good lord. i can't believe it's been almost two months since i've written. the xmas season ROCKED with chloe violet. she was amped, i was amped. we both almost passed out each night from eachother's amped-ness. and then, in her crazy ultimate coolness, january 2nd, when i said we had to take all of the xmas decorations down, instead of the protest i expected, she was totally into helping and putting everything in its box to go to sleep for the year. so that was a blast, too. we had an amazing new year's eve party. still not quite sure what motivated us to do it. but since all the bands we last minute asked if they could come play in our (cold) barn weren't able to make it (and a LOT took the time out to say that they couldn't...which was equally amazing) we rented this crazy gear to project music dvds...the pixies, calexico, devo, blasters, nick cave, ...gillian welch, i'm forgeting some. but it was a lot of fun. and then we've all been working really hard on art stuff (i have a valentines show coming up at the heart of biddeford) and house stuff. chloe started preschool which she loves. and THEN we all got really really really sick. so that's just what we're shaking off now. no more, no less. oh, i finally got my tattoo that i've been waiting for. phuc at tsunami did an amazing job...it's still not done. i kind of had to dig in my heals to make sure both arms got done in this past sitting, but i couldn't leave without it. i mean, it took almost two months to get this appointment so, you know. the words are done but not the graphics. we're hitting the road this summer so maybe i can get in with paul at infinity...