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ahhh saturday. spent part of the morning reading. . . stayed up late the night before watching movies. . . let's see, what did we get through yesterday. . . yojimbo (another akira kurosawa), mystery men, and dirty ho. . . which may sound like a sick pron flick, and possibly there is a porn flick with this name-i wouldn't know- but this is a $2 gem that jared and i found at hastings. . . there was this bin of old kung fu movies, and well, i'd be lying if i said that the name wasn't the major reason i bought it. . . but as it turned out, it's a great little kung fu movie--and dan enjoyed it immensely. i got dan to sit through that and mystery men while i played with my new computer toy. . . with big thanks to my bro who brought it with him. . . a cd burner! yahoo!
----for yojimbo i had to shut down the computer in order to keep my attention on the movie. . . which was very good.

but i spent several hours last night converting some songs to mp3's. . . and copying my picture files. . . oh what digital fun! eventually, the plan is to copy all my music to mp3 discs and contain my entire music collection on about 20 discs. . . so if i plan to go anywhere for an extended period of time, and am left with little space to carry things. . . i can have all my music in a very compact mode.

i also spent some time contemplating my hair. i've made several changes to my hair in the past few years. . . though i doubt many people have noticed. most recently (the last 2 years) i've stopped blowing my hair dry- which means i'm not trying to fight the curls every morning by attempting to straighten my hair. . . although i keep a hair dryer around -just in case-. . . .i never imagined as a kid that i'd be fighting back curls. as kids, my brother had a head full of cork screw curls that were dark blond. his hair is now a light brown. . . long. . . but still filled with cork screw curls. as a kid i had long dark brown. . . and very straight hair. i remember my babysitter attempting to curl my hair. as she removed the curling rod covers my hair spit out the rods and uncoiled to their straight positions.

around age 13 my mom decided to allow me to get perms. . . i kept them up for about 3 or 4 years. . . ps, a good tip for someone looking for that spiral perm. . . . don't get the actual 'spiral' perm. . . it turns into a frizzy french poodle look. . . if you want that pretty spiral look, it's all about how your hair dries, i found that putting my head over the heating vent in my room. . . therefore removing gravity from the process, and letting my hair dry from the heat in the vent gave me that really nice head full of curls. but about 4 years into it, i decided i wanted straight hair again. . . i thought it was taking an unusually long time to get rid of the perm. . . all i can attribute it to now is puberty. . .. my hair is now curly.

a few months ago i thought about growing my bangs out. tired of trying to style them, and having them not follow any of my directions. they did start to grow out. . . but not too well, so they are still shorter than the rest of my hair. . . .and i've gotten used to them being a separate set of curls. . .. so i think i was rethinking the growing out of my bangs again. . . as well as trying to longer hair. . . but i don't know if i'll have the patience.

but i digress. . . .

last night, dan and i also walked around the plaza. the area is all lit up and decorated for the season . . i'll post some pictures shortly.

today, after lounging for a while. . . dan and i went out to shidoni, the tesuque foundry. we had impecable timing. . . . as we arrived and walked around the sculpture garden, we discovered that they would be pouring bronze in a few minutes. . .. so we got to watch them pour bronze, at a temperature of 2047 degrees into different molds. it was pretty amazing.
we also watched the glassblowing. as we were sitting there, a millionaire type was receiving what looked like a special tour of the foundry. one guy stood aside explaining every step the glass blowing artist made. . . . at one point i saw him turn in amazement and utter, "glass is made from sand?"

*eyeblink* *eyeblink* *eyeblink*

ahh to be stupid and rich.


so now, dan and i are eating dinner and checking in on email and such at the santa fe baking company. ahhh the joys of free wireless internet! he had a club sandwhich, and i had one of my favorites. . the mandarin chicken salad. . . while typing away laptop back to laptop back. . . someone from a more primitive time, say. . . . the 70's, may have mistook us for playing battleship .

you sunk my battleship!

alas, that was not heard muttered between us. . something more along the line of , "wow, the signal is really great here, check out this flash file!"

all for now, i think. till next time :)

"and we'll be saying a big hello to all intelligent life forms everywhere . . .and to everyone else out there, the secret is to bang the rocks together, guys."if it weren't for the electric glow form the screens.