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Hey all it's been awhile since I last blogged.  I finally got the surgery on my right big toe, and now I'm layed up for two months with nothing to do.  It is so much effort to get around.  I have a knee scooter, but that's a pain to load and unload  from my van.  I will start some new paintings soon.  I just have to get the energy to do it. I get my stitches out June 20,  and then I should be able to walk on it July 2nd.  Then I should be able to wears shoes on it August 2nd  So there goes my whole summer.  It's just a pain to load up my art supplies.  Also some guy hit me in a parking lot and now my car goes in for body work on the 13th.  I went for a job interview yesterday and I think that the boot and scooter was a drawback to getting the job.  I really wanted to get into this place too.  The pay is better, but I don't think the benefits are as good as what I'm getting now.  He said he would check into it and get back with me.  Oh well. If it weren't for bad luck I'd have no luck at all, it seems.  Hopefully things will  look up in the next month or two.  And my best friend is going off to college in the fall but moving into her new place on August 1st.   I'll be all alone!!!!!!  Okay, not totally.

It's all about the foot pain

A friend of mine has reminded me that it has been a months since my last post.  Well I have been dealing with some health issues, and I have tried just about everything imaginable to get the needed surgery paid for.  Medicaid, Adult Medical Program, and a call to Social Services to see if there is any help there for me.  None!  Not to my surprise, I don't have kids and I'm not dissabled, and I make too much money working part time.  What a joke this health care system is.  I don't have insurance through my employer because I don't work enough  hours,  so I'm SOL.  I even  went on the "wish upon a hero" website to see if I could get donations, and I only got one, and that was from my best friend.  This crappy weather is not a prime time for me to paint, my heart is just not into it.  I have two paintings that I can swap out for the ones that are winter scenes, just to keep up on the seasons.  I have to frame the one, and make a few minor corrections on it.  But as soon as I get this next consultation about the surgery, then I can start focussing on something else, and hopefully start a new painting.

First day of Spring!!!!!!!

The Robbins are back and the crocuses are blooming.  The first day of spring is here.  The weather today doesn't seem like it, though.  It's cold and cloudy today.  The giant moon last night was amazing.  It was yellow and hung low in the sky.  It was almost like a harvest moon, but bigger. 
The movie that Melissa and I saw last night was really good.  I didn't think that it would be that good, given the title, "I am four".  I didn't see the previews for it, that I can remember, but I'm glad that we went.  The way it ended, you just know there will be a sequel to it and I can't wait.  I wish that I could get rid of this "painters block" that seems to have overtaken me.  I almost feel like it's too much energy to get started on a new one.  Maybe it's just because I am still so tired from working so many hours in the last two weeks.
I know the inspiration will come, I just have to be patient with myself and let the creative part of me come out when it's ready.  My paintings have a sense of where I am at when I do them, and each one has a different emotion that I am feeling at the time I do them.  It's almost like I'm painting my feelings.
 

whew, I made it!!!!!

Yes, thank God, I made it through the two weeks of hell at my job.  Now it's back to normal hours for me.  I am so glad.  It really took more out of me this time than I had expected, but, at least I'm going to get a good paycheck from it.  Next time I have to cover, I'll only do it for one week.  Two weeks of a lot of hours is too much for me at my age.  Now I just have to find a pic of spring flowers for my new painting.  The crocuses are starting to bloom, so maybe I'll use some of those in the painting.  We have a big patch of them out behind the house at home.  They are all different colors.  Purples, yellows, and mixed colors.  How nice.  I think that is a real sign that spring is just about here.  I hope so, I am kind of tired of the cold and snow.  I think that spring is my favorite season, everything is in bloom.  I love the cornucopia of colors, and it reminds me that the warmer weather is just around the corner.

Another day off

I must be getting old.  I used to be able to handle working 40 hours a week.  This last week has been a little different, though.  Working 3 and a half hours in the morning, then coming back to work 4 and a half hours at nite.  It seems to drag you down a little more, when you have to be back later in the day.  I bet if I just worked the full 8 hours, it would seem less stressful.  I only have to do that on mon, tue, and wed, then the usual part time hours at nite on thurs.  Then just 8 hours in the morning on sat and sun.  Of course Friday, being the only day off for the week.  It feels like more hours than it actually is, and here I am blogging on my day off.  I am tired as hell, but the whole day seems to be slipping by rather fast before I have to be in at 6:30 in the morning on Saturday.  One more week of this and then I'm back to the normal four and a half hours a nite mon thru fri, with the weekend off.  I can't wait, back to normalcy.  That way I'll have some more time to start some spring paintings.  I'm not sure what yet will be the next one, but I have an idea it will be flowers of some sort.  My art is so basic, so it may be just a couple types of flowers, something within my ability.
 

Hows the weather?

I sure hope spring is near, I'm tired of the cold.  I do like the change of the seasons, but after 3 months of this crap, it starts to get old.  Even though I like snow, it's the cold weather that comes with it that is hard for me to deal with.  Maybe when I get rich I can move to Southern California, or to Arizona.  Yeah, like that's going to happen.  I need to start some spring like paintings, that way if I think spring, it will happen.  Maybe some tulips or some daffodils, with some crocus flowers here and there

Me, Donate??????!!!!!!!!

I was at the usual coffee hang out today, and I had just finished a new painting, when a person came up to me and asked me to donate a painting to the Academy of Arts and Dance.  How cool!!!!  It would be auctioned off for money to be used by the school.  I have until the end of March to make up my mind, so as I feel right now, I think I'm going to do it.  The painting is of the Grand Haven pier at sunset, and I really didn't like how it was going when I started it, but it seems to have worked itself out.  You tell me what you think.  My friend thinks it's a good Idea to donate a painting to get my name out there, but will anyone really buy what I do?  Who knows, I'll get the details about what they are going to start auctioning it off for.  She thinks that at least someone will see my art and pay for it.   It's not a matter of being seen or becoming famous to me, it's just a matter of getting them sold to get back some of my costs, and with donations as they are, I won't see a penny from it.  I think that however, what goes around comes around.  I can afford to give to a good cause, especially since it's a school.