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Canon 350D, 50mm lens

Thankful to live with an artist. He gets me. I get him. It works.
 
 

Canon 350D, 50mm lens

Thankful for this silly cat. She is SO funny. Hair-tie bandit. She steals them no matter where you hide them and runs around with them in her mouth. I’m thankful for the youth she’s brought out in our 10-year-old cat.
 
 

Canon 350D, 50mm lens

Wowed and thankful…that we could find a way to make this happen, that I am investing in myself, that I have it! It’s so cool! And to give props to my husband one more time…thankful he’s so pushy and nags me to get what I want/need for my business.
 
 
-The One Word Project-

-Wordless Wednesday-

I’ve noticed it. It’s tiny. Subtle. But it’s there. A sparkle of satisfaction. A hint of sunshine happiness. A creative mind returning.

It’s in this house, not just in me alone.

The husband’s supplies finally arrived, and when I got home from school (and an ortho appointment), he was already hard at work on his first project:

Someone has an audience…no one ever watches me through windows when I work!

I got right to work myself, on my homework, and also on my schedule for the spring semester. Can you believe I’m THIS………CLOSE to finishing my first semester of college? Wowsa!

I have had to make a few adjustments to my previously all-worked-out schedule. Turns out, I have to take film photography before I can take digital. Which worries me just a tad since I, uh, you know…gave away my film SLR camera. Yeah. Will I have to buy one just for this course? No idea yet. I’ll have to wait until summer or fall before I can take anything in this area anyway (they are set up with class 1 in the fall, class 2 in the spring, with few time exceptions).

My new schedule swapped out the English class for Humanities: Modern World, and then Sociology as an online class. So, looks like I’ll be a little busier from January 21 through May 12. I’ll try to remember to breathe a little.

The atmosphere in the house is really cool right now. The kids are at school, and I’m sitting here writing while the husband works a few feet away. Music is playing softly, and the dog is at my feet. I wish I never had to go back to the restaurant. (Unfortunately, I’m on stand-by, as my eldest called to see if I could come in as backup if he starts getting overwhelmed. It IS election day, after all!) (Go Vote!)

That’s the title of the book I will be writing for NaNoWriMo. And just what makes you think it might be based on stuff I’ve been through with myself? HA!

I’m just taking a break to come up for air from school work and work itself…to remind you to, uh, you know…take breaks, enjoy days off, live life, and remember that bad days with bad thoughts pass. Make no decisions on bad days. Let them pass in thought only. Allow yourself to think and feel, but sometimes, you simply cannot act on the pains, frustrations, or confusions that fill your life.

And don’t be so hard on yourself.

All I know about my book is that my aim is to make it funny, to find the humor in the ways and whys of my past quittings. To not take myself so seriously. To be nicer to me because I just am who I am, and the sooner I can accept that, the better off I’ll be.

And speaking of not taking one’s self too seriously, here’s a little trip down memory lane in honor of the husband renewing his own creative self.

Remember this?

Aaaahhhh…good times. And yes, that’s a real set of black eyes from the weight of the plaster on my already sensitive and cracked nose.

At any rate, coming soon…John M. Klocke, Special Effects Artist!

Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind. ~Dr. Seuss