NYC

I heard that my father has gotten a big head about the whole racquetball ordeal...go ahead i say, live it up while you can. I want him and my boyfriend to play because for some reason my boyfriend keeps beating me now...


So due to my alarm not going off and missing my school field trip last Saturday, I am truckin' to the big apple by my own means tomorrow. I was completely content with making this voyage on my own, but the momma and the poppa wouldn't allow it. FYI, I am 20. I woulda loved this adventure on my own, with some good tunes and my sketchbook, just wondering around the Met at my own ease. I think I am old enough to figure it out on my own, but no, apparently not. I gotta grow up eventually...but to ease by parents minds my boyfriend is accompanying me, which should also be a blast. We plan on grabbing a bus there and walking the 4 miles from the station to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. I plan on taking snacks and drinks along because it is extremely expensive to eat at the cafe in the Met, and I dont particularly like the food anyways. I was gonna just grab a hotdog from a street vender but I gave up red meat for lent, oh well ha. Ill be sure to document this adventure and post a few pics...

"the key to happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.." James M. Barrie

Also, its been a while since I've posted because I have been supppper busy with school work. I had two exams last week, which I got a 94 and a 97.5 on. WOO! Im strivin' to graduate with a 3.75!! Dunno if I can live up to my brainy aunt who graduated with almost a 4.0 I believe. ha...

Tonight Im going to a dance performance in at my school to fill a requirment for my dance in human society class. Its some SCUBA dance alliance group... Im hoping to see lots of people hoppin around in scuba gear, doubt it though ha

MARCH= BEST MONTH SO FAR THIS YEAR:

*Spring break: Beach and Bloomsburg/Scranton for Mairs Birthday
*Slightly Stoopid Concert<3
*Kt's Baby shower...
*Kamryn being born!
*A Day to Remember Concert!!!!!

uber stoked.

I cant wait for my cousin, ferk to come home.
She's been gone too long, and I want her back.
Anyone want to come to Spain with me to abduct her??



peace&love.

50 going on 20

first thing i heard when i got home..
"your gonna eat it kiddo, you better be ready.."
all weekend the endless bantering between my father and I got on my mothers nerves.
the trash talk showed no mercy.
just like our match(es).




well the results are in...
my 5o year old father beat me, age 20.
own my butt.
whipped the floor with me.
opened a can of whoop ass.
showed me whose boss.
ripped me a new one.
made me eat dirt.

he cut me no slack,
& rubbed my nose in it.

& i loved it.
I couldn't be more proud that my 50yr old father can still kick some ass.
( in racquetball and who knows what else)

I have to admit that I got some really great pointers, and the second game was head to head for about twenty min with the score only at 5-5. It was intense and I was giving him a solid run for his money, but shortly after, once he gained the serving position, he just stayed there ha. winning, again.

I plan on practicing as im sure he will. Spring Break, the rematch!

I did happen to master this sweet, special technique.
see video---> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pfpu_PuXqDI

overall, i had a lot of fun(:

whoa

Child prodigy.
Best painter in the world.
She's 15.


http://www.akiane.com/akiane_art.htm


ps. hurt my hip in racquetball tonight, hope it heals for sunday...

half&half

So yesterday...
Alarm goes off precisely at 10am, and all i want to do is lay there. Right from the start I knew it wasn't going to be a good day. Ever have those feelings? Even before ANYTHING happens?

Well I cant say I didnt try really hard to fight it...

I picked out a cute outfit, spiffed my hair all nice, soaked in a lil' sunshine on my balcony before leaving...classes went well, science and dance in human society... had a nice lunch with my boyfriend, but nothing seemed to change the mood I was in. Something had me down and I, for the life of me, couldnt figure it out...

You think..oh thats not bad, whats she complaining about????

Welllll, like I said I knew it all was gonna happen. I decide to go to South Street to visit a friend of mine and grab dinner. I go to the atm to get out money and hop on the subway, alls well. Then after meeting up with my friend and doin a lil shopping i find this purse, that I LOVE. The perfect brown leather, gold studded dream boat was right there in my grasp. I go to pay and I cannot find my debit card. WTF! I JUST HAD IT! "now you see, now you dont" it was gone. First things first, call daddy. I did and I got no help or sympothy...just a good ole " well figure it out nik, thats not good, not good!" I had to run back to the atm where i last had it, all the way back at my campus...and no luck. I cancelled my card and ordered a new one, whata process. poop.

BUT before I went back my friend "killa k" and I stopped at one of my favorite diners Johnney Rockets( its sad they actually know me there) to grab food as planned. "moe" could tell I wasnt myself because for one I didnt get food, and two I was barely talking to him. So when he gave killa k her food he said " I threw in a half and half just becaues I think your cool"- half&half is half onion rings, half fries. FOR FREE.

*Today was a nice day though. Had a sweet field trip to a cathedral in north philly which had crazy contraversial paintings inside about the history of African Americans. In a church. Its rare to see this kind of thing, I loved it.

Tomorrow Im playing raquetball, so I can beat my dad and my aunt.
GET READY!

Thursday I'm going to a grand opening of a mural in Philadelphia, Im really excited. Its done by inmates that got to join the mural arts program. I don't know a whole lot about it, but Ill fill ya in later (:

more art to come!

wassup?

Ayo, I'm Nicole..

I am currently an art major at Tyler, Temple University. Life as a college student, literally never a dull moment passes. I am juggling 18 credits this semester along with trying to maintain some personal fitness, hopefully a JOB soon, a social life, and a boyfriend. You gotta have a lil' fun, all work and no play is an awful day. Living in the city is exactly what I expected it to be. I love being able to easily access concerts, wonderful shopping venues and great food all the time.

Its nice being on my own in a sense and living for myself. I do what I want and run my own life. Granted daddy has some strings over my head, but nothing too unbearable. Just no more tattoos or face piercings till I graduate. I can wait, it gives me plenty of time to plan them all out!!

There's really no stopping it. I plan on becoming a tattoo artist.

LIFE PLAN:
1. graduate.
2. join peace corp, 2 years.
3. become an art teacher, while doing photography, graphic design or some sort of art on the side.
4. take buisness courses.
5. intern at tattoo parlor.
6. open own buisness. ( reveal ideas later)
7. become oldest woman to go into space.

Yeah, i have dreams, you'll hear all about them. But know, I'm not just a lil' girl with high hopes and dreams, I actually do it. You'll see.

/\ up there is a picture of my incomplete HYPHEN submission. Its a local "whose who" in the tyler art world. Two pieces of mine were in it last year... hopefully they will put this one in this year...The paper i used is an extremely textured piece of scrapbooking paper. I feel that pictures really dont do the piece justice. To the right is the complete version, i prefer the not finished one honestly. The way my hair and my tie-dye shirt came out=eh.

I'm my biggest critic.

Uhm, id say thats a good start? Enough rambling for now..
I have a Prismacolor competition piece to work on...

peace out<3