February 26, 2007 at 8:23 pm (Uncategorized)
Or just the cloudy day. There is not too much motivation to go outside, although I do have some birds to feed and I think they are waiting for me. Think!!!…no, no, no. I know they are. I can hear them outside my bedroom window chirping and any moment I expect at least one of them to fling itself against the window in a dramatic gesture of starvation. They seem to know who I am now, and what I mean to them.
I know my bird writing should be on my other board but hell, I make the rules on my boards so I can break them at my own discretion.
(PHOTO TAKEN IN SAN DIEGO BY ME)
I rather like these gray days. I am growing more and more fond of my bed. I have a routine now and some might call it lazy. I call it retired.
I wake up early and go to the front porch where I meet my husband and have my coffee. He then goes into his home office and I go back to the bedroom. I don’t get under the covers because then I would feel like a slouch. I sit on top of the bed and slowly look around and languish in my endless moments of ….basically doing nothing. Actually it looks like I am not doing much of anything but I am busily making my mental lists of what I am going to google for the day.
I feel its’ very important to keep my mind stimulated since I am not following a career path and climbing up the corporate ladder.
Every day, I try to honor that intelligence inside myself that tells me, I am worth every lazy moment I have been gifted with. This is the same intelligence inside me (could this be GOD)… that suggests I spend a good part of the day googling so I can become even more intelligent. So, today God suggested that I google red heads in mythology. I have often wanted to ask God, why she has given me such a strange mind, but I feel it would be presumptious to insinuate that God doesn’t know what she is doing when it comes to sculpting and refining the wonderful BEing that I am.
So following God’s prompting I googled red heads in mythology and found this very interesting site.
http://home.att.net/~r.s.mccain/red1.html
I want to point out something very important here. Had I not followed my inner voice, and, instead assumed that following the voice in my head was a frivolous ego driven endeavor, simply designed to waste time or avoid getting out of bed, I would never had found this cool website. I would never have known the impact those red headed divas had on our collective past.
And that’s the way of the Zebra.
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February 26, 2007 at 6:59 pm (Uncategorized)
Having fun last night, drawing eyes. I drew several sets of eyes and then took one and traveled over to Corel Painter Pro and played around trying to make it more an artsy image. Had trouble with the nose and mouth so thought what the hell, I’ll have her looking out behind a scarf, haha. But the point is, I ACTUALLY DREW SOMETHING. I did just think about it, I sat down and did some quick sketches.
Later I organized all my colored pencils. I believe anybody who enjoys painting or drawing, will agree that if your supplies are not organized, it’s very hard to think about beginning a painting. This is about as organized as I get. I grouped the pencils by color. Now that picture above that I drew, is crude and not good at all but that’s okay, the point is to show that I actually had a desire and did something about it.
Hopefully the next “art” image I post is something I actually feel good about…
Now on to something much more important. Let’s talk about Oscar fashions. I just have one question…Has your life changed at all, by seeing what the stars wore last night? Just curious. Mine hasn’t. Have you felt more inspired to dress more fashionably, update your hairstyle or get a facial? Not me. Do you feel you fall into the category of “What was she thinking”? I do, however, it doesn’t take Oscar glamour and fashion to make me fall into the category of “What was I thinking..”
Oh well…most of the time my excuse was “I wasn’t thinking.”
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February 26, 2007 at 5:17 am (Uncategorized)
I’ve always liked this pic of my mom.
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February 26, 2007 at 5:15 am (Uncategorized)
drawn by my dad of Michael Landon.
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February 26, 2007 at 5:08 am (Uncategorized)
Laura probably threw it at me.
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February 26, 2007 at 4:43 am (Uncategorized)
I give up. I tried. I keep switching the channel to HGTV and have watched House Hunters and Designed to Sell.
I did switch over just now and they were showing a clip from Little Miss Sunshine so hopefully this thing will be wrapping up soon. Little Miss Sunshine by the way, in my opinion, was a fantastic movie and I really enjoyed it.
I was cleaning out my bedroom drawers during this most boring Oscar night.
I came across this photograph that I haven’t seen in years. In the foreground is my mother, Helen and my brother Bill. We had moved to California from Kansas in 1960 and I believe this picture was taken in 1964 or so when she flew back to Kansas to visit family. She was staying at her brother’s house and that’s where this picture was taken. The painting on the wall was done by my father. He was always proud of this painting and boasted how it was painted on the back of an old garage door or plywood, something like that.
Last we heard which was about ten years ago, this painting was still in the family. He was practicing in the style of the old masters.
Well the Oscars are still DRONING on so back to cleaning out some drawers.
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