wow..... our house looks like an entirely new place! let me explain.

a couple months ago i rented a house near campus with my dear steve zissou. the place has slowly been coming together, and i mean slowly; like, it-took-a-month-and-a-half-to-get-a-couch slowly. walls were bare, still echoes, a little mausoleum-esque you know? well this bunbury celebrated her birthday the other day and with her birthday money bought frames for all her posters and paintings and from a friend received a clay lizard and red clay celestial sun to mount on the wall. not to mention the two gorgeous bouquets from friends and the *DRUM ROLL* tiled coffee table i'm making. i got a bunch of handpainted tiles at a mexican tile workshop downtown - 89 cents each, hells yeah - and this morning, after two nights of.... celebrating, i got out of bed at an unheard-of (for me anyway) six in the morning and decided to put my birthday checks to a creative use for once. adhered all my tiles to the wooden base and it's drying now, ready to be grouted and sealed tomorrow!

happy birthday to me.