The world has been crazy the last few months. Back in August I took a trip to Japan with my brother. When I got back I was whisked right into the school semester, and I’m afraid it’s beaten me rather well. Two months in and I am fighting a cold. My sister and I are preparing for a local craft fair. I have been awash in making cards and putting together jewelry. My craft table looks like a mess… It’s hard to think and create with so little room.

Pictures to follow soon, not only of my crazy life right now, but of the fall colors here, the cards I’m making, and of my messy, messy work space.

Today has been something of an adventure. After spending the morning sleeping (yes, I know… lazy. But I worked from 9-5 all week and the weekend contains the days necessary to be lazy) I went out with my sister on some errands. By the way, did you happen to know that today was 50% off everything in the Goodwill thrift shop today? Thrift stores are an artist’s best friend. You can find some fascinating things in a thrift shop (old cameras, random old-style nightgowns that you could do ghost photography with, furniture, prom dresses for $10 that you don’t mind ruining for a photo shoot…).

Well, after getting home from that, my mom decides she wants to go out and pick up some stuff. I go back out with my mother on a quick run before dinner, come home, eat dinner, then go to clean up the new mess that I left in my half room/half studio…

A few hours later I get a call. My friends have just left the play they went to see tonight. They want me to meet them at Denny’s. Like a usual suspect, I go to meet them. Denny’s is our thing, our place, especially at 11pm. Always good fun.

Sus informs us she wants a boyfriend, and she is going to try the Craigslist personals. Zoe and I are dubious. Very. Dubious. First of all we’re kinda drunk on sugar and food. Second, craigslist generally sounds like a bad idea.

Well, we finish at Denny’s. Sus wants to go home and watch “[500] Days of Summer” and look through the craigslist personals. Zoe doesn’t want to, but she comes with us anyway because we told her we were sad kitties, abandoned by her in a box by the side of the road… in the rain. :(

We mostly laughed at the personals, cause some of them are pretty funny… and weird, too. There were a few good ones, though. So after Zoe went home, Sus sat down to weed out the not so stellar ones, and she found a few decent options (4). She starts to write emails to them. A couple of the emails were kind of copy/paste. She wrote out entirely new emails to the other two. One of the guys said to put color in the subject line to prove that you’re real. He didn’t specify what kind of color, if it was just a color in general, your favorite color or the color of your eyes. Thus: Eye color - blue, favorite color - well, blue.

*Sigh* I guess we’ll see how it goes for her. I wish her luck. She really is adorable.