i'm already a little tired of icyCold hipstamatic photos and you might be too. sorry. not much else around here lately! although one day i was even inclined to make ... gasp ... selfPortraits! it was a little scary. i can't tell if my nose is becoming even more crooked or if it only looks that way because i am fatter? my mother says i should get that radium pellet removed from my face. no way i am having my face cut up. it's bad enough. besides i'm used to my crooked nose now. (i really do hope that radium is not still active though - after 50-some years, surely it is not???)* anyway. i have a face picture on face book now. i was so excited.

the pic above is from Kansas City where i visited the poet (finally!) this weekend. we did our usual fun stuff and even though it was very cold and snowy, we took a walk in the park and the fancyHouse neighborhood. the fresh air felt so good. i haven't had much since returning from Texas and being snowed in/frozen. for some reason, i have had anxieties about winter this year, but i think i am better now, after both driving and walking out in it.

staying inside has given me time to finish a bunch of stuff for MY ETSY SHOP though. again, i have become intimidated and thwarted with bigger pieces, so regressed back to the little things. there are lots of them. and they can be had for mere pennies. well, almost. more arriving daily. at least my hands have been busy.

also, so that i don't bombard my online journal and my tumblr with iPod photos, which i have become deeply in love with, i started a new tumblr just for that purpose : the iPodographer. mostly they are mine, but i am open to finding other images, too. so far, i think only traci and i are having gobs of iPod fun.

i guess i'd better get out of bed now. there is actually sun out there today!

* i was born with a strawberry mark on the side of my nose. the military doc's told a pair of frightened, very young parents that the best way to Get Rid Of It was to implant a radium pellet and nuke it away. i guess it worked. i don't have a strawberry mark. but i have a dented and crooked nose instead. oh well!