It's Saturday, it's cold and rainy outside, and
I'm ready to do another blog post.
However, no word for the week yet.
Refresh the illustrationfriday.com site... pfft, still no new word.
There's nothing really to do except take the initiative and start
blogging anyway, letting you in on my rambling thoughts and activities...
Happy solstice to everyone!
This means the days will get longer for everyone north of the
equator. Yay! Tomorrow will be 1 minute longer than today! Yay!
Oh yeah, and happy Christmas and merry Kwanza and joyful whatever other
holiday you might choose to celebrate this time of year. May you spend this time with people you
like, with good and plentiful food.
My brother got 2 large, frozen turkeys from his work last
night. I would happily stick one of
them in the oven, but I think I just mentioned they're frozen. Sigh, delayed gratification again. I got together with friends for lunch today
and had a very happy conversation about books.
I stopped at my usual neighborhood store and laughed a lot with the
owners while we contemplated the coming extra minute of light.
People in other departments at work were overheard
complaining about that contractor whom I complained about in my post last
week. I feel some vindication, and I'm
happy that my part of the project is finally coming together. I'm abandoning ship this week and will let
them fight it out without me while I hope to take some long-overdue time off. I'll still have work to do at home, but I
can do it in sweats and messy hair.
In other words, my world is in a good place in this
particular moment. I don't have any
real plans, and I don't really want to make any. I've hit the refresh button on the IF site a couple more times,
and am starting to contemplate that 2' x 4' canvas I bought a couple months
ago. Or maybe another jigsaw
puzzle. Or I could finish the book I've
been reading, A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness. It's a good book, but I have to admit the
idea of yet another book or movie with a vampire in it is irritating me, and
I'm more irritated that I'm enjoying the book anyway.
I did this art for a customer who failed to fully appreciate
my efforts since they didn't buy it.
I'll admit it's a bad scan, but in my attempt to relax I'm going to go
with the file at hand without looking for the original. Besides, I'm having computer problems, and
generally grouchy about software engineers making my life harder than it needs
to be, not to mention that the lack of an IF word caused me to do actual work
instead of blogging this afternoon. Oh
well, a little less to do this week?
I could go on a side rant about how trying to have Christmas spirit is too much
pressure and not enough fun, but sometimes the holidays are fun, and maybe this is your
year to have everything you want?
My dog thinks it's tv time and I should quit typing. I'm thinking about that very nice bottle of
wine my boss gave me too. Maybe sometimes
it's perfectly wonderful just to ramble about nothings without any actual point?
