Winter

It took me nearly an hour to wrestle my car free from ice yesterday! Wrapped so tightly in its heinous clutches, I couldn’t even open the trunk to get the scraper out. I ended up having to use a painting that was in queue to be brought out of the backseat. My 10th grade art teacher wasn’t kidding when he said acrylic is indestructible!

I’ve been doing a lot more painting since I moved into my new apartment. I’ve also been crafting things, like a paper lantern with doll parts, to create a chandelier of fractured femininity. I’ve also started working on my third feature length script…which promises to be just as bizarre and surreal as the others.

It’s strange to me, what with the seasons changing, how my mood has actually been cheery, rather than sullen, as it tends to get in the winter months. I’m usually somewhat of a reckless moth- blowing all of my cash to drive like hell to where it’s warm for random and unplanned vacations in whatever deserts seem good at the time. I remember one time, I woke up, was too cold, and drove as far west as I possibly could before the sun set. I ended up in Kansas. My average speed was 130.

But this December, I’m actually kind of enjoying the cold and using it as a nice backdrop to cuddling and keeping super warm. There’s actually a strange comfort in existing despite once’s surroundings. Or maybe I’ve just lived in a heatless apartment for enough years now that I’m more tolerant to cold than I used to be haha. My new apartment doesn’t have heat yet, either. But it does have hot water, so there’s a step up, right?

One of my new room mates has a Rottweiler! This is above and beyond anything I could ask for in a room mate. I love Rottweilers! I love that they love to wrestle and bite and really get into playing with you. Some dogs play really gentle and don’t quite give it their all. This is shameful, you know, because hey, we should really try out best all the time, even if we’re dogs. But yeah, this Rottweiler is crazy and always tearing through things and up to play. It makes me miss my dogs not so horribly.

Sooo…while I’m being so productive and in a good mood, you should really come play with me, too!