I am feeling a LOT better today!
And having actually gotten a full night's sleep this time, I am back to my usual optimism and lack of terrors. Being sick is what brings on the terrors. Body weakness makes anything in the world seem like an insurmountable challenge -- often because it is, if I'm in that state, things like picking up something that dropped or remembering which email I answered become as difficult as walking to Kansas City. The tricky part is remembering that, because I spent most of my life with no medication and no diagnosis. The pain drops to background even when it's intense, because it's constant. Anything that doesn't change a lot becomes taken for granted, even if it's an impairment -- so when I'm sick is when I'm likely to misjudge in either direction what I'm capable of doing.
This is good in terms of being able to get on with life and enjoy it despite chronic pain. It's rotten when it comes to being able to do things though. Hopefully I didn't get too whiny yesterday when I was out in the foggy murky outer reaches of fibro-flare.
The sun is shining today. This rocks. I love it when it's this bright. Sunset yesterday wasn't till six, the worst short days of winter are over. It'll get better as the weeks pass, till I have nice long days full of being able to do things. The puppy is outside peering in the window occasionally to see what I'm doing and where Ari is. Ari is curled up on my guest chair oblivious, he likes Kitten's blue velvet chair that she put in my room. If I keep my laundry OFF his scratching post, he doesn't claw it often. Maybe I should put a laundry bag in the bathroom so that I don't ever drop things on his scratching post.
I'm working on my digital commission, three banners for Joshie's Etail & Art Supplies, Sandi's Art and Art by S. Welles. I have all the images for the banners and I'm in the process of resizing them when I took a break to restart my computer. Gimp crashed, but fortunately I'd saved my Banner Template and all three backgrounds for the banners -- they are still in XCF files. So no work lost. I was doing Save As rather than actually resizing yet so I can just systematically reduce them now and get back to placing them on the backgrounds. Gimp is a fun program, and making banners is one of the coolest things I've done on it. I'm enjoying this because I like doing them but only have one Etsy store to use mine in. I may list "Custom Digital Banners" there permanently with, oh, multiples on it or something. Or just relist it every time someone buys one.
I'm also looking ahead to my Cheetahs/Fire commission. The more of my commissions that I finish, the closer I'll be to where I can just decide what to draw on the top of the day based on what medium I feel like puttering with. I'd like to finish that. I would appreciate it if my client would email me again with the image of the bracelet though, because while I have my cheetahs references from Unrestricted-Stock on DeviantART and my fire sketch for doing the fire, my Gmail inbox has seven thousand messages in it and I can't even remember when we talked about it... so I would have to page back one page at a time through weeks when I've got about a page a day betwixt our old correspondence and this one. Sorry to bother you with this, but it would help for getting started on it. I've got my Colourfix all ready to go too. Also please remind me of the size, was that 8" x 10" or 9" x 12"? Either way I'll be using a whole page of Colourfix, so let me know which you want -- if it's the 8" x 10" I'll just mark up and leave larger margins, a two inch strip of Colourfix is too small to do anything with.
Plus I have a phoenix ACEO commission to do, which I'm still planning.
I got my alkyds set yesterday and checked the paints last night before bed. Turns out I have a sample of Winsor & Newton Artists Oil Colour Burnt Umber instead of Winsor & Newton Griffin Alkyd Burnt Umber. I emailed Blick and in a recordsetting four hour turnaround, have been assured they're shipping out the Alkyd Burnt Umber for the missing item. So I may not start on the oils till it arrives, or I will but will try other mixtures till it does. Not sure yet what I'll do on that, but knowing I've still got four hours of daylight today is immensely heartening.
This is good in terms of being able to get on with life and enjoy it despite chronic pain. It's rotten when it comes to being able to do things though. Hopefully I didn't get too whiny yesterday when I was out in the foggy murky outer reaches of fibro-flare.
The sun is shining today. This rocks. I love it when it's this bright. Sunset yesterday wasn't till six, the worst short days of winter are over. It'll get better as the weeks pass, till I have nice long days full of being able to do things. The puppy is outside peering in the window occasionally to see what I'm doing and where Ari is. Ari is curled up on my guest chair oblivious, he likes Kitten's blue velvet chair that she put in my room. If I keep my laundry OFF his scratching post, he doesn't claw it often. Maybe I should put a laundry bag in the bathroom so that I don't ever drop things on his scratching post.
I'm working on my digital commission, three banners for Joshie's Etail & Art Supplies, Sandi's Art and Art by S. Welles. I have all the images for the banners and I'm in the process of resizing them when I took a break to restart my computer. Gimp crashed, but fortunately I'd saved my Banner Template and all three backgrounds for the banners -- they are still in XCF files. So no work lost. I was doing Save As rather than actually resizing yet so I can just systematically reduce them now and get back to placing them on the backgrounds. Gimp is a fun program, and making banners is one of the coolest things I've done on it. I'm enjoying this because I like doing them but only have one Etsy store to use mine in. I may list "Custom Digital Banners" there permanently with, oh, multiples on it or something. Or just relist it every time someone buys one.
I'm also looking ahead to my Cheetahs/Fire commission. The more of my commissions that I finish, the closer I'll be to where I can just decide what to draw on the top of the day based on what medium I feel like puttering with. I'd like to finish that. I would appreciate it if my client would email me again with the image of the bracelet though, because while I have my cheetahs references from Unrestricted-Stock on DeviantART and my fire sketch for doing the fire, my Gmail inbox has seven thousand messages in it and I can't even remember when we talked about it... so I would have to page back one page at a time through weeks when I've got about a page a day betwixt our old correspondence and this one. Sorry to bother you with this, but it would help for getting started on it. I've got my Colourfix all ready to go too. Also please remind me of the size, was that 8" x 10" or 9" x 12"? Either way I'll be using a whole page of Colourfix, so let me know which you want -- if it's the 8" x 10" I'll just mark up and leave larger margins, a two inch strip of Colourfix is too small to do anything with.
Plus I have a phoenix ACEO commission to do, which I'm still planning.
I got my alkyds set yesterday and checked the paints last night before bed. Turns out I have a sample of Winsor & Newton Artists Oil Colour Burnt Umber instead of Winsor & Newton Griffin Alkyd Burnt Umber. I emailed Blick and in a recordsetting four hour turnaround, have been assured they're shipping out the Alkyd Burnt Umber for the missing item. So I may not start on the oils till it arrives, or I will but will try other mixtures till it does. Not sure yet what I'll do on that, but knowing I've still got four hours of daylight today is immensely heartening.