The Day Before Class

Although I am enjoying pastels, I think that next semester I probably won’t take any art classes. {Well, unless acrylic painting is offered during the daytime! I have been checking on the scheduling of this class now for two years and it is always at night!} It is not that I am not enjoying pastels. It is that I had forgotten how much time it takes to do the assigned work. and to do it properly. Italian is twice a week and she loads us with homework! So, as of today my thinking is to continue with Italian and let the art go next semester… All liable to change, of course.

Total change of subject. The living room of this apartment is looking very nice. We had talked about getting a rug for the floor but it has not been mentioned for a couple of weeks so maybe we won’t. I actually like the uncovered hardwood floor and it is certainly much easier to clean by dry-mopping than vaccuuming a rug! Upstairs, Bryce, our new landlord, has put in bamboo floors and we can hear every footstep! I DO hope he is planning to deaden the sound with some rugs eventually. Right now he doesn’t seem to be sleeping there every night and it is quite clear when he is because I can hear every footstep.

Ok, I am off to do the fiddly bits {this basically means trying for crisps edges where one color meets another– not always easy with pastels} on my art and then for a massage at 1:30. When I get home about 3:30, I must remember to pack my portfolio today because if I leave it until tomorrow before I go to class, I will forget something vital! I have never forgotten the pastels but at various times I have forgotten my apron, the tape to fasten the paper to the board and –this is very common–my charcoal and kneaded eraser!

Until later….

TheWoodsprite

September 17, 2006

I look forward to seeing more of your work, when you are ready to share some with us! And I hope your neighbor gets some rugs soon, too, unless he can just learn to tiptoe about! hugs, Weesprite

Hi, Hope you don’t mind but I added you to my favs. I read Fred all the time and thought I should check out yours too. Wow, Italian! Is that one of the harder languages to learn? Have a great day

i love art n prefer acrylics n water colours i cant stand pastals! xxx

scout~finch

wow i hope your landlord gets rugs. that would be incredibly annoying. enjoy your massage ;).

Shi

Bamboo flooring oh my. I’m envying you your massage.

VeronicaCorningstone

I’m so in awe of all your art prowess 🙂 Having a portfolio and art supplies! Eeep. The closest I get is my scrapbook. Hopefully J and I will be able to see you at Christmas (we’ll be in NY, and it’s on our agenda to come to Vermont if you and Fred are so inclined to see us one afternoon), I’ll bring our scrapbook. 🙂 I’m already really looking forward to making one for my brother for Christmas, as well as doing one all about my dog 🙂

Bamboo floors! What a nightmare for you. I hope that gets sorted.

Violet

I don’t believe I’ve ever even seen bamboo floors. I wonder what it’s like. I know what it’s like to forget things all the time. With Swedish massage, it’s kind of loosly structured and there are lots of steps to remember, and I always forget one or two (not that the client knows the difference). Why not make a checklist of things to take to class and hang it on the wall of your art room to goover just before you leave the house?

greeneyes&sunflowers

: ) *huggs* I am hoping the other art class will be offered during the day the next semester!

Dazed Dahlia

Does he know that the floors are quite loud?

gray tabby

September 18, 2006

i’m looking forward to what you do in your art class this time. hope your landlord gets some rugs to deaden the sound in your place. my daughter has to get all her school stuff ready the night before or she will forget something. take care,

ryn: yes. but the copay for an ER visit is either $150 or $200. I can’t remember which plan I signed up for. The health insurance provided down here is not very good. Not to mention, I still don’t have my insurance cards, so I’ll likely have to go through a whole icky process getting them to cover any of this visit. In the end it’ll be at least $150 out of my pocket for the copay.

Stella!

Ohhh:((( the noise:( This reminds me a my parents old place in the Quarter – it was a three story and they had the first two stories and then a lil lady and her daughter lived upstairs. Ohhh:((( Not only could you hear each footstep – but their telephone ringing and their conversations:( It had something to do with not insulating well enuf between the two floors. I hope somehting can be done about this! Vista Way