Friday Ramblings

O.K.

I'm gonna start writing this post again.

The first go around I sounded like a whiny baby.

Life is funny, isn't it?

Some weeks are full of camp and fun:

my husband and I spent the 4th at Balboa Island on a bike and visited my old arcade hangout

my favorite picture of the summer so far.

Some weeks are full of art and completing assignments for the Make Art That Sells class:

Some weeks are not.

When we brought Brenna home from camp, this ended up being her welcome home package:

This is where I previously scratched most of my last post.

While life is not all summer camp and 24 hour fun, it's not horrible. 

Well, some days are horrible, but not horrific.

There, that's better.

Brenna and I both had fabulous times at our "camps". Unfortunately for B, she came home with a whopper sinus infection.

Popsicles help.

Writing letters to your counselor helps as well.

notes to a camp counselor help....

Brenna and I have still had long, lazy days...they are just filled with kleenex and eye drops.

I've finished the Make Art That Sells class this week as well.

You would THINK I have used these last few days to create and create.

I have learned a good lesson:

I create well under pressure or when I have an assignment.

When left with having to give myself an assignment and too many days cooped up in the house, I flounder.

The assignment I gave myself was to learn PhotoShop or Illustrator and take part B of the Make Art That Sells class in October.

Enter whining and having too much time to think things through.

Like....

I'm too old.

Whatever is left of my brainpower will be GONE if I learned PhotoShop.

Do I want to expand my art?

Do I just want to continue doing shows?

Do I have the courage to submit my art to different companies?

Do I have the courage to face "no's" and get better enough to hear a yes?

My friend reminded me of one of our favorite Anne Lamott quotes:

"My mind is like a bad neighborhood I try not to go in alone."

It fits right now with the dichotomy of our summer weeks, the end of a class, sinus infections, and rain of all things today. (whining...)

So.....I put together a short list of what made me happy or laugh this week, in the midst of nose sprays, cough syrup and enough kleenex to sail to the New World.

Summer nights on our back patio, reading underneath the twinkle lights.

 Frozen yogurt helps.

Especially late at night under the twinkle lights.

Summer fruit.

Watching Netflix with Brenna. I'm hooked on Malcom In The Middle.

 It makes me laugh SO.HARD. 

I think it's because I can relate to so much dysfunction and grew up with a very strange sense of humor. A very strange part of me wishes I grew up in their house. I would totally know how to function, but it would be way, way more fun because the DYSfunction isn't fueled by alcohol. The other part wishes I could have grown up getting in so much trouble but having a blast doing it.

I know, it's t.v.

But it sure is funny.

this always makes me happy

Here's a confession:

I love going to the drugstore, especially in the summer.

I read in a magazine that a beauty secret is to wear black eyeliner on top of your eyelid and brown on the bottom of your eye. I forget why, but I decided to try it anyway. Just because it's fun buying something in a drugstore, especially new makeup.

 I felt a little like a zebra, but I thinks it's just me. I'm sure it makes me look ten years younger or something like that.

Good thing I don't do everything I read in those beauty secrets.

What ding-dong has decreed it wrong for any woman over the age of 35 to wear face powder?

Last but not least,

Gluten free Snickerdoodles.

Not quite like the real deal, but close enough.

Put a list together for yourself of what makes you happy.
Then go DO it!
And share it with us in the comments..I like adding to my list!!