Sunday, September 15, 2013

What Etsy has done to me

I've realized that I have become the lamest person ever.
Maybe it's just because I went to way too much camp this summer, I've been changed forever.
But I can't stop thinking about crafts, like arts and crafts. Like camp stuff.
It's not even like I did arts and crafts at camp, I mean I did make friendship bracelets for a profit, but come on, I shouldn't still be thinking about that. I've realized there is so many ways to make money off of doing random stuff that whenever I see anything, like a bracelet in a store or something, I just think that I could have done that, and I could have been raking in that cash years ago.
Last year I discovered Etsy, and if you don't know what that is, just don't read this, or go look Etsy up or something. Well, it's a website, where people can sell the stuff they find or make online. I've seen stuff of the website that is super cool, silk screened t-shirts and handmade dresses and stuff like that. But then there are also things like handmade books and boxes and bracelets that are hilarious because they are selling them for one dollar and the shipping costs more than that.
But whatever floats your boat I guess.
So I started making friendship bracelets when I got home from camp, and made a couple cool ones in the attempt to sell them on Etsy. So I guess my weird handmade craft obsession (I wouldn't really call it an obsession because I don't actually try to make the crafts and because I don't spend hours looking at it online, but there's no other word for it) came from Etsy. Thanks Etsy.
I would still be making bracelets to sell,
but I'm not,
so.........
I'm out.

Monday, September 9, 2013

Bringing in the new year with the bus

So I think I talked about this subject during the infancy of this blog (yes, I'm preparing for parenthood with this thing). But I will revisit the topic of the north side bus.
It was the first day of school today, and I know nobody really wants to hear about that, because, who cares? Anyway, it had to be around 3000 degrees outside and when I stepped outside to take the bus I literally wilted.
When the bus pulled up to the curb we saw four kind of scary faces staring out of the tall windows. They were the little kids who had been picked up at the new preschool that was just completed this year. They couldn't be more than four to five years old, and they were staring at us like the minute we walked on the bus they would go to hell.
Before we got on the bus we had to have a stern talking to about profanity and such because the little kids might be disturbed. My question was why the school had to shove kids from the age of 4 to the age of 18 together on one bus. Buy another bus or something! Geez guys.
On entering the bus it was actually hotter than outside, and now I understand what a poor lobster feels like when it's being boiled alive (which is how you cook lobsters by the way). The flow of kids onto the bus didn't stop either, they just kept coming, it was like a horrible nightmare, where I almost thought I'd have to double up with someone for my seat.... but don't worry. I would never. I deserve my space.
The man who is supposed to control the rowdiness and stuff of the bus was sweating buckets, he had a button down shirt on and it was dripping. When he leaned over to check the sign up sheet sweat dripped down from his nose and forehead onto the sheet, it was a little gross (actually a lot).
I'm just waiting until I get my license and can drive myself....well I'm not really sure how that's going to go either.

Thursday, September 5, 2013

What I did this summer

So I don't remember if I mentioned this or not, but I went to Interlochen Arts Camp this summer as an advanced drawing major (lol it makes it sound all fancy). So we all had to research a modern artist, do a quick presentation and make art in the same style or inspired by the artist we chose.
I chose an art collective called Barnstormers!. Basically they started off by graffitting barns in I think.... Georgia. Not sure. Then they moved onto other things and started showing in galleries, and what they also did were these long time lapses where basically one person painted a mural and then someone would paint right on top of it, either adding to it or completely destroying it.
So yup.
For my final project I made a time lapse using my iphone of different kids in my class drawing in charcoal.
Yay!

Rosh Hashahah

So today is Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish new year. So guess where I was all morning?
At synagogue.
Which isn't a bad thing, but it does bring up some interesting issues to take into consideration.
Some of the members of my synagogue are quite religious and they know all the prayers and can understand them and might even be able to read hebrew. They really take services seriously. And then there is pretty much everyone else. Some of these people can be put in the category of the 'twice a year jew', which means that they only go to temple on Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, which are the two major Jewish holidays. This group includes but is not limited to a lot of the kids who graduated from hebrew school with me and their parents who might have only gone to synagogue more before when their kids were getting bar mitzvahed.
So you have to wonder, what are all these people doing in synagogue for 2 to 4 hours?
What compels them every year to listen to songs and prayers in hebrew which they can't even understand. I guess it's the tradition, and also because it's the one time of the year where they can feel spiritual or religious.
Oh, and don't forget the socialization. Services always start late because everyone is catching up with their friends and relatives and people they think are their friends. Also if you didn't show up to these services then someone might realize.........
"Oh, that Judy, what a bad jew, she never goes to services," something kinda along those lines.
So yup.
Those are my thoughts on Rosh Hashanah. Well not all my thoughts, but some of the more critical ones. Of course I like the holiday, and I wish I was a better jew and such.
So yeah.