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Hey everyone, I’m having a hard time getting my head to start working today so be prepared for me to ramble from one topic to the next. In fact, just imagine we’re at a cuddly coffee shop sharing a sticky bun and a couple o’ lattes and spillin’ the dirt from the weekend, girlfriend-style. That’ll make it easier for me to think of stuff to say and I can fool myself into thinking I’m brilliantly fascinating. Like most of us are early Monday morning.
Went to Public Enemies on Friday night. Long and boring, even Johhny Depp couldn’t save this snooze fest.
Sunday found me at the Vancouver art Gallery with my mom, aunt from Australia and Gavin. Dutch masters. Only one Vermeer and a few Rembrandts but all in all a worthwhile show. I felt it was more of a history lesson than anything else for me. I just didn’t come away feeling like I wanted to race home and rip into my own fresh canvases like I normally do after a great show. The colours, the subjects (lots of marine scenes and portraiture) and the detailed technique were incredible, just not inspirational the way, let’s say, the Impressionist paintings are.
We headed up to the second floor and took in a little of the Emily Carr/Jack Shadbolt exhibition and there’s where I started to get twitchy. Get out my paints twitchy. These two Canadians are simply breathtaking artists and make me wish so much I could do even a little of their magic.
What other highlights were there this weekend? Got to be Bonnie’s Saturday post on Taaz.com! I spent a good while playing with hairstyles and colours and can’t wait to try out my favourite one for real! Hee hee…going dark again maybe! That was so much fun, Bon!
The Tour De France started on Saturday. I like to tape it, skip the endless commercials and listen to the action while doing my morning chores. The arial shots of France are spectacular and the race is mind blowingly hard, especially when they get to the mountain stages. I’m not a sports nut at all but I love the Tour. Go figure (*shrug)
Well, think I’ll leave off here with a warm wish to you all for a prosperous and happy week. I’m going to defog my brain with some caffeine and fresh air (and Easy-Off. Time to clean the oven)
Salut, 
Goddess Tara
Jacquie Janzen Yee
Tracy Westerholm
Bonnie Johnson
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…Your ending is priceless… I’m not sure if you intended such delicious humour…Here’s what I see…I can’t resist sending these thoughts… Here the vision….”Somehow we can hear distant unclear swearing as if coming from the inside of a barrel… we encounter a vision of you wide eyed and wired on caffeine and swacked with a mess of easy off all over you… as you pull your head from the oven… saying…. What..?… as you look up at your kids…. and you hear them say… Mom’s Blathering again…!!!!”
More smiles, as always….F
Ha ha! I see that vision now too…thanks Francesco…in my vision she still has a great outfit on and maybe even a tiara while she cleans.
I love the word blathering. Perhaps because I do so much of it myself sometimes.
Jacquie, I’d love to see the outcome of your cyber make over.
Have you read “Girl With A Pearl Earring” by Tracy Chevalier? The movie is good too but I bet the book would get you “twitchy”. It had me wanting to mix up my own paint… and I can’t even draw a decent stick figure.
LOL! I know from experience the best way to clear a foggy head is to take a strong cleanser…wait… wouldn’t want that info to be misconstrued! You know what I mean! : ) You can start to worry when you picture me with the head in the oven and it’s turned on… Sorry for that visual!
I did see that movie and it was pretty good but I bet the book was better. You sold me on it!