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Updated VV a week or so ago, so here're a couple of girly new year teasers ^^
And in other news, ohes...a lot to cover. I hope all of you had a great holiday and new year! With me it's been many ups and downs as always. There've been some stingy disappointments and I'm starting to get pretty stressed with a bunch of things going on at once, but I'm still here and I suppose it's nice to start the year proactive. I'm recovering from a medical thing which has been great burden off my back and I'm praying it doesn't return (no it's not an std :P).
Christmas was sweet and cozy, I spent it with R's family and uncles/aunts/cousins. We played phone games, made gingerbread houses (from ikea - mine collapsed :P but they tasted really good with frosting!) and stuffed ourselves on homemade tamales, ponche, cider and peppermint cheesecake. My gifties included some fragrance/body butter in the apparently-rare Lavanilla grapefruit vanilla scent, a candy store gift card (eee), a lovely simple lace-inspired shaped silver necklace, an awesome strap-contruction waist cincher, more of my favorite eyeliner, and a delicious meal shared with good people - and I think all my gifts to others were liked, which honestly makes me even happier. I find myself always wanting to thank the people who've been good to me but I'm often caught up in so much shit that it gets hard. So yay...
My New Year's was low key but ticked the right boxes, save one - Poor R got sick and had to sit it out. So instead of finding a party I walked around the mission with my friend J and her visiting friends from LA - the comic artist Joe Matt and his lovely girlfriend, both of whom were great fun to talk to. We got dinner (Indian), played pool and had a hot toddy at a dog-friendly pub, and as the new year rang in we were at Ocean Beach sharing some strangers' bonfire (right next to another one setting off awesome fireworks, by the cold black ocean). I asked a girl I didn't know what she thought the year would be like, and she said she thought it would be better than the last, smiling at me with a lot of hope :)
Then I got a bit sick too, of course, and spent some excellent vegetative staycation time at home, but am now back to work, appointments, harrying stuff - just trying to get it all done! They found wood rot in our balconies or something so I get to have another month of construction blocking out my painting light and creepers at my window, which is going to cause a lot of stress and I'm just trying to mentally prepare. But last night was a nice little escape - to celebrate our anniversary R and I saw Cavalia: Odysseo, which was really beautiful. I can see that it was fairly tailored to captivate young horseloving girls, but it had stuff for everyone ^^ The horses were lovely and our research beforehand indicated the show is noted for treating them well (some were so babyish looking!). The styling seemed influenced somewhat by Game of Thrones :P there were lovely low-light dance segments and fun jump and dressage segments. A couple of horses trotted out of rank, which had everyone cooing. And they did this thing with water that was really enchanting. We were pained over the cost but it turned out to be worth it! Only shitty thing was how closely they crammed together all the seats -_- economy of space, I get it...
Then we had dinner at 25 Lusk, and everything was delightful. The soft foccacia, the amuse (crazy savory truffle/mushroom cheesecake), the cocktails (I got the Queen Bee - so light and creamy! and Agent Q, very refreshing), the fried chicken terrine (an amazing upscale take on chicken and waffles, I think, with a deeply flavorful sauce, peppery arugula and yummy chicken crust with crispy blintzes), R's steak frites (gorgeous fries and very well cooked, velvety steak, though not the cut he had hoped for :P), the beautiful applesauce profiteroles with salty popcorn ice cream and the lipsmacking milk chocolate huckleberry mousse with sweet quince sorbet. Gaaah, it was a meal to remember. Nice atmosphere too - sound dampening tables and soft light, and a pretty lounge downstairs, rather hipstery but forgiveable. Much recommended! And we walked/lyfted around downtown (one of the drivers recommended Ugly Heroes/Apollo Brown, who had a nice mellow sound and intelligent sampling ^^) and reaffirmed our love quietly. <3
To look forward to: Edwardian Ball later this month, Pete Davidson at Cobb's in February and John Digweed again at Mighty in April XDDD
Now back to the grind and fire...the vivid dreams continue, and call to me to write. Ugh, this fantasy I cultivate of living off fiction and painting concurrently is so sweet it hurts. If only I could get past my brain...but in the meantime I'm still jotting things...
RIP David Bowie...can't believe it (well I guess I can, we're all hurtling in that direction). We're losing all our superindividuals.