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it came to pass
It’s 3 am and I should not be typing a blog post but I feel compelled to let all the monday morning readers (love you guys!) that everything is going much much better than it was in my last post. I think that one day was particularly bad because of the vet and the no-nap/no-lunch combo. A tired, hungry, whiney toddler is much less manageable than a normal whiney toddler.
I’ve learned some things about Bug lately. (That’s what I’m calling her these days… she’s less and less of a baby every day.) She needs the constant (and I mean CONSTANT) assurance that I’m there. So when she asks me five-hundred-zillion times if she can have a cookie it isn’t really because she is dying of hunger and needs a cookie but more that she wants to make sure I’m right there and paying attention to her. I haven’t suddenly lost all gravitational pull from the earth and gone hurtling out to space to visit my other kids on mars.
So we’re working on that.
Pounce seems to be getting better too. He’s not his old self, yowling at five in the morning for his canned cat food but he is up and moving around. He’s responsive to petting and chooses to sleep with Bug at night so at least he’s getting up from his sick bed once in a while. When I came home tonight from a fun Oscar’s party at whoorl’s (yay! just the two of us and our 272 twitter friends) he actually greeted me at the door and gave me a scratching-the-floor-with-his-claws welcome. That is a good sign.
Hey, one more thing. I’ve been thinking it’s time to do an un-finished business post. You know, like a catch up on Forrest and a why-I-painted-my-refrigerator-red story, or an answer to “will you ever make sludgies again?” etc etc… sort of post. Do you have any old niggling questions that I keep ignoring in the comments? I’m trying to be more responsive in the comments but I am baaaad, I know. I always mean to answer questions right away but then something calls me away and next thing I know I’ve let the question slide in with my fifty emails I need to write back to.
So maybe if I set aside time to just answer questions, I’ll be better. And maybe it’ll be a fun blog post? Or not. No pressure to come up with a question if you don’t have one. I can always just post pictures of Bug.
And that’s all the news that’s fit to print at 3:28 in the morning. Out!
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Gray Day
It was a very gray day yesterday and I dressed accordingly. When Toby woke up, he actually laughed at my outfit. I guess it was that bad. Of course I didn’t take that very well because I was already matching my mood with the weather like a chameleon. I hate it when I do that.
To chase away my gray day blues, I was reading Kuky Ideas. I just love her. First of all because she has a two-year-old very much like Baby Bug and second of all because she draws all the time! So much so, her hands actually hurt!!! (She sews all the time too but I can’t even begin to get inspired to sew because I just don’t sew like that. I’m lucky I can put together a lumpy cat pillow.)
She’s been drawing an illustration a day. They are fantastic. I feel like I should give drawing every day a try too. I haven’t been drawing that much on this blog because it’s so much easier to find a photo. I miss drawing though. I also don’t have as much time to draw as I used to but I’m not going to let that be my excuse. I mean, if Kuky can do it and she has a toddler just as mischievous as Baby Bug AND she sews, why can’t I?!!!
Besides quick rough drawings are fun. I actually like it when elbows are round and bendy in ways that human arms could never go. I like it when eyeballs aren’t exactly where they should be. I think the most important thing is to convey the emotion of what you are trying to draw and let the rest of the illustration catch up later.
So the above is my drawing of the day. Me in my frumpy mustard-colored sweater-vest thingy on a gray day.
