It makes me angry

An article was just released saying the 5 attackers of 9/11 saying that they will be not pleading guilty to the heinous acts committed September 11, 2001. The men claim they are doing this to show the 'assessment of the American foreign policy', theirs obviously being a negative assessment. These 5 detainees have been held in Cuba's Guantanamo Bay (another very controversially topic in the news right now).

Ahhhhhh! This makes me so mad, this was such a tragic event in America, and for these men to deny all ties with the act is really upsetting. I remember September 11th all to well. I was going to Basalt High School at the time. I remember walking in the front doors and hearing the chitter chatter of what was going on, obviously at the time Sarah and I had loaded the bus to go to school the events out have just been occurring so there was no much known. I remembering being incredibly worried after watching news footage in my first period class and calling my mom to find out if our family was okay. All though most everyone lives in upstate NY it still makes your heart drop knowing something is going on in that state. I remember when the news came in about the the Pentagon we were even more worried because of another family member living in Alexandra, not to far from D.C. I knew my dad was back east at the time and he was supposed to be headed back out west, I remember we were scared because we didn't know if he was in the airports that day, or if he had already flown out or was waiting to fly out. The scene of the towers crashing down will always be replayed in my head because it was all over the news. In both of the schools that I attended for high school there was never much talk about 9/11; if there was it was because a student was curious to find out more and would do the research themselves. This is still a very touchy subject for many and will be for generation to come. This year on 9/11 it was weird to see people reactions, out west we do not show as much appreciation to those who were lost during this day or those who were heroic. It is almost like people out here over look and are hiding from a very large event in history for our generation. I find it interesting that we get holidays like 'Nevada Day', 'Veterans Day', 'Pearl Harbor', etc off from school but there is no grace period for the most recent tragedy of September 11th. What is up with that?

I hope that these men are found to be guilty although they are pleading not guilty. If they do get away with getting off the hook karma will get them if they are lying.

Bizarre art

So, lately I have become an addict to the site ' The Daily Beast'. It is a place where you can read a 'cheat sheet' of fast facts that are happening in the news right now, and you can read bigger articles. It is a great site for being constantly on the go and not wanting to read all the being CNN/Yahoo/etc articles that are up. On the site they also have Galleries, the 'art beast', the 'giving beast', the 'hungry beast' where you can find amazing unknown pieces of art, yummy recipes, different suggestions on how to make a difference and all sorts of other GREAT stuff. Like I said, I have become an addict on this site, I have spend countless hours taking breaks from homework and cleaning and searching through the art archives. These are of the pieces that caught me for some reason...I think they are really cool. Very...um different but fun!

These particular pieces were from a show known as the: Frieze Art Fair 2009

'Milady' by Vasco Araujo

I really like the stories that these hat boxes have, all by simply hosting a picture in the inside. I'm really into 3-D stuff lately.

'Mastering', unknown

This was made out of clay, it reminded me of a Disney movie.

Le Violon d'Ingres

Talk about working with the human body, we never realize the similarities...aside from being pear or apple shaped, that secretly hides in our lovely curves

'La Fortune'

So weird and unreal it is neat and simple

'Nouvelle Pomme Bouch' by Claude Lalanne

I friggin love this, it reminds me of the idea of giving an apple to your teacher on the first day of class. Or Alice and wonderland, or a poison apple! Totally unreal!

This is a collection done my Iain Crawford. I really like how he uses ladies and art supplies like dry paints, wet paints and other innovative ingredients to make being a lady so fun. The movements that he captures with his photography amaze me because it shows how complex even the simplest thing like throwing paint can be. His personal website really give you a good show of what his work is like. Very modern, what he called 'beauty'....which is held by the eye of the beholder.

And lastly, nails. Everyone knows that I love to paint my nails. Most of the time you can see me with a new color on every week. Normally I leave that for my Sundays evening entertainment! ha! One of my friends recently asked: What will Elizabeth be like in 50 years?

probably a cute little old lady who cant see over the steering wheel in her car and still gets her nails done.

I guess it has turned into a little bit of a joke because I am always coordinating my nail color of the week with everything. When I used to live in Reno I was a sucker for the $30 full set of acrylic nails...now...not so much. Below are some OUTRAGEOUS nails!

For the beach next year...ha!

Bling bling!

For the game lover...

Very intricate!

Spring time?

I wonder if they are eatable?

To be a scorpio

I have these funny little habits; some months it is picks up heads up pennies for good luck and saving them all. Other months it is reading my horoscope daily, I have convinced myself that I have to read them at the END of the day because if I read it in the morning then I will be sure to base my entire day that way....some times that isn't good. I am not sure if ya'll have ever done much reading into your zodiac sign but every now and then I look mine up to find out more about why a Scorpio is a scorpio. Supposedly I am: Radical, passionate, motivated, determined, emotional, powerful, exciting, creative, intuitive and resourceful. Wow, those are all creepily dead on...I think. It lists some of the weaknesses as: jealous, suspicious, intense, sarcastic (which I don't think is a bad thing!), secretive and obsessive. All thinks I have problems with every now and again...It is so weird how your horoscope can be right on. Yikes. The best part was I was reading about the jobs that best suit a scorpio and 'anything dealing with law or espionsage' was listed, how interesting....maybe I need to re-think going back to school for Occupational therapy, and stick to the original plan? Who knows. It is so funny to read about how you act according to your zodiac sign because for me it is right on, I don't know about everyone else.

Like I said above I try to stay away from reading my horoscope at the start of the day because it makes me want to base the rest of my day off what and how I am reading this small little paragraph that will determine the next 17 hours of my life. Weird. I remember back in Aspen when my mom and I would read ours and see how many stars we had that day, ha ha ha! I wonder if anyone else feels like the rest of their day is determined for them when they read theirs? One of my old friends from Aspen is a Scorpio and we always used to joke around in high school about how we were so similar and in your face and understood each other so well. I was talking to Chris's roommate yesterday and she was saying how good I would be as a lawyer because of my argumentative skills...ha ha ha! Maybe our lives are already charted out for us, maybe I am supposed to be a lawyer, but until I decide to come to terms with it I will never full agree with what the horoscope says.

Well, long live the scorpio that I am.

Playing with your food

I thought that these little works of art were really cool! Enjoy!

A snowman named Oscar

It started snowing this afternoon in Truckee. With all the extra white stuff I decided that it would only be proper to make a snowman on Chris's back deck. Chris named him Oscar.

4:30 pm. Oscar the snowman

Oscar going Glen Plake style....He had a mohawk!

Today before the snow came I decided that Birkenstocks went while with my outfit, turns out that they are not the best traction shoes on the face of the planet. I landed on my bum-bum. Chris and I got lucky that our new bottles of wine didn't break (that I had in hand) while I fell! I ended up okay!! phew, and then I went on a shoveling escapade! It was great! We have been blessed with so much press season snow! Thank you mother nature.

Syd likes the snow. She is semi camouflage in it.

1:20 am. Oscars current state. Let it snow; let it snow; let it snow!

Looks like the first few runs that everyone at all the opening resorts will be able to enjoy a little bit of pow-pow! You lucky ducks you! Keep on prayin' for that El Nino we are supposed to get! I would love to get some legit pow/tree/ big mtn skiing in this year! Enough of that silly park stuff. Plus, I need a reason to wear all my moon boots!

Hope all is well!