catching up with the dogs. AND the sun is shining.

I would love to own this book, Irma Boom's: The wild and wonderful SHV Think Book, a masterpiece of book design. I have found one used on for $8,000!

 

She also designed this book - Book, No. 5 Culture Chanel, 2013. The Amsterdam-based designer Irma Boom has made some innovative books, and a staggering 20 percent have found a home in a permanent collection at the Museum of Modern Arts.1 Such books are truly an experience — objects to be appreciated — even when they are technically vehicles for other artists. Indeed, Boom pushes the boundaries of bookmaking. In 2013, she completed a book commissioned by Chanel for its Chanel No. 5 perfume. This book is not printed, only embossed, in white. Would love to have this book too!

 

 

I was checking my TIAA account and noticed a ZERO balance! That was a heart-stopping moment. They told me that the company changed from TIAA to Fidelity but had not informed me they were transferring the money. So I called my Fidelity rep that I am pretty close to and he is looking into it for me. Well, that got me going this morning

I laughed when I saw putin commenting on his landslide victory. When you eliminate all of your competition ... landslide victories are sure to follow.

Sorry I have just disappeared. I feel like I have emptied my mind all all thoughts the last week. I finally ran across something that interest me when I discovered Irma Boom ... then my laptop crapped out. 

And she made smaller versions. 

Counting the minutes

I bought a new laptop and spent a few days setting it up. In preparation for coming to watch Robin's dogs for a week+. So I have been here many days now and finally gotten around to see if I can acess blogger from here ... and it worked. It is so weird to competely turn your life off. I really just count hours before I can leave. I hate to do that because then I hear the seconds slowly click by in real time. I am on the end now. My friend is having a great time in France so that makes me happy. 

Oh God, she has the most uncomfortable chairs. This is a smaller keyboard so I am making lots of mistakes. Not sure how great my new laptop is ... it keeps having issues. 

I have watched lots of movies and series. This morning I ran across YouTube video about Art in Spain. And when I get my laptop to work I will share the video. 

It had some great facts that I had forgotten about the Moors, Muslims, in Spain.  

Agriculture has been one of the central pillars of development of the world’s great civilisations and the agriculture of Al-Andalus made a key contribution to the advance of wellbeing in the western world. Prior to the arrival of the Arabs in Spain, agriculture had been based on a trio of crops, namely cereals, olives and vines. When the Arabs settled in Spain, they greatly enriched local farming with the introduction of other cereals (rice, sorghum), other vegetables (aubergines, artichokes, spinach and cardoons), other fruit trees (almonds, fig trees, mulberries, date palms, and citrus fruits) and other textile plants (cotton, hemp). They also used aromatic, medicinal, and ornamental plants. We should not forget that the increased variety of plant species was accompanied by the development of new methods of cultivation and the expansion of irrigation systems. The Arabs also perfected new methods for catching and storing subterranean and surface water and developed systems for terracing, draining and improving land. All of these aspects are analysed in this collection of twelve essays in which different authors highlight the importance of the Arabic influence on western agriculture. More books on this subject can be consulted at the Alhambra Library.

More to come, I am going to work on my laptop connections, 

Nothing to say right now

It feels like I have run out of fun things to say. Hoping to find something soon!! Still depressed about trump never being held accountable. Today's ruling was predictable.