Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes
I keep glancing at the clock trying to will it to move a little more slowly on this, the final day of Spring Vacation, but time keeps marching forward at its usual pace. In fact, I think it jumps ahead when I turn my back.
I barely left the house during this week of vacation and it has been lovely. I enjoy not working. I automatically revert to my preferred night owl schedule of staying up long past midnight and getting up after 9:00. I am not, by any stretch of the imagination, a morning person. I am perfectly content to just stay home and putter about - a little surfing, a little laundry, bake some cookies, make some art. Ah, that is the life. I long to be a kept woman.
But time marches forward and tomorrow we go back to work and school. Sigh. Life has gotten very busy lately. Gabe got a job and for the first time ever we are both working at the same time. It has been an adjustment, to say the least. I'm not sure how people do this! Our calendar is suddenly color coded and covered with appointments and cryptic little notations. Juggling picking up the kids, orthodontic appointments to adjust Maddy's new braces, play rehearsals, playdates, and errands suddenly became a full-time job! I have to say that I am looking forward to that second paycheck though.
After something of an artistic slump, I've been creating again. I have been drawing small pictures with Sharpies and watercolor pencils and making them into pendants. I like working so small. If I don't like one, I just throw it out. It forces me to keep things simple - to just think about line and composition and color.
I've starting using Diamond Glaze to adhere and seal the pictures to the pendants and I am really loving it. It sticks to your fingers like crazy but it gives a nice glassy finish and those puppies are STUCK ON. I posted them for sale in my BlessedaretheGeek shop.
Lots of change lately. New jobs, new braces, birthdays. As I write this, one of our gerbils is slowly waning. She has lasted far longer than anyone imagined she would. For days she has stumbled around her cage in wobbly circles. Occasionally, she tips over onto her back and waves her legs in the air like a furry beetle. Right now she is sleeping in her food bowl - mostly because she doesn't really have the strength or coordination to climb back out and I suppose the smell of sunflower seeds is comforting to a gerbil. She and her sister have been surprisingly good pets and it will sadden me to see her go. I know there will be tears from the kids but they are also already making plans for the bigger, better, new and improved pets to come. Maddy wants a ferret or a bunny or perhaps a moose but she would settle for a duck - if we could keep it in the house and perhaps let it swim about in the tub. I told her not to hold her breath.
Change is inevitable, of course. Everyone says so. I wish I were one of those flexible people who just goes with the flow and sees changes as opportunities and adventures but I mostly see them as something to be suffered through and probably complained about. I am trying to see change as a doorway to a new room instead of a bump in the road or a pothole or some other metaphor for something that trips you up, slows you down or twists your ankle so you limp about for days. I'll let you know how it goes.
