Summer Travels

Well, I've been home for slightly over a month now and I'm getting ready to fly back to California for a week! I'm excited to see all my friends and old "hot-spots." I'll be getting back right at the start of August and then I'm off to Spain! Its been 2 years since my last visit and I'm bringing my boyfriend with me; Its his first time to Europe so I'm really excited to show him where my family is from (La Coruna). Plus we just had our apartment renovated and I haven't seen it yet, so I'm double excited.

On a separate note, check out the song "Baptized by Fire" by Spinnerette! its the last song on my playlist and I really like it!

On another separate note, I've been doing a lot of bike riding lately, if anyone knows a good trail other than Jones Beach at Cedar Creek Park or the Bethpage trail in Massapequa let me know!

Back in New York

So I took to writing in my journal again, that is why I haven't updated on here.

I'm back home in NY and things are up and down you could say. It is nice to be home, but I miss my friends in California and I miss my independence, I grew very accustomed to my life over there..

Oh yeah the drive back was great! I stopped in Vegas, Zion State Park, Grand Canyon, Denver, Topeka, Indianapolis, St. Lewis, Columbus.. and saw a bunch in between. The drive took me 5 and a half days, I went with my friend Deana, shes great I hadn't seen her in a full year so I was so glad she could come with me! (but she couldn't drive & I had to do all that).

Anyway.. I started a new painting today after dinner.. its on the smaller side (I think maybe 12x18). well here it is, let me know what you think of it so far.

Lastly! I set up my Etsy account you can get to here!

Kitchen Gallary?

I put up a bunch of paintings and prints in my kitchen :-) I really like it, that wall was too big and empty before!

So last week I was lucky enough to show my sister and her friends

around a little bit of CA, on Easter I went over to Golden Gate Park for the first time, and I didn't

realize that it would be full of druggies,

the homeless and hippies..

someone actually asked us for drugs! and their was a drum circle. well anyway, it was a nice day even though we were out of place - I was expecting more a central park feel, but its ok. After that we drove over to the actual bridge, here are some pictures (my sister is the lil' one)

They Come In 3's

I guess good things come in sets of three

1. My sister, Laura, is flying in from NYC tonight on her spring break with her friend Chelsea.

2. I finished all the work I have due for 4 different class critiques. Booyah.

3. I just got discovered how great almond milk is! ...no seriously its EROTIC good.

..I'm going to take Laura & Chelsea around SF and down to Carmel, Santa Cruz.. since I got all my work done I'll have plenty of time to take them around!! its their first time in California and they will be here through Easter! If anybody has any great site-seeing suggestions send them my way!!

Pige

So I just wrapped up my latest video project, its a "swede" of the James Bond film, Goldfinger. I tried to keep it short, true to the original as well as have some humor.. anyway let me know if you like it (its posted to my youtube account).

Secondly, I've been working on some paintings in watercolor; its a new media for me, but I'm having a lot of fun with it, very different from oil paints. I decided to do these "pigeon/people," I've always thought pigeons were super funny, especially in NYC - this past summer I was having lunch in Battery Park and there were pigeons all over and I just started watching them.. started laughing by myself like some creeper. Ok well anyway these are my paintings :)

Reading

So a couple months ago I read the first chapter and a half of Twilight on my plane ride back to San Jose and then forgot about it until about a week ago. I just finished the book and I thought it was great, really entertaining! I'm not much of a critic though.. anyway, I plan to read the rest of the series and look forward to seeing the movie when its released to DVD. However, I wont get to read the second book untill my sister visits me next month.. SO in the meantime I'm looking for other books to read, if anyone has some suggestions send them my way!

also working on another project for my digital media class, look for it on youtube within the next week or so!

Update

So on Valentines Day I went to SFMOMA and to lunch and breakfast and all that fun stuff with my bf, he got me flowers and i got him some undies...but that's all besides the point. I woke up that morning with my eyes kinda irritated and decided I'd wear my glasses in place of my contacts, to prevent any further irritation! well the next day my eyes were a little worse, I went over to Longs and picked up some Visine drops for allergies, so 2 more days go by and my eyes are now bright red and swollen! I went to health clinic on campus and I confirmed my fear of... DOUBLE PINK EYE! anyway, I got some drops so my eyes should be fine in a few days.

...which is a very good thing, my parents and good friend are flying out from NY this weekend to visit and I don't want to be all sick looking. I think I'm going to take them to San Fran one day, Carmel the next day and spend one day in San Jose.