respond to this blog, and:

1. I'll respond with something random about you.
2. I'll tell you which song or movie you remind me of.
3. I'll pick a flavor of jello to wrestle you in.
4. I'll say something that only makes sense to you and me.
5. I'll tell you my first memory of you.
6. I'll tell you what animal you remind me of.
7. I'll ask you something I've always wondered about you.
8. I'll tell you my favourite thing about you.
9. I'll tell you my least favorite thing about you.
10. If you play, you MUST post this on yours.

i rarely post here anymore. aww. as some of you may know, i joined a job training program last september. the program focuses on kitchen work, including knife skills and various other aspects of running a kitchen. i graduated january 9th! i am so happy! i have an apartment; now it's time to get myself a job.

i recently found a clearer picture of the human canvas i painted at the sf dresden dolls/red paintings show, so i am going to update my gallery once i am finished here. yay!

things just seem to change drastically without my updating here. new town, new state, new job... THAT went south fast, so i'm doing a more temp-agency style job on weekends when i can bring myself to. i've made some wonderful new friends, many of them lifelong i hope, through a support group i joined for survivors of childhood abuse. it's a 12 week long program, as i recall, and it's just crazy to me to think that so much time has passed that there are only a few more sessions left! it's helping me a lot though; i've actually felt inspired to draw and write lately in addition to the roadblocks it's cleared from my communicative and self-expressive sphere. apart from all that, i also have a lovely friend from back home who just happened to have moved here herself, and my wonderfully supportive boyfriend... so even though there may be some people in my life right now who are utterly unsupportive, i'm fairly well taken care of, and more importantly, learning to take care of (and care for!) myself. i've been to the library and checked out a book on nurturing the self; i'm probably going to have to renew it, as i haven't looked at it since i cracked it and devoured a chapter and a half in a short time. anyhow, in short, you may be seeing a lot more updates now. i actually find inspiration in everyday things again, like i used to.