Oh, hi!

Hello friends, and welcome to my BRAND NEW WEBSITE! I am so excited to relaunch indigozine.com! I've had this domain for years, but I decided to make it my permanent website. This is not a Wordpress or Google site, but one I built & designed from scratch with hosting I actually pay for. (Squarespace is awesome!) I figured it was time to take myself seriously and also take my projects to the next level. Plus, I wanted to teach myself more advanced web & graphic design, so this seemed like an ideal way.

Most exciting of all, I finally have an ONLINE STORE, and every single back issue of Indigo is available! At least, every issue for which a master copy exists. That's right, all the way back to 1995, if you dare. Shipping is included in the price, and it's the same price worldwide. And my greeting cards are there, too. Goodbye, Etsy! This girl's working' for herself.

Please check it out, and change your bookmarks if you've been following my Wordpress blog (which has been deleted).  Let me know If anything doesn't look right. I'll update and post new content regularly. And if you want to test out my new shopping cart by buying a couple things, well, I won't stop you. :)  I'd love to hear what you think. Thanks!!

Memories of Late Bar

I love living in Kentucky. I really do. But I will always miss my hometown.

It may sound strange, but one of the things I miss the most is Late Bar. I love to dance, and one of my favorite types of music to dance to is New Wave and Synthpop from the '80s.

In 2012, it's hard to find that type of music anywhere, but Late Bar has an entire night devoted to it, complete with a great collection of videos on a projection screen. The DJ, Dave Roberts, has been doing it for over 30 years. He posted this one from Propaganda on Facebook recently, and it reminded me why he is the coolest DJ in Chicago.

Ow, my head.

 A scary thing happened last night.

I got up in the middle of the night to use the bathroom, and the next thing I know, Scott was calling my name over and over. I had fainted on the bathroom floor and hit my head on the edge of the bathtub. I don't remember anything.

When I came to, I saw blood on the floor and on the bathtub. I touched my head and my hand was bloody. Needless to say, I was really frightened. I tried to stand up, but immediately felt like I could pass out again. I went outside on the patio and lie down on the concrete. That revived me a little. Scott got a cold towel and started blotting the blood from my head. Thankfully, it was not as bad as it could have been. I'm sure I'll be okay. I'm taking Alleve today because my neck and back are actually more sore than my head.

I don't know what happened, or if it will happen again. At times like that, you think for a few seconds, this could be it. I could die right now. But of course, I'm not going to die. I will heal. Very, very freaky though. I'm so glad Scott was there to take care of me. I don't know what I would have done without him.

It might be time to get these tomato plants in the ground...

How can you have a bad day when your lunch is a color wheel?

Spinach-artichoke dip, root vegetable & squash soup, herbal tea, water.