kiri aluwa

i guess i'm going to do away with the complaints for this post because i had a nice day (or i did 'yesterday' i SUPPOSE).

skipped a show, also skipped Julian Casablancas cos i can be a tool like that (i've skipped Os Mutantes in the past, when i already had a ticket, because large crowds get me nervous sometimes).

anyway, thought i'd stay in and have a beer and get some shut-eye but instead i rolled about reading blogs and looked up a "kiri aluwa" (milk toffee) recipe and got to't. luckily came back from the supermarket to see Harry'd returned so hooray for a helping hand!

so this recipe had butter in it which i wish we did without because the texture was that of a regular toffee which is fine (and what the recipe was going for i guess), but it grossed me out. i have a low tolerance for oily feelz (gross, wish i could be more articulate about that). fortunately, nothing grosses Harry out so nothing's going to waste. the texture i've always grown up with is more..matte and crumbly. so next time - skip butter.

also, we made a last minute coconut decision. i bought some shredded coconut recently to make some "wellawahum", (more commonly referred to as pancakes in Sri Lanka), so we threw some in which is a great idea and a great substitute for cashew nuts. especially seeing as i never liked cashews in them but enjoyed the crunchiness, coconut was perfect.

no pictures of the finished product, cos it doesn't look that great, to be honest. but this does (cooo) :

and in the true burgess&w. way, we followed dessert with the main meal, which was a wrap of potaties, red peppers, spinach, cheese and tomato sauce with some mozarella. this was one handsome wrap, ya allah. if only my camera was kinder.

here :



ughh, want again.



i was going to post up some Calvin Johnson but i forget how much his voice makes me want to tweeze every hair off my head when i've been awake for a long period of time. so i'm going to settle for Heavenly : Le Jardin De Heavenly (1992) which is just as good and features him on C is the Heavenly Option, where he is somehow more bearable.


so dreamy.

okay i will crash now because I HAVE NOT SLEPT SINCE YESTERDAY BLAH BLAH LA LA LA (just one little complaint for meee).

ouf

google image result for "ouf"

i feel like i've barely seen harry due to my apparently worsening sleep situation - i wake up when he's about to sleep and vice versa. harsh realisation that when i'm alone i get so, so bored. i don't know how i ever lived alone. i find myself pacing quite a lot without realising - most alarming. i've also barely been able to get myself out of bed, let alone the apartment. so no cigarettes - much anxiety. it's fortunate that i don't care much for good weather.
but at least this rut has found me hitting the art much more than a healthy me would, i've been churning out a piece a night. the past few being paintings! i'm always too lazy to set up for painting and thus i tend to believe i enjoy drawing more, but once i actually get painting, i realise it's so much fun. especially since i'm mostly painting with my fingers because my brushes are awful and warped (all my fault tho). aanyway, here:

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really happy with both of them. still in progress though, obviously. the one on the left i might just leave (after a few minor adjustments) but i find it hard to leave work as is. i get fidgety.
sometimes i see a tiny resemblance to Lady Gaga in the second one, and sometimes I don't see it at all. i don't know if it's worth putting can rollers in her hair or not..

anyway, i am excited for the end of the month and to receive cash monies again. this summer i think i'm going to finally put some money away to make prints and crafts and make a little beer money. (i love this time of year, when i make a world of plans for the summer, always in vain. but "not this time!"). reminds me i gotta buy a ticket for the Pavement+others not worth mentioning (that i know of) festival in June. shame on me for forgetting that was even happening. maybe i thought i was dreaming. Dinosaur Jr and Pavement in the same year, my younger self would be so stokey (colloq.) for me right now.


John "Comedy Gold" Hall of CT Indie has asked me to design some shirts in the vein of this poster, which is a piece i did in high school. i'm excited to brainstorm, i'm also excited because i have till June to noodle about which gives me something to do. also will make me feel more productive. t'would be nice to go america-ways this summer if harry and i can afford it, but it might suck to be under 21, especially since my "New Brunswick id" is horrendous. i like you, ontario.

two things i love today, which has so far only consisted of trying (and mostly failing) to wake harry up for a little chat, painting, showering and applying chapstick..:

Fred Thomas, because he's such a busy little michigander with big lips. mother always told me people with small lips and small eyes are untrustworthy and looking back, all my past exes have had notably large lips. coincidence? i dno. awkward snippet? yes.
anyway, he does a few different things : flashpapr, saturday looks good to me, and most recently (i think? i can never keep up) city center and my personal favourite would be his solo stuff,. i'm sure there's more that have slipped under my radar.
to be honest i've only heard one city center song i came across on some blog and it wasn't the best thing ever but i'm sure there's goodness in the rest (which is on the way). but what do i know about music, anyway. all i know is When You Fuck Things Up With Your Baby is my ultimate go-to-when-you-fuck-things-up-in-general album and it's never failed to further wallowing/cheer me up.
also one time, i messaged him on myspace and he replied, being the sweetest berry of them all. of course he never replied after but i'll let it slide.


&


Google Chrome, which i finally got earlier today. Firefox hit my last nerve, i never wanted to see that fucking spinning rainbow bastard again so i succumbed to Google's prodding and i'm pretty happy with it. it's very stripped down which makes it much, much faster. it launches

so much quicker than Firefox which takes computer-forever a lot of the time.
it doesn't even seem to be a complete slut for Google things like gmail and the like surprisingly, but it is just a beta version so who knows what the future holds.
i wonder whether firefox is being a cunt because it's so stocked up with history i refuse to delete and chrome is so fast because it's new and shiny? i guess i'll just wait and see as it piles up.
few minor inconveniences include no quick links tab (again, beta version, as stripped down as a tori amos cover, harhar) and it seems i can't resize images on compose mode here on Blogger.
more plusses are that i can see how much memory each tab is taking up, so if things are running slow, i know which tabs to close, instead of force quitting the whole darn thing. if i want to google something i can type it right into the address bar, which eliminates the need for the little search bar I have on Firefox, allowing even more space for a very, very clean layout. there's also an incognito window that automatically deletes history and other saved items, which doesn't really serve much purpose for me but cheers to cheating spouses, hormonal teenagers and the like, i guess.
i'm sure there are a world of other benefits that an amateur like me fails to appreciate/has forgotten to mention, but all i really care about right now is the speed, and i'm very satisfied with the change. all in all -- quick and easy on the eyes. (that's what she said? god no, i'm not that divorced from myself right now...?)

i think it's time to eat and nap! BYE.

cheez pasta

i found nailpolish the same texture and colour as the blue Cadbury Mini Egg. too bad the colour looked godawful on my skin. quickly replaced by dark grey after this once in a lifetime photo opportunity presented itself.
note the scars on my hand/arm - these fucking cats only seem to scratch me at night. the other hand has a long scrach across the knuckles and one on the same place as this middle finger (hurray for matching scars), my thigh and foot have really deep scratches too. harry remains intact however. bastards. cute ones :


huggin' himself


new fave place


watchin' boston legal.

moving on, i keep forgetting how much i love Altered Images. i offer you Collected Images : Best of Altered Images.



claire grogan is cute as a button, o god.




i wish i had that outfit in black..

BYE.

pretty pretty

finally fixed the layout to this thing. got sick of the massive panther, i like this better!

on the subject of blogs, Harry got one and it's the best. it's exactly him :
Dear Cops

tugboat captain

i've been good!

completed (maybe) work from earlier :





i'm really happy with this one. the other one, not so much yet. wish i had super thin colour pencils. like coloured leads for mechanical pencils. i had a set many years ago but i can't seem to find them anywhere since.

contemplating a trip to the art store but i am unwell - on the one day i'm up at a normal time. i pulled an all night day before and went to sleep at 7 yesterday and got 14 hours of sleep, woke up at 9am. hope this lasts!
got a nice avocado and brie sandwich for breakfast at the Green Room and i think that's all i want to eat for the rest of my life. roll over, poutine and reese cups!

2 b or not 2 b - NAT!

uff

some folks get all tha luck.
though i'm content eating brie like a pizza slice for 5pm 'breakfast'.

i'm also content in entry gaps because there are many more updates and i like to type, especially this time around.
i've gone koo koo for kittiez and a week ago we picked up a lil tyke who now goes by the name of Cobra. we went all the way to Brampton in the pouring/spitting rain/hail, the second attempt at this kitty run since we got on the wrong bus the first time around. twas all well worth the trouble/wait/two-day two-way silent treatment at the burgess&w. estate. the family we got him from was awesome, also - big, seven friendly kids with one on the way with a ton of cats running around, which makes for a good kitty. this guy ain't afraid of NOTHIN' which is a refreshing change from the other two pussycats (not that i don't love those bastards). anyway, pix :




hanging with big brother Louie. who, along with Maude, are already playing with Cobra, twas only two or three days of hissing and retreating but now they're a big happy family. fuck tha haterz.


hanging in harry's shoe AZ YOOJ.


i just found this candid one via h-burge, way to go h-burge.

i really have a shit ton more so everything after this will probably just be about the cats and beyonce's legs - no better yet dem thighs - matter of fact it's her smile.
speaking of WHICH, cannot put into words how much the Telephone video makes me want to go to the gym. o well, summer is coming and i'll walk it off i GUESS.
god i hate the summer. i really, really hate the summer. legs and shoulders and feet and heat, there's often no comfortable place for safety cardigans within this mix. who knows, maybe this is the year more than just my head and arms make an appearance after 8-odd years in hiding --- or maybe i should just get a burkini already.

my freakum dress~~

anyWAY, enough awkward self loathing, moving onto the initial point of this blog, before these beasts invaded my life (that includes you, queen B), i have two things to offer you since i now moved my scanner to the living room where i lay.



these two are the kinda thing that started out as doodles and eventually became more interesting/promising too late to fix all the little things i can afford to ignore for a lil doodle. also, with these kinda things i tend to make a bunch of really minor additions/clean ups which are barely noticeable to anyone but me which is strangely frustrating. so next update should hopefully have completed or at least the slightly updated photo of the first one that is sitting here unscanned.


so, speaking of whiiich, i think i'm feeling done with school, at least this school. i've spent a lot of time these days kicking myself in the ass for not just going to art school to begin with. hopefully after a bigchat with mama dearest i can figure this all out somehow. or figure something or the other out for fuck's sake.
wna hibern8 4 a yr/4EVA.

ne-way, nuf whinin bout silly problems, as long a bitch ain't one i'm down to relaxxxxxx.

ne-ne-way luv u 2, gaga.

okay, time to go ahead and get gone, by-E.

different class

groaannnnnnnnnnnn. my head's feeling a bit like this these days :



which is more embarassing than my dustbin full of candy wrappers but less so than my bedroom. it's all less embarassing than my obscenely unproductive self though, which is the worst. oh WELL.

on the bright side, i'm becoming a mad cat lady :

i don't think he likes it though! but maybe he will if i bother him enough? i doubt it!

and here's some shoddily photographed art done on the back of a liquor store bag:




i'm definitely enjoying the way that yellow shows up on the brown bag and i thoroughly enjoyed its former contents last weekend. this weekend was relatively slower, a much needed break from the past few weeks i guess.

but anyway, on a much BRIGHTER note and MOST IMPORTANTLY -- congratulations canada, you're the shiniest.





OH WELL, BYE NOW.