Birthday Guestlist

People who have already sent me birthday cards (One day before my birthday) by Stephanie Chockleyblog

1. The HR staff at work
2. My incarcerated cousin
3. My husband's grandmother
4. My Jazzercise instructor

Recent Pictures from my Phone

1. My tiny paintings at Harrington Brown Gallery



















2. Sketching at the Peabody Hotel



















3. A baby blanket I made



















4. Riverboats


















5. Downtown Memphis

Common Sights at Paula & Raiford's Disco (aka Raiford's)

1. Hand-written signs



















2. "Sexy" hand stamps





















3. Beers served in 40-ounce containers

Guestlist: Vocabulary Lesson

by My Husband:

Here are 23 words or phrases that, based on usage over the past few weeks, are completely misunderstood by practically every D.C. politician, pundit and journalist in America, in alphabetical order:

• American People, The
• Armageddon
• bipartisan
• breaking news (Is it really? No, it's not)
• budget
• compromise
• credit rating
• crisis
• deadline (You'd think journalists would know better.)
• debt
• debt ceiling
• default (seriously stunning misuse)
• deficit
• eleventh hour
• full faith and credit (Hint: It's not about foreign debt.)
• kabuki theater (Aaaarrrrrggghhhh!)
• leadership
• limit (or ceiling for that matter)
• Market, The
• negotiation
• plan
• revenue
• Ronald Reagan
  

Seriously, can't we force these people to watch "Schoolhouse Rock!" and read "Macroeconomics for Dummies" before letting them have these jobs? A vocabulary test maybe?

Fantastic Visual List

Check out this list by Hilda Grahnat about places she'd rather be right now. Perfect visual break for a Monday morning.

Contents of Stephanie's Girls' Night Out Purse

1. ID
2. Credit card
3. Phone
4. 4 lipsticks
5. Ponytail holder
6. Tampon
7. A pen

Mentioned in Today's Sketchwork Sketch

See the sketch here on Sketchwork.

1. Purse by Moop
2. Flower pin by The Bean and Bear
3. Ad (spelled "Add" in my sketch - whatever) for the Jane Eyre movie that came out in the spring
4. Article about the Art House Co-op Sketchbook Project that I participated in for this year
5. Photos of Paris featuring orange accents by Little Brown Pen
6. Travel mug from the Memphis College of Art, given to me as a thank-you for making a presentation to students about public art
7. Coffee mug from Casey Jones Village in Jackson, TN, with my name on it, given to me by my husband in the early early 90's