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December 16, 2003
Wish You Were Here....
My love.
My film dream.
It's the thing that's made me most happy in life... feeling carefree and totally alive going crosscountry hanging out of a 62' Chevy pickup with the wind in my hair snapping poloroids. Robbing convenience stores. Jumping on divey motel beds and giggling....
I will make you forget all about time.
There's danger and adventure...and always romance.
So get your suitcase from under your bed...you know the one...the one that's always packed with the adventures of your wildest dreams
...listen for my beep downstairs....
and don't keep me waiting.
We don't have the fingerprints for this town.
A little traveling music please......
Posted by Veronica at 11:24 PM
December 15, 2003
Tonight We Fly....
Tonight I got bundled up in my pink fuzzy things and got on my bike to go see my next door neighbor's art.
I was all alone in the gallery and it was the perfect way to see it. Taking my time to look over all the little details of each painting.
Her name is Ati Maier and her work is gorgeous. I almost didn't want to include such a small photo...because her paintings are really large with tiny details. Each little section of work is a whole world of its own...with little messages hidden like "...tonight we fly...." and "places you will never see...."
The tiny words are hidden in the stars. And upon each discovery of a new word...was a different aspect, a different turn for the painting. All the different places you can go...
This painting is called There Is Always More...
Posted by Veronica at 11:23 PM
December 14, 2003
A Very Dangerous Dame...
The beautiful creature you are looking at is none other than my dear childhood friend, Cynthia Gralla.
Cynthia and I grew up together in a faerie tale castle decorated in vines in a land far far away. We spent our days weaving dreams of who we would become next...
...mysterious cat-like girls who crawled the rooftops of great cities with stolen diamonds hidden in their mouths, girls in ruffle butt panties and corsets clutching microphones and long stemmed cigarette holders in a Berlin cabaret, charmed nymphets in an ancient forest weaving flowers and spells into each other's long long hair, geishas with our hair piled high on our heads adorned with chopsticks and mystery, mermaids sunbathing on rocks singing....
We are twins, one with tresses of gold, and the other raven haired. One on the West coast, and the other on the East. But we always meet each other in our dreams...for there is a lot to be said of dreams....and ruling the world. Heehee!
And without further ado...I am pleased to announce the release of the novel "The Floating World" by the darling Cynthia Gralla! It is a breath-taking, hauntingly beautiful story of an American girl entangled in a world of the geisha and all her mysteries....
I highly highly recommend this brilliant novel by one of the world's most fascinating and magical women.... You can get your pretty little kitty paws on it through clicking on the highlighted link below:
"The Floating World" by Cynthia Gralla.................................................................................................................... Happy Reading, Darlings...one more step towards ruling the world....
Posted by Veronica at 11:22 PM
December 11, 2003
Blissed Out Feverish Dreams
"Did you hear about the thirty second shift in time?" she asked me.
"no."
"Well, this really bizarre thing happened with a shift in the earth's axis which caused all these small pockets of 30 seconds of time. So that means that when you get to one of these pockets...you either hesitate and waste the time...or you jump into it...therefore living a full 30 seconds fuller. Which can change a lot of things...."
I nodded. And promised I would jump into the 30 second pockets with all my might.
i have a 101 degree fever.
Posted by Veronica at 11:20 PM
December 07, 2003
My Best Friend...
This is my little friend Greta Garbo. Eight and 1/2 years ago on the fourth of July, an insane woman was beating her up outside of a grocery store. The woman discarded her in a shopping cart with this poor little girl's paw stuck in one of the metal grids... Lots of people saw it. I ran over and took the tiny black dog out of the cart and ran as fast as I could to my car and we never looked back.
At the time, I was volunteering at the library on Mondays reading stories to kids and I worked with a lot of people in their 60s and 70s. I figured that I would take her picture in to the library and get her a good home with someone that would love her. Well...the little tiny black thing nuzzled her way into my heart...she followed me everywhere...always at my heels. We started out with a Thelma and Louise kind of relationship...I saved her, she saved me and we're sticking together through this crazy life until one of us decides to drive our car off the canyon.
Thankfully we don't own a car. ;-)
The little Gret loves to wander around the house sleeping in sun balls. She loves cuddling next to me. Her ears sometimes stick straight out which has earned her the nickname Yoda in my neighborhood. She always runs to say hello to me when I come in the house (okay..not all the time...sometimes she gets lazy in her old age and just waggles on the couch). She loves to curl up in a blankie at my feet when I'm on this computer constantly :-) She likes my oatmeal chocolate chip cookies. Even though she's not supposed to have chocolate because it gives doggies heartattacks or something. But I just give her a little and tell her not to tell anyone I did.
I thought I'd share this cute little picture I took of her running around in the snow this morning. We had a blast.
I'm just feeling super thankful this morning...and her picture made me laugh when I saw it! Because truth be told...I chased after her to get the damn picture and she just kept running away from me playing. And finally I got her to come over and she was like "are you joking? you called me over for this? did you not just see me playing?" Then she went back to bounding through the snow like a bunny.
The best lil old girl in the world...my Danger Doggie!
PS...Miss Garbo will be vacationing with me in sunshiny Florida for Christmas. So look forward to the post of us on the beach drinking margaritas with umbrellas sticking out of the glasses :-)
Posted by Veronica at 11:18 PM
December 06, 2003
Neither rain, snow, heat or gloom of night...
It is STILL snowing since last I talked to you :-) And today I braved the snow to get my Bombshell Girls' bundles out! Here I am pretty pink faux fur all hunched over to protect your packages, being blinded by sideways snow flakes!
I want to thank my first customers since the store has opened!! The most Dangerous Dames out there... the Enchanting Miss Elizabeth of California, the Divine Miss Shelly of the UK, the Exquisite Miss Eline and the Perfect Miss Petra of the Netherlands. MWAH!!!!! Much hugs and kisses to you!
When I said world domination I meant it!
Join our FORCES OF FEMME FATALES!
Posted by Veronica at 11:16 PM
December 05, 2003
4 HOURS and 53 MINUTES!!!
Of hula hooping fun! Non-Stop!
I got my brand new handmade double helix hula in the mail yesterday. When I went to pick it up from the post office...it had just priority mail envelopes wrapped around its tube and taped down. So you could even hula it like that. The mail guy probably did.
I gave them my slip to pick it up and all three of the people at the post office came to the window..."oh, so this is YOURS!!! Of course it is!"
I guess they already know me.
"Guess what I got??!!" I yelled and held it up in glory! The post office did not erupt in furious clapping and yelling like I had hoped. Perhaps they were not as excited as I was.
Perhaps...they didn't understand the beauty of what was about to go down.
I decided for the breaking in of the new hula I was going to beat my old record. Well...I'm very proud to report that I was able to spin for almost FIVE HOURS! STRAIGHT! Setting a new household record! ...And only 83 hours and 7 minutes short of the World Record.
I will try again next week :-)
Posted by Veronica at 11:15 PM
December 02, 2003
Snowy Day
It took me by surprise...all of a sudden snow flurries flying across the window! I get kind of all little kid-ish with snow. Giddy. Impractical even...as I immediately cleared all the plants off the windowsill so I could climb out to my fire escape and revel in it all. In a little short sleeve dress.
It was worth it....it was so mesmerizing looking down the industrial street...the snow whipping everywhere. Then when I looked straight down through the metal grating of the fire escape...it was drifting softly...fluttering. Millions of little snowflakes kissing my skin.
It made me really happy. Life can be really fun sometimes. I officially called a no school day for myself. And then made hot chocolate. :-)
Posted by Veronica at 11:14 PM
