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the top secret private journal of susie / boygirlparty.com
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time, measured in dotted yellow lines

havent updated in awhile, but dont really have much to share. ive been taking care of myself the best i can these past two months. took a lot of time off work (for the first time really ever), starte...

11 mar 12 1 person likes this

cause/effect

is it possible to throw up from crying too much? or is it just the other way around?I have days where I am Ok but this is not one of them. on my worst days, peechee would comfort me extra. now on my ...

10 feb 12

mornings.

some mornings, lying in bed ill think to myself "today is the day ill pull myself back together. ill get ____, ____, and ____ done. ill go to ____. ill be productive." but by the time i get m...

06 feb 12

grief

ive been thinking for a long time about what to write about peechee and i think i need to write it all out. the hard stuff, the ugly stuff, the stuff that i think about before i go to sleep at night....

02 feb 12

peech

ive never experienced grief and sorrow like this.

10 jan 12

peechee

peechee, originally uploaded by boygirlparty.peechees heart seized yesterday. he was in my arms.my world feels so empty without him and the pain i am feeling right now is more than i can articulate.

08 jan 12

fifty fifty

hey, happy new year!this year i will be participating in the fifty fifty challenge and invite you to do the same. 50 books, 50 movies. no re-reads or re-views allowed! im beginning my year by trying ...

02 jan 12

san diego as an artist.

today i thought about how ive lived in san diego for over 6 years now. i love our home here in san diego and i love our neighbors. day to day, life is so fulfilling here, between the sunshine and our...

20 dec 11

i cant believe its been a month since everything happened with peechee. it feels as if its been just a matter of a couple days. when i brought him home from the ER with all the instructions i was giv...

15 dec 11

doctors orders

thank you to everyone who left me a sweet message on the peechee post, or anyone who emailed me or followed up in some way, especially those of you who understood what its like to go through this wit...

03 dec 11

peechee.

ive been scrolling through my archives here on lj and have been shocked to see how little ive posted about peechee. shocking because anyone who knows me knows hes basically all i talk about and is th...

18 nov 11

the silent treatment

i just read a pretty interesting post on the silent treatment (wooo friday night!) personally, i am really not a believer in this method of communication (or, more appropriately, lack thereof) and es...

29 oct 11

time capsule

I just found a journal entry of mine from 2003 where i said that i wished i could sustain my life by selling things i made. At that point i had two jobs i hated, and i was making stuff and selling it...

15 oct 11

on a related note / "art works" poster contest.

today, i saw a link to: http://my.barackobama.com/page /s/artworks-submissionso i designed a poster for it. It said:To the organizers of the Art Works Poster Contest: My name is Susie Ghahremani and I...

10 oct 11

spec is for suckers

im amazed at how many companies ask artists to work on spec these days. that means the hiring company asks artists to submit finished, final artwork and THEN the company will decide whether or not th...

08 oct 11

a typical anxiety dream

i just awoke from a nightmare that in the morning, a pair of my finches - tom and dot - were dead. i picked them up and they were warm and limp. i pulsed my fingers on their little chests - tiny CPR ...

05 oct 11

one thing leads to another

HEY! its our two year anniversary of being married today! 10-4. the official wedding date for CB radio enthusiasts.well, ive been working about 18 hour days lately, and we all know what happens when ...

04 oct 11

painting in progress

painting in progress, originally uploaded by boygirlparty.i have been working on a project since february that will not be published until 2013, that i spend ~15 hours a day on, and feels like it wil...

24 sep 11

hello, i think youre wrong.

everytime i post here, i now get inundated with spam comments that usually make no sense, but frequently only say "Hello, I think youre wrong"over and over, i post something and the reply is ...

23 sep 11

about telephones

when i was a teen and had a phone jack put into my room (!!) i got a corded phone whose base was a cloud, buttons were tear drop shaped, and the receiver was a rainbow. it was incredibly uncomfortabl...

15 sep 11

night

night time moose walk, originally uploaded by boygirlparty.the photo above is from a recent family trip to canada, which we took in place of our annual trip to rhode island to visit the in-laws (the ...

13 sep 11

turntable

i really ought to update here, but between painting artwork for a picture book, spending a week in the wilderness in Canada with 12 of my in-laws, shipping out all the new stuff in my shop, and wasti...

17 aug 11

using all the colors

havent been blogging as much as I have meant to these last couple weeks. ive been swamped with work and work drama and visitors and plans, and it hasnt left a ton of time for reflection. but alas, co...

22 jul 11

advice to remember about contracts & clients

"If I cant make the deal in a phone call, and have them understand it, then its not a worthwhile deal. Youre making a deal with the people, not with the contract."from here- - -Q: Do you have...

12 jul 11 1 person likes this

never look a gift horse in the tooth

the other day, i was looking up the origin of the phrase "long in the tooth" as i myself am feeling a little long in the tooth lately. i think i had a momentary obsession with the idea that t...

08 jul 11

well, ive already failed at the letter-a-day thing, and i can add it to the list of other things that feel like failures at the moment. but the good news is, tom the finch seems to have recovered com...

24 jun 11

memoirs of a freelancer.

I was talking to a friend of mine today about the crazy pressure freelancers put on themselves with the excuse that youve got to take work when it comes your way. we put it before meals, we put it be...

21 jun 11 1 person likes this

one line a day

my friend emma got me the one line a day journal for my birthday, and these last few weeks, its been fun to document something small/trivial as my only update, or conversely, summarize a big event in...

16 jun 11

I am really struggling.

15 jun 11

we interrupt this finch update with another finch update

i just got home from the vet, where we were having the incision site checked out after yesterdays incident. incidentally, the pathology from the surgery came back and what the vet thought might be pr...

07 jun 11

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