I’ve been playing the guitar again recently and it’s frustrating because my fingers give out before my hands and body do. I want to keep playing, but I haven’t played in so long that the calluses on my fingertips are gone and need to be re-built. Our local piano store, which happens to be right down the road from me, is supposedly giving free adult piano lessons.

I’m going to check it out.

=)

I’ve started carrying my own bag with me for when I go shopping. Not because I’m trying to make a huge statement or because I think I’m better than anyone else, but because it feels right when I do it. When the bagger asked me if I wanted paper or plastic I just smiled and handed him my bag saying, “If we could use this, please.”

And I was expecting a weird look but he just smiled and started bagging them in my tote while I paid. It felt nice. The pluses to this are that it’s better for the environment, and also my bag is by far more durable than those shitty plastic ones. I thought that I would run into a problem fitting everything into my bag but it’s pretty huge and I haven’t had an issue so far. So I can’t think of any cons.

I’ve also altered my “365 project” slightly. I’m having a really hard time taking a picture of myself every day. I find it’s boring, limiting, and I just don’t like doing it. My photography skills aren’t benefiting from the project at all, and that’s what I was hoping to increase. So I’m still trying to capture my day into a photograph, but I don’t have to be in it. So if I want to take a picture of my art stuff littered all over the table from working on the comic all day, I don’t have to slide my hand into the picture and ruin it. And since yesterday I tested out one of my studio lights upstairs on Riley and Eric I decided to use a picture of them that I liked to represent my day. I’m already feeling a lot better about the project.

Well, I spent all day yesterday drawing and this is what I came up with. I guess I’ll be trying to keep a web comic going, though usually I’ll just draw and draw and then be done for quite a while. But my sister said she’d like to do it with me (read: I’m forcing her to put her good talents to use) and so maybe we can push each other to keep going. It’s a story I’ve had in mind for a long time and I just finally sat down for nine hours and got it all down on paper. I’m working on the second page right now. Let me know what you think, cats.

Oh, and- BRONWYN I GOT YOUR CARD AND IT’S ON MY DESK BECAUSE IT’S SO COOL THANKS FOR THE RECIPE I LOVE YOU LOTS.

So I have this thing about written journals. Something about holding a book filled entirely with my words. My handwriting. I love it. I’ve been keeping journals since 1995, when I received my first one (the red one above) as a gift from a family friend.

But when I started journaling online in 2001, I slacked a lot. Sometimes I posted things online and also wrote them down in my journal while other times I wrote something down that I was too scared to put up for the world to see. Until I just stopped writing them down all together, leaving a word document on my computer for the things I didn’t post online. Well, I’ve been working on a project, for a long time now, actually (slowly pacing myself is what I say) and I’m proud to say that I’m almost caught up. I’ve been transcribing everything on chasingtwilight (and my trusty word document) into a written journal and I’m currently resting on August 28th. WOOHOO! I just thought I’d share my excitement with you.

So I’ve been sporatically taking prenatal vitamins since July not because I plan on becoming pregnant, or happen to already be pregnant, but because it’s a great source of iron (something I severely lack) and I hear that it makes your hair grow faster. And I’m that lame. Anyway, starting today I’m trying to remember to take them every single day.

Today we made gingerbread houses with the girls. I’d never made a gingerbread house before, and neither had my mother, so she got a whole bunch of stuff for it and asked if I would like to join in the beginning of a new family tradition. So above is Baby Gingerbread, my first gingerbread house. And of course my mom kicked my ass. Hers is below.

Also, Cole, Riley, and I started the 365 Days project. I’ve been thinking about it for a while, but just never really felt okay with it. You take a picture of yourself every day for an entire year. No, you don’t have to be in the same boring pose if you don’t want to be. And you can do random parts of your body, too. I just don’t know if I want to flood the internet with 365 pictures of myself. But I started the album anyway, though I may change my mind (because I’m fickle like that) and take them down, but continue the project merely on the hard drive of my computer. If anyone else feels brave enough to join me and ease the pain, please let me know! =}

PS: I sense it’s time for another Vlog soon…
(Tomorrow I have my annual. I’m sort of freaking out about it.)