up! in real life

My co-worker, Shawn, just came in to ask if I knew about the boy in the flying-saucer-shaped balloon in Colorado. Is anyone else watching this? It's insane: watch here live. I hope everything turns out okay. Dang.

piano stairs

I wish that the stairs in our office were made of piano keys! What a great idea!

{via a cup of jo!}

a foggy day in oly, usa

Today is so nice!! Joel got up at 4:50 am today, and woke me up along with him. I thought about getting up to exercise, or to do anything, but it was too early, and too cold, and too dark. I stayed in bed and tossed and turned for a couple of hours, and got REALLY POOR SLEEP. Bummer. :(

I did get up eventually though, and came in early to meet Kimya. We worked on the Bundles artwork (which is Jeffrey and Jack Lewis, Kimya Dawson, Karl Blau, and Anders Griffen - with a little bit from the Oly Free Choir!), and it's almost done!! We're waiting for the disc face artwork from Jeffrey Lewis, and then we'll get this puppy into production! I'll save the artwork preview until it's complete, but I can show you one of the photos that they've decided on for the artwork:

They are so adorable!

I've also been putting together a sticker to go on the Curious Mystery's LP's, and just got confirmation on a cute new LAKE t-shirt! I am so, so excited to see how they turn out! I think that Ashley and Eli did a really great job.


Speaking of LAKE (and Karl Blau), their new records came out last Tuesday! It's exciting to me for multiple reasons: 1) They're SO good!! 2) I got to put them together. 3) I took a lot of pictures for them! On the LAKE record, Ashley and I went to Lake Cushman and photographed the headboard in the lake, and her holding it up, and all of the details of the headboard. For Karl's, I photographed him, the portrait on the front was painted from the photo, and then I photographed the painting again to put it into the artwork! It all came around full circle. So fun. I love my job so much, even on the hard days!

You can order these at krecs.com!

Anyway, I'm going to clean up our place a little bit and get ready for dinner. Maybe I'll get things together to make some of these Slow Cooker recipes. How perfect for this time of year, right? And easy, too! Have a good night!

sick day

So, I keep going back and forth about whether or not I actually want to put any personal info out there on the internet, but I've gotten a few really nice emails from people telling me that they're behind me and are going through the same thing, so I guess it means I should keep it up. Thanks for the really nice words, I feel like I've got a lot of friends out there I didn't really know that I had, and I really appreciate all of the support. I'm with you too. :)


The past four days have been sick days. Sucks big time. We finished 7 seasons of Boy Meets World (not all this weekend), and all of the free Law and Order SVU's on Netflix. I just wiped through Season 1 of Law And Order: Criminal Intent, and am catching up on the new Desperate Housewives, Dexter and Californication. I try not to admit it normally, but I love, love tv. It's so nice to have on in the background, but even more nice when you're sick. I think I want to name our dogs Topangela and Mr. Feeny. Actually, I just googled Mr. Feeny and found a picture of a pug with the same name. I think it's PERFECT (since we want a pug more than anything!). Genius.

I'll try to update more when I feel better. Hope that you're all well.

{Image Credit: here, here and here}

junktown

Joel and I made an unplanned trip to Colorado this weekend (two days in the car, ugh) so that we could surprise our parents and grandparents. The drive was lame, but it's good to be home.

My grandpa was just diagnosed with cancer and doesn't have near enough time to spend with us left, so we'll be spending the week here hanging out with him and the rest of the family. He's starting chemo on Friday. Please pray for him, my grandma, and the rest of my family and send good vibes our way. Go spend some good times with your loved ones.

good vibrations

Today has been surprisingly fun! Ashley and Eli stopped in to work on a new LAKE t-shirt design. I won't show you any peeks yet (because I'm not sure which one they'll pick!), but I will show you a look at the new LAKE album, Let's Build A Roof! I was able to do photography for it, and while Ashley designed it, I put it together and got it into production. Exciting!

There were also surprise visits from Nick and Julia of No Kids, Phil Elverum, Karl Blau, Tara Jane O'Neil, Vanessa Lang and Brian! SO FUN. I love it when I get to see people that I really adore, even if it's just for a short amount of time. No Kids is touring with Mount Eerie, Karl Blau and TJO. They're playing in Oly next week. CAN'T WAIT!

The rest of my day has been spent waiting on my slow, slow computer to load large, large files. I've been piecing together the cover for Angelo Spencer's new record (made by Sarah Utter -- whose art I LOVE. I will own one of her own paintings someday.) via scanning and Photoshop, and a really sweet new Curious Mystery tour poster. It looks so awesome.

Tonight we have plans to go see our friends Alex and Jessi before they move to Chicago (SUPER SAD), and maybe stop by our friend Brian's house for his birthday show (14 bands - wtf).

I have to say though, last night was SO AWESOME! The Beach Boys were really sweet. There were only two of the original members, but the rest of the dudes in the band sounded like the original members, and they played literally all of the hits, plus a bunch of other songs I didn't even realize I wanted to hear, and two covers. The best part of the night was hearing "God Only Knows", "Good Vibrations" and "Kokomo" all in a row. SO RAD. We weren't supposed to take pictures, but I had to sneak one (very bad!) picture in, just as photographic evidence that we got to see them. I'm glad we payed the big bucks (to us) and went to see them. We probably won't ever get to again.

I'll end this with a pretty picture of the pretty view of the Puget Sound driving away from our last house here in Olympia. Have a good weekend!

Love,
Sarah

on cloudy days

I can't help it. I'm just tired today, and having a hard time focusing. Since everyone else in the office has gone to lunch, I'm taking my lunch break and enjoying the following music and videos:

{Bryan White: my first celebrity crush! From People Magazine in 1998!}

{found on Adam's blog}

WHY?'s new manager, Blake Maxwell from anticon. on Vimeo.

Also, my friend Halston has a cute and funny website opening right now. How funny and timely. I just tried it out for myself. So funny! She's so talented! Love it.

In other news, Joel and I opened a savings account yesterday! We put away $50 of my paycheck (and will put in another $50 from every one coming up, fingers crossed). We paid $500 off of the credit card, and put away a couple hundred for bills and other expenses that might come up. I'm back on track food-wise (with a little blip on Monday, though I was still in my daily points goal, I could have made better choices), and today I took the bus and walked again. Yay!

Joel gave me a new haircut two days ago (the first time he's cut someone else's hair) -- it's really short! I took a picture to send to my mom -- I'm thinking about dying it dark brown or reddish/brown, but can't decide if it would look good. I am also considering super blonde (like always) with one or two pink or aqua streaks, like in high school. We'll see.

Tomorrow, Joel and I are celebrating part 1 (of 3) of his birthday a month early. We're seeing THE BEACH BOYS! It's only 20 minutes away, too, on the way to our favorite close little town, Shelton. Totally rules.

{Credit -- I totally want to take pictures like this!}

I can't post this video for some reason, but watch it on youtube if you get a chance. Amazing!

I'm off to the library! Hope you have a great day!
xo, sarah