Christmas is coming....

I went home yesterday to help out my mom with her newest Christmas creation. She was in Niagara Falls last year and came across this house with this incredibly awesome lawn ornament. It was a huuuuuuge wooden cutout of Santa, his sleigh, and his reindeer.  She marched right up to the door and the sweet old man who lived there told her he made them years ago and he probably had the plans still hanging out his basement. So he went and got them for her, and this my friends, is all my family has been hearing about since.

And yesterday they were finished. Me putting the final details on Santa's face and the reindeer's eyes, were the last step. And voila!!!!!

Latah Daze!!

Mashup Love

So I've been neglecting my love of mashups lately. I think the last time I actually checked in with some of my favs was the last time I came to Toronto. Interesting.  As I woke up this morning I said to myself.. CRAP! I forgot to charge up my ipod to full and add some new stuff to it. But what a girl to add?? Well low and behold I check my email and BAM! new mashup album from MASHUP-GERMANY aka Ben Stiller! Now I've been following this guys stuff for the last couple years. And he's awesome. If you don't agree, well screw you. But I think him and his mixes kick ass. However, he does have some mixes that do suck.. but most of them kick ass. And this album right here is his best stuff. That's right. A hits cd. OOOOOOOH.

Now to all my dj friends and friends of music, and friends who love music and friends who don't know what a mashup is but yet have heard of GIRL TALK or maybe the other way around, I fully encourage the download of this album. WHAT?? FREEEE MUSIC??? Actually yes. Mashup-Germany fully encourages the downloading and sharing of his music. Why not?? Oh wait.. cause maybe it's just his mixing and blending of other people's music?? BLAH. Whatever. He's awesome at it. And if that were the case there would be no djs ever in the world. So check it out!

So I'm on the bus, and after spending two hours of the bus ride watching Star Trek, I decided to read. The crochet. Then to kill the rest of the time I put on this album. And then I cried because about 15 minutes away from Toronto and about 10 tracks left my ipod died. Yup. I cried. I cried because with almost every track I ended up with some kind of cheesey smile on my face. Because they are cheeeesey mashups. But awesome. Just everynow and then he will throw in some old school sample or beat or something that makes you go AAWWW YEAH and smile.

Perfect example
Follow Me To A Wonderful World

Other album favorites were
Everyone Speaks No Americano
Outta Space Like A G6
Without Black Or White
The Wavin' Flag Mashup  which also has my personal favorite of his incorporated into it which is Imagine One Day

and now.. for the supreme happy song on the album....

Latah Daze!!

Random Smiles

So as summer seems to be slipping away, oh wait look at that!! It came back for a few days!!!
Today's blog isn't going to be tooo lengthy as I'm currently glued to my couch painting and crocheting it up for a show I've got some stuff going up in next weekend. By the way if you haven't grabbed your ticket off of me yet...  WHY NOT!!!!!!

So, to give my fingers a rest I have decided to share with you some random and much needed smiles from the last month or so!!



Smile #1 I was walking home the other day, and came face to face with a GIGANTIC Alf!! Seriously, how could you not smile at this!!! I used to loooove this tv show as a kid. And... I will gladly admit, I still have an Alf doll currently sitting beside my window. It's the only stuffed animal I still keep out in plain site. Cause he kicks ass. And is better then your Care Bear anyday!! So there :P

Smile #2 Anyone who knows me, knows I tend to have blonde moments. Yes I am a blonde. For a brief moment in time, I tried to fool everyone. First with red, then with brown. The brown was mostly to cover up the horrible red/bleach dye job that I was attempting to get my normal hair colour back with. Ya ya. Laugh it up. So it's my friend Ryan's birthday. And after a few beer, a glass of wine and some awesome sliders... no no not the TV SHOW, but those tiny delicious style burgers/chicken/tuna, we all decided to break up into teams and play some crainium. So it's my team's turn and we pic drawing and they give it to me because I like to think I can draw. Most days I can. Reading however seems to not be my strong suit. As I was handed my clue/picture I had to draw I began to create a masterpiece!! My teamates were calling out names and animals and things and they were so close!! Untill I hear Ryan break my creative concentration with the words "did I read the same card??" to which I looked up then looked at the card. Apparently, I read the card's title. To which was Creative Cat. Yes.. I was drawing a creative cat. I glanced down to the bottom of the card and saw in tiny little letters "COLD TURKEY"..... "But creative cat was in the speech bubble and it was right there and I totally....." ya i couldn't talk my way out of this stupid one... BLONDE!! Atleast the whole table got a nice looooong laugh outta it.

Smile #3 I went drinking with my two buds Rondeau and Seb. Looooong overdue I believe. Beer, dancing, and mom jokes all in one! How come we don't do it more often. Ohhh ya. We're adults now. With lives, and babies, and houses and better things to spend money on and work the next morning. Damn growing up. Anyways I went pee and saw this picture on the bathroom stall. I think someone needed either a) more alcohol b) better friends or c) try harder to not be emo. You decide.

Smile #4 Terry climbing a tree. That is all!

Smile #5 Big Sugar and Wide Mouth Mason.
Free concert + Beer + Grooving - No Movie x Two
Awesome People =  Best.Date.In.A.Long.Ass.Time. Thank you :)  

                                                   





Smile #6 Van Fuckin' Halen and some rawkin sunglasses straight from T.O








Smile #7 Went home for a visit and a wedding. Stole my mom's camera. Took some garden picks. Nothing too fancy but I like being out in my yard, in the country and taking pictures of the barns, field, highway, trees and whatever else I see. The results of garden pictures :D

and that's it for photograpic evidence of smiles!! I now leave you with... some VITAMINE C!!!! cheesey aint it :D

Latah Daze!

Upcoming Art Goodness!!

So I have a few art shows/displays/things coming up. Awesome! I got off my ass, and contacted an art group who I've been meaning to contact for awhile now. They display art in a few restaurants and bars around Ottawa.  I've heard some good things about them, and hey you can't go wrong with another outlet of having a new audience view your stuff. So, I am currently a new artists of Basement Artists. 

Starting October, my stuff will be up in Oh So Good, and I'm doing a show at Babylon on the 1st!! I do have tickets, if anyone is interested. $10 bucks! Come one and all!

Hopefully.. this works out for me, as art sales have been slow, and I need to branch out to different audiences as most of my friends and people interested in purchasing art already have a piece of mine. Some even have a wall!!! Yay!

Happy Arting!!

Latah Daze!

My Night Is Unfortunately Missing Something.....

So as I was walking home from the Glebe, i decided to hit up the Glebe LCBO. Yup, gonna get me a little bit of a drink on tonight.

So I'm usually a fan of the Spain and Italy wines, mixed in with a few from Canada. When in doubt, I usually go for this wine that was brought to my attention a few years back. It's pretty good. I'm not a wine expert or anything. So I'm not going to compare them with a wine connoisseur's vocabulary.

I'm strolling through the countries and nothing is really catching my eye. I haven't had a good Zinfandel in awhile... so should I try one from the LCBO vintage selection?? Naw.. so.. I go back towards Spain. And I see this one. It's called TILIA. Looks good, cheap enough. Aight I'm sold.

It's pretty good. What can I say. I got home about an hour ago, made some supper and I must admit, I'm half done the bottle.

But like the title says... my night is missing something :P .... Possibly ice cream??? ... nope not it.

Lata Daze

oh... ps... for tomorrow night I picked up some Strongbow and Sir Perry's cider. But like they say in "The Neverending Story"
"But that's another story!"

Oh Hello August

So summer seems to be going away slowely... or quickly depending who you are. It's now August. It's actually my little brother's 24th birthday today!! I think he should still be 12 to me. Happy birthday Bro!

July ended with a bang. Literally. Fireworks and all in two places. One at the island that I go camping at every year, and the other from my deck as the fireworks from the Casino came just high enough in the sky over the river for me to see through a gap in the trees.

I had a job interview yesterday with the catholic school board to run some of their after school programs. Not too sure if I want the job though, as it's kinda crappy hours placed at odd times of the day so that having another job, like my supply job, is difficult to work around. If it's offered to me, I might take it and see how it goes for the first couple months..and if it's not financially stable enough, I'll just go back to supply work. Sounds like a good plan to me... but really when do I ever have plans!! Ok Ok, when do I ever FOLLOW THROUGH on plans!

I showed art at House of Paint last weekend and made some cash!! I think I'm going to show again next year. I always forget to sign up previous years and when I remember it's too late. But next year I shall!!!!
Here's a pic of my set up!!

And the most amazingly talented Carr aka Catalyst Art also put her stuff up too alongside me! Check her stuff.. it rocks.
ok ok.. i'll picture it too!!



So my weekend pretty much kicked ass. Good beats. Amazing art, and also last but not least great people!!


And now some choooooonze! Brought to my attention this weekend... however, I still like the original better!

Latah Daze!!

Island In The Sun

So I'm going on an island for a couple days. Gonna head out friday morning.
This is probably my favorite weekend of the whole year. Well this and Ty-1-On.
I'm definitely going to enjoy it alot more then I did last year... which honestly last year I was in a pretty bad place with a pretty horrible person. And being in a place like that definitely puts a damper on your happy times that's for sure.

So for the next couple of days, i'm going to do nothing but sit, drink, eat and go swimming. Oh and watch some fireworks and get eaten by mosquitoes. However I read this awesome article the other day about soothing mosquito bites so i'm bringing some lemon juice with me and hope it helps :D

i may not come back... but i have to as I work on tuesday....  I hope you're doing some just as fun this weekend :D

and now... some island in the sun choooonze.

Latah Daze!!

Weak....

A moment of weak...
with some crap thrown in...

blech

here's some sappy girl tunes for ya


latah daze!!

Music, Canada Day, Beaches, Pictures and The Cat Came Back!!

Holy Moly!! Has it really been like.. 3 weeks or so since a last blog!! Sheesh.
Ok where to start... well why not just do a brief catch-up.

1. Pepe got sick, disappeared a few days before his vet appointment, then someone found him and he came back last friday!! Was completely saddened and zombified all week as I did nothing but get up at 6 am, look for him briefly before work, go to work, come home from work, look again, go to bluesfest, come back around 11:30 and look some more till about 12:30 and do it ALL OVER AGAIN!! yay. But it was all worth it because he came home. He's still sick, but I have now locked him in the house till his vet appointment I plan to get him on saturday.

2. Started working at a new daycare which is totally awesome. LOVE the children and the staff! We went to the beach at Lac Phillipe today. MMMM beach. I was able to tan my legs too! Usually I tan only a tad on my arms, but my arms are really tanned now, however my legs are still a nice pastey white. Go sun!!

3. Did I mention Bluesfest!!! This year was pretty kick ass if I must say so myself. With acts like The Roots, Erykah Badu, Infected Mushroom, The Black Keys, The Tragically Hip, DJ Shplongo, DJ Skrillex, Stephen Marley, and the Dropkick Murphys!!and well must I really go on and on , and on and on... hehehe. I couldn't afford a whole pass thought. Only the first week. But damn!! Such a good first week of music. This week is kinda not so great. So I'm not sad I am missing out. Check the pics yo!!!!

4. BEACH!!! SUN!!! and a little bit of thunder and lightning. That's what my summer has been so far.

5. Canada Day. I could think of a better way to spend Canada's birthday. The fireworks were awesome. The  BBQ and keggar were great, and the company was the best company ever :D

All in all I've had a pretty busy couple of weeks :D here's to hoping the rest of my summer is rockin!

Latah Daze!

3 am Stylings

So... it's almost 3 am. And I am sitting on my balcony. Enjoying a moment before I go to sleep. It's rainy, drizzly, quiet and nice. I'm currently surfing Stereomood on the "it's raining mood" and this song comes up.

It's added to the ambiance and I thought it was a really nice, thoughtful and moodful piece of music.

...Latah Nights.

Sometimes I am an Unapologetic Carnivore!!

It's Ribfest in Ottawa. That's right!!! Step out your front door if you live anywhere near the downtown area and take a deeeeeeeep breath. And smell the gloriousness of bbq ribs and chicken and pulled pork. No don't just smell. Go have some!!

It kicked off Wednesday. And after a failed attempt at going for lunch, I called up my sister (ok you caught me I texted) and said we should go. Now I was shocked and amazed to discover that my sister, who loves ribs, has NEVER BEEN to Ribfest. In all the years she has lived in this glorious city, she has never ever been to a Ribfest.
Now back in the day, they used to pair up Ribfest with Beerfest, but sadly that is no longer.

So I met my sister at her work, we trucked over, in the rain too I might add, to Sparks street, and there we began the day ol' debate on which Ribtruck/stand do we try. Since my sister had never experienced this before, I wanted to make sure we settled on a kick ass truck with some amazing ribs. We walked back and forth a few times, but after close inspection (ok really I just watched to see how much sauce they put on the ribs) I decided we would go to Bibbs. I usually get the pulled pork, so that was my choice. And Lisa got a half rack. Then we sat under an umbrella at 73 North's patio and paired it with a beer. And after Lisa's first bite, she now understood the awesomeness of Ribfest. I will be dragging her with me next year!!

Then she went home, and I decided to go for one more drink with some friends at the Cock and Lion. A good way to end a Ribfest experience. I wish I wasn't so broke and could go again :( Ah well, next year!!


GO GET SOME RIBS!!!!

Latah Daze!

Dude.. Slurpee???!!

So it's not officially summer for me untill I either have an Ice Cap, or a Slurpee.

Today, I was craving the Slurpee.. mmmmmmm now usually I go for the mixture of a few different flavors. Like cherry, orange or blue raspberry. However, the Quickee I walked into about an hour ago.. had no such flavors!! AAAH!!! Instead it was Coke, Dr. Pepper and Crush Cream Soda or Orange Crush. I debated but I was then like, whatever dude.. a slurpee is a slurpee is a slurpee...
So I chose cream soda. And now it's officially summer.
As you can see, I demolished half of it on the 2 minute walk home :P


And everytime I think of a slurpee, I always think of these guys!! Holy blast from the past dudes!!!!!







Latah Daze!!

Chicken Bacon!!!

I've never tried chicken bacon before. Ok wait.. the correct term is chicken breakfast strips, not chicken bacon. But same thing right?? I dunno. So I decided to try some, as I've had some in my freezer for alittle while now. And I was craving something breakfasty that wasn't too filling (ie. pancakes). So I began cooking them up. They looked a little different. They smelled the same though. So I cooked up some eggs as well, and cut up some fruit and voila!!! Breakfast for lunch time!!!

Verdict... hmm... it kinda tasted a tad like Bologna...so I poured some maple syrup on it... which kinda makes me wish I had gone with the pancakes!!! Maybe I'll make some bread and do up some french toast for supper.


YAAA TOAST!!??!!

Latah Daze

Hello Weekend!!

My weekend so far....
got off work.
chilled on my balcony with some pretty good company.
didn't have a beer... awww but ah well :P.
finished a painting.
Went out for the night to dance and show some art at The Last Exposure
Sold a magnet to Corey for 3 dollars!!! woot!
Slept in.
Had a very tastey fruit salad and yogurt and granola breakfast...ok.. lunch.
Watching some Jericho.

So far so good right???
What's on the agenda tonight...
WestFest get Naked!!... that's right Bif Naked is coming to Ottawa for a free show!!! So excited for this actually!!!

Come out!! If not.. enjoy some Bif Tunage!

Latah Daze

I Officially Think It's Summer!!!

My apartment that I moved into last October, is awesome. It's a tad over my budget.. but it kicks ass. It has an amazing downtown Ottawa skyline view that has the peace tower light up, reflects the sunset on the office building windows, and a park that has kids, dogs and very cute ( I am assuming) baseball, ultimate and soccer players using it everyday/night. My balcony was one of the selling points to this place.

So, it's warm out, and this is the view of my world right now :D
Ok, so I went to take a picture, and the guys building the house next to me were totally on the roof with no shirts and chilling.. I didn't want them thinking I was taking pictures of them! HAHAHA. So this one will have to do for now :D
It's my mini table garden. I have a veggie one growing as well, but that's clearly not on my balcony.
I'm gonna get some patio lanterns (hopefully some asian looking ones and not stupid crappy ones that will just look tacky.) and string them up. Then whoever wants to come over for a drink, come one come all!!!




And now enjoy another summer feel good jam :D I was gonna do the original Bob Marley.. but you've all heard that one.. so here's Damian for the win!!

Latah Daze!

Birthdays!!!

So it was my birthday weekend. Alot happened, and alot didn't happen. But that's how they go.
Saw some great friends, went out on great dinners. Caught up with people I never ever see, got texted by people I wish I could see more often.

I'm 28, and I actually felt a little older as I walked into my apartment last night. Even my apartment felt different to me. It was odd!!!  But good older, and good different.

A new year, I'm sure it's going to have some big bumps come my way to due to unforeseeable circumstances...but new year.. and I can take it because I have nothing to hide nor did I do nothing wrong.

A new year of me just being me and doing what I want to do for once without feeling guilted or blamed or raged on.

Bring on the summer :D And thinking of Summer makes me think of this song!!! :D

Trash...

This is how I used to check my email.

Log in.

Delete all the Oprah/Ikea/Old Navy/Skin health/crap newsletter sites.

Scan Facebook messages to see if any are important or perk my interest to go on facebook.

Delete facebook messages.

Read new regular mail if I have any.

Read crochet/art newsletter emails I get.

Delete those.

Go to spam inbox and delete all the spam

Go to trash inbox and delete all the trash.

This is what I did once a day or once ever few days. Do you see anything wrong with this???

Apparently normal people don't delete their trash boxes. With Gmail, you are allowed a bazillion MB (ok really mine says 7589 MB so not really a bazzilion) of space to keep every single email you will probably get in a lifetime. And this grows everyday. So normal people don't bother going into their trash and deleting for good all the crap they get. With a certain click of a menu option you can decide for Gmail to do it for you every 30 days as well. So that you don't have to. Pretty convenient no??

Put normal people don't do this. Or so I was told. 

But I do. I go and delete all the emails, and spam too, in order to always have an empty trash box. Is there something wrong with this???? Does anyone else do this?? What could possibly be wrong with deleting your trashbox?? 

I was just reminded of this because I just checked my email... and for the first time since January (long story why there) I now have an empty trash box. HA!!!

Another word for trash is Garbage... so here's some Garbage for you :D hmmm... seems fitting...

Latah Daze

Beer, Pizza, Boxed Seats, Cheers, A Great Person, ... strippers??? and... Kid Rock!!

Was how I spent my night on Tuesday.
It was epic. And an awesome way to celebrate a joint birthday. However, my birthday is not till Monday, but whatever it's only a day.

And to think, I let someone give me shit when I responded to said great person when he asked me if I wanted to go. I think it was a no brainer.

I came home tired, half drunk, a tiny bit sad because I had to work in the morning, but definitely in a better place then I was a month ago.

Wonderful Internet Video Stumbling

So a friend of mine showed me this awesome set of youtube vids. I love this and it's kick ass and hilarious and I want to do it too!!!!

Check out her other vids.. but I think this one is a fav :D

Music Over The Last 6 Years

My music tastes have come and gone. Changed and grown. I've grown to love many genres and many talented artists. Local and international.
But 6ish years ago I was introduced to a certain Australian talent. And ever since I've been a huuuuuge fan.
It's his birthday today and it only seems fitting that I post one of my favorite song by him. It's from his latest album, which I don't think is my favorite but definitely amazing. I love how his style is ever changing yet stays the same in terms of message. Happy Birthday Xavier Rudd!!

I'm sorta on a fence.
I love rain, the sound it makes, the gloomy romantic side of it. How peaceful nature seems in it.
However, I want to make my garden already!! And plant my veggies and flowers so that they will grow and in acouple months I don't have to walk to the market, I can just walk to my backyardish area!!

But right now I'll sit and listen to the rain in bed.
Read a book or continue watching Carnivale. It's actually a pretty neat show so far.
Oh sundays. Why does tomorrow have to be monday??!!

Rainy Days, Cold Beer, Good People in my life and HOCKEY!!!!

And it's friday!!!
That is all.

Give Me A HELL YA!!

So I used to write in a journal since I was a weeee lil' one. Things about the mindless things I did that day, the mindless elementary fights I got in at school, who I was crushin' on and thought was sooooooo hot. Which one of my friends was my best friend of the week and of course alot about why I dislike my parents enough to want to run away from home. Ah to be young and think your world then had so many problems. I also used to write about other things in life in it.
One day, I finally did move out and run away from home. At the time I was living with my father. Most days ran like this: school, lunch being taken over by Spirit Minister duties, afterschool sport(either basketball or soccer), walk 45 minutes to work or bus if I was fortunate enough to work at 4:30 and not 4, and work till 8. Some nights, like Fridays, I would work till 12. If I didn't have sports or work, I had homework. Ok honestly.. I never really did my homework when I was 17.
To make a long story short, I decided one morning to not do dishes and do my laundry out of the fact that I got home late after a looong day of being a teenager. It happened to be a particular Friday where I had worked till 12 and got home around 12:30. And then I had to work the next day I think around mid-afternoon. My Dad worked nights and came home around 7am. Now, being the considerate daughter I thought I was, I didn't want to wake up early and make noise by running the laundry machine and doing dishes and waking my dad up or keep him from falling asleep if he hadn't already. I thought it was nice. So I got up and got ready for work. After work I figured I would come home and do the dishes then. And then my laundry sunday. I thought it was ok.
Oh man my father did not. Apparently it's not ok for a teenager who barely has no time on her hands to not follow through on her chores. Now me and my dad had been butting heads for a bit. But I did not expect him to go apeshit on me for sparing him some noise so he could sleep. He even had the nerve to tell me that all he does is work very hard and I do nothing so I should have been able to do the dishes and my laundry. Nothing. A teenager who has a job 20 hours a week plus school, plus school leader responsibilities plus fundraising for various causes my school did, plus sports 3 nights a week. Yup, I do nothing alright.
So, not only did he ground me, but he also demanded I do the dishes and my laundry right away. At 8 at night. On a Saturday. Me being a typical 17 year old teenager thought this was absurd. It was absurd. I took a stand right then and there and told him exactly what I do all week. Yes, I don't contribute to bills, and yes Father you do work very hard at YOUR job to put a roof over our heads, but don't ever tell me that I do NOTHING because to me school, sports, my Dominican fundraising, my spirit minister and my job are actually more like 5 jobs compared to his one job. And then I told him that I had plans that night after work to go out with my friends and I was going and I'd be home at 12. I got the ultimatum. You do dishes and laundry now and you don't go out or you leave and don't come back.
I left.
Typical 17 year old behavior I stubbornly said fine and I left. I had finally had it with my Fathers demands that really he should not have been putting on a 17 year old. If you think this was selfish... it probably was. However, you weren't the one coming home from being in school and sports and then work at 12 at night to a room with your pjs on the floor and your bed unmade with a note saying your room was a "fucking pigstye clean this mess up" all the time, or the yelling if  I came home a little later from work and made noise and woke him up on the nights he didn't work nights.
So I left, saw my friends, got drunk and probably a little stoned and crashed at my buddy's place.
The next day is probably the longest walk I have ever had to do. I did not want to come home to the wrath that awaited me.. but I had to. And the second I walked through the door I had a bunch of suitcases thrown at me and I was told to take it all or it gets thrown out. And this is were the subject of the journals come into play.

I'm going to go offtopic a bit. I was dating this guy for 2 years. And I told him this story once. And he would throw at me, very meanly infact, that I would never have the guts to write again or keep a journal again due to the fact that I was scared that someone would find out my secrets. And I would be caught in my lies (imaginary but that's another story) because in my writing would be truth I didn't want anyone to find out. Because not writing or keeping a journal was safe for me. Because in my journal the other things I wrote about were things I didn't want out in the open. Come on at 17, who wants their innermost feelings to be put out their publicly. Mine more then most as well due to life altering events (again another story).

Ok back on topic! So I packed up what I could, I made a phone call to store all my stuff in a buddy's basement (who's father was a druggie alcoholic who ended up going through it all a few times probably to score something for cash) and out the door I went... leaving behind a box of artwork and my journals. To which my father found and decided to read through them, and so to speak "air my dirty laundry" to the world of the O.P.P. Which then upturned my life once again.

I haven't written anything journal like since.. but for the last time, the guy I had dated had told me once again that I would always have to be safe and hide behind my version of truths because he could never accept that my truths were infact TRUTH.

So to him.. I say fuck you. Here's to writing again. And after this looong winded novel of a blog post I just created, I'm going to say it took one asshole to make me stop, but it took another asshole to claim I could never be honest to create this blog,

 and give him a big HELLL YA I'm not afraid because I have nothing to hide.

Phewwww. Ok.. onto some mindless stuff.... I do have many good memories of my father... he helped me become the wrestling fan I am today!!
To sum up... here's some Stone Cold Austin for ya!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpazQpIFoyQ

Latah Daze

So I've created a blog. This one.
And I thought about what I would call it. And after pondering it for a few days it popped into my head.
A Wrinkle.

When I was very young, probably around the age of 9, I think I began reading almost every child/youth book of fiction in my school's library. A few became favorites. Some I remember well, and others to which no matter how much I Google or search I can't find them due to not remembering their titles. It's funny that the ones I remember the most about, I can't for the life of me remember the titles. And having worked in a bookstore for 3 years, I still cannot find these books nor the authors who wrote them. But one will always be my absolute favorite. I fell in love with the children's novel "A Wrinkle In Time" by Madeleine L'Engle. On a side note, her other books in the series are very amazing as well. If you have only read this one, I highly suggest reading them all.

Now what does this have to do with my blog title you ask?? Well... in the book she describes a concept. A concept called Wrinkle. To make it very short, she writes about how Wrinkling is the 5th dimension. A way to travel through time and space in a mathematical shortcut. She puts it rather well when she describes it like this, " to put it into Euclid terms, or old fashioned plane geometry, a straight line is NOT the shortest distance between two points." It's kinda like a cross between Bill and Ted's phonebooth and Star Trek beam me up Scottie. A way to go through time and space and distance all in one.

Wrinkle. A way to read about my time and space and distance of this life.. I suppose if I could write it that way. I've always liked that word to describe my life. Time and space and distance.

Oh and I'm Thabto. An online name I've used since I became aware of the internet and back in the day and used IRC and chat sites and wanted a cool email that was not something like "littlesexy69" or "cutiepie01" or your other typical girlie online names that your friends had when they created an email account or wanted msn. Since I began using it, I've also carried it forward as my artist name or alias whenever I show art. The origin of Thabto though, I don't usually reveal. However, being an awesome source of knowledge, Google will probably do the work for you if you ever really decide to research it..and now as you read I bet you are!! HA! So I've been found out.....

A Wrinkle in Thabto... yup, sounds about right to me.

Enjoy my blubberings and whimsies and odds and ends and art and random thoughts and experiences and memories that I decide to share.

Latah Daze