OK, so, I'm painting again. Huzzah! It's baby steps, but I'm heading there. I'm currently working on an angel. ^_^ I love the idea of angels, as long as they're not the Hallmark greeting card kind, or the naked baby kind.

I might throw one up that I wasn't sure of putting up at all a few months ago, even if it's just to get some feedback about it.

Hope you guys are all well, and if you celebrate it, Happy Thanksgiving!

me.

Once again, I'm in the midst of being unable to paint. Can't paint due to lack of inspiration and the thought that my ability/skill/talent dwindles with each painting I do.

Ugh.

So, I'm going to artists (specific fairy artists who do extremely well in sales who aren't actually that good of artists... and who I won't name but you might know anyway) in order to gain inspiration.

I mean, hell, if they can pump out tons of anatomically incorrect, cookie-cutter paintings with little to no change from one to another, then I can do art that's at least as comparable, right?

Why the hell do they sell stuff and I don't?

Just... frustrated.

me.

Wah-HEY!

A local restaurant, the Spotted Dog, is once again going to let me put up some of my paintings on its walls for show/sale. I'm pretty excited about that. Maybe I'll sell some, probably not, but at least I'm up there again, out in the public.

I am currently working on a weird/cutesy painting of two Native American figures, White Corn Woman and Blue Corn Woman. I've based their appearances on some carved Kachina dolls, which was kind of fun.

Gotta hurry up and get it done and get it scanned!

Thanks, by the way, to all the new watchers. I really appreciate it.

kat.

If I've said anything...well... absolutely idiotic to anyone lately, I apologize.

I have been absolutely wiped out. One or two weeks ago, I could blame it on stress from looking after Tweak's welfare. This past week? I have no reason to be as bone-numbingly tired as I am. I am getting, for the most part, at least seven hours of sleep (though some of it's a bit broken up), I'm not exercising any more than I usually do, and I'm not drinking, so it's not hangover exhaustion.

I'm mildly afraid it's a tick-borne thing, but I don't have any of the other symptoms such as muscle aches (er, ones out of the ordinary, since I ache all the time), nausea (except for the two days this past week where I think I scared myself so badly by finding a tick on myself that I gave myself a sour belly), fever, or headache.

The tiredness is weird, and what's worse, confusion and stupidity on my part follow with it. I just re-read something I wrote to someone on here, and my gawd, it was mostly incoherent.

Speaking without completely mangling sentences is hard, too, which sucks in my job-- retail.

I walked out of the next-door restaurant without paying for the bill a few days ago. Seriously? Stupid of me.

SO. If I've seemed much less lacking in coherency or intelligence... there you go.

kat.

Tweak, my cat, is down with an ear infection again. The second time i a couple of months-- so it might be more than just an ear infection. Perhaps a polyp, perhaps a very resistant strain of bacteria, perhaps something to do with her teeth... we're not sure yet.

Anyway. Long, stressful nights of not sleeping for me and a lot of discomfort for her. If you have a god, won't you light a candle for my girl, please?

Thanks, guys.