Starbody

One of many efforts I am dedicating myself to is more frequent updating to the site now that I’m all settled in and comfortable. Don’t you just love that new website smell? There are reasons that I haven’t been updating as often as I’d like. One of those reasons is a need for introspection. I won’t bore you here with all of the details (since I’d much prefer to bore you with other kinds of things), but suffice to say I needed to dedicate some serious time to figuring out what it is I really want to do. I have recently realized that I never put in nearly the kind of energy into moving my personal creative goals forward, as I do my career goals. I shudder to even use the words ‘career goals’ because it doesn’t feel like the proper term. I don’t consider what I do to be a career, but then I have always had a problem with committment. I have loads of ambition when it comes to organizing and moving things forward within my work life and somehow I haven’t figured out how to take care of myself in the same way. So, I decided to sit down and figure out how to change that. And so that’s that. Oh wait, I guess I did just bore you with the details. So sorry … or am I?

This fine Sunday, I am testing out my newly claimed spot in the guest bedroom after a day of tidying up the yard and organizing. I have a piercing headache and a head full of pollen, dust and grass but even so it was well worth it. We cleaned up the yard (i.e. picked up dog deposits, weeded, other exciting tasks, etc.) and mowed. I have to say it does look quite nice regardless of the weeds I still need to get to on the left side. We even managed to squeeze in some chat time with our neighbors, who are really nice people.

Afterward, I headed indoors to organize all of my art supplies into my newly acquired flat file. I do love a good Craigs List find. If you aren’t familiar with Craigs List, it’s sort of an online garage sale and if you live in a metropolitan area chances are there is one for your city. If you visit Craigslist.org you can view the cities available on the right side of the page. My latest find is a $15 flat file which houses all of my art supplies beautifully. I also managed to get through many boxes of junk I’ve ignored since we moved in (yes, that was one year ago). Despite a concerted effort to resist, I still manage to collect lots of stuff. Sentimentality and creativity are sometimes a disasterous combination (when paired with procrasination). The result? Lots of pictures, notebooks, paints, paper, cards, etc. sitting around waiting to be put away. Somehow I managed. Life is such a trial, isn’t it? Kidding.

I’m feeling very accomplished and miraculously still motivated. So, I’d better get back to it.

Next up, my spyware rant.