Hey there SG!

How are you enjoying your summer? Are you melting like Greenland?

It's been ridiculously hot here in Wisconsin to say the least. Every single day, unrelenting heat. It doesn't even feel like I've left California yet, haha. I work from home and usually go for a run on my lunch but some days it's just too hot and I feel like I'm about to collapse at night. It's strange how some people equate global warming discussions with politics; but at this point it's pretty obvious that it just comes down to facts.

It's an interesting time that we live in. Some say the end of times; the optimist in me hopes it's a renaissance.

I digress, back to the lovely topic of summer...I basically become a 12 year old June, July and August. Swimming, ice cream and lots of bike rides. (The bike rides and the swimming balances out all the extra calories from the ice cream.) My boyfriend and I have been late night biking (sometimes late night drunk biking) to the Dairy Queen by our house. There's nothing better on earth.

I finally went to the dentist after an embarrassingly long poverty-induced hiatus. I'm not going to say exactly how long, but it was over 2 years and I was convinced that I was going to need a root canal or something horrible. But after some x-rays and poking and prodding, I was given good news: No cavities! Yay! All that good oral hygiene and good teeth genes paid off.


You may have noticed that I haven't been posting much art lately. Honestly, I'm in this rut and I've been hating everything I do lately. I thought maybe I should try a different medium for a while, so I tried painting with liquid acrylics on wood board--this has helped a little, I think I just need more practice with this medium. Maybe I'll come up with something not too embarrassing that I would actually post soon. How do you get out of your creative "dry-spells"?

My boyfriend is an amazing artist who never seems to run out of ideas or energy. I think I compare myself to or even try to emulate him and I need to stop doing that.


Greetings from my doggies!

My doggie Ghostie got really sick a few days ago. We had a wasp nest problem under the floor of our patio and Matt had to spray the nests. We're pretty sure that puppy got into them. He threw up (which he never does) and couldn't even walk for hours. We were on the verge of taking him to the dog hospital all day but he was very slowly getting better, thank god.


I changed my hair a little again. Needed some purple.



Of course the BEST part of this past month was getting to see my fellow central Wisconsin-born SGDamsel. Love her!



Some random pics from my phone:

Dollar store finds:

Healing & peeling tattoos:

My kind of bar:


Crappy sketches:

Outdoor dinners:

New friends:

The Challenger makes kidnapping people in my trunk really difficult:



I promise to start updating more often.
I'm going to Milwaukee this weekend with 4 of my best friends for my bachelorette party. It should be epic. I got a slutty black dress to mourn the death of my single life. I'll take lots of pictures of the debauchery.

Til next time,
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