so much goin on!!!

Things are *happenin* around here people! You hear me!? Busy, busy!! And I LOVE IT!!!

I have come to the conclusion that I absolutely THRIVE on it. A mover & shaker is what I am!! The only problem is that I sadly am waaay behind on a lot of the luxurious things that can take up the day… catching up on my favorite blogs, getting through any of the 10 magazines on my coffee table, watching any of the TIVO shows before they get deleted over cuz it’s so dang full! Let alone working out (which I *so* need to do after my SXSW beer diet + a week of sitting behind my desk catching up on work!!), let alone go see a movie – that sounds so luxurious! :)

BUT! I did go see a show lastnight! Oh Yes, I made myself stop working and go… You just can’t much stop me from going to shows. Sure I hardly see movies, watch tv, go out to dinner with friends, hit art openings – but a live show!? I’m THERE! :)

It was The Liars w/ Young People and Get Hustle (who we really only saw the very last of, and it was weird. The orangatang-like clown-dancing-man up front wasn’t doin her any favors either)

So Young People were GREAT!!!! Wow were they awesome!!!!

Their songs are just so cleverly arranged – it’s so unique, and so simple. And their songs delightfully short. I didn’t know the lead girl played the drums too. Not crazy rocker drums like I like, but more beat, tink, beat beat type playing. Good stuff!!! And then they’d switch it all around and she’d do some guitar and stand up front, etc. We love it when they’re all so multi-talented.

Dammit I need to become a musician. A multi-talented musician!!!!

Ok – so then the Liars came on. Ugh. They didn’t play anything I knew (or as Jake said, anything I could recognize that I knew, anyway). And they were just kind of annoying honestly.

I mean, I was trying *hard* not to judge. “Willo, don’t let the fact that you’re somewhat super grossed out by this dirty messy haired biggrossjaggerlips lead singer disuade you from really listening to the music” “Willo, don’t let the fact that their songs are just sounding noisy for the sake of noise and that they haven’t really played a song that sounds anywhere near put together or anything like what you like about the one CD you do have of theirs” (actually it wasn’t that bad – some of the songs were good, it was really the whole gross out thing that wasn’t doing it for me so much.)

Actually I thought the drummer was entertaining. He looked like he should be on rollerblades rolling gayly (literally) down some Miami boardwalk in the 70’s. Seriously. Can you picture that? I kinda liked it. He even made a gay/rollerblading joke. no way, huh? ya, seriously. Anyway – Jem was sorta annoyed by him – but shit – take that lead singer off the stage (even though I don’t mind his voice) *screech* anyway – whatever – that was that.

Also – distraction A#1 was it was somebody special’s first night back after a whole 8 days. What a mush I am!! mush smush! :) good stuff.

Ok so ya, that was lastnight – a pretty fun show. Young People was worth it – and got to see one year older and sophisticatingly fantastic jemmerific the wonderkitty. She had stalagmite earrings on. Feel the power!

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I’m rambling because I need sleep. I got to work by about 9:30 today, left at 5 for BAM, got home by 9 and worked/caught up on emails till now. And have just decided to stop working for the night & get some sleep instead of starting in on something and staying up till 2am again. But this just means I have to get up early tomorrow to finish it before I leave for an appt!! wooee!! So much goin on.

nighty night from the happy willogirl

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YO YO!

Man am I ever in a GREAT mood today!!! I woke up in a great mood and am just *on FIRE*! woohoo!!

I’ve cleaned up my house a little, taken care of some bidness AND picked up my travelin favoritist fella from the airport! awww yaa… smooches have never been so god damn good!

So here’s some random fun photos for you – maybe they’ll put you in a good mood too!


new fuzzy slippers


sadly, kazoobie has since mangled this cute little chic.


this is my new monkey I got in Austin!!


i mean, really – could he be any cuter?!

oh and be sure to watch him “dance if he wants to“… (psst, you’ll need quicktime!!)


keepin me company

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up late again

Oy, I need to get an external keyboard to keep workin on my laptop like this – my wrists are hurting – oh nO!! Not too bad, but I noticed it today. Which is the first sign!!

I got a TON done today. Right up until right this second. It feels great to be productive, but when you work from 9am to 1am, it’s hard to get any house cleaning done – it’s a mess!

Ok, real interesting all that is, huh? jeesh.

Hows this for interesting: Tonite I had split pea soup. Who eats that? It was good – but the site of it sure is funny looking.

My old boss is moving to Japan with his wife & baby. I think the whole green pea / baby poop is what sparked that connection there. :) Anyway, it’s so intense he’s just pickin up & moving! I mean, she’s japanese and he speaks it real well – but wowie, selling all your stuff and moving away. I’m so not there right now. HOWEVER, I definitely want to move overseas at some point in my life. Wonder if that’ll happen?

I can’t wait to go to a show tomorrow night: The Liars, Young People & Get Hustle. Going to a show is actually stress relieving for me – and I could use somma that!

Night.

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macaggravation & video update

Ok – if you awoke to leisurely watch some of my craZy WilloToons videos – you’re in luck cuz lastnight I did a batch re-export & FTP’d them as I layed my head down to sleep!! So maybe you were like “what weird sound?” Which is good, cuz actually most of em are sounding pretty good. There were some little errors here & there, but maybe nothing you all noticed… ? :)

Aaaanyway – lemme speak to my absolute AGGRAVATION over my dumb macapainintheassious…..

I’ve not told you all, but this last week I’ve had the pixely crash thing come back FULL FORCE. Sometimes several times a day. So I *finally* called Apple Care!!!

Yesterday they had me reset the power management and I just new it wasn’t going to fix whatever major problem this puppy has. And wouldn’t ya know it, waking up from sleep this morning was the worst I’ve ever seen it (darnit! I forgot to take a photo) but like the asked me to, I called them right away – and all they had me do is try to set up a new user account & use this one for awhile to see if the same problem happens.

The super duper annoying part about that is that all my files, mailboxes, preferences, bookmarks, DW sites, everything – are all on that other user account. So even though I have a GAZILLION things to do for clients this morning, I had to frickin spend my first hour resetting up my computer – BAH!!!

Anyway – just had to get that out. I sure as heck hope this new user thing fixes these issues.

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videos

I think aliens are trying to contact me through the videos I’m taking at the beach. Weird, huh? What? You don’t believe me? Well it’s true!! I’ve taken like 4 vids by the beach lately.. and they sound fine on my computer, but once I export them the warbly sounds of the TRUTH start seeping in!! See if you can listen closely and overhear their plans for world domination.

What I’m getting to here, is that I’ve finally posted a bunch of videos. But seriously some of them have some crappy sound thing happening. Coincedentally most of the beach ones. WEIRD. Bummer is I don’t feel like going back & re-exporting them all. It’s a tedious task one by one – I’ll be delighted to have a batch program for this!!

Anyway – I also posted SXSW Videos, too. (which unfortunately have this warbly sound thing happening on a few of them too – LAME!)

Sorry to even tease you with these videos and then make you listen to horrible sound :( sucks!!

Anyway, I take videos randomly all the time with this little portable pentax puppy, so now atleast now this page is started, I’ll try to upload them more often.

Enjoy.

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friday’s fun was my weekend

Wowie, what a weekend it’s been. Actually Friday night is all I needed and the rest of the weekend I’ve been mastering the art of chilling out.

Friday I went down & hung out w/ my awesome brother, Max in Santa Cruz (here’s photos!) It was about frickin time, cuz the last time I was down there was last July (!) and the last time we’d hung out up here for any reasonable time was like last August – so it had been too long!!

My bro & I definitely share the same blood in the partyin department. We have the BEST time raging together. Shortly after I got down there on Friday, we checked out his shop (he’s gotten a lot more home furnishings since I saw it last – and they look great) and we walked around downtown and next thing we knew we were catching up over some seriously tasty margaritas & chips and salsa. NICE! I insist on drinking top shelf these days, as I’ve just had too many mediocre margaritas in life – and life is too short for that!! Drink the good stuff!! And so we did. Two grande’s later we thought we’d better change scenery as the sun hadn’t even gone down yet and we were already headed into happybuzzedland. So we took off & took Scout (his adorable and sweet as can be doggie) to this beach where they allow dogs… !

It was so fun and just incredible to be on the Santa Cruz beaches, those waves are perfect down there!! There were so many surfers, it made me wanna jump in!! Rick (whose a big surfer already) & I will have to go down there in the next couple months. I need to learn how to surf California style (I’ve only gone one time, the day I learned in Maui, where the water is dreamy warm). Seeing those waves totally got me psyched on it. (see video (CRAP! some bad sound thing happened on export) of me having this discovery)

The rest of the night is somewhat of a blur ;) which goes without saying, we had a helluva good time. His roomate/biz partner Kyle is awesome too and hung out with us for awhile. First we hung out at some guy’s house – and then went to The Red Room for awhile – and then headed over to some chic’s party – which we have a feeling really wasn’t a party till we got there. :) hahaa It was Michelle’s place, who is a cutie – and her friend Claire – Claire and I hit it off bigtime and giggled the night away. She is leaving on a trip to Bali for 2 months and I think I promised her a zillion times I’d go & visit her there. Sounds good to me – Rick, you in? :)

So Friday night was an absolute blast, but I didn’t get as much done on Saturday as I’d planned – go figure. I didn’t get back to SF again till later in the afternoon, and after cleaning up a little and doing some things around here, I zonked out and slept right through my friend Jem’s bday party! Darnit!!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JEM!!!!

Today’s been a sleepy day, too. Even though I got a good 11 hours of sleep, I swear I coulda slept 4 more – I was wiped out!!

This week’s going to be crazy busy with work, and we even have a few great shows to hit – woohoo!! I’m way psyched for Rick to get back. My concert/party/snuggle buddy will have returned full force!! woohoo! :) And I can’t wait to hear about all his stories from hitting Belfast, Ireland! From the email I got today it sounds like they had an amazing time.

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late post with love

OK, I finally uploaded the photos from The Lovemakers show… all the way from last Tuesday!!

Seksu Roba was one of the openers for them, and they were awesome. The lead singer, Lun*na Menoh, came out with this full suit on, big sunglasses and sparkly numchucks. I called her the Designer Ninja. And the musician, Sukho Lee played some incredible music using a theramin. Have you ever seen this? Wait till you see it live someday.. it’s awesome. I have some videos of him playing here (link coming soon), if you wanna check it out… but try to check it out live sometime. It’s cooL!!

And as promised, the hotty photos of Lisa Light are in there, too. Aww yaa!!! I hope they get their record deal woes taken care of soon so we all can have a new Lovemakers CD in our hands and in our players!! They’ll be at the Cat Club on Friday, Apr 2nd… which would be so fun to hit, but I think I’ve got a date w/ Jem and some other band at BoTH that night.

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silly me

Jeez! Several weeks later – and now armed with another computer/platform to check for myself – I finally went & fixed those poster frames on my avocado movies.

It was weird, actually – I had to go in & try to reexport them a couple times – and then it basically took pasting them in a whole new player, doing “set poster frame” on them (even though they’re only 1 frame) and then exporting them from there. Anyway – guess I learned something here.. and they work now. :)

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I haven’t been posting very much cuz I’m swamped!! Busy is soo good though. It’s helping me keep my mind off of how much I miss Rick. :)

That’s a whole nuther conversation in itself.. ! The independant woman in me is fighting the feeling of missing him (aching missing, probably worse cuz he’s 1/2 way around the world and I have no choice… :) but really it’s not so bad missing someone. Ya, I’m just a little smitten!!

No surprise to you guys though, huh? Here I was all trying to keep it on the DL! HA!

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Lots to update you on – this week I hit a Lovemakers show w/ Kat & Jem – and Jason Zada was there and we got some hot photos. Yes, the ones with Jason were nice & all, but it’s the sexy one’s with Lisa Light that I’m talkin about. Wait till you see! I’ll post them at some point – but I have a pile of work that I have to tackle first. The whole posting/photo album, etc thing takes time!

Oh & then I went to Blonde Redhead lastnight with Becca – and they were great!! I’m listening to it now – I had never listened to them before. I like it!!

OK, making some dinner (i’m so hungry i’m spazzing out!!) & then it’s back to work. Can you believe it’s already Thursday?

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