love-hate

I'm really developing a love-hate relationship with Garlic. It tastes so good! I really like it! BUT it just doesn't settle well on my stomache at all. I tend to feel over full pretty fast when I eat it, but I don't think it's actually being full, it's just being uncomfortable and slighly scratchy/burning in my stomache. It makes me have to pee about every 10 minutes for hours afterwards and it also keeps me wide awake all night if I have it in the late afternoon or evening. Tonight I ate garlic around 8. I am still feeling the uncomfortable after-effects at 3:30am. I think I'm doomed. I may have to give up Garlic. ug. It's no fun.

Also I just have to vent that although I love my computer it's REEEEEAALLLLY been getting on my nerves lately because the fan is Always running on high, except right after I start it up....and not even always then. It really doesn't like doing anything where movement is happening on the screen, such as flipping through thumbnails in a Finder window, or any website that has moving things. The fan has gradually gotten louder over the last couple of years, so that now when it's on high it's really loud and also has this particular tone that seems to be playing in the background. It's making me go crazy. Sometimes I can get it to quiet down with ice-packs and quitting every program except apple-works, but other times even when its doing absolutely nothing the fan will just keep going on high for hours while I'm out of the room. It will also get stuck running on high and simply not go to sleep when it's supposed to, although the screen goes black - at which point it is impossible to wake up the screen, and there is nothing for it but to hold down the power button and force it to restart. I am so sick of hearing this stupid fan noise I'm at my wits end. I need a solution and I'm really irritated with the people I've asked who don't take this problem seriously and just tell me 'well it's good that it's running to keep it cool.' NO It's Not. I don't believe it is keeping it cool. It certainly doesn't feel like it gets any cooler no matter how long or fast that thing is running. There is something faulty with it and I NEED to get it fixed!

ok. ending rant now. :)

My Favorite Artists

Here are Artists who's illustrations bring to sight the sort of things I immagine but have not the skill to paint myself.
Please use the links to visit their websites! It will be well worth it - here I've just got thumbnail pictures I found online to give you a flavor of each Artist's style.
KY Craft

Stephanie Pui-mun Law

Scott Gustafson

Edmund Blair Leighton

John William Waterhouse

Arthur Rackham

Olga Dugina & Andrej Dugin

Niroot Puttapipat

Laurel Long

Brian & Wendy Froud

John Howe

Alan Lee

Tony Di Terlizzi

Unknown Pixie Hollow Artist (Judith Holmes Clarke and others)

Kerem Beyit? (not sure if that's the right name)

SnowSkadi (I don't know the real name for this artist either)

the Brothers Hildebrandt

Trina Schart Hyman

Mercer Mayer

The Artists of Sleeping BeautyEyvind Earle

- with Frank Armitage & Marc Davis


James Christensen

Michael Hague

Pamela Silin-Palmer

Delphine Gache

Meredith Dillman

Sarah B. Seiter

Jessica Douglas

Jennifer Miller

POUL (I don't know this artist's real name)

Shona McDonald

Cicely Mary Barker

Linda Ravenscroft

Amy Brown

Jan Brett

Frederick Leighton

Edward Burne-Jones

Sophie Anderson

H.J. Ford

Peter Pracownik

Adrienne Ségur

Douglas Carrel

Daniel Merriam

Stephen Hickman

Jessica Galbreth