Posts by: artistikadamy

Today’s cover photo by Carmelo Campos is a sunset in Boqueron, PR
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Nice picture to inspire today’s blog, since it’s going to be a day when I go out to snap some pictures of trees and churches around town.  In continuing with the idea from a series that stirred by brain yesterday.  We’ll be heading out shortly.  Kind of a picnic date.

More to come soon!

This morning I’ve been reviewing some of the poetry I’ve written the past couple of years since the Moo of Writing course.  It’s amazing that I have enough to create a series of poems with images.  If I can do that, I would love to be able to put a small show at Riverworks.  It would be nice if it happens in November this year.  I’ll do all possible to apply for copyrights and all that’s involved, perhaps even self publish a book with it.  Just thinking of about it, this would be a fun project.

This is the most excited I’ve ever been in a while trying to get something going.  I guess “Inspiration” is a good piece to start with.

More to come later!

I’m thankful for yet another day of life!  It’s a cold morning, and we’ll be running later (hopefully early afternoon).  I guess you can say we are wimps when it comes to cold weather.  We’ll have to really bundle up to stay warm.  I just can’t believe the people this morning running a 5k in 27-degree weather.  I tip my hat to their dedication.

The girls slept with us some.  Misty woke up in the middle of the night with a sneezing fit, that was scary but funny.  Now they are sleeping in the guest room that they have claimed as their room.  It’s funny, we tell everyone we own cats, when in fact they own us, and they have us trained.  We love the girls.  They are unique, and funny, and smart, and they know how to play humans.  It’s amazing how they’ve been around for almost 13 years and it feels just as it was yesterday that we brought those 2 home.

It’s been an adventure, that’s for sure!

It has been a lazy morning.  Don let me sleep late and, after a nice cup of coffee, I’m upstairs catching up with Facebook and writing a few words.

I’ve been thinking about life’s purpose.  I keep letting time pass by and feel stagnant in my philosophy of life.  Can’t remember the last time I read a good spirituality book.  Several years ago, I became an avid reader, today, I hardly read for pleasure.  Since I started school in 2008 all I read are school related books and websites.  I’m always trying to improve my skills, not feeling that I’m accomplishing so.  I’d like to revisit the poem I wrote at the beginning of last year. Once I do, I’ll be posting it to this site and Mooing Around.

Hope the rest of the day is uneventful, but productive.

Another day of the year started.  It seems that days will continue to fly by. As we try to make the best of the time we have, we find ourselves needing more than 24 hours in a day to take care of what needs to be done on a daily basis.  Frustration sets in, because time is passing and the feelings of incompletion are still there.  Something important needs to be done, and it’s hard to reach and grab on to the answer.

My main priority in life is to be creative!  Whether it is writing, digital painting, photographing, or even web designing, it is important to me to be creative in some way, every day.  Keeping up with this journal is forming the habit of  taking 5 or 10 minutes in a day and write.  Spending time ideating and practicing digital painting also helps.  Tutoring helps because it keeps me sharp.

I’m looking forward to what I can create.

Although class time was great, the rest of the day  has been crazy in all sorts of ways.  I‘m still feeling under the weather and that keeps causing all sorts of emotional swings.  I hold Dusty in my lap while listening to music.  That combination makes me want to cry.  I don’t know why it feels as if the end is near for the girls.  They look and act healthy, but you never ever know.

The writing group today was a very productive session, at least for the ladies who shared some work.  I kept trying to figure what to write and share.  All I had was the poem I wrote while at the beach.  Everyone’s sharing makes me feel I’m still struggling to get words on paper.  This semester again, I need to be thinking about an animation piece.  So it’s time to start again, playing with the drawing tablet and getting some stuff created for this 60-second assignment.

Other than that, all is well.

I’ve been on a funk today since getting up.  A combination of depression and anxiety and just plain not feeling right.  I went for an eye exam this morning and found out my vision insurance is not accepted where I normally would go, so, in addition to having to pay out of pocket, I couldn’t get my new prescribed glasses ordered either.  Then all I’m in the mood for is junk food.  I have been doing so good the last few days and I’m frustrated with these weird cravings.  We also now have to do our run this evening and I don’t feel like it.

Hopefully it will get better by day’s end.

Our 6 mile run was rescheduled again.  I guess we are still trying to recover from being sick.

The day started slow, but we’ll get there.  Today’s the first day of school for animation class. I’m looking forward to what the day has in store!

Well, yesterday didn’t go as planned when it came to our running.  We decided to go the full 14 miles today, but even that we couldn’t do.  We are considering getting up early tomorrow to go run the missing 6 miles.  Other than that, the day has been uneventful.  I’ve been feeling a bit under the weather still.  Going out for a run/walk was tough because it’s still a bit hard to breath.  We mostly walked, but we covered 8 miles.

** Today’s cover photo courtesy of El Nuevo Dia’s Photos
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I’ve been missing the beach already!  It was nice to catch up with some sleep this morning.  Now I’m drinking my coffee and I’ll be going grocery shopping soon.  Later in the day, we’ll be running 8 miles at Swamp Rabbit Trail, assuming the weather clears some.  I don’t want to be running in the rain again, especially not in this cold weather.  Also, I might wait on Don to get out to go grocery shopping.  It started raining cats and dogs a while back, so it may be wise to wait until this mess is gone.

I love that we found a good Pandora station and it helps with my writing.