Yesterday was AMAZING.
X-Posted from Neighborhood Stories
Do you ever have one of those days where things just seem to fall into place? Yesterday was one of those days for me. It started out fairly average: I woke up at around 11am, forced myself out of bed, and stumbled into the shower. After a breakfast of leftover lobster and mushroom sauce smothered tilapia and broccoli from the night before, I plopped down in front of my computer to finish up the last few flat sketches of my Spring collection.
My mom and I share the same "office" space in her house, she sits like 10 feet away from me. So, like an hour into my work my mom says: "You know what? I think on Saturday we should go get massages." Why yes, mother. You are absolutely correct! I'm crazy about this plan! I'm happy to be a part of it! I've wanted/needed a really good massage pretty much since the end of my graduation fashion show. This news put me in pretty good spirits for the rest of the day.
This is going to be me.
Now as I'm working on my flats, I'm also watching the clock in anticipation because at 7pm I went to Phi's apartment for Fish Taco Night. Kids, I've been craving fish tacos for many weeks, and let me tell you... these did NOT disappoint. They had to be the best fish tacos ever conceived by man. Phi prepared most of it: the fish, some amazing garlic ginger beef, black beans with onions and stuff in them, Mexi-cheese, field greens, and taco shells. I brought the PICO DE GALLO, and this amaaaazing Serrano chile and cilantro cream sauce. Everything was much appreciated by "our guests" Chelsea, Alex, and AJ. I failed to get a picture of our completed, piled-high, tacos, but I did snap a picture of the ENORMOUS batch of Pico de Gallo I made.
Mmm, look at all them noms. I like it with cabbages.
Then, Phi and I went to fetch something from my car, and brought his latest stuffed tree stump friend with us! On our way back inside he asked me to pose for a picture and then just stood there fiddling with it on his phone. "Um, Phi, can we go back inside now? IT'S SO COLD!" Hahaha <3 Phi.
FUZZY HEAD
Now the clincher. This is really what made my night/day/month. Have you ever had something stuck in your head for a REALLY long time, without any clues whatsoever as to what it might be or where you could find it? This has happened to me at least once before. The first time, I was having reoccurring dreams about a witch with a bunch of different heads in jars, and she chased me through her castle because she wanted MY head. Now, after about a year of this, I thought maybe it was just some CRAZY dream my brain had come up all on its own to freak me out nightly. BUT IT WAS NOT SO. One day my friend Jacob and I decided to watch Return to Oz because I thought I had never seen it. AND WHAT DO YOU KNOW!? That reoccurring dream I'd been having was a scene from Return to Oz. Can you imagine how that revelation felt?
This time what I had stuck in my head was a voice. A languorous, warbling tenor that resembled closely, but wasn't, Brian Ferry. It was driving me absolutely fucking mad, because my memory of this voice contained no clues as to who it might be except that I thought I heard it in some sort of dancy electro song. WOW, THAT NARROWS IT DOWN.
So I'm sitting there, nomming my amazing fish taco, and all of a sudden it comes on. THE VOICE IS PLAYING ON PHI'S COMPUTER. "BECK WHAT THE HELL IS PLAYING RIGHT NOW, THIS IS IT, THIS IS THE VOICE I WAS TELLING YOU ABOUT!!?!?!?!" Haha, I freaked out. It turns out it was Hercules & Love Affair guest starring Mr. Antony Hegarty.
Excuse me sir? Your voice literally haunted me for like 3 months.
So. Excited. It felt like I had given birth, or exercised a demon, or something.
What about you, friends!? Have you ever had a similar experience? Something, ANYTHING, stuck in your head for weeks, months, years until you one day randomly discovered what it was? SHARE IT IN THE COMMENTS!!!
P.S. Flats for my collection are D-O-N-E, and today I will begin the process of deciding final colors and sourcing fabric. Yippee! I'll be posting a teaser image here soon, so keep your eyes OPEN.