Way overexposed-oversaturated-overpixelated center of a pale pink dahlia. Not art.
So, I've spent this week reviving my floral art on Zazzle. And working. Always. However, I have learned to turn off work, and just let what I got done in a day be what I got done. Not trying to work right up til bedtime anymore.
Also went out a couple times, exploring the back howevermany acres that aren't ours ... Just walking through the barren fields (of fucks) before all the corn/beans/etc. overtake them.
All the way back there by those far trees, that's where we went - sans the snow or moonlight, that is.
So many deer tracks. My husband brought up a good point: "Good thing there wasn't a coyote den back there ..." I don't think it's dense enough there, but you never do know. It's only like a bunch of right angles, with a single row of trees going east, and another going south, then farther back, another going west. Who knows?
I just know that I'm enjoying the creativity I've found again, Maybe it's like a seven-nine year itch I get to do something other than just work-work. Last time, I took up drawing:
c. 2016 One of the few things my dad ever truly liked that I did
I'm exponentially better at still objects than I am at drawing human forms. It was a cathartic practice, but it was also very hard on the back and eyes because I was always curled over the paper, glasses off, squinting. Same reason I don't do calligraphy any longer. Now I just get off on watching other people do it on Instagram. It's fascinating to me.
Meanwhile, I have a LOT to learn about digital artmaking. It'll take me a hot minute, but this time around, I don't think I will let it lapse. I did a pretty good run back in the day selling stamps and such, but those got discontinued, and I got distracted, and started doing other stuff. Quelle surprise!?
I don't have socials for the store, yet. I have done so with Radish Studio, which you can find here:
This is the TeeSpring, now Spring store. T-shirts, hoodies, stickers, notebooks, and more. If you see things you like here, feel free to share those, too (click the image ^^^^). Your support is phenomenal, no matter what, because if you're here reading this, I am beyond fortunate and grateful!
In other news, not much going on. Staying on track for the most part. Only a few diet pops here and there. Cutting back on fat, and calories to see if it affects my afternoon sluggishness, and mostly, it has. Started taking choline again because it's supposed to help curb blood sugar, and taking the vitamin Ds again, too, to combat the blues, and maybe provide more energy, and get my low levels back up.
Today's stats:
Weight: 206.8
Blood sugar: 108
Ate the usual chicken salad for lunch, and the meal-prepped chicken sausage, broccoli and cauli mash for dinner, water with Jamaica and Key lime juice, and coffee. I have learned that when I snack, I do so out of boredom, and having to sit still and do nothing. If I'm going to watch TV in the evening, I need to break out the yarn again.
Oh, speaking of which, you'd be so proud of me. I disposed of much gross yarn that was either old, ugly, or both, and added two more bags of good yarn for delivery to Goodwill, along with some other odds, and ends. Boxed up some books and magazines, which someday I will deliver to Half Price, so I can make all of about probably $20, IF I don't get adventurous and try to sell them. Let's be realistic, I won't. I just want them gone. I'm letting go, and moving forward, and getting rid of a lot of the dead weight.
One thing I learned from dad's passing: Just let it go. It's not worth it to drag the baggage around.
I think that's enough for now. Happy Thursday, almost Friday :)
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