Happy Monday!
Well, first of all, I am rather proud of myself for doing the housework I’d decided to do today. I have lately determined that Monday is my day to do that and to work on the garage (per my “31-point-plan“) and since it is (and has been for over a year) a big goal of mine to get my junk cleaned out, organized and put away – I figure the only way it will ever get done is if I schedule myself a day to work on it. So I did and I am tired – but it does feel good to have made myself do it! A little at a time and it will get done eventually – and that will really feel good!
Another thing that feels good is that yesterday I started my next “Frog” illustration, “Frog on a Dog,” and I am happy about that. It shouldn’t take too long for me to complete it and so on to the next one. I hope to finish this project sometime this year.
I also did some writing exercises from the latest writing book I’m reading, but found it kind of boring (the exercises, not the book!). But at least I’m thinking about writing! The writing workshop meeting I went to on Saturday also seemed a little boring this time; it was a bit repetitious and redundant I thought, which I suppose is bound to happen when there are constantly new people joining – they always ask the same questions. But I did get some inspiration before the end; the main thing I got was the determination to just WRITE – and that is all there really is to it. If going to these meetings at least keeps reminding me and encouraging me to write, then it’s worth it.
And (since this is called “bits & pieces” after all), here’s an amusing little thing: I encountered TURKEYS in the road on my way to the store yesterday. For some reason, here in northwest Petaluma, there is quite a large population of turkeys running around loose and they frequently will run across the road, sometimes a whole long trail of them, and it’s so funny-looking! But it’s also rather nerve-wracking to be driving along and suddenly have to slam on the brakes for these big, long-legged goofy-looking things; I do hope I never have to see one hit by a car – there’s already way too much roadkill on the roads around here as it is and that makes me very sad.
[And I did have a link here to a photo-gallery of local feral turkeys that was great, but it seems to have disappeared. 🙁 Instead, Google Images will have to suffice.]
And finally, and this is actually quite a bummer: for no reason I can figure out, the TV in my bedroom has all of a sudden quit working; I cannot even watch a DVD on it, there is nothing but snow. What the @#$%^&?? But, oh well – it’s just “one of those things.”
(Onwards and upwards…)