Fire Pixie Musings

_firepixie_ @ 2008-10-07T16:11:00

2008-10-07T23:13:15Z

That was the best wedding EVER. I'm still all glowy two days later. Like, disgusting newlywed fawning kind of glowy and it's WONDERFUL and you should all get married right away because it's the most wonderfulest happiest sappiest way to beeeee!

I can't wait to see the pictures. :) :) :)

This makes me so happy.

2008-09-23T18:17:13Z

_firepixie_ @ 2008-09-17T12:36:00

2008-09-17T19:36:59Z

one more.. for coatcheckgirl:

_firepixie_ @ 2008-09-17T12:34:00

2008-09-17T19:35:13Z

for smoif:

Prom

2008-09-17T19:33:25Z

for phreddiva:

Airbrushing is fun

2008-09-12T20:22:17Z

Just got back from my 2-day airbrush class in Sacramento. Ooh what fun that was. I need to practice practice practice but I really think I could begin to love airbrushing. Oh, body painting, thank you for awakening my passion.

Here's my final project, enjoy! (everything was done with the airbrush except the lips and the eyeliner)

_firepixie_ @ 2008-09-02T11:24:00

2008-09-02T18:25:21Z

Oh muscles. Why must you ache and seize up and hurt when all I'm trying to do is make you stronger?

the best part of my day

2008-08-27T01:47:03Z

_firepixie_ @ 2008-08-20T16:32:00

2008-08-20T23:35:35Z

tax appointment and traffic school in the same day. It's so unfair!

Also I got the cleaning bug this morning. Spent about 4 hours scrubbing my house from top to bottom, until I got to the point where it didn't seem to be getting any cleaner. Amazing how you can scrub your kitchen and scrub and scrub and scrub and then you turn around and there's somehow still jam all over the refrigerator door.

I used the oven's "self-clean" feature for the first time. I don't know what it does exactly. I haven't looked in there yet.

It's nice to shower in a squeaky-clean shower though. Being a body painter means my shower is usually streaked with blue and green and orange.. oh my.

Next I gotta do the garden. Maybe *that* will make it feel clean in here.

Oh and Thank you, Universe, for my Roomba.

_firepixie_ @ 2008-08-19T21:57:00

2008-08-20T04:58:42Z

Just got home from the first night of traffic school. I should've gone to *comedy* traffic school. Right now I'm all sad and anxious from all the evil-person-doing-mean-things stories the ex-cop told us to keep us "entertained" for 3 hours. Siiiiiiigh.

tomatoes

2008-07-31T19:50:23Z

Today I ate my first home-grown tomato. I've tried having tomato plants before but I've never been successful.. this tomato plant is HIGHLY successful, there are nigh on 40 tomatoes ripening on it, and still a few flowers that are waiting to turn into tomatoes. Today for lunch I picked the first one and chopped it up in my salad and oh my GOD was that good. Bring on the lysine.. vitamins minerals FLAVOR YUM oh my GOD. Not even the same fruit as what you get at the grocery store, is it?

mmmmm...

_firepixie_ @ 2008-07-01T22:03:00

2008-07-02T05:03:46Z

where are my keys?

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2008-04-29T18:32:06Z

shops. Is the fabric at joanne made in china too? Better to buy it here? Not at all?? Cosmic consciousness sucks.

_firepixie_ @ 2008-04-11T17:30:00

2008-04-12T00:31:51Z

Oh it's SO nice outside. How come I have to go to Iowa? Where it's snowing, for chrissake???

I thought I wouldn't need those gloves again until next year.. sigh.

Body Art website!! Yayyyy!

2008-03-23T20:45:54Z

I finally have a pretty body art website! It was a NIGHTMARE. I'm getting all fancy with flash and CSS positioning and iFrames and stuff... but I did it! With lots of help from Darrell and from teh internets and after spending $7 on a flash widget thingy.

Wow. The site looks so damn simple and has so few pages that it's really surprising how bloody difficult it was to get it together. It still doesn't look quite right in IE on Windows, sigh. Look at it in firefox or safari or something.

Have a look!

I'm going to update the images more soon, I know some of them don't belong in there and I have some others tha I need to track down that do belong there.. but YAY the site is up. :) About time, because I just got my body art business cards that reference it (embarrasing to hand out cards and say "oh don't look at the web site though")

_firepixie_ @ 2008-03-17T09:28:00

2008-03-17T16:29:07Z

In honor of St. Patrick's Day... Enjoy!!

Why we do what we do.

2008-02-16T01:32:51Z

Entertainment for Entertainers?

2008-02-08T22:03:03Z

I'm having an appreciation party for my entertainers and I want to book some entertainment for the party.. I'm racking my brains to come up with something good, fun, and cool that will blow both Professional Princesses and Professional Fire Dancers out of the water.. something offbeat and funky that maybe no one has seen before. Anyone have any suggestions? The party will be in March at my house. Please give me all your wacky ideas!!!

Jamaica adventures

2008-01-20T13:47:24Z

Aaah jamaica is lovely. I'm in a villa right on the beach, like, 10 steps and you're in the water. So far all the nature-y stuff has been faboo! All the citified stuff has been sorof icky. That's what I think of jamaica.

But the bestest thing so far: last night we went to Glistening Waters, which is a bioluminescent bay. There are only 4 of these in the whole world, and the one in Jamaica is the brightest, according to our awesome rasta boat captain Jerry. Ok, so I'm sitting here trying to find words to describe this experience and having all kindsa trouble. It was STUNNING.

We went in swimming. Darrell and I. Even though we didn't have our swimsuits, we went in our clothes because this was too amazing to miss. Night time in a boat, the only ones in the lagoon.. water is warm, moon is nearly full. Water is dark, mon, except that every time there's the tiniest splash, light blooms and ripples and glows bright, bright blue - blue like a glow stick, blue magic magic magic in the water. The slower you move, the brighter it glows. Toss a handful of water in the air and watch it splash and every splash lights up... they say when it rains the whole lake comes alive. We were submerged in it, drenched and swimming in it and every motion lights the water. Oh my god.

Mmmmmm.. had to share. Today is horseback riding, we'll get to swim the horses during the ride. Tomorrow is waterfalls and Tuesday is the 1.5 mile zip-line canopy ride. Aaah Jamaica.

projector advice?

2008-01-06T21:52:16Z

I want a not-too-expensive home theater projector. We're going to use it exclusively to watch DVDs/movies played on laptop computers. Anybody out there know anything about projectors?

_firepixie_ @ 2007-12-28T22:23:00

2007-12-29T06:34:33Z

today we did some wiring and some framing and after working like 4 hours on my living room it looks.. exactly the same.

But now the lights work.

Or they will, when we install them...

Dad's latest crackpot idea is that we're going to cut a hole in the wall and put in a little bitty window that looks from the living room into the back of one of the kitchen cabinets. Well, ok, in actuality it'll mostly look the other way. See, now we can put a projector into our unused cabinet (the one above the fridge) and have it project through the little window and onto the living room wall so we can watch movies sans cords and noise and cables. yay!

Ok, it's more "elegant" than "crackpot" but when you see Dad scratching his beard and getting that crazy look in his eye, it's more fun to think "crackpot".

And on another note, I must have one of these. Oh my my. I emailed them and they want $2500 including shipping, which is a LOT of money for a railing. I guess I'm still open to other ideas. Hmm... does anyone out there know anyone who knows anything about making railings out of metal? (nudging phreddiva) Or any leads on someone who could make something in this style? I'm thinking about asking around at the crucible but I don't know who to talk to... I would love to support a local artist, and while $2500 is a bit steep, I am willing to drop a chunk of change on this. Any help is greatly appreciated!

_firepixie_ @ 2007-12-27T22:44:00

2007-12-28T06:46:49Z

Today I took a sledgehammer and knocked down one of my walls. Hooray for sledgehammers! Here's hoping the bed doesn't fall through the floor into the living room tonight. :)

Pictures later.

Also I got some paint and put it on my walls for test purposes. Both colors are "not quite right" so I'm glad I tested... I like the purple better than the green. Yay, purple!

_firepixie_ @ 2007-12-24T12:15:00

2007-12-24T20:15:11Z

hungry.

must have tacos.

_firepixie_ @ 2007-12-21T23:22:00

2007-12-22T07:42:40Z

Tonight we rented the Polar Express and Miracle on 34th Street in the original black&white. We watched Polar Express first while eating chocolate chip cookie dough, with rice krispies in, and then the holiday spirit (finally) hit. After the movie we ran out and got ourselves a lil' tree and decorated it while drinking buttershots, and then watched Miracle on 34th Street. Now I'm overflowing with good cheer and I DO believe in Santa Claus.

Polar Express was sortof fun. Creepy and weird with the computer-generated-people, but fun. The best part was that the North Pole looked *exactly* like Huis Ten Bosch (the japanese theme park where we spent last Christmas), with all the weird little factories and the clock tower and the train... all decked out with lights and christmas decorations and full of Santa Clauses. And even though Huis Ten Bosch didn't have elves exactly, our safeties Tatyama and Okajima and Morikawa - well, they're close enough for me. Tatyama was only 4 feet tall. :) We even spotted our stage! Shaped just about the same. And at the end of our show we all got to do this grand gesture, led by Santa, where we sortof waved at the big christmas tree in the square (da da dumm DUMMMM!) and the whole thing lit up. That HAPPENED in the movie. Whoa.

And Miracle on 34th street is awesome. If you haven't seen it, well, it's time. Darrell had never seen it and it'd been a while for me, and I'd forgotten how funny it is. Yay, christmas! Yay, solstice! Yay, trees and lights and presents and holiday spirit. :) :)

browser check

2007-12-20T17:37:42Z

Hey kids, can you do me a favor? Can you look at this link and click on the "Island Luau" video and then the "Belly Dance" video?

Then let me know if one or the other works/doesn't work. (What's supposed to happen is a cool little red window should open up and the video should play in the window without any clicking necessary). If that doesn't happen can you let me know what *does* happen?

And also please let me know what browser you're using and what platform.

Thanks so much!! Y'all rule!