birthday week ramble | Illustrations of Tina and Mr. Bee

birthday week ramble | January 25, 2008

I’ll admit it, I’m a little scared of driving in the rain, and a little scared of driving at night, and a lot scared of driving in the rain at night. But I braved it last Friday night and went out to the movies with David and his coworkers. It would be the start of a very long and wonderful weekend. Saturday morning I woke up early, went in for a trim, and the stylist put some cute 50’s style waves in my hair. Off to brunch with David, we sat outside under heaters (hey, 60 degrees is cold for Texas), ate slowly, talked. We then went to this small art gallery to see a piece by one of my favorite illustrator-turned-fine-artist, James Jean. The piece wasn’t that impressive to me, but it felt wonderful being around real artwork. I had missed it. In high school and college we were surrounded by all kinds of work every single day, we’d go to galleries often and soak it all in. Get inspired. I can’t believe we’d let it slip by and not noticed what we had been missing.

We walked around the giant Whole Foods downtown before going home, where I passed up ALL of the free tasty samples being shoved in my face. I felt so energized that I worked on my website redesign for a few hours without needing to rest. I’m really excited about the shiny new tinavaziri.com, keep your eyes peeled, I’ll let you know when it goes up. We went out to dinner with my dad + family, then. We ate tasty bbq, had drinks, and birthday cake, and presents. Mmm nice and sleepy after drinks, and food, and cake, but we still went out to a bar that night with David’s coworkers. Came home smelling like smoke, ew, and ended Saturday.

Sunday we got up early and super cleaned house because my mom and grandparents were coming over for lunch. We went to this restaurant that had a super long wait, damn, and the bitchiest waitress that ever walked the earth, double damn. Bitcho tried to ruin our lunch but my mom set her straight, yay for moms. After my mom and grandparents took off, David and I walked around the bookstore. My favorite part of the store is the young adult/independent readers section, where I like to walk around and examine the book covers and day dream about a time when I will see some of my illustrations on these same shelves. David bought me a moleskin sketchbook and another young adult box set series, since I love collecting the ones with great covers and great stories. It was nice not being home much for the whole weekend, we didn’t want it to end.

Monday came and I started to feel sick, maybe allergies I thought, but no I had chills and pain and fever by the time I got home. I caught a cold virus, great, sick on my actual birthday too, which is never fun. The doctor couldn’t give me anything since it was a virus of course, just gotta wait it out. I’m starting to feel a bit better now, good enough to write a huge post about nothing for you guys, and to get back to reading and commenting on your blogs. Have a great weekend!

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31 Responses to “birthday week ramble”

ana Says:

Aw, I hope you feel better soon.
I was beginning to miss you. Happy belated birthday! I hope the flu didn’t suck the life out of you, get plenty of rest.

and Ooohhh am excited about the website, can’t wait to see it…

January 25th, 2008 at 5:19 pm

Paula Says:

It sounds like far too energetic a weekend for my liking, my typical one involves me just lying around a lot. I never have the energy to do much else! Glad you are starting to recover a little.

January 25th, 2008 at 5:22 pm

Tina Says:

Thanks, ana. At least I got a cute illustration out of it for the post!

January 25th, 2008 at 5:23 pm

Tina Says:

Paula, usually my weekends only consist of laying around and doing housework, but I the more things I did outside of the house, that weekend, the more energized I felt. It was great.

January 25th, 2008 at 5:25 pm

MacB Says:

What! No mention of the most awesome office decorations for your birthday? The mouse in the barf bag was fantastic! And who could forget the buttons in the ceiling? Plus that beautiful maroon shirt that Andrea gave you! ;)

January 25th, 2008 at 6:46 pm

Tina Says:

I wish I had my camera with me to capture that evidence. It would have been too disappointing to describe without that visual aid.

January 25th, 2008 at 7:05 pm

Andrea S Says:

Cute illustration! I’m so glad you’re starting to feel better. Have a great weekend!

January 25th, 2008 at 8:41 pm

Tina Says:

Thanks, Andrea, I hope you have a super relaxing weekend!

January 25th, 2008 at 8:45 pm

distracted spunk Says:

Hooray! I’m so happy you’re back, and I hope you feel better. I was wondering why I hadn’t heard from you or seen any posts!

January 25th, 2008 at 10:27 pm

Miss A Says:

oooh i love that pic!

i hope you are having a nice weekend also xx

January 26th, 2008 at 12:59 am

Tina Says:

ds, I’m happy too! My brain wouldn’t work enough to write anything, it was tragic.

January 26th, 2008 at 1:25 pm

Tina Says:

Miss A, glad you like it! I’m going to do much more of those.

January 26th, 2008 at 1:29 pm

Andrea Says:

Tina, I have to ask… I am IN LOVE with every drawing you do! I found this mural and I really want someone to paint it. Obviously your in Austin and I in Dallas, but what do murals cost? How can I get a painting from you. I am so inspired by your art!!

January 27th, 2008 at 10:44 am

Tina Says:

Andrea, I emailed you. So glad my work inspires you!

January 27th, 2008 at 11:58 am

Chelsea Talks Smack Says:

Whole Foods definitely always inspires me.

January 28th, 2008 at 3:35 am

Adam Osgood Says:

Happy Birthday, Tina! I can’t wait to see your new website!

January 28th, 2008 at 8:58 am

Clink Says:

Gah! I hope you feel better and Happy Belated Birthday.