Now 1.08

I mostly slothed today. (So that's not really a word. Go with me.) I have a new block to burn. The one in this picture is half done. They're about 3.5" square. I thought they'd be coasters, but it's too much to do that. Unless I can find people willing to pay about $20-40 each. I don't know what I'll do with it. But I'm gonna make it.

From my Twitter:
I miss, love, want, fear, long, hurt. It's badness and goodness, complicated and simple, extremely conflicting. Yet...I'm addicted. :/
I've always been careful, guarded. Where I am now is very new and scary. I'm unsure again, of myself, my choices. I'm tired again, having to constant fend off that crazy voice that says, "You shouldn't have done that."

I'll get through it, past it, over it. I have a phrase for that, but I'm not going to disclose it. I like to keep some of my cleverness secret. :P I'll be okay, in time.

Post Picture: The family and I went to NJ to pick up our new van. There's a long story there that isn't very interesting. I bought the camera and snapped that picture through the tinted van window. There was a huge flock of seagulls at the gas station. Several were perched on the lights, but that one was alone. I really like it so I thought I'd share. It's all moody and kinda dark.

No more!

I finished painting today. I'm so happy! I want to add some accent colors, just random rectangles around the room. Although I do have a crazy idea what would require a lot of taping, measuring and time. Still...

The picture in this post shows how far I've come, though I don't have an 'after' pic yet. I'm so proud of myself. I did all the work myself, I felt I needed to. It was my project, something I said I was going to do. Looking back there's no freaking way I could have done this all in one month. I don't think it needed to take this long either but I'm done...mostly. It's very sweet. Eep!

I made a pair of earrings yesterday, Acutes in Black. I haven't photographed them yet, but they're made.

Ayer

I believe the title is 'yesterday' in Spanish. I didn't get a chance to write yesterday because I was in the car most of the day. My parents bought a new car, well new to us, and we had to drive to NJ to get it. I was company. Heh. It was tiring, navigating is tough in new towns where the streets are labeled the way you're used to.

Yesterday also marked four months since this. There's so much more I could say about that. It's been an emotionally tumultuous few months. I had no idea, seriously.

I'm kinda draggin' now, not sure why. Maybe it's the weather. Maybe it's orc overload. (I've watched Return of the King twice in two days.) December was a really good month for the shop and for me. But I took a break and am having a hard time getting back into the swing of things. Pray for me...if you're into that. :)

Room update

I'm inching ever closer to finishing my room. I'm so happy. As of this picture, taken just yesterday, I had primed all the walls. I've since painted the first coat and did about 1/3 of the second. Very exciting. If you click it, it'll take you to the Flickr page where there are notes that describe it more.

Now I must go cut threads and draw magnets. Self-discipline is hard. I'd much rather veg online.

2008

It's the new year!

I wish I had a picture to share. But I don't. I've just been lazing around. (Is lazing a word...in that context?) Hardly playing the part of entrepreneur but it feel wickedly good to relax.

The focus issue from a few posts ago has largely gone away. I talked things through and wrote a lot. It's still on my mind, but not in the obsessively crazed way it used to be.

I'm happy to say that I'm finally painting the walls in my room. Primer really shows how non-white the walls were. I'm taking my time painting. It only took 2 years to get here. (I can slack off at times.)

So much changed last year, particularly during the last 3 months of 2007. I have a page of new ideas, a list of things I'd like to accomplish for elpy. I want to work on everything right now, but that's impossible. Still...what a difference a day makes.