The time has come again for Little Tanya to venture out into the work force and be a worker bee. After six years off the roster I have accepted a position at Shalom House as a Peer Support Worker. I will be helping my Peers in the community to achieve their goals, it is sort of a mini-social work type position. I am very thankful for the opportunity and look forward to growing with Shalom House.

In other news I did not sleep well last night and I blame my nasty neighborhood which is full of drunken idiots who carouse until all hours of the night and that is all i have to say about that.

Saw I Love You, Man and loved it, saw Forgetting Sarah Marshall and loved it, saw Walk Hard, the Dewey Cox Story and hated it.

I have a bunch of mosquito bites and wish a hearty death on all the pesky little buggers.

I went to an art opening on Friday night, my collages were hung up on a wall in an art gallery, it was sort of surreal. They looked great I think and the gallery was beautiful, it is a new space for the VSA Maine group. Right now I am keeping my fingers crossed that a few things sell so that I can continue to feed my obsession for shiny beads.

I am going to be bringing them some more eggs and a few other jewelry pieces this week at some point.

Woke up early this morning and finished a necklace that I had been working on, five strands, a choker for someone with a smaller neck than mine. Pearls and seed beads and some czech glass. Now I am just waiting for Preston to show up and we are going to go grocery shopping for our trip to Bar Harbor tomorrow. I am excited to have a little road trip, I think it will go really well, I want to get away for a bit.

Watched Wanted and Desired, the documentary on Roman Polanski this week, really enjoyed this one. Also saw and truly enjoyed A Lawyer Walks into a Bar...

Hellow friends, family and fellow travellers!

I am sitting here in my little room above Cumberland Avenue thinking of all the scary crime in the city of Portland, there has been an awful lot of strange stuff going on up here lately, nothing that truly concerns me personally, but I do get sort of sick of seeing all the same people all the time in my neighborhood, the local thugs, which is why having the little Vibester, my new used car, is so darn beneficial to me. I can get out of the hood whenever I need to, or whenever I want to. Such a blessing.

I have a few job interviews coming up, that is a great thing, please keep your internetty fingers crossed for me.

Have not been watching too many movies lately, we did get into the show Numb3rs there for a little while but my netflix buddy has been busy working for the past few days so I am just listening to music, today and for the past few whiles it has been the best of Billie Holiday, from the Decca recordings or some such stuff. I need a new DVD player, my player on the computer is busted and only plays CDs now.

I have been spending a lot of money lately and this concerns me because I do not have a job with which to replenish my funds. I am on a fixed budget you see and this spending is sort of a major concern. I have to buckle down and be better now, no more new purchases, no more purchases at the Goodwill even though I love shopping there. And no more "magic goodie maker" purchases, or credit card purchases. I wish I would sell some stuff at the VSA Gallery, people of Brunswick, please run over and check out the new VSA Gallery and pick up an egg or two or three! That would take care of my small credit card debt and make me ever so very happy.

The weather around here is looking favorable, for the week at least. Which is a great thing.

One of my neighbors moved out because he had bedbugs, I hope that doesn't mean that we all have to be sprayed for bedbugs again. AGAIN!

Went to see Miyazaki's PONYO today, it was a bit of a let down. But it was a terribly rainy day so that was at least something to do. Now I am hanging out with a friend and looking forward to a good week ahead. I have my first job interview in six years this coming week. Wish me some cosmic good luck, m'kay?

Recently on netflix instant watch option I viewed Diary of a Tired Black Man, this was an interesting way to present some views on dating and relationships between black men and women. Not the greatest movie but worth watching once. Surfwise, the story of the surfing Paskowitz family, nine children, eight boys and one girl living in a small camper for most of their lives, at least up until their twenties, it was a good film, lots of interesting ideas about how life should be lived. I would watch this one again. Ron White: They Call Me Tater Salad is something that I enjoyed sharing with my friend who had never seen Ron do his thing before, and The Boy in the Striped Pajamas was tragic, a great little movie about big life lessons with an unavoidably poignant ending.

These past few days have been really hot and unbearable, I have a bunch of laundry to do but won't be doing it until this weather breaks up.

I am re-reading George R.R. Martin's Game of Thrones.

I forgot to post on here that I also saw Bee Movie which I thought was charming and entertaining. Recently watched In the Electric Mist with Tommy Lee Jones and John Goodman, I really liked this one. Also saw Crips and Bloods, Made in America, a documentary, and Tunnel Rats which was a war movie that was a bit violent in parts for me and had sort of a funky ending.

I am watching my neighbors three cats for a week while she is on vacation, I am allergic to cats so it is a bit of a challenge but I am taking some allergy medication and it helps a little bit.