Moping around (& part III of 'what I like about myself')

That's NOT the part I like about myself.

I was wrapping up the grant application today (there was the online part, which was due last Wed, and then there's all this paper work that I now have to produce, due this coming week), and discovered that the presentation portion of the project must also happen in the same grant year! And the only exhibit I had already lined up, and was listed in the application, was for the year after! Arrgh! I do have a library exhibit lined up now for end of 2008 (same grant year), but it didn't happen by last Wed. And not only that, in one of my answers, I used 2 carriage returns! (They specifically say to not use any CR's.)

So I'm DOOMED. And I'm probably marked as having 'poor grantsmanship.' They keep track of you, too. Now I'll have to change my name and move to another county under some artist protection program...

Well, all of this brings us to Part III of What I Like About Myself. Drum roll please...

10. I don't mope around for too long...really. Truly. Actually, my original entry for this was going to say "I don't waste too much time on regrets, worrying about what-might-have-beens and what-should-have beens." And it's true, for the most part. I learn my lesson, I hope, and move on. Some mistakes take a little longer to get past, but eventually I do.

OK, moving on...thanks to Gretchin, my Lovely Assistant for the gocco class, I have some photos from those 3 days. Here's a shot of the exchange that happened at the end of the class. The assignment was to make an oversized print on the B6 Print Gocco, ie, a print that is larger than the print bed size. They had different options on how to achieve that though, and some people chose to do very tight registration, while others played it pretty loose. Someone made a scroll; a couple of people made accordion books (one put hardcovers on hers too, and gocco-printed the cover paper).



On other fronts -- did a little work for Portland Open Studios blog, and reviewed documents for Print Arts Northwest. Tomorrow, I'm off to Bend.

What I like about myself, part II

Hey, Day 4 of my 48th year passed without any further injuries or insults to my person! There were a few close calls as Anjali and I hiked around the trails along the Columbia Gorge, but no injuries. Had a really fun day out hiking around, and I wish I remembered to get photos at Oneonta Gorge. And next time, I'd go prepared to go through the river to get behind the log jam!

So, part II of what I like about myself:

8. Dang, I'm going blank again. ... ... OK, got it -- I enjoy spending time by myself. I like going out to eat, or going to the movies, by myself. I like spending the whole day in my studio by myself. (But I like having company too.)

9. I'm willing to try most things at least once. Although I drew the line at chicken feet. I've never wanted to try chicken feet.

So close, yet so far...I'm not coming up with #10! Part III, coming up tomorrow.

The movie tonight was Hairspray. It's very different from what I remember of the original movie. It seems like a whole different story line all together. And I didn't care for the music as much. It was still fun though.

What I like about myself, part I

Day 3 of my 48th year -- swollen lip. You know how once you bite your lip, accidentally of course, it swells up, which makes it hard to not bite it again, which makes it swell up some more. It's a vicious cycle. Those of you who have seen me in person will know that this is No Small Matter, them lips being a major portion of my face! And now they're even bigger!

Work wise -- finally got back to the silk road flowers web site again. Put up all the images that Rebecca has sent up to this point, with line count and character count samples so she can start working on the descriptions.

I got tagged by Sundry to list 10 things I like about myself, which she has titled as 'An Exercise in Immodesty'; of course I'll have to play along! This is not so easy as you might think. I came up with the first few without too much trouble, hence the Part I. The rest will have to wait until tomorrow --

1. I'm a hard worker; I'm pretty motivated and disciplined.

2. Oh dear, I've forgotten the rest already. Hmmm...I had several ready to go, and now I'm going blank. Oh, right, I'm not much for material things; I live pretty simply, and I really don't have great desires for most things. And the things that I do buy, I enjoy a great deal.

3. Here's another easy one -- I take good care of myself; I eat healthy (which I enjoy doing), I exercise (which I do not); I floss twice daily. And yeah, I LIKE flossing my teeth.

4. I'm resilient. I've had a lot of Good Things happen to me, which makes it easier to deal with the Bad Things, so maybe I can't take credit for this one. But it's such a good one...

5. I'm pretty accepting and tolerant, although I'm no doormat. I can tell the difference between someone being themselves and being respectful of others, and someone being abusive.

6. I try not to be limited by my fears. Given a good reason, I can make myself do things that I find scary. I'll stand up to bullies, and I'll investigate things that go bump in the night. And I will do it for others who can't do it for themselves. But of course, if I think you should be perfectly able to do it, then I don't see why I should do it for you.

Now it's starting to get a little harder; I'm running out of the 'virtuous' ones, so here's a not so virtuous one:

7. I have great legs! People have commented on my legs since I was 12, so it must be true. Although now the knees are starting to get wrinkly...on top of being black and blue from yesterday's incident.

OK, that's as far as I get tonight. Part II tomorrow.