Tacos & Tattoos & Art

Tomorrow is Jane's birthday and we met up today to hang out and just have a good day.

Janae got a final addition to her tattoo, then we went for tacos and then up to the Met.

OH AND THIS IS FANTASTIC.... we were on the bus and it was very crowded.  People needed to move back. Janae yelled at the whole bus to MOVE and, astoundingly, it actually worked. That's mom power for you.  I said "Good job, Mom!" because we are both moms.  And a lady on the bus thought I was actually Janae's daughter!! We'll probably laugh about that forever.

This is the Indian Skies exhibit at The Met.

This is a fly-infested painting!

This was a strange photography exhibit.

And a wonderful exhibit on illustrations from the late 1800s-turn of the century.

We found cool stuff in the Asian wing.

Aren't these fabulous?

The Fly Cult

This post is disgusting; I am well aware of that.

I get flies in my kitchen.

It's a thing with where I am in the building- second floor, facing the back where the garbage is.  There is a fly light outside but they still come in. They are in the laundry room too, which is right below me.

Over the years I have tried many things to get rid of the flies.

The most fun was the electric flyswatter.

The most effective is the old-school fly swatter and fly traps.

I had a fly trap over my kitchen entrance for months with no visitors.  And then this week, suddenly, the flies started congregating in a circle on this particular trap.

It's REALLY weird...!!

I kept it up longer than I normally would because they all just kept getting stuck in a circle.  I wanted to see how long that would last until it just got too gross.

And when I went to finally dispose of this trap, yet another one appeared!!

Yeah I know it's gross.
Rest assured it's gone.

When the best pillow.....

 ... is your BFF's butt!

Printer Insanity

My Medieval Bees painting sold.
I put it in a floater frame and went to print out the paperwork... which is always a war with my awful stupid terrible printer.

My printer is a stupid HP inkjet that is about 12 years old and throws a fit every time I want to print.
And yet, I never replaced it because I don't use it all that often.  But when I need it, I need it!!

Well, I finally just lost my shit with my stupid printer and got a new one.

Apparently, Ecotanks are far superior to Inkjets (what isn't?) and the ink will actually... last for more than 2 prints.

I am very hopeful this printer won't break my sanity.