Mornings Are Bad For You
As I sit here calming down and letting the latest dose of my meds affect me, pushing the pain down from level eight to level seven, I'm coming to the conclusion that today was mostly the result of that jarring waking at eight in the morning. I should have sensibly crawled back to bed and gotten the rest of my sleep. I would have had much more energy for posting on boards and would not have been typing, then stopping five minutes to think of what to say, then typing again. And might have had the less foggy judgment to do the painting early and THEN answer all my emails and eBay message boards and stuff. I don't have to sit on the forums every waking hour. Just come through once or twice a day and post to the interesting threads.
I got into a panic and that snowballed. I'm coming down from it to realize just how petty that is. If I don't express my burning opinions till a few hours later, the threads will still all be there to express my burning opinions on. And I may be more eloquent in the expressing.
I have a couple of commissions with no deadlines and I'm fretting as if they're due tomorrow, or at least this week.
If I felt good I might do several artworks in a day. I've done that before. So why not relax and accept that tonight I'm all foggy sick and bewildered? And that tomorrow my capacity to draw stunningly well will actually get up rested and return.
Oooh, and my mat cutting article got accepted to EmptyEasel.com which while a nonpaying market is an awfully cool and classy one that has very wide readership. I get the newsletter and enjoy reading all the articles every week, and I know he has a huge circulation. My links will get that circulation when my mat cutting article goes up. So I'm a happy cat. How could I get so stressed that I didn't notice a really cool acceptance letter? I almost typed "rejection slip." It's not! That's habit! LOL
It's an acceptance letter to a cool online publication that I've been fond of ever since I first clicked on it -- and he's a very good editor. Look at the quality of the current articles if you doubt that, this is a very cool publication. The newsletter's handy, it always gives you links to the last week's articles and to the upcoming week's articles when they're posted.
Here's my EmptyEasel article link: Mat Cutting Made Simple: How to Cut Custom Mats with Logan Team System 2 -- enjoy! It can save you money if you're an artist to get the Team system instead of buying an expensive mat cutter and they'll still come out well. Enjoy!
I got into a panic and that snowballed. I'm coming down from it to realize just how petty that is. If I don't express my burning opinions till a few hours later, the threads will still all be there to express my burning opinions on. And I may be more eloquent in the expressing.
I have a couple of commissions with no deadlines and I'm fretting as if they're due tomorrow, or at least this week.
If I felt good I might do several artworks in a day. I've done that before. So why not relax and accept that tonight I'm all foggy sick and bewildered? And that tomorrow my capacity to draw stunningly well will actually get up rested and return.
Oooh, and my mat cutting article got accepted to EmptyEasel.com which while a nonpaying market is an awfully cool and classy one that has very wide readership. I get the newsletter and enjoy reading all the articles every week, and I know he has a huge circulation. My links will get that circulation when my mat cutting article goes up. So I'm a happy cat. How could I get so stressed that I didn't notice a really cool acceptance letter? I almost typed "rejection slip." It's not! That's habit! LOL
It's an acceptance letter to a cool online publication that I've been fond of ever since I first clicked on it -- and he's a very good editor. Look at the quality of the current articles if you doubt that, this is a very cool publication. The newsletter's handy, it always gives you links to the last week's articles and to the upcoming week's articles when they're posted.
Here's my EmptyEasel article link: Mat Cutting Made Simple: How to Cut Custom Mats with Logan Team System 2 -- enjoy! It can save you money if you're an artist to get the Team system instead of buying an expensive mat cutter and they'll still come out well. Enjoy!