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My very unexciting photos of my time at the Looney Bin on Saturday night (December 23rd) in Tulsa to see Heather Shaw perform. I don’t ever sneak photos of the performers because I just dont want to get into trouble, because I am that kind of person, AND I was right up front near the stage. So I think it would have been hard to do anyway and then get get away with it. These are just photos to prove that I was there. Heather was pretty funny. I am glad I got to see her perform and not just see her on TikTok or Instagram for the first time ever. I would definitely recommend seeing her if she is in your area. I think the most funny thing is how she called Governer Stitt, and it’s such a small part of the whole thing, but I just thought it was so clever. She kept referring him as Governer Clit as opposed to Governor Stitt throughout the show. I would have never thought of that. Also, I literally thought this show wasn’t until Sunday night (December 24th) and it’s a good thing I looked at the ticket hours beforehand. Gah. There were two other comics that opened for her and unfortunately I havent catches their names, but I do know that the female comic I saw opening is from Bartlesville. They both were great and I’ll have to find their names before I forget about it.

      I am suppose to see another stand-up in town on this coming Saturday and another in mid-January that I’m excited about seeing. I would say that the one thing I don’t like about going to the comedy club is paying a lot of money for just a food dish and a drink, but I know I don’t have to do that and just eat somewhere or at home beforehand. That just doesn’t always work out for me, so.

     The food, if it is not that obvious, is a chicken quesadilla with jalapenos inside as well as chips and salsa on the side. Not very exciting at all, but it was still good nevertheless. 

I just wanted to show off my sister Anastasia’s Christmas card she designed and drew up with the Chatlie Brown theme. The image itself is bigger and it was cut off some when it was being printed. It turned out very cute! I put her name on the image just in case someone would try and steal the image, and it claim it as theirs since I’m posting it on a public site.

     I didn’t disappear! Well, I kind of did actually. I was so busy doing that as well as working two jobs. It sucks that I have missed three months because of it but I was very much trying to focus on the second job. Now I have an actual break, but I am already struggling a little bit because I want to stay busy while I am trying to let myself rest. That’s the situation as to why I was gone.

     Anyway, to start this back up I will share about my trip to the Tulsa Botanical Gardens to see their Christmas lights on Sunday with a few of my family members. We went for the first time last year and we enjoyed our time that we decided to go again this year. The Tulsa Botanical Gardens were working on an area of their land on one side of their small for a while before this trip and it appears they had finally finished it as the first photo is from that side. I think it turned out very nice as it has a pond area with fountains and a structure that overlooks the lake. My family and I just happened to get there in time that the sun was still setting and I was able to capture it in my photos. I thought it was super pretty. We did eat s’mores around a fire pit which was nice because I was freezing that night for some reason. We did eat beforehand at a restaurant in our town called Napoli’s and it was very nice. I ordered a lobster ravioli fish as well as fried calamari. Other than the fact that I was cold, it was a decent day.

Note: This is a continuation of the post I made either in late May or early June about my birthday week and what I had decided to do for that week. As I have stated multiple times before, a lot had happened between then and now. Sorry for the big delay

  The Myriad Botanical Gardens in downtown Oklahoma City was the third and last place I visited on Wednesday. It was so humid outside by the time I got there and I was low key dying. And when I say low key, I actually mean high key dying. I was dying. 

     I have known about this place for a while, but I never had the opportunity or chance to go just because I could not. I also love admiring flowers and plants, so this was a perfect place to visit for someone such as myself.  The building also holds a gallery near the front of the building before you actually go into the gardens which unfortunately I did not get to see that because I was at this point of the day overheating. It overall a very hot day that day and  I was very much trying to find ways to cool off in there, and I stayed in there as long as I could. I did get a lot of photos from the visit, thankfully. 

     I loved the waterfall feature with the fake hot air balloons hovering over it. I think that is such a cute feature to add on to it. I also liked how there are multiple stories, I guess you can say to the gardens. The ground floor has the most stuff and the second floor also has plants but in a smaller capacity. On the third floor, you can walk onto a bridge where you can over look both the first and second floors. You can see each floor from whatever level you are on. The garden area is very open despite being encapsulated by the circular glass on top of it.  There is one plant in there called the bat plant that is just so weird and it kind of felt a little out of place, but what do I know about that. 

Note: This is a continuation of the post I made either in late May or early June about my birthday week and what I had decided to do for that week. As I have stated multiple times before, a lot had happened between then and now. Sorry for the big delay.

     The second place I went to in Oklahoma City on Wednesday was Factory Obscura near downtown. I also learned about this place online and I thought it looked like a really cool place to visit. The ticket to this place was definitely the most expensive out  of all the places I went to, but it was a little over twenty dollars. So really, not that bad at all. This place have artists come in and design each room of this place and it is pretty much like a maze of sorts where you maneuver through one room into another. Each room in this place has it own design theme, I guess you can say, and it put together with all kinds of different material. Not only that, it is suppose to be a multi-sensorial experience, so you as the visitor can touch everything that is in there if you really wanted to. It is a very cool place to take your kids, if you have any, to this since it is multi-sensorial and there are also interactive devices in some of these rooms, as well. Also to note: there was also music or some kind if sound effect that was playing in each section of the place. This place was visually very pretty with all the colored lighting everywhwere. I am someone who does get overstimulated time to time and I did not feel overstimulated by the time I was done there. I also had been to one other place before this and another place right after this visit. Of course, just because I did okay does not mean someone else won’t get overstimulated from being there. Overall, I think this is a very cool place and I encourage anyone who has not been there yet to do so!

Note: This is a continuation of the post I made either in late May or early June about my birthday week and what I had decided to do for that week. As I have stated multiple times before, a lot had happened between then and now. Sorry for the big delay.

     Wednesday May 24th was the busiest day for me as I went back to Oklahoma City by myself after coming home from there the evening before with my mother and two sisters. As I explained before, a part of my goal for my birthday week this year is to go to museums and other places that I have never been to before, and that were in my bucket list to visit; and three of these places are all in Oklahoma City. I also had already planned to be in Oklahoma City before my grandfather was admitted into the hospital. I am sure a lot of you guys have probably been to these places yourselves. I just haven’t yet and I wanted to experience it.

      Anyway, the first stop on Wednesday was the Museum of Osteology.I had actually heard of this place last year as I was looking for stuff to do in Oklahoma around my birthday last year and I was so excited to see that something like this exists because I love this kind of stuff.  I have always been weirdly fascinated with skeletons. I do not know why, I can not explain it. They have skeletons of humans and all kinds of animals. My favorite was, for sure, the anaconda skeleton and the other snake skeletons. They also have human skeletons and skulls that had been deformed by medical conditions that person had in their life time, and unfortunately that also mean small kids or even babies. The strangest ones are definitely the skulls of elephants and giraffes because they do not even look real. In fact, they look rather cartoonish in person and they look like something that should not exist. They quite obviously do exist. After I learned about the museum last year, I also discovered that the museum had a museum kitty, and when I say that I mean an actual living kitty. They have many other cat skeletons, but this one is alive. I was actually disappointed because I did not get to see it. So hopefully next time! I literally follow this cat’s Tiktok account. By the way, they tell you coming in that all of these except for a very select few are real. 

     This place has so much stuff and I guess for a while they were the only osteology museum to exist in the United States. Now there is another museum over in Florida and I think it is run by the same management for this museum I am speaking of now. 

      I have to say the gears in my artist brain was seriously kicking in because I kept thinking, “Oh, I can use this as a reference for a painting idea!” But with just about all the skeletons. And I kept thinking about etchings from around the northern  Renaissance with images of the five horsemen of the apocalypse.

   I am a little behind on this considering how busy I had been, so here is something that I did about this time last month.

      Another exhibit I went to at the Oklahoma City Museum of Art on Tuesday July 18th is the Chihuly: Then & Now exhibit on the first floor. I had known that this exhibit was running and it was important for me to see it before I left for home that day. The Auguste Rodin and The Age of Impressionism exhibit is so big, I felt like, it definitely took some time just to maneuver through it. There are things in this exhibit that I have seen before at this very museum back in 2021 and the third photo is an example of that. I have definitely seen that boat of objects over two years ago and I am still just as impress as the last time I saw it. This exhibit is pretty big as well, which is very nice. I do not remember if it was in here or in another exhibit that I heard a storm of small children come in and it made me very nervous just because they are surrounded by a bunch of important art. They were absolutely in this Chihuly exhibit for sure that day. I am so cautious around small sculptures because I do not want to damage anything. 

     I was surprised to learn that a lot of his sculptures are inspired by Native American art like that of Native American blankets and baskets, and it seems more obvious now that it I know that because of the detailed patterning in his work. I would be very interested to watch how Chihuly does that specifically, because when you actually look at the glass work individually, there is so much detail added to it. It is not painted, like how you would think it would be, because it is not used with paint. It is all glass work. I would absolutely like to know how he makes the sculptures in the first two photos that I have added to this post. These, I think I can say, are some of my favorites in this exhibit, just because they are squiggly and pretty. That is it, that is all. Squiggly and pretty. I was also very impressed with the glass vases in the collection, too, because the top of it are ornamented with cute glassworks of mostly small animals.

     I would definitely reccomend checking this exhibit out if you are in the area and if you are an art lover like I am.

I am a little behind on this considering how busy I had been, so here is something I did about this time last month.

     I went to see the Auguste Rodin exhibit at the Oklahoma City Museum of Art on Tuesday July 18th. I love how involved and detailed, I guess you can say, large exhibits such as this are, because there were so much to look at not only from Rodin himself, but other artists that were associated him. There are paintings and sculptures from other Impressionist artists such as Edgar Degas, Paul Cezanne, Monet, and Renoir in the exhibit, among other artists, as well. It makes sense thinking about it now, but I wasn’t totally aware about how closely Rodin, Degas, Monet, Cezanne, and Renoir were with each other. However, they were in the same social and artistic circle, so I should have put two and two together I guess. I have seen a couple of Monet’s works already at the Philbrook Museum earlier this year, but I was excited to see works from Degas, Renoir, and Cezanne because I had not seen any of theirs yet. I was excited to be able to see and witness the sculpture called the Shade because I remember seeing this on the covers of textbooks and in art history books over the years. I was kind of hoping to see the Thinker sculpture while I was there, but it was not in the exhibit itself. That’s quite alright, though, there were so much other art from Rodin available there. However, I did not realize what the Shade was originally sculpted for, which from what I remember, the Gates of Hell project. I love that knowing that. I actually had no clue about that or the fact there was a commission for a Gates of Hell project, really. I absolutely know of the Gates of Paradise from centuries before that.

    I love how contorted a lot of the figures were in a lot of his sculptures. I know from reading everything there at the exhibit and learning about him in art history classes that he tried as an artist to capture figures in motion in his work, but the contortions involved in the sculptures are very interesting to me because it looks like it would be fun to draw. 

     The exhibit itself took the entirety — just about– of the third floor of the museum. I did spend the time to explore the other exhibits there at the museum, so I ended up spending three hours total there. I was so sore after I was done. My back was calling it quits by the time I got back to the house.

    I saw Jessica Kirson at the Bricktown Comedy Club in Tulsa yesterday evening (08/14/23). I had been so excited to see her in person as I had been following her online for years now. I think I discovered her on Facebook, actually, because she use to post videos of herself in the car singing along to gospel music and other shenanigans, and I just thought she was pretty funny. I had been following her YouTube channel and I have seen her on podcasts in the past, so I’ve been following her for some years now. I just happened to see one night scrolling through Facebook at work that her page posted an update to her comedy tour and Tulsa was added as one of those stops. I was super excited as I am in the Tulsa area (obviousy) and I bought a ticket as soon as I could. Six months in advance. It was surreal to see her in person, and I felt the same way seeing Fortune Feimster back in late June, because you mainly see comedians or other well-known people on television or streaming platforms now. You know they are real, but seeing them in person makes it even more solid. It’s kind of a mind-warping experience. I like how interactive she is with the audience and how involved she gets in the conversations she has with the people during her performance. It makes it more personable. Thank God I was not near the front because I have social anxiety and I would just malfunction if she started talking to me. I also do not like to be perceived, I just like to observe. I just do not like attention on me, is all. 

      I know – I do not have a photo of Jessica Kirson, so I will be using a photo of the beef nachos I ordered at the comedy club that night instead. Photos were obviously not permitted during the show and I was not going to get myself in trouble over one. 

I’ve been so busy that I have apparently have not been too good about posting everything that I participated in or experienced. So much had happened with these past two or three months and it is just going to be so much busier super soon. It sucks that I have not been on top of posting everything I had intended to post. In June, the state that I live in experienced a derecho, which I have never experienced before (I dont think) and it knocked the power out for many, many people. I was out of power for nearly a week and trying to survive in 90 + degree weather with no electricity is no fun. In July, I had been running around with family events around the fourth of July, had a museum visit, and unfortunately been dealing with a death of a friend that I have known since I was sixteen. It’s just been busy.

    Anyway, this is a bit of old news from June 30th when I saw Fortune Feimster at Osage Casino in Tulsa. I went with my mother and step-dad and we had a nice dinner at one of the restaurants there before hand. I had pork carnitas tacos with some chips and salsa. It was first time visiting that casino and I thought it is a very nice place. I really do not frequent casinos at all, so to me it is a nice place. Fortune was very funny and is the first celebrity that I got to see in person, I am now realizing. The other one that I have seen, and is not so much a celebrity,  is President George Bush at an undergraduate commencement that I had attended at Oklahoma State University in the early 2000’s. I use to watch Fortune in the early 2000’s on Chelsea Handler’s show on E! as a teenager. I loved her stories involving Fortune and her mom, I find them so funny. The place was packed and her opening act was pretty funny as well. I had watched all of her stand up specials on Netflix after attending this show after talking to my mom and stepdad because they were talking about it and I had no clue they were even on there. I’m not good at keeping on things like that.

I will try and post about other stuff that I have experienced soon enough.