holidays

this year, amber and i went on a walk on the night of winter solstice. it was unseasonably warm that night but very windy, and there were parties going on around the village. we walked by one house that had a giant peace sign formed from xmas lights and little paper bags with tea lights lining the porch steps and walkway. as we cut down the narrow brick alleyway, we saw a fenced in yard out back complete with party noises that included: laughing, guitar playing, drumming, chatting, howling, etc. this put us in the mindset even further so after completing our walk, we returned home with some wine and had our own little shindig with music and discussions about the light beginning to defeat the darkness. anyways it was really nice.

christmas, seeming not so exciting as it approached, actually turned out to be really nice this year. there were no bad energies and no drama from either of our families. we (and amber's mom too) did kind of get 'busted' by amber's younger sister, but nothing conclusive enough to accuse- i'm sure she'll figure us out some day, but she'll have to get over it. other than that, everyone was really fun to hang out with. even my sister and her husband were pretty jolly.

amber and i, upon buying gifts for everyone else could not afford to get each other anything, so we decided to move our gift exchanging back a week to new years eve, which i think we both agree is better in some ways anyways. i think we both agree that new years has a lot of magical and symbolic properties about it that are very important to us. not sure what we are doing as of yet for new years eve. cowboy hillbilly hippie folk band is playing at vics or ekoostik hookah is playing at the newport. not sure if i have to work new years day or not.

i sort of wanted to be free from this corporate bullshit job by the end of this year, i guess it's too bad i don't have something better lined up to start in january because i could just leave my current job and have new years off completely. i'm gonna have to change jobs anyways: serving tables in jan, feb, and march at this place is pretty worthless. i am getting some portfolios together- going to apply to shoot for the lantern, and try to find some design work around town.

school is starting on the 3rd and even though i know we wish we had a longer break, we are both pretty excited about this quarter. last quarter was like a fine-art-foundation-boot camp or something, but this one will be all art-tech and we will be doing some pretty cool stuff :)

we're also both really excited about this new year coming up. we feel a lot of good things coming, and we are really happy with our personal and spiritual progress for this year. we both feel wiser and we've done so much growing. we are both more ourselves now than ever. also: all the work that we have been putting in to our art and music (and all the struggle we've faced as a result of it) is finally starting to show results, so with a sigh of relief, we know that we've been doing the right thing for us all along and it will all work out for us.

all for now :)

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the barricaded
speak fortress, sanctuary
while forces battle
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Free!

ha! on break from school!
oh! the things we will do!