Well. School is over. Buttons was a giant success ( literally) and now Im itchin' for something new to do. Since my living space hasnt been cleaned in the last 5 months it has gotten pretty bad so tomorrow I will probably not work and work on cleanin' up the room. Trying to get rid of a lot of stuff but it seems most of it is related to some sort of craft or art so I cant bare to. Might make a stop to Ikea on Friday and pick up a sewing table to attach to my wall and shelving units to organize my shtuff. Its Spring cleaning! Or something.
Buttons is open to the public tomorrow at the Plastics museum so Im totally going to go visit him and take 500 photos. I already have the best idea ever for my next project. Art Center here I come... MAYBE! I want them to pay me to go there, I dont like the idea of debt. I also applied for a tour of FIDM here in San Diego, now if only they would call back. Last time I requested information they hounded me for months! but now that I actually want something they seem to be lagging hmmm. Im hoping that if I stay in SD to go to FIDM I can get some affordable housing in the South/North park area. I really love it around there and am keeping my eye out for a steal. Just need a little bit more income though :-( But hopefully that will change soon when I get my Kiln.

But first I need to clean my room out! rar. Then organize, art, sell, make millions. Yeah, that works.

So when I said I would update this thing, I lied. So I have been a tad bit busy. Im sure you all were at the edge of your seat waiting for an update. Checking everyday, every HOUR you reloaded just wishing, hoping, Id update.

WELL WAIT NO LONGER!

So school is almost out for the semester and ive had a fantastic buttload of fun and learned so many things that will help me in the future. I abandoned the idea of going to Art Center at the beginning of the year but now, now I want to apply just to see if I have what it takes. Taking this sculpture class has opened my head to a whole new medium of expression. And all that sock monkeying has paid off! After the success of Orvil the Monster and researching some modern artists, I learned that fabric is a very acceptable medium to play with. And that is where I currently am now. In my livingroom sits the half-filled body of Buttons the 15 foot tall sock monkey. Hold on to the seat of your pants folks!
Any time I have mentioned buttons to anyone, people give me a very strange expression and tell me " you are crazy Mandy" So far I think Ive heard it about a dozen times. But Im getting used to it. Im learning that art doesnt have to be a blob of paint on canvas, and that I really, can do anything I want! Im waiting to see how well Buttons comes out, who knows, maybe I can get a gallery to display him! hmmmm...

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Here is my skull. He doesn’t have a name yet. He also doesn’t have teeth. I like working on my skull. We have good times together. my claymate wanted a photo of her skull but forgot her digital camera. It just so happened that I had mine at the time so I photoed her skull, and snapped one of mine as I worked on it.

I am going to go post my resume on craigslist in hopes of finding a fantastic job that doesn’t involve rewinding videos. Or cleaning any fecal materials.

Can we end this year right now and start over with a completely different script. Let’s do. Things are quite difficult at the moment and are in drastic need of change. That is about all I can offer.
This month Hailey and I took an almost fantastic fun trip to San Francisco to visit my sister. It was loads of fun except for getting annoyingly sick. I think the best time was had when we had our sock monkey party. I will definitely be posting photos of that on the monkey page in the near future. I also have a great idea for my sock monkeys. I am planning. Oh how I am planning….
I also started school last week. Not sure if I will love it or hate it. My first class is fun. I already have made friends at my table and the hours whiz by. We are sculpting skulls. Did you know that is kinda hard? It’s also annoying. So tonight when you are lying in bed pondering your deep thoughts, just hold your head with your hands for a little while and think, man, its really funky looking under all this skin.
My second class is proving to be a pain. First off, it is right after lunch, and second, the teacher’s voice puts me into this deep trance and I CANT not fall asleep. I have already fallen asleep in 2 of the classes (we have only had 3) Last class I was sitting there with my elbows on my knees just PRYING my eyes open with my fingers. It didn’t work. Also all the advanced kids are in theses clicks where they only talk to each other, and the ones in my level are about 80 years old and don’t speak English. So the 3 hour class turns into a 59593 hour class. Blah.

Sweet apple pie have I been busy! It’s the day before Christmas and I feel like Im forgetting something. OH WELL! So this week has been pretty fulfilling. Went to a Christmas party at the Omni hotel where Hailey works. Then I FINALLY saw phantom of the Opera woot woot! I absolutely loooooved it. I was all into it until I had to pee really really bad in the middle of it. But that always happens to me in movies. Im not sure if Justin liked it though, he kept looking at the time. And whenever a big singing number was about to come up he would drop his head and sigh. It was kinda long, but I still LOVED IT. Is it too early to ask for it on DVD for Christmas?
Last night my homies and I traded presents and I got the BEST GIFT EVER! It’s a tiny table top crane machine!!! That’s right, CRANE MACHINE! I can hardly contain myself. Oh the hours we will share together… I have already named him frank. I was worried about haileys gift. I made her a doll of her favorite singer john mayer. It turned out insane looking (it will be up in the crafts section soon) but hailey loved it and kissed it regardless ?

Funny thing. Well, not SO funny, but funny situation. So you know that dog I was going to be dog sitting? Little Miss Elmo pookie-pie as so affectionately called by her owners? Yeah well, she DIED this morning, so Hailey and I no longer have that cash for our trip. Dag nab it. I’m kinda relieved it fell through though These people were anal with their orders and demands. I’m just glad it didn’t happen while we were dog sitting because then I think I would have fled the country by the time they got back. Apparently Hailey’s mom has a lead on another person who needs animal watching, so hopefully that works.
Today I wrapped all the gifts I had. Finally this god awful collection of JUNK in my room will be GONE. Bags, paper, scraps, its all over and it is driving me insane. I can’t wait until after Christmas to go crazy and get rid of lots of junk I own.
Uuum… Um… what else…. I helped my aunt steal like 10 pieces of chicken today at hometown buffet! Fun times!

Today it was foggy. Hailey and I took a gig house sitting these rich peoples dog. Its crazy insane, they live in Coronado and have a boat tied up on their doc… in the BACK YARD! The dog is this little small black and white thing that takes like $50 worth of medicine a day. I am going to be deathly afraid to touch ANYTHING in that house. Or. Really even breathe in there at all. But It is $25 a DAY so we will do it.
Ya’seeee here, this is the plan:
Hailey has this seminar she really wants to go to that is in San Francisco right? Well I thought, duh, let’s just take the money from this dog sitting and go on a mini vacation. We checked on tickets, and if we buy them now, we can get them $80 round trip. Go up on a Thursday night, leave on a Monday night, and be back in time to miss no school. With the left over money from the dog sitting that we didn’t use on the tickets, we can use on food and fun things around SF when she isn’t in the seminar. I think it should be fun.
On a side note, my back hurts a lot.

Christmas is a comin’ and the geese are getting fat, please put a penny in an old man’s hat, if you haven’t got a penny then a HAY penny will DO if you haven’t got a hay-penny then Good Bless yooou gentlemen la la la.

Ah. The smell of a Bonanza Christmas.