We Gotta Find Earth...

Battlestar Galactica.


I have been in love with it since I was 4. Starbuck was my first crush. Kinda young to be going for the bad boys...my parents should have known right then I was going to be trouble.

I think I have inherited my love of sci-fi from my Dad, and his from Grampa. I remember shopping for, trying on and buying my red BATTLESTAR GALACTICA rainboots with Mom. And I had to, and I mean HAD TO have them. I loved those boots. I wish to God I could find another pair. It would warm my heart to see a pair of them on my Vivi. :)

Sadly, Mom put the boots into storage when we came to Calgary, and I never laid eyes on their splendour again. They had something on the bottom...pretty sure it was a viper or starbuck. They just rocked. No wonder all the other kids thought I was weird. I loved those damn boots. I would have wore them to Grad with my dress if it was possible.

How does a four year old even know and understand all this stuff? Well...I am sure it's mass appeal with the four year old crowd must have been the little robotic bear/dog 'Daggit'. Always keeping Apollo's adopted son Boxey out of trouble. And Starbuck the cigar smokin' pilot extroadordinaire. Sigh....

We started watching the new series and have been HOOKED. I mean, every episode is so meaty - you just want it to go on and on. Screw General Hospital - THIS SHOW should be on daily. Yes. I would love a daily fix. That would be lovely. Not likely to happen with something that expensive.... and the cinematics are amazing! If you haven't seen the Cylon Base Ships...you gotta. They are amazing.

Getting used to a new FEMALE Starbuck took a big adjustment. I mean - she still smokes the cigars. But a Starbuck with schmeebs just doesn't seem right. I'm over it now though. The dynamic works even better. (Not that I would want HER on my rainboots or anything. But I'll take Apollo - natch!)

Of course...what would the show be without the traditional Cylons in it? You gotta have that scarey red flashing strobe light. IT STILL FREAKS ME OUT! Like a roller coaster - it makes me want to pee my pants, but I love it. I love how they put the red strobe lights playing about the walls in the cylon rooms too. It creates great atmosphere.

I'm very sad to report that Toys R Us has been pretty damn lax in getting any collectibles in. I mean, they have 20 aisles of Disney Princess. Between toddler and Girl stuff - the Boy / Tom Boy product is practically an afterthought! I say we all email the head keebler elf in charge and demand some Battlestar Memorabillia! Okay - well maybe just those of us who care. And you folks who whine about gender imprinting our children better get all over it too - or all our sons are going to have to choose between Barbie / Disney / Easy bake oven if Toys R Us gets it's way. Someone has to get back into development of the boy toys. I mean - that used to be one of my favourite parts of the Sears Catalogue. The Toys R Us store in Market Mall has made it a little insignificant afterthought.

It's a crying shame.

Vivilicious

I took Vivi to Canadian Tire today. (I heard they aren't Canadian owned anymore. But I don't think that's accurate. I keep meaning to check that out. Maybe tomorrow). Anyway - she got to push one of those little kid sized carts today. Her first time. She was awesome! It was pretty damn cute. Speaking of Vivi, I had a tragedy/casualty today. I'll tell you all about it after xmas. It was very, very sad.

Coming Soon....A NEW CAT. AND YES WE ARE SOFT SUCKERS

What is mentally wrong with us? I think the animals have taken over our minds. A situation has come up where one of Binoo's UN NEUTERED siblings needs to be surrendered or find a home.

How could we not take the Binoo's brother in? How could we? I mean - we need another animal like we need a hole in the head. Especially an non-neutered variety. But Jer and I are animal lovers. And we just gotta. Poor 'Toopy' (Eddy). He went from third, to second when Charlie died (but at least he was the only cat), and now everyone comes after Binoo - making Toopy third. Now...the poor little schizo shy guy is going to be fourth. I can't imagine a littermate of the Orange Terror being Eddy like in any way. Let's hope he likes the Beaze as much as Binoo does!

Jeremy doesn't know much about him. His name is Finlay, which we like. He is some sort of grey tabby (Jer thinks). and he is a bit of a hilarious terror. Sounds Binoo-esque. And he sings. Sings? I'm not sure what this is going to be about - but once his nads are snipped, he ain't gonna have alot to sing about. Hopefully that will be the end of that.

One other thing I hope he doesn't do...BITE MY NOSE IN THE MORNING! I wasn't sure what this was about - but someone I work with clued me in. Apparently this is a prelude to the whining for food ritual. Super unpleasant way to be worken up.

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Bird's the Word

Did this one up last night.
Lost track of time doing it. If only work felt like that.























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Long time. No Blogging.

Ahhhh....I have once again been an absentee blogger.

But I have reasons! And as usual they are many fold. Well reasons / excuses. It's all the same I s'pose. Let's see - think September was the last time I blogged. Well, I got busy with work (When does that NOT happen?). Seriously, those bitches run me ragged - especially those that are related to me ;)

What else? Started art classes (Watercolour) at the end of September. I pretty much didn't give a rats ass about the computer or anything to do with it once I got into that. Or work. Or laundry. Or Jer. Everthing else was like the expendable crew guy in star trek. Not necessary to future scenes. ;)

(Just kidding baby!)

The classes were great! But buying the supplies almost got me divorced!!!!!!! They should really be telling you how much it is going to cost up front. Just buying everything all at the same time at the outset is 'Ooouchiewawa'. Absolutely brutal. Hundreds of dollars, then another bit to take the course. Then you get in there and it's all "You're only as good as your supplies - treat yourself" and you realize that scrimping and saving by buying the student paints and cheap paper isn't really going to help your output. I thought the instructor was on crack at first - but she was right! Everthing she said was true. Saving bucks on cheap shit makes your art - cheap and shit.

I've only done a few paintings so far. But they turned out pretty good. (As I told Jeremy - I'm definately not able to be my own worst critic. I'm so elated to see something that looks like a respresentation of what I intended come out of the efforts!!!! ELATED!!!!) We started out with a fruit/veggie still life for our first painting. We were able to shop for the 'subjects' and compose our entire painting. I almost passed out when I started and realized....I was going to have to compose an entire painting using ONLY 3 COLOURS. Yikes!!!


Then we did a landscape, again completely of our choosing, composition etc. I chose a picture we took from long beach in Tofino. (Photo shopped the little boy with the inflatable shark out. Would have ruined the 'mood'.)



Next was the portrait.

Scary Concept.

I chose Angelina Jolie.

1. She is extremely photogenic.
2. She is going to get all wrapped up with a bow and given to someone for Christmas.




I was totally pumped about the last session - the floral still life.

Turned out pretty good, but took a very long time. I never finished anyof it in class - I was too darn slow.

In fact, I never finished any of my paintings in class. The teacher was very concerned that I wasn't completing them. But I did finish every painting I started! On this flower, I faltered on having to do the vase, but it turned out okay. I didn't put a background on it. I wanted the flower to just pop off the white. Plus - I chose the piiiiiinnnnnnnnnnk lilly for Vivian. So you don't wanna have anything too darn heavy in a 2 1/2 year olds bedroom.

Then I went onto my own agenda. No more class means ~ Free at Last!!! I needed to complete my 'Brangelina' sandwich so of course I did Brad Pitt. He didn't turn out so lovely. His face went from bad, to worse, to muddied up, to fixed. Hopefully it still makes a nice sandwich with Angelina.

I did this one while babysitting a three & one year old...

(They were Sleeping)

Next Up - Flamingos. They are a pretty neat subject so I'm pumped to get going on it. Now that I have forced Cor into becoming one of my minions at the store - I'm on Auntie duty during part of my spare time. Probably a good thing or I would lock myself into the art room perpetually. It's a Christmas gift for my Mom, hopefully it works out!




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