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Take it where you find it...

As a freelance artist of the starving type you most likely won't be able to afford a "vacation" like most people. You really can't afford to not be hustling or completing projects and you most likely can't afford a plane ticket anywhere. So it's important to take your fun where you find it- and hopefully as cheaply as possible. For me that was 3 luxurious days in a row SWIMMING at a local pool. I hadn't been swimming all summer and the summer before I went swimming once so I was taking advantage of it but not irresponsibly....I was up early in the studio making sure the days work got done before I hit the water. Building boxes to ship prints in, to the post office mailing out orders and painting and graphic designing before the bikini could be put on.
I knew my body was about to revolt and could feel the pains coming on and my symptoms flaring up but the relaxing water and fun really helped and as soon as it was over...pain flared up. I have to remember stress aggravates my condition. BREATHE! Let it go! 
Yesterday found me at jury duty...and I'd rather not relive the experience again if I can help it. As a person who doesn't like giant throngs of people and who unfortunately had to go through a horrible time visiting my brother in jail and his own court trial....not a place I like to go. Anyway, let's move on because that truly sucked.
The week has new projects... a record order for a friend, finishing the very last minutiae of a graphic design project and working on some small pieces for a charity I helped with last year -the Reading and Radio Resource. Luckily my shelves are stacked with small blank canvases I bought at an ambitious time in my life thinking I would fill them quickly. Riiiiiight. Also primering a stack of records in hopes of getting cracking on those soon. Let's not talk about my poor abandoned painting sitting on the easel behind me, I can feel it's neglected pouty stare on my neck right now. :(
In a nutshell... BUSY. Oh yeah, some stupid tax stuff to do today. Sigh. I am missing that swimming pool right about now. BREATHE! Let it go! And take your fun where you find it!


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