Friday, July 27, 2007

ZOMG

Mark is up to 3 miles a day. I'm in awe. :)

Tuesday, July 24, 2007

so i THOUGHT that a sabbatical was in my near future, but apparently not. the nanny service offered me a temporary assignment starting next Monday and running through the beginning of Sept. and i just can't turn it down. I'd feel too guilty not making any money for that long.

Friday, July 20, 2007

news update

Starting in Aug. I'm going to have about a two month 'sabbatical' and then I'm going back to nanny for Ilena in October.

I'm so excited that things are working out so awesomely. I really love the Norris clan and i was feeling so bummed that I might have to go work for some rich people in Mission Hills and make alot of money. lol. but i'd be miserable. and i'm on a journey of happiness, not $$$! right? right!!

Mark just got a part-time job at his tattoo shop, Rose Tattoo Parlor, in the River Market. This of course on top of his 9-5. He's basically working for tattoos, and to meet alot of VERY interesting people. :D He's very psyched about it. Also, Mark has lost almost 30 pounds so far people!! He's actually RUNNING!!! HOLY CRAP!!! he's up to about 2 miles A DAY!! I can't even believe it! seriously you guys, I've been attached to mark like a barnacle for 10 years, and this is a pretty amazing development! he's totally my hero!

We are taking a trip to Pittsburgh, PA Aug. 9 - 13 to meet my mom, Jana and my half-brother Chris. My half-sister Rosie is traveling from Cape Girardeau and will meet us there. We've met up with Rosie once a couple of years ago in Kansas City but this is going to be for the most part, a first time family reunion for us. Pretty Exciting!

We're still planning on trying to start a family of our own soon, but I think it's going to be a long road for us. There have been pretty much nothing but tests so far so it's been a bit nerve racking. Anyhoo, don't mean to get all sad on you, but send some prayers or whatever our way! :)

Bleech!! A Gnat just flew up my nose! grosssss!!! lol.

Love,
Phoebs (Mark says "hullo!")

Sunday, July 15, 2007

Sharing Art

I was thinking about our trip to the Kemper and how I was sad that I didn't have any pictures. I remembered this particular painting because both Mark and I really loved it. So I thought I'd share.

Jules de Balincourt, Blind Faith and Tunnel Vision, 2005,
oil, enamel, spray paint on panel, 78x58 inches

And since I was thinking about Modern, I thought about how, in the new Bloch Building at the Nelson, a guard was sort of jerky to me as we were looking at this pretty fantastic installation:

These are pictures I pulled up from the web, so that's not exactly how it looked at the Nelson but it was super cool nevertheless.

Excerpt from the Nelson-Atkins' website:

Kiki Smith: Constellation

June 9, 2007—October 28, 2007

Kiki Smith’s Constellation is a meditation on the infinity of space and our human desire to know and tame it – to make it our own. In this room-sized installation, the artist brings the vast dome of heaven down to earth, where cast glass animals and stars sparkle and glow at our feet. Arranged upon a plane of night-blue Nepal paper, these miniature symbols of distant constellations awaken wonder and remind us of the mystery that compelled ancient astronomers to chart and name them.

The interrelatedness of nature and its parts is a pervasive theme in Kiki Smith’s work. She explores the human and animal, the celestial and earthly, the macrocosm and microcosm. Like the poet, mystic, or natural philosopher, she approaches our universe with reverence. Like the contemporary scientist, she is driven by a desire to understand.

yeah, those little dark specks? those are cast bronze "animal scat". :D

Just Curious

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Sunday Afternoon Art Explosion

Last weekend we took our first ever trip to the Kemper Museum of Modern Art, which was pretty cool, but not very big. I came away with some pretty bitchin magnets too. This weekend, we thought we'd go to the Nelson, since we hadn't been since they redid it. It was pretty awesome. No magnets, but lots of picture. :)