// goals for 2006.paint_egg

o About five years ago, sometime in my relationship with Brent, I decided to paint an elaborate Easter egg each year in hopes of having some kind of neat yearly diary of artwork. I would blow the yolk out of the shell and just go to town on the painting.

o Well, the first one was done as a gift for Brent, so consequently I no longer have it (I suspect he doesn’t, either). It was a dragon and the flames spelled out Happy Easter, I believe. The second was done in a tribute to my second boyfriend, Noe, and his obsession with Final Fantasy at the time. This one, though, I resolved to keep for myself because I knew he would never have any attachment to it. The day I finished painting it, I took it over to the school to show my mom. I then set it down to quickly help her with something in the room. It rolled off and broke. All subsequent attempts to repair it just made it worse, and what’s left of it is packed away in the many boxes of crap I have in the attic.

o I took a break for two years, pretty much out of laziness and lack of time around the Easter season with that whole college thing. This past year, though, I decided to resurrect the short-lived tradition and paint an egg in homage of a favorite pastime of Brian’s and mine—Gunbound. It depicts his avatar, a pirate, in his favorite bot, the Nak as well as my avatar, a ranger-with-a-top-hat, on my then-favorite bot, the J.D. (or the birthday cake machine).

o I never finished it. Now, nearly a year later, it’s still sitting—miraculously unbroken—half-done. These are the final pictures I took of it before my senior year of college came crashing in upon me and I no longer had the free time to paint. So this goal might sound rather easy and pathetically short, but trust me, it’s necessary.

o By December 31, 2006, I will have finished this damn egg, as well as another one for this year, in order to get this tradition started correctly.

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	o	About five years ago, sometime in my relationship with Brent, I decided to paint an elaborate Easter egg each year in hopes of having some kind of neat yearly diary of artwork. I would blow the yolk out of the shell and just go to town on the painting.
	o	Well, the first one was done as a gift for Brent, so consequently I no longer have it (I suspect he doesn’t, either). It was a dragon and the flames spelled out Happy Easter, I believe. The second was done in a tribute to my second boyfriend, Noe, and his obsession with Final Fantasy at the time. This one, though, I resolved to keep for myself because I knew he would never have any attachment to it. The day I finished painting it, I took it over to the school to show my mom. I then set it down to quickly help her with something in the room. It rolled off and broke. All subsequent attempts to repair it just made it worse, and what’s left of it is packed away in the many boxes of crap I have in the attic.
	o	I took a break for two years, pretty much out of laziness and lack of time around the Easter season with that whole college thing. This past year, though, I decided to resurrect the short-lived tradition and paint an egg in homage of a favorite pastime of Brian’s and mine—Gunbound. It depicts his avatar, a pirate, in his favorite bot, the Nak as well as my avatar, a ranger-with-a-top-hat, on my then-favorite bot, the J.D. (or the birthday cake machine).

	o	I never finished it. Now, nearly a year later, it’s still sitting—miraculously unbroken—half-done. These are the final pictures I took of it before my senior year of college came crashing in upon me and I no longer had the free time to paint. So this goal might sound rather easy and pathetically short, but trust me, it’s necessary.
	o	By December 31, 2006, I will have finished this damn egg, as well as another one for this year, in order to get this tradition started correctly.