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October 31, 2018

The November Art Event-online art auctions at alleyvision

The November Art Sale is live!

Hello there art fans, I hope you are having a great Halloween today. We are opening the art auction today, bidding is open and will end 11/3 @ midnight PST. There will be 12 artworks this week up for bidding. We will be doing the live show on Saturday afternoon to talk about the works that are available and check in on the auction, and entertain you a little too, with with some super fun surprises! 

Find the art that makes your heart beat faster!

Don’t miss out on this event! 

We are opening the art vault and bringing out the best works of the year and a few that are a little older, too. We are going to have some brand new works to add, as we go. Here is the available artwork for bidding, check them out. Will your favorite artwork be on this weeks list? 

We will be live on Saturdays to chat and answer questions and tell the tales of the works.

YouTube.com/alleyvision

We hope you will enjoy this weeks offerings. I hope that we can bless each other in this endeavor. You get new art the smartest way possible and we will get to continue to make more art in the future! Total Win-Win. 

So…what are you waiting for? Go bid! I’m adding more works today so stay tuned. Big love to everyone, I really appreciate your presence in my life. <3 Prayers of enough (of whatever is needed) for the globe and every beating heart have been said and now I am off to work. See you Saturday!

<3 HA! 

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October 11, 2018

Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.

Quote in title: Isaac Bashevis Singer

Hello there. I hope this finds you well. All my love to those in the storms way. I am sending prayers for all life. Big Love.

Loving you all <3

Okay, well. This week? Yeah, I’m done. It’s been too long, too hard and too many dramas, for this human. I might be a little spun out on the whole adulting gig. UGH. I would go into detail…but whhhhhy? It won’t make anything any better, trust me, I’ve talked myself blue in the face.

If I only looked this good while being batty, things would be different! 🙂

It is always, (seems these days) a battle for living a life that is, enough. I don’t want it all, I’m good like that. I just want to reach the point of enough, so I can breathe a little easier. Enough love & attention, enough money & time, enough smarts & wisdom, you get the idea. Who needs perfection? Not me. A little more harmony and balance would work wonders for my internal view of myself. That darn inner-self is such a hot-mess of needy-ness. I swear, just when I think I have her patched up and running right, BAM! The Universe has a morbid sense of humor far as I can tell. Either that, or I am a special kind of weirdo. 🙂

for real GUUURL just, breathe!

I found my big girl panties and worked the knot out. This has been such a topsy-turvy year. I can validate myself, I am enough, I can keep going because I have that much faith. On with it then…pity party is over.

all righty then, shall we?

Tons of great art happening! That’s a good thing, a very, very good thing. WA? and I are working on a new business idea. We are thinking about creating a subscription box fluid painting kit. A new kit every month and content too. We are still fleshing out the curation for the 12 months, to make sure the kits are exciting, easy and so fun that you’ll be excited to do the next months project. It would all kick off with the big PRO kit and then be monthly 5 new colors with canvas and pre-mixed paints. The content would support the kits with skill shares and experimenting with surprises, maybe even monthly live feed tutorials, too! All that for a low monthly fee and at the end of the year, you would have 67 squeeze bottles and every color known to man…lol, almost. 🙂 And a years worth of skill practice. Everyone is an artist with our kits!

What do you think? Any takers? I’d love some feedback on the idea, I’d love to move to pre-production by the end of the month, so the launch can happen before Christmas! Can you imagine giving a art gift that happened every month for an entire year? I think I’d love it, what about you?

Am I right? I’m the cat in this image, lol.

In other arty news…I’m oil painting this week and here are some pictures of those works, still WIP’s, because, oils. I’m having fun being at the easel right now so that’s how I’m gonna roll for now. I hope to have a new content video on the fluid art by Sunday, this week So, check back for that, or even better, just click over to the channel and subscribe! Pretty please and thank you. <3 

The gorge-20″ x 20″ oils over fluid acrylics-HA! 2018

Skyscrapers-oils- 24″ x 20″ x2″- HA! 2018 

Well, that’s got to wrap it up for me today. I am so grateful you stopped by today, thank you for that. I hope your day is, enough. I wish you enough in all ways. Big Love, HA! 

October 10, 2018

Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art.

Quote in the title: Don Miguel Ruiz

Meditation series – originals for this series available in the gallery.

A jeweler could meditate by envisioning that everything is as pure and radiant as shimmering gold; a winemaker might picture herself as distilling bliss from the grapes of experience; a shoemaker could imagine that he was sewing the leather of passion with the thread of freedom to produce shoes of enlightenment. ~Miranda Shaw


While I work:
To begin, I will start with a powerful prayer or thought written on the canvas or clay. Then, I imagine my work can heal the mind, body and soul, that it is a visual medicine. I imagine the purest love I can summon and infuse that information into the paint/materials at hand. Paint remembers, like water. Clay responds to prayer. Oils hold resonate energy and it releases it slowly over time. Patrons have spoken of the energetic qualities of the works over the years. I do it because I love to love!! Also, it makes me feel incredibly fulfilled as a being and gives me energy to continue the work. (on myself too).  

Thank you for stopping by, it means the world to me! Big Love, HA! 


October 4, 2018

We know what we are, but know not what we may be.

Quote in title: Shakespeare

Hey there, what a difference a day can make, you know?

Nothing in the outside world changed, it’s still a dumpster fire out there. I allowed all my feelings, grace and space for 24 hours. This morning, I still have a racing brain and a hard time meditating. Though my heart and soul are resting, with more ease. The tightness in my chest and pain in my neck and shoulders, diminished and healing. Allowing and radical acceptance of what is, works for me, every time. Yay for me, figuring out how to handle my own self care! It only took 48 years of practice. LOL 

“How do I define Radical Acceptance? Simply put, Radical Acceptance is a state of mind in which one looks at Issue X and realizes:

  • It sucks beyond all comprehension;
  • It’s not fair that it shouldn’t even be an issue;
  • There is absolutely nothing one can do about it; and
  • Shaking one’s fist at the Universe is going to accomplish nothing more than stressing oneself out (and making the Universe laugh really, really hard).”

Quote from:https://www.legalreader.com/radical-acceptance-and-radical-change/

instead of sorry I say thank you. Thank you for allowing me space and time to tend to my garden. Thank you. <3 

Aren’t we just amazing creatures? I think we are. I think we are, for sure.

The thing is, I can’t know what I don’t know. I can bone up on every subject and become the professional student of life. OR…I could allow myself to be present in every moment and find out who I am in those moments, kind of like a surprise party for myself. 🙂  When I realize I’m not going to please everyone AND I am not pretending in anyway about being me…then my soul can rest and my brain can bleed out all the art that sustains the very life inside of me. 

Be serious! Be Silly! Be Awake! Be you boo!

Today I am excited to accomplish my hit list of things I need to do and have to do. Today, I feel like I can re-frame negatives into mindful positives. Today I found a little basket of hope in the back corner. Its a full basket too! Yay for me again! I’ve learned to save a little bit extra in my mental pantry…for when times get tough. I am really kicking ass at this being alive thing today, YAY!

Raw & Radiant, that’s me!

I had better get to the actual doing. I hope to release a couple of new content videos for the PRO kit (which is now available, hint, hint), over the next couple of days. I also have a stack of paperwork to do for the business and the house. I am still packing kits and making art, daily when possible. The courses I was taking for basic filmmaker skills and photography, have come to an end and I am applying what was learned. The videos are improving with every shoot and edit. We are growing! It’s awesome! I am so grateful for, well, everything. Even the hardness in life can remind the soul palette,  how sweet life can be, too. 

The sun always rises!

I love you, I hope you have the day you need. Thanks so much for stopping by my little world. I am grateful for you. <3 HA!

This prompt helped me prioritize my day with myself included in the list! Yay self care!

Do something nice for you today, you deserve the love! <3 

October 2, 2018

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing. ~Socrates

Good day to you, thank you for stopping in. I hope you are well. I know a lot of us humans are feeling overwhelmed, underwhelmed and stressed…and don’t forget a fair amount of rage and indignation, with a dash of disgust. I talk to people everyday in my day job (intuitive coaching) and I’ve spent a lot of my work time this last week, dealing with triggered humans. 

Some of us trauma survivors tend to take it inside and internalize the feelings as “truths about ourselves”. BS stinking thinking. Never the less, I needed this little chart this morning, myself and I thought of you. I thought how you might need a reminder that it is gonna be ok. I thought maybe you might need a mental hug today, too. <3 I love you and am grateful you are here today, thanks so much! <3 

The studio has been a little cray-cray. OMG, there are lists everywhere and they are slowly getting checked off. Everything seems topsy-turvy with a lot of unexpected problems popping up. When I say problems I mean, things that money solves. Yeah, I know, that just means they are challenges, is all. I eat challenge for breakfast, so ya know, I’ll probably live through this soul expansion, as well. Finding grace in the grit of it all. Endurance is a skill set.

but…I brought cookies!

Truth is, it’s all hard. Business building, art making, family tending, money making, you get my point. If I look at the issues with my loving eyes, not those judgy bitches, I can start to see threads of creative connective tissue. I can see the lessons and the acceptance. I can see where I am making it harder on myself, again. I can see the old violence, I have endured and how it made me stronger than I ever thought I could be. I can see myself…past and future and she is making art. She is explaining and reframing the world inside of her head and outside too. Manifestation is simply an active agreement between two parties, in this case, it’s me and the Universe. 

I am working, went back to the brush and oils. I had a few pours that when dry, were not cutting it so I decided to go back in with oils…take a look.

Before
After! I like it much better. 24″ x 20″ x 2″ 

Here’s the other one.

Before 20″ x 20″ 
After! Well, this one I’m still working on…so it’s a WIP. 

It’s been fun to start with an already formed idea (the original pour) and then take it forward into the oils and bring it to life. I miss painting in oils. I am so enthralled with controlled pouring adventures, that I have not been at the easel as much as the pouring table. It’s been slower paced and contemplative. Those things equal sanctuary for this ole bag of bones. 

yup…nuff said. let’s get on with it then. <3 

On top of the art, I’ve been learning the art of commercial making, product photography, writing ad copy and more on lighting and camera angles. I’ve been so busy with everything that I also decided to work on the web site. Yeah, I know…that’s what classified this as cray-cray. 

it’s true, I paint in my dreams, wake up and then paint my dream. 

This artist has got to boogie on the day. I hope you have the day you need. Thanks again for being here, you mean so much to me! <3 HA!

P.S. The Pro kits are available!

September 28, 2018

The Controlled Pour Report- The Moon Made Me Do It

Hello everyone! Happy Friday, I hope you have had a good week so far. I mean if you don’t go online, don’t read anything or watch any news…it’s all easily, just peachy-keen. I do know what’s happening out there and I am trying to control my disgust and outrage…basically so I don’t hurt my own system. How do I get to escape, you ask? Art Making. I get to the easel, table, stand, what have you and I make art. Yeah, so there’s that.

In other news, I am now officially in the last year of my youth. 49 has arrived and I plan to enjoy the heck out of it, come hell or high water. 

I did get a little art in this week and I painted this really nice painting, on the full moon. I mean I painted the full moon while the full moon was happening. Did you see it? It was so amazing!!! It looked like this…

The moon made me do it-HA! 2018-20″ x 20″ x 2″-available for purchase

🙂 At least that’s how I saw it. With my artist eyes. I filmed it of course…so here’s the reel. I hope you enjoy watching it come to life. 🙂

The Moon Made Me Do It-Fluid Art painting with HA!-Alleyvision
Watch this video on YouTube.
The moon movie 

The original artwork should make it to the sales floor soon…I need to get myself an assistant that loves inputting info to the computer, takes great product and art photos and files stuff…heck, I just need to borrow someone’s cloning machine. Anyone? 🙂

This is what my inner self looks like today…she’s a hard worker and she walks the walk-talks the talk.  🙂 lol HA! 2017 mixed media 18″ x 24″ sold

Playlist: AlleyVision-Fluid/Pour paintings
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The playlist of all the fluid art painting experiences so far! Please consider liking and subscribing to our You Tube channel www.YouTube.com/alleyvision
we are so excited that we are growing so fast and the media content is being loved by people. Thank you!!!!!! 

I hope you have a fantastic weekend! I got to burn rubber on the day. I love you and thanks so much for being here today. HA! 

Madonna in the Lotus garden -HA! 2016-oils- sold
September 25, 2018

The Controlled Pour Report- WA is in the studio & I got it on video!

Hey everyone! WA got to spend some time this weekend doing his thing. It was awesome and I have the video to prove it. Check it out! 

Painting Big Sky & mountains – fluid acrylic artist WA-AlleyVision
Watch this video on YouTube.
SO Pretty!<3

Have a wonderful day everyone, I have to scoot to the day job. Love you! <3 HA! 

P.S. Below you’ll see an ad for paint, it’s the same paint we use in our studio! I found this package deal through amazon and if you have been wanting to find a great (Fabulous!!!) paint that you can easily get…this is the brand! Try it out in your studio and tell us what you think! 

Creative Inspirations Acrylic Paint Set Non-Toxic School Value Artist Acrylic Painting Set & Carrying Case, Smooth, Rich, and Creamy Paint Large Bottles – [Set of 12-16 oz Bottles]
September 24, 2018

Free time was the most precious time, when you should be doing what you loved, or at least slowing down enough to remember what made your life worthwhile and happy.

Quote in title: Amy Tan

Free time. Heard of it? Yeah me too. I think it’s a fantasy, make believe place at this point. No, I’m not crying, you are. 

The barn burned down and now I can see the moon SOLD HA! 2008 Oils

I talk/counsel people everyday for a living, to make money and pay bills, feed the family, ya know, the basics. I’m really good at my job and I take pleasure in being good at it. I am also aware, that I do not know, um, like everything. I study all the time, to stay on top of my game. I use a lot of my free time, boning up on all the topics I use in my efforts to help heal peoples minds and hearts. Yeah, a lot of my “spare” time is eaten up in being at the top of my game, for others. 

I’ll sleep when I’m dead.

I create art for my next breath. I create art to understand what’s really going on, in the world, with my own self, with my family, my own damn mind…you get the picture. I make art so I can continue to get up everyday and keep doing this thing we call living. Making art…is an act of rebellious co-creation with the universe and myself. I create art to share what I have learned. I create art to ask the questions that are not safe for public consumption. I confront. I clear the paths. I set them on fire, sometimes, to light my way ahead, into the unknown.

I create art-I am a maker.

“Art helps people express experiences that are too difficult to put into words, such as a diagnosis of cancer. Some people with cancer explore the meanings of past, present, and future during art therapy, thereby integrating cancer into their life story and giving it meaning.” 

https://jamesclear.com/make-more-art​

There have been tons of studies:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2804629/

Art filled occupational voids, distracted thoughts of illness; improvements in flow and spontaneity, expression of grief, positive identity, social networks. Improved well-being by decreasing negative emotions and increasing positive ones……

Sounds pretty good to me!

I love fluid art for this very reason. It works so well to help me relax, let go of the over thinking and be ME for a minute. I have very little control over the outcome and I love the freedom that provides. It makes my BRAIN feel GOOD. Which thankfully, makes me feel good about the REAL ME. Scars, flaws, illness, mental health, all of it. I feel triumphant that I survived this long to know these beautiful things about being alive.

I’ll be 49 in 3 days. 

I’ve come a long way, baby.

This is one of the reasons we wanted to push forward and bring out a product that would help heal people. The Pro Pour Paint Kit is doing just that. The paint is incredibly satisfying to paint with and the act of profusely allowing paint to flow, well, it’s a perfect metaphor for life don’t ya think?  

I mean look at this clip…tell me that isn’t fun or relaxing. Go ahead, I’ll wait…

I’m telling you, it’s amazing. I highly recommend pouring paint for all humans. It’s a great way to get in touch with yourself again. Have some ME time. Step away from the world and all it’s me, me, me! To help work through moments of anxiety, stress, PTSD and chronic pain. In the end, you have a work of art only you could ever make. Only YOU.

As I investigate, what it is that I really want to do and be when I grow up…..no wait!…I mean, shoot I only have one year left of my supposed youth! 🙂

I KNOW THIS! I want to share this with you. I want us to burn up the internet with our work and love and energy! I want to see YOU shine! I love lighting people up. I love when humans go from I CAN’T to I AM! I love when they look up after that moment and I can see the human, present and glorious, in their eyes! I know they are right there with me, co-creating a new world, one where we ALL belong and are LOVED. That’s what makes me excited to continue. YOU. You becoming is so beautiful to me and so very sacred. Thank you for allowing your beauty out into the world. Thank you for being here. Thank you for living through your experiences and being so amazing! I love you. YOU inspire me and I am grateful.

For real, thank you for being here today. I love you!

Flower Girls 2 oils on canvas board (will need a frame for hanging, sold unframed) 16″ x 20″ oils HA! 2016

<3 HA!

September 12, 2018

Live by the harmless untruths that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy.

Quote in title~ Kurt Vonnegut

I was watching Elon Musk this morning with Bill. In his recent interview with Joe Rogan.  We were laughing and entertained and wowed by his life. We thought what we would get up to, if we lived in his world? We have books of simple ideas and inventions that would help the world and make it more happy, safe and more whole. If we had the ability to transform the world what would we do first?

As we thought about it….we realized…funny thing is, we are already doing it.

Stage One of our Master Plan: to bring the joy of painting/creating/expressing to every human!
Next stop, stage two. Stay tuned, the next kit is launching in just a couple of weeks! 9/22/18

We don’t have his access to brains and money and power but you know what? We realized we are already doing the things, anyway. If we had all the money, our paint kits would be in every art therapy tool kit. It would be exciting our seniors into new neural experiences. It would be in every school, available to every child! We would see humans unlocking creative, receptive and healing brain neurons!!!  We would see the excitement that comes from making things with your own hands, something from inside, now tangible, reflecting human courage, innovation thinking and JOY!

Simple, sweet, ecstatic, Joy. Happy moments. Also the not so happy moments of learning and struggling and then conquering! (that’s the ecstatic part, lol) Best thing is, it builds confidence. A basic life enhancing skill. Just think what the world would be like if who we were was more important than the WHAT we were.

Imagine if everyone knew they could explore, through a simple medium, their  own unknown passions, or their own  inner healer and use these tools for co-creation of a better life and/or world! Would that kind of infection, indoctrination, assimilation, help create healthier, happier human beings? What if self expression was the gift of all? What if it was included in your education of living? 

That’s what we are doing. We will move to the larger scale love notes to the world as we grow. We will grow. We will spread this love for humanity that is inside our hearts and souls. We have a feeling we are living through a most amazing phase of evolution, maybe even the time when we realize we are just a huge organism, we are one, we are humanity.

We can love, laugh and let go of the fears of failing. We can do what we can, with what we have got, and love every hard moment that comes.

We have big goals. We have a ticking clock on the time left to make it happen…as we all do. Mine is a little louder and maybe a little closer to midnight than some. I am aware, unafraid and willing to create a win-win with the world at large.

HA! 2007 A.I.M. meme collection 

Thank you Elon Musk for being such an authentic being and allowing me to remember my own inner creator, reaffirming we are on the right path, to living our dreams. That being our true, goofy, driven and intelligent selves can work and that’s so freaking life affirming! That was an awesome boost to my system and I appreciate the energy shared, thanks so much, Elon. I’m re-inspired to work harder, be smarter and make it all happen. There’s work to do. I’m on it.

I hope you have the day you need. Thank you for being here today. 

I love ya every single day,

HA! <3 

September 10, 2018

Art is the last form of magic that exists- things on my mind.

When the day ends and you are standing in a pile of mess and chaos, what do you do? When the split egg and the spilled milk cook themselves into a curdled mess, inside your own head. What then?

ART.

MAKE SOME ART. NOW!

Mount Hood – fluid acrylics on wood-HAWA 2018- original available

Says, the booming voice in my head. It’s sometimes the only way to make my mind stop. Just stop for a moment. Take a breath. Feel your own body, be in it. NO! Wait, that’s not so cool, my body is a painful place to dwell within. I spend a lot of my time hiding the way I really feel with a mask of…I don’t even know what to call it. I baffle them with bullshit, till I can lay down for the hours allowed regular abled bodied people to run the mazes, in this crazy life. I am not abled bodied. I just play one on TV. 

 

She breaths in pain and exhales love.
Becoming- HA! 2017- fluid acrylics-SOLD

Make Art Heather. That’s nicer. That’s almost not a directive to escape, more a method to explain, all the things I can’t talk about. My heart is hurt and my soul a bit worn. The wild air out there in the world, is sapping my reserves. The demands to stay in the formation that will acquire success are ever present. The unexplainable need to get everything I can done while I still can…exhausting and thrilling, really. I mean how many of us get to play beat the clock, in real time? I’m in the game, I’m hitting the ground running. I’m shaking and grooving. Swish tail, like the mermaid, I swim deep. 

The strong and fierce mermaid dives deep into the ocean to find her own treasures and keep her own council
The Mermaid oils HA! 2017-available in the shop gallery

I Continue.

That’s what we do right? All humans on this planet are under stress, duress. All animals are under stress, dying.

All plant life is under seige. Our bodies, our minds, our ability to have our own thoughts, feelings and problems. What can I do? How can I help my kids? How can I stay alive with working legs long enough to get it all done? How can I get all the art OUT before it’s, over? Can I survive the rest of life with this unending pain? Will I still be me at the end of it all? What if…

Alien encounter #2 – oils- 2017-HA!- original available 

What if…I am just here to paint alien girls flying on magic carpets, drinking martinis? Or paintings of a woman owning her own story? Owning the hand dealt at birth, allowing the story to be written as we go, to the end? What if she was full of peace and love even though she sometimes felt the sting of the scars on her back? The ones that mark her as-survivor.

Shes been marked scars covered by an artful tattoo letting the cancer know, not this woman. Not this life. Fuck you cancer go in peace.
Double Dog Dare You to go in Peace-HA! 2016-oils-original available
“She’s been marked, scars covered by an artful tattoo letting the cancer know, not this woman. Not this life. Fuck you cancer,  I continue and I go in peace.”

I’m working so hard and almost every moment of it all I am so grateful. I don’t know any of the answers to all this…life stuff…all this living. I do know a few things from the experience so far…

  1. Underwear suck. Ain’t nobody got time for that. 
  2. Life will be beautiful. Life will be awful. Do it all. 
  3. Say thank you when you catch a glimpse of your true self. 
  4. As long as you keep waking up everyday, make of it what you can, with what you’ve got, from where you are at.
  5. Don’t die as an asshole.  Mend the fences. Say you are sorry and mean it. Forgive yourself and then extend that to others. Be willing to say no. It will suck. You will want to fix the other person. Don’t. Do you boo and do it as well as you can everyday. 
  6. Be kind. Not nice. Nice is the conditioned lie we tell to ourselves and others. Be kind. Kindness is a truthful expression, nice is an attempt to control situations. Be kind. Be direct but say the hard things with as much love as you can muster in the moment. If you are nice, it will eat you alive. 
  7. Take the risks. Paint the painting. Tell the story. Love the person. Love yourself. Say it. Do it. Remember none of us, make it out of here alive. 
  8. Never stop learning. Never stop your education. Never stop questioning. Never stop the becoming. 
  9. If your finger hurts when you bend it, don’t bend it. Same rule for your mind. You are not your mind. 
  10. Learn to live with the discomforts. The uncomfortable. The unwanted situations. The unintended consequences of your learning processes. The unknown. The unknowable. Learn to carry them with grace. Very little will ever be “let go of” in this life.
  11. Love yourself as much as you can everyday. Even when its hard. Even when you don’t want to meet the eyes in the mirror. Love that person. Your relationship with self will determine your relationships with others. Face the person in the mirror and hold feet to fire and love as much as possible.
  12. Keep your own council.  
She feels like maybe she was born on the wrong planet, maybe shes from somewhere else and that's why she dosen't feel like all the other girls.
Alien Girl -HA! 2017-oils on wood cradle-original available

I continue. I am doing what I came here to do.

And for now, today, that will have to be enough. Maybe I’m getting it all wrong. Maybe I’ve made mistakes that are still churning in my guts. Maybe I feel vulnerable…a lot. Maybe…..that’s my superpower.

What’s yours? What do you know? How are you doing? Have you been dancing enough? 

Dream Dancer-Mini Art movie-oil painting-Storytelling
Watch this video on YouTube.

I love you big, big. Thanks for being here today and if you read this diatribe…all the way to the end, I can’t thank you enough, for seeing me today.

HA! 

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