January 29, 2013

and the big news

I’ve been really debating this. I mean, really debating it for a while now.

I started this blog originally to showcase DIY projects and have it become a source of creativity for me. I’ve worked hard to get it to where it is. I’m thankful for everyone that reads my blog and comments.

But, after a year of blogging the wrong way, I’ve decided I need to take a step back, get a new perspective on things, and start a blog new. Fresh, and clean. Taking the knowledge I now know and applying it to something better. Something more.. me.

I’ve realized looking back on this blog that maybe 60% of it is actually me. I censor myself a lot, knowing that old co-workers, family members, and co-workers of people in my life read this. While that’s all fine and dandy, I use it as an excuse to censor myself. I don’t say completely what’s on my mind for fear of someone else getting the backlash of my ranting-raving-lunatic ways. I couldn’t care less what someone says about me, but I don’t like instilling worry or fear in someone else because of things I’ve said.

If there’s a few truths that can be said about me, one of them is that I’m a sarcastic asshole. I don’t take myself too seriously, and love to turn most things around into a story involving me thinking “wtf” in my head. These stories need to get typed out, I need to be able to express myself without worrying who might be reading it.

I can say with the utmost of confidence that I have, and will always remain true to myself. I am, me. I always will be. I’ve never let someones opinion falter who I am. Why should I start now? Pretending doesn’t look good on me.

I’ve had journals, blogs, and other creative writing outlets for years now. I can’t promise I’m going to talk about being a stay at home mom, cause shit I don’t have any kids. I can’t promise you I’ll talk about my latest and greatest diet or exercise routine, because fuck no I don’t diet and I exercise when I feel like it. I also can’t promise you I’ll do outfit posts and lie about what my apartment looks like. I hate cleaning, and I don’t exactly design my apartment for photo ops. My outfits? Constantly black and often the same sweater multiple times in a week. What I can promise you is this next blog is going to be me. 100% from inside my shitfilled brain right to my fingertips for all to enjoy, or cringe at. And probably a lot of curse words.

I’m not going to leave a breadcrumb trail for you to follow, I’m going to be gone. The blogs I follow and read I’ll still comment on with my new name, but if you want to know which direction I’ve headed in, shoot me an email at missmarieomarie (at) gmail (dot) com. I’ll be more than happy to let you in on where I am. If you don’t like email, that’s fine, leave a comment and I’ll reach out to you with my new information. I may update this once in a while, because shit I bought the domain name for another year, so why waste my money completely?

I promise not to disappoint. Here’s to bigger, and better things in 2013.

tits out
xo

smhoctobersign

January 24, 2013

coffee talk #9

I missed out on last weeks coffee talk. I’m mildly ashamed.. I’m slacking so hard lately. So this makes up for it.

1. Do you drink the milk after eating cereal or do you dump it out?
I don’t drink milk, and very rarely eat cereal. When I do eat cereal, I’m one of those crazies that likes to keep putting cereal in my bowl until all the (almond) milk is gone.

2. Do you share drinks/food?
It all depends on the person. Close friends? Sure. Kh? Yeah, I better. I make her share with me, so I better reciprocate. Oddly enough I’m not grossed out by it at all.

3. How often do you replace your toothbrush?
I don’t, Kh does. I tried getting the kind of toothbrush that the color fades when you need to change it, then I just forget to pay attention.

4. How often do you wash your hair?
You don’t really need to wash your hair every day, and boy do I try and live by that. I have dry shampoo that I use for my oily-ass bangs. Generally, I have to wash my hair every time I shower. What else does that tell you about my bathing habits.. ew.

5. Do you use a dishwasher or do you handwash your dishes?
I have a dishwasher, her name is Kh. Ok, kind of kidding. We don’t have room for a dishwasher, even a small portable one.

January 23, 2013

fiver on hump day

:: 1 :: Kh and I went to see Legend on the big screen at a local independent theater. This whole week they’re running a “Satan on Screen” series. I’m hoping to talk her into seeing Rosemary’s Baby with me tomorrow night. As a double whammy of awesomeness, they serve beer at the theater.

:: 2 :: My juice of the day yesterday. Hot chocolate with 6 chocolate covered marshmallows in it. Delicious, and just what I needed after how cold it was out. It was even colder out today..grumble.

:: 3 :: I got a “new”-ish haircut. I’m growing my hair out this year, and the first step was getting straight across bangs, as opposed to my side swept bangs.

:: 4 :: On an impulse we went to Ikea on Monday. It took us an hour to get there, 23 minutes to go through the whole store, and 40 minutes to get home. What did I come home with? New pillows, shelves, anddd (read below)

:: 5 :: Our new reclaimed wood table! Kh found it on craigslist, from a local guy that makes all his own reclaimed wooden furniture. As a hobby! We picked it up on the way home from Ikea, and now our old table is being set up in my studio/spare room. Creative space/home office, here I come!

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January 22, 2013

gotta wear shades

At Kh’s company’s holiday party it was announced that we were all taking a trip to Mexico. And if that wasn’t cool enough, we also all got gift certificates for Warby Parker to get sunglasses for this awesome trip. I tried my hardest to give Kh my gift certificate so she could use it towards her Rx, but she refused. So, I’m stuck having to pick out sunglasses.

Bummer right? They do this neat thing where you pick out 5 pairs of glasses to try on at home. Kh took the liberty of picking out these 2 for me. She’s the best.

warbyparker1 1. Tenley Midnight Blue ::
2. Liv Burgundy Fade ::

So far.. #1 is stealing the show. I really love the dark blue, almost black color of the frames. It’s a little different than what I’m used to. I usually love a big bug eyed sunglass, but I wasn’t really feeling them this time around. Especially with my new bangs.

Oh yeah, I got a haircut. I’m working on growing out my long angled bob again, and then slowly turning that into long layers. Ek! This will happen. In 6 weeks I’m getting extensions on the front pieces. Whuttt!

Yes.

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January 21, 2013

but alone I made love to my 40

Kh and I decided to have date day today, and by today I mean yesterday. This decision was brought down on us by the fact Mama came out in theaters on Friday, and well.. I wanted to see that shit.

I’m talking about this movie – Mama. The movie had a lot of potential to be incredibly scary, and visually stimulating. Was it? No.

We got to the theater about 10minutes before the start time of the movie. This in itself is a miracle, I’m pretty good at running late. We got situated in our seats, and waited. There was a handful of others waiting for the movie to begin. Several rows in front of us, a woman with her feet up on the seat in front of her turns and asks if everyone can see over her boots. I give Kh a wide eyed look and we laugh to ourselves. The lights dim, and the coming attractions start. The second preview to play was the new Tyler Perry movie. Kh and I look at each other with raised eyebrows. A herd of tweens come through the door and argue about where to sit. An even younger group of tweens sits directly in front of us, and immediately pull up instagram and start talking about Julie’s audacity to post pictures of herself.

I mean, how dare she?

“Baby Way Productions” glow across the screen, and in big bold letters Marlon Wayans glows just as bright. Bad jokes about a dogs ball breathe and Marlon keeping his dick out of slavery comes out of nowhere. I look at Kh, she looks at me and immediately stands up. “This isn’t right” she says. I follow close behind her and we exit the theater, as well as the handful of others.

Oh, they just messed up what auditoriums were playing what movies. No big deal, we were just watching A Haunted House for 10 minutes. I feel ashamed for even witnessing that much of that movie.

I was pretty damn irritated. Not only did I miss the good coming attractions, but I also missed 10 minutes of the movie I had wanted to see. Grr-owl!

Ok but back to the movie. They relied too heavily on the use of cgi, and not enough on subtle scare tactics. They wanted to show a disassociated mother figure, by having her be a tattooed, rock and roll playing, too much eyeshadow wearing woman. And in comparison a spectral over-bearing mother with cheesy-not-even-creepy eyes and a bad hair piece. Her floating hair drove me nuts.

I needed a drink after that load of… EHhhhh.

outfit1
Bag: DSW
Jacket: Tobi
outfit2 Shirt: Marshalls
Scarf: Target
Tiny Belt: Forever 21
Ring: Antique store
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After the movie we went to one of our (many) favorite little restaurants. They were still serving brunch, and thankfully it wasn’t incredibly busy. Why is everyone so obsessed with brunch? There are some places that you have at least an hour+ wait to get brunch on a Sunday. So crazy to me.. Anyways. I stuffed my face on nachos, and did some day time drinking.

We came home and continued to drink. And I knitted.

That’s how my Sunday went. Today, I think Ikea is in store for me. I have very little work to do, and it’s freezing outside.

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January 19, 2013

family visits, fish and dead things

I’m real behind on things in blogosphere. I was going to just sweep it all under the rug and start from whats happening now, but I’ve decided to play catch up a bit.

In the beginning of January my younger (and only) brother came to visit and brought his girlfriend along too. She’d never been to Boston, or at least that was up for debate, so on one of the days they were here we trekked in to Boston and went to the New England Aquarium. Over the years I’ve been to the NEA so many times I’ve lost count. On this particular visit we weren’t aware but it was under construction. The entire round tank in the middle of the aquarium (essentially one of the only reasons to go) was MIA. Covered in tarps and being drilled on the entire time. The ticket prices were only around $5 cheaper, and it was kind of a crapshoot. We still had a good time, but I was pretty disappointed in the sheer amount of construction actually going on.

Ah, anyways.

The jellyfish were pretty damn cool.

allusaquarium1 That picture of Kh and I is one of my new favorites. I mean, how fucking handsome is she? Shit.

After wandering around the aquarium for a bit we headed over to Quincy Market and got our eat on. I always get overwhelmed with how many choices there are. I really wanted ice cream but uh.. it was freezing out. So I got a salad. Weird compromise..

khceme1 We took a freezing stroll over to one of my favorite cemeteries and took a few snapshots. It’s not exactly a well kept secret since it’s right off the freedom trail, but I like it none the less.

Overall most of their visit consisted of drinking and eating. Which isn’t out of the ordinary when my brother and I are together. It was great getting to spend some time with him. I don’t get to see him very often, and this was his little get away for graduating college.

Ok, I’m almost caught up.

January 18, 2013

the year to come: 2013 goals

Ok. So confession. I don’t believe in resolutions, or picking one specific date to begin change in your life. Change can come any day, any minute, you just have to work at it and commit. The second part of that is a bit harder for me. If I set goals or specific dates to accomplish things, I usually rebel against myself and refuse to do it. It’s this weird deep rooted hatred of being told what to do, even if it’s myself telling me what to do.

Since I don’t believe in resolutions, I usually make up a list of goals to accomplish each year. I actually make up two sets of goals, one around New Years, then I reassess and do another on or near my birthday. Which is in March. Some years I strike gold, other years I strike out. I’ve learned to be more realistic in my goal setting. It may seem great to say “watch a sunset every night”, but realistically setting a goal for every day makes it more likely for me to fail. Setting goals for an entire year is a lengthy amount of time, so the goals should be able to be worked on for the year to come. And even be carried over into the next year (aka until my birthday). I like the idea of setting my years from birthday to birthday, it gives me a better grasp on accomplishments when it’s put into the time frame of my own life, age, whatever.

What do I want to have in store for 2013?

♥ :: Enroll in online classes :: Between 2011 – 2012 I was accepted into 3 different schools. Every single time I found myself saying it wasn’t the “right” time. I put it off, and deferred enrollment telling myself I’d do it later. I’d do it when I was a bit more financially stable. I’d do it when I could afford to not work full time. Excuses, excuses. This year I’ve decided to go forward and enroll in the online classes. It’ll offer me the flexibility to keep working, and to ultimately achieve one of those long term goals I have.

♥ :: Take more photos/Model more :: After photography school I really haven’t taken many photos at all. I miss working with models and a creative team to make some of my own inspiring images. And in the same breathe I need to model more this year. I get a lot of creative inspiration in front of the camera, and also miss working with creative individuals to expand their portfolios.

♥ :: Read 20 books :: This one may be a tall order, considering I’m still working on the same 3 books from last year. I can do it! I have a stack of great books from a used book store, and from Christmas. I always want to read every book that crosses my path (well almost every book).

♥ :: Learn to read tarot cards :: I’ve always wanted to learn how to read tarot cards. From the time I was a youngin. I bought a book and got a tarot deck for Christmas. Nothings stopping me now.

♥ :: Grow my hair out :: I cut my hair really short right before my 25th birthday. I love having short hair. My showers are quick, I don’t use a lot of shampoo, and it doesn’t take much to style it. Oh, and my hairs super thick and it makes it manageable. I’ve had long hair envy for a while now. I see people with long braids, ponytails, buns. I want it! I know as soon as my hair gets to shoulder length I’ll hate it, but for now the plan is to grow it long.

♥ :: Yoga. More of it :: Last year I took my first yoga class, and I loved it. I’m not one for classes, or going to the gym, but I do enjoy my solitary yoga routine. I want to try and stick to a 3 day a week schedule. We’ll see how that goes. I find after a long day of work it helps me to relax, and stretch out.

♥ :: Business on track/Etsy shop up :: I just recently launched my new business. My website is up and running (with very little glitches! yay), my business cards are on their way, and clients are starting to come out of the woodwork. I need to sit down and make a strategic plan on how to handle all of the things that will be coming my way. It’s exciting! and slightly terrifying. I’ve also had 2 Etsy shops hanging out in limbo forever now. I need to get a move on that and finally put it all into motion. It would be great if I could experience one craft show this year.

♥ :: Travel. Get my passport :: I’m going to Mexico with Kh and her company in May. Biggest issue? I don’t have a passport yet! We also have plans to travel to Florida, and hopefully around New England this coming year. I miss traveling and wandering. I have gypsy blood in me.

♥ :: Set up my creative space :: Now that Kh is completely settled in our apartment, I want to utilize this great studio/spare room space I have. I keep all of my craft supplies, canvases, paints, brushes, yarn, you name it, it’s in there. Right now it’s just a giant mess. A giant hot mess if you will. I’ve found some great inspiration lately from looking at others creative spaces, and want to create my own.

♥ :: Fill a sketchbook :: I have never in my life filled an entire sketchbook. This is going to change! This year is going to be all about creating and being creative. I have a bad habit of hiding my artwork and never displaying it. I’m hoping to change all of that and open up myself to letting my art be seen.

So, that’s what I hope is in store for me this year. I’m going to be working, creating, and trying to become. Become is my word this year. Take charge and become.

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