It’s been a while since I haven’t even sent a Tweet in the course of two whole days, let alone not making a single post to the blog. My only excuse is that it was hot, humid, and lazy weather this weekend, and so I was very, very lazy. Too lazy to even make it to my desk and use my words to say something, though it’s not like I had anything much to say anyway, what with all the lying around being lazy. It’s good to have a quiet and boring weekend every once in a while. Refreshes the mind!

I’m feeling pretty refreshed this morning too. When my alarm went off and I crawled out of bed to make the coffee, I sensed I was likely to want to go back to bed. Couldn’t keep my eyes open and almost fell asleep sitting on the kitchen floor waiting for the coffee to finish. By the time the coffee was done, my computer had booted up, and the cats were fed, I found myself wide awake. That’s a good thing, because I have a deadline of grand proportions coming up, and I need to get to work on creating three to five cohesive, creative, and downright awesome works. I still have over a month to get this done, but time flies. The deadline will be here before I know it.

So the plan for today … and most of this week … is to sequester myself in the kitchen and create, create, create! I’m pretty much on fire about it lately, and last night I dreamt the five cohesive pieces I want to create for this show. I usually don’t remember any artwork or stories I come up with in dreams –no matter how I remind my dream self to please remember them. It’s always just a fuzzy recollection of bits and pieces that never come together to create the whole again. This time, I remember them. All five of them. In glorious detail. I can recreate them.

I also dreamt that I was excitedly telling Lin I’d received a letter telling me all five of my pieces made it into the juried show, and while I don’t put any faith in prophetic dreaming, it is a sign of a good positive mental attitude that my dream self is dreaming about things going well. My deadline stress-related dreams are usually not at all that optimistic. I’m running with these good feelings, and who knows, maybe in a couple of months, I’ll excitedly be telling Lin I got into the show. It could happen! Positive mental attitude ahoy!

Now for more coffee and to get to work making a charcoal finger-printed mess of the kitchen. LOL!