My half birthday

I realized at exactly 12:00am this morning, January 21st, that I missed my own half-birthday. It was January 20th, as it has always been, and I didn't even note it until the very minute it was officially over.

I don't know what this means. This has never happened before.

I think it's a sign. A sign that things (pertaining to me) that have never happened before (again in the most self-absorbed sense possible) are about to start happening.

So I'm very excited.

Also, do you realized that the year 2011, if you just loosen the joint on the 2 where the straight horizontal line is connected and then swing it up so that it rests against the top of the 2, it spells the word DOLL. And I don't know what that means either. But I think it's very interesting and i am excited to see what the year of the DOLL will bring.

Last night I watched Julie & Julia, which is about 2 different women living at 2 different time periods, who both happen to have a name very similar to my own, jumping off the ship of what others thought was wise or possible and doing things they'd always wanted to do and having enormous success.

Amy Adams character is a failed writer working a crappy job who never finishes anything because she has ADD, and she's about to turn 30. It's not like I relate to her or anything.

She decides to cook her way through Julia Child's cook book and blog about it. She has to cook every day and she likes the idea of having something constant in her life that she does every day.

I need that too! Something to accomplish everyday. A daily ritual. So I've decided that I will make a drawing every day and a self-portrait photograph. And then I will post them to the blog and write a short message, but only about the drawing and the photograph. I will start tomorrow, January 22nd, my mother's half-birthday.