Jess’ Neighborhood

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One of the nicest people I know is Cathleen McLain. I went to her birthday party this year, and people who have known her for month or decades all said the same things: "This is how you helped me out Cathy, this is how you supported me, this is what a great artist you are" Oh yes, they also said she was a crazy woman in the nicest possible kind of crazy, which is even better as far as I'm concerned. :P

Someone was very not nice to Cathy today. That offends me, especially as she took time out of a day when she was tired and busy to help me out. She's helped me out in so many ways - introducing me to the best shows in the state, paying my way for some of them as I got established living in a new place, and getting me into some very good shows at the last minute last year. She's bailed me out financially when I got into a bad space, and gave me groceries this week because I'm struggling a little in this transition time between the two jobs, and after the furlough I had to have last month in my current job.

Cathy2

Apart from everything else, she just makes the most gorgeous art. I love her paintings, and I swear I'll own some of her jewelry one day, just as soon as I get promoted into a better paying position at my new job.

For the moment though, the best thanks I can think of is to show you her amazing work. You should head off to her etsy shop and see what she has around. If you are in Connecticut, we'll both be at Open Studio at the Hartford ArtSpace November 14 and 15.

Especially check out her wonderful pins with the converter to change them into a pendant. They are just awesome!!!!

So if you're a pretty nice person, and ever had someone be unjustifiably horrid to you, take your revenge right now. Support the wonderful, generous, fantastic artist (and beautiful friend) - and buy some of Cathy's jewelry, or just leave a comment here telling her how great she is (she drops by this blog, she'll see it). :D

McLain Jewelry

Seriously.  I just got in a minor fender bender and things would be so much simpler if cars had an inch thick layer of rubber on top of the metal.  I was turning left at a light, thought I had enough time, and apparently didn't.  The damage was pretty minor on both vehicles and the other girls airbags didn't even go off.  She ended up t-boning me and her bumper is a little wiggly, but didn't even pull away from the car side.  My jeep has a dent right behind the passenger side wheel and a couple scratches on the door.  I'm seriously not sure who's fault this really is, but it'll likely go on mine since I was making the left turn.  The girl I hit was very cool about it and we've called back and forth a few times to get information, so I don't think there will be any fighting about it.  I'm not looking forward to the increase in insurance, but that's life.  Funny considering just the other day I was congratulating myself for being such a good little driver for so long.

Go forth and fill your libraries with media.

Seriously, thanks to everyone for being so amazing and patient. You are the reason I love Vox.

~daisy

If you say something to someone - something that you feel the need to express about your feelings and what you need from them - and you know that they will probably express great hurt at both what you express and what you intend to do, who is responsible for their pain?

I was just told that the Amazon Conduit will be fixed by tomorrow. I will post here as soon as I get word that it's back up and running.

I know this has been frustrating and I am sorry there wasn't more I could do to make it less so. I really appreciate your patience though.

Cheers,

daisy

Not in the sense of working in an office.  But I have a sustainable job lined up for after the Halloween store at the Bellevue Square mall Gymboree.  I had an excellent interview there last week and got the offer today on my voicemail about an hour ago.  The job pays decently, it's in a nice safe location, and it's permanent.  My three basic criteria are set, plus I like the people I met there.  I strongly suspect I will learn a lot about fashion, but I'm okay with that.  Also, my neice and nephew (and any other small children that I know) are going to get such cute christmas presents.

Watch this documentary.

I don't know that there's much point to asking for labelling of non-GM food, when genetic cross contamination is such an issue now.

I know, of course there's a point. The point is in documenting what it does to people, to documenting the effects on human beings and other animals, and then holding the companies accountable.

I don't know what else to say. It's all so depressing.

I never see anything like this here. Mind you, I don't get to see very much sky at all for all these trees.

Colorado Dawn Clouds

I'm sorting through old photos. My Sunrises/Sunsets folder. Here's another:

An American Dawn

 Yeah, why don't I just go updating this post every time I get distracted and end up editing something?

Snowblown Sunset

Roadtrip sunset trees

Pink Dawn

Windblown Silhouette

Bad news. As many of you have probably noticed, the Amazon Conduit was not fixed in the last week's release. Unfortunately, there was an undetected bug that is preventing the conduit from working.

We are working on this bug fix and hope to have the Conduit back up and running this week.

I will keep you posted.

Thank you for being so patient.

~daisy