Journal of Miss Cedar

Tweets for Today

2008-10-11T03:09:57Z

08:55 I just closed my cat in between the doors! She was there for almost 5 min, she started climbing up the metal screen door and I heard her! #
10:52 Just finished my Frank Zappa portrait for class. #
11:27 Loving this sudden cool down in weather...unfortunately another Santa Ana is coming this weekend. #

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Drawing Class: Portraits

2008-10-10T22:12:40Z

Originally published at Girl Wanders. You can comment here or there.

This week in my drawing class we started working on portraits. My teacher printed out a bunch of images of “heroes” and we were allowed to choose from the selection. I chose Frank Zappa.

Tweets for Today

2008-10-10T03:12:05Z

20:37 Eating cauliflower and watching ANTM. #
12:48 Excited that we get to work on portraits in drawing class. #
13:06 I am drawing a picture of frank zappa in my drawing class. #
16:34 Got so much done on the Frank Zappa portrait drawing I am doing for class. Now I'm sitting around drinking ginger ale. #
17:42 Going to the gym. I need to zone out on the eliptical machine for a little while. #
19:34 Just got home from the gym, and from grocery shopping. So productive! #

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Tweets for Today

2008-10-09T03:13:12Z

06:59 Hoping today is not as hot as yesterday. I do have things that need to get done. #
12:30 Sweating like crazy. Today is just as hot as yesterday! Tomorrow it is supposed to drop twenty degrees, thank goodness! #
19:13 Heat unbearable. Must die now. #

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Tweets for Today

2008-10-08T03:13:35Z

08:02 Russ broke his hand over the weekend. :( #
13:33 Holy hell it is hot today. #
14:43 Planning out next semester's schedule. I can't believe I have only one more semester before I can transfer! #
17:36 I need some coffee if I am going to make it through these debates! This heat is kicking my butt. #
18:18 @awaytogarden I was just thinking the same thing. #
18:25 Quote of the day: "I know how to do that". ....oh rrreally? #
18:32 @kayden75 I ought to start doing shots every time he says that! #
18:44 ...."or something like that"....nice. #
19:20 @thedelicious I was thinking the same thing earlier in the broadcast! #
19:36 Well that was interesting. Who won? #
19:38 @happyherbivore Agreed. #
19:38 @ameliakine And rude! I can't believe that comment he made to Tom Brokaw! #
19:42 Haha, I almost forgot that McCain called Obama "that one". #
19:43 I didn't even see the lack of handshake! How rude. #
19:46 @mangopowergirl Ah yes, that was pretty funny. #

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Tweets for Today

2008-10-07T03:10:59Z

22:09 I sure was stylin in '92! snurl.com/43zf0 #
23:15 @Miss_Corrine Haha, thanks! #

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Painting Practice

2008-10-03T00:12:30Z

Originally published at Girl Wanders. You can comment here or there.

Lately I have been doing small projects at home to practice painting from real objects. A few nights ago I painted this bell pepper. I accidently ate it without thinking before I could put the finishing touches on it, but it was mostly done.

Design Project: Mondrian

2008-10-02T01:53:20Z

Originally published at Girl Wanders. You can comment here or there.

Our most recent project in my Design class was to work with balance, and create a Mondrian inspired image.

Painting Assignment 2: White Objects

2008-09-26T23:13:14Z

Originally published at Girl Wanders. You can comment here or there.

I just put the finishing touches on the piece I had been working on in class last week. My teacher brought in several different white objects and assigned us certain set ups based on what she thought would challenge us all individually.

I can’t wait until next week when we can actually start using color in our paintings!

Film Stuff

2008-09-26T17:40:03Z

Originally published at Girl Wanders. You can comment here or there.

I forgot to mention in my last post that the movie I starred in a few months back was screened at the Palm Film Festival. A Canadian distribution company saw it and is interested in distributing it. Unfortunately there isn’t a trailer for it online yet (I need to talk to them about that!).

However next weekend another film I was in is being screened here in town at the San Diego film festival. This one is called Flamingo Tango. I don’t have a big role in this one, but I did quite a bit of dancing for it!

Flamingo Tango trailer

Design Project: Lines

2008-09-12T00:42:50Z

Originally published at Girl Wanders. You can comment here or there.

Since being in school I have had very little time to cook, or do anything unrelated to school. Because of this, I know the blog has been a bit dull lately. I decided this morning in order to keep it updated regularly I will start posting more about school, and what I am working on. Up first-a project for my design class. The assignment was to make an image with four types of lines, horizontal, vertical, parallel, and curved. Here is a sneak peak of what I am working on:

After I finish I will let you see the entire thing!

The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics

2008-09-11T02:56:12Z

Originally published at Girl Wanders. You can comment here or there.

In my design class we have been doing a lot of projects with line qualities. Today while we were working my teacher showed us this little video, which I absolutely love!

Roddy and Kyle’s Wedding

2008-09-01T20:42:40Z

Originally published at Girl Wanders. You can comment here or there.

This weekend was my brother’s wedding. He and Kyle have been together for four years, and are just the most perfectly matched couple you could ever come across. They had their wedding in New Hampshire, where Kyle went to school, and they are planning on living. The ceremony was absolutely beautiful, and a whole lot of fun. I don’t know if I have ever cried so much in my life! I am so happy to have Kyle as a sister in law!

New Hampshire was absolutely gorgeous. So green, with lots of lakes and rivers everywhere.

To view more pictures check out my Flickr.

Music for us Outlaws

2008-08-23T02:24:42Z

Originally published at Girl Wanders. You can comment here or there.

I made this mix earlier for my friend Ashlee, who I share a blog with. We hadn’t used it much, but recently decided to get it going again. Not much there right now, and it probably won’t appeal to anyone but us. It is going to be like one of those notebooks girls passed around in high school, and wrote letters and pasted pictures in. Yeah, totally girly.

misscedar @ 2008-08-21T21:19:00

2008-08-22T04:20:39Z

I can't tell you enough how unbelievably happy this makes me:

Too Little Time

2008-08-08T02:27:09Z

Originally published at Girl Wanders. You can comment here or there.

Photo by Boris Licina

Since turning twenty five last December I have been doing a lot of thinking. I guess I sort of feel like I am in this transitional period in my life, but have no clue which way to take it. I have so many interests and so many plans, none of which include a job. As of lately I have felt completely incapable of deciphering what is good for me and what is bad. I do know however that I need to make some choices soon, or I can loose these opportunities I have forever.

When I was a child my parents always encouraged and pushed me to do things that I loved. I tried a lot of different things, gymnastics, dance, art, baseball, soccer, writing, music, but I never could pick one thing that I loved to do above all else.

I didn’t know what I wanted to do, and still don’t. I have been involved in so many activities that I was never able to form a passion for one thing I especially loved more than the rest. For that reason I also was not able to build up the skill to become especially great at one thing. I know how to do a lot of things–but none well enough to feel any sort of expertise. While I do feel very fortunate that I have taken so many different roads in life, I wish that by now I felt more confident deciding what I love to do.

Now here I am at 25. I haven’t been able to save a single penny since turning 20. I am going to school for an unknown career. I am so unmotivated and I despise the idea of holding a conventional job. At this point I know I need to just pick something, and quick before I get to 30, 35, 40, or older and still am wondering what will become of my life.

I’d Rather Be On The Peace Train

2008-08-06T02:05:55Z

Originally published at Girl Wanders. You can comment here or there.

Or so my license plate frame reads. No singer has ever stolen my heart like Cat Stevens did that first time I listened to Tea for the Tillerman.

The Elfin Forrest

2008-08-02T22:53:31Z

Originally published at Girl Wanders. You can comment here or there.

Going places like this makes me want to retreat to the woods, and become a hippie.

Music to Eat Tofu To

2008-08-01T23:04:09Z

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goodreads.com

2008-07-31T04:35:03Z

Is anyone else on goodreads.com? I signed up a few days ago, and am in dire need of some friends. Add me!

New Opportunities

2008-07-29T05:41:33Z

Originally published at Girl Wanders. You can comment here or there.

“We attribute much to chance meetings, refer to them as turning points in our life, but these encounters could never have occurred had we not made ourselves ready for them. If we possessed more awareness, these fortuitous encounters would yield still greater rewards. It is only at certain unpredictable times that we are fully attuned, fully expectant, and thus in a position to receive the favors of fortune. The man who is fully awake knows that every ‘happening’ is packed with significance.”
–Henry Miller, The World of Sex (1940)

I came across this quote this morning, and have been thinking about it on and off all day.

Yesterday Russ and I rented Into the Wild, among other things.

If you have not yet seen the film, I highly recommend it. It is based on the real life story of Christopher McCandless, whom upon graduating college gave up all his savings and headed out to the open road. The film showcases the incredible two year journey that drove him to cut off all contact with those who loved him, and eventually led to his untimely death. It is filled with adventure and leaves an anxious soul wanting to go off on their own excursion.

For the longest time I thought that in order to have an adventure, you needed to go places, you needed to hunt it out. In the back of my mind I know that it is quite the contrary. There are new opportunities around at all times. When traveling, my mind is clearer and I find myself more willing to expect the unexpected. It is only when I am home and in my comfort zone that I don’t recognize the opportunities, and often brush them off thinking they are interruptions and quite bothersome.

Though I may not yet be able to escape and live out my lifelong dream of living on the road like Chris McCandless or Kerouac or Thompson–yet, if I can become more aware of what is going on outside of my little bubble I can at least welcome the adventure that presents itself a little closer to home.

Film Screening

2008-07-27T17:10:56Z

Originally published at Girl Wanders. You can comment here or there.

The screening last night went really well. We had around thirty guests, almost all who had helped in the production of one of the two films. There was enough vegan food to feed a small country of herbivores. I made up a batch of Chai tea cupcakes with cardamom infused vegan buttercream frosting. I also brought a huge batch of my muhammara, which was one of the first things to be devoured.

Everyone seemed to love the films. The room was filled with laughter while watching HRH Electric and there were all sorts of oohs and aahs over the beautiful cinematography and dancing in Flamingo Tango. I am so proud of these two films.

Leasa and I made plans to start writing the script for their next movie. I am excited to start becoming more involved with the production of the films. We already have a story that we have been working on, we just need to get it down on paper.

Flamingo Tango

2008-07-26T23:48:34Z

Originally published at Girl Wanders. You can comment here or there.

Tonight is the world premier of the hugely anticipated Flamingo Tango. The film has been six months in the making, and feels great to know that it is finally done. I don’t have a major role in this one, but I did get to dance the tango in a couple of scenes. Alongside Flamingo Tango we are screening HRH Electric, which is the film I starred in. Both films turned out amazing, and I am beyond excited to see everyone else’s reactions.

Quote of the Day

2008-07-14T15:46:03Z

Originally published at Indulgences. You can comment here or there.

I actually shared this quote a few days ago on my Tumblr page, but I think I like it so much, I had to share it on here as well.

“The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude, to me, is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, the education, the money, than circumstances, than failure, than successes, than what other people think or say or do. It is more important than appearance, giftedness or skill. It will make or break a company… a church… a home. The remarkable thing is we have a choice everyday regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past… we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude. I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it. And so it is with you… we are in charge of our Attitudes.”

—

Charles R. Swindoll

misscedar @ 2008-06-13T23:43:00

2008-06-14T06:45:34Z

As a little girl my dad read this to me almost every night. To this day, this poem is still my favorite.

In winter I get up at night
And dress by yellow candle-light.
In summer quite the other way,
I have to go to bed by day.

I have to go to bed and see
The birds still hopping on the tree,
Or hear the grown-up people's feet
Still going past me in the street.

And does it not seem hard to you,
When all the sky is clear and blue,
And I should like so much to play,
To have to go to bed by day?

-Robert L. Stevenson