happy halloween.... i think i'm gonna dye my hair purple.... or at least, some of it. purple-ish. something like that...

once again, i recall the importance of fresh flowers on my desk. mmmmmmmmmm. orange daisies.... love the bright fruity colors the best. white tulips in the bathroom have a nice mystique tho... very martha stewart of me if i do say myself...

ok WHO talks about martha stewart on HALLOWEEN?

hehehe.... scarey enough for ya?

boo!

i was doing it again. thinking i was in a dry spell writing-wise, cuz of all this administrative-phonecall-bullcrap.... but now i realize i've been building up at least 5 new songs in my spare moments. they didn't really feel like songs at the time... or rather, i didn't notice them so much. Now i listen back to my minidisc and frankly, am relieved (and delighted). Although I think i'm getting more multi-personality as time goes on... some of the songs are more stripped, others sound like i've been listening to No Doubt and Matthew Good. (which, i haven't been listening to No Doubt so really it's only my cloudy reference and real No Doubt fans would balk at me saying this if they heard the actual tunes)...(but i did listen to Matthew Good fairly regularly in my car for a period of a month or two last year...)

hey i'm getting better at this... it hasn't quite been a month and already i've returned. i've been lost in a sea of computerland-phonecalls-printing-work and it's quite dry. Revisiting the Artist's Way and Vein of Gold in the hopes that I"ll somehow combine the two and make it a suitable thing to start over again. (i've tried to finish the Artist's Way 3 times now and always lose my momentum about 4 weeks in... when i come back to try again i don't feel right unless i start at week 1 again... but now i've done all the exercises more than once and it's getting boring so i've pulled out my copy of the Vein of Gold (which is a "companion" book and has more exercises - MUCH MORE INTENSE exercises might i add) and hoping if i combine my efforts on the two, it can fill the spaces for exercises i've already done in the Artist's Way.

what do you think?

so i'm writing my "narrative time line" of my life, as it requests in exercise #1/.... rather... i've managed to stay loyal long enough to write detailed "notes" about my life on this earth thus far in 5 year blocks... but now when it comes to actually stringing it all together into a narration... blech. give me TV!