Last Day of January 2008

Wow, that was a busy month. Looking a February, it isn't going to slow down anytime soon.

A number of my friends do "irons in the fire" about once a month giving a short list of projects they are working on. Other friends have their DONE list (think Monster House for how to pronounce that). I have my 101 I am working on and today is the day I am suppose to go through it and see what I have done or sort of done or totally failed on. Sort of a monthly assessment of what I am trying to do. I read over the list yesterday and my heart fell into my boots as to the number of things I didn't even start accomplishing. But this is the first 30 days of a 1001 day project.

I do know two things I need to get done by next Saturday so those are easy to get done if I can find all the pieces I need.

Today I am all about the paperwork. I have a number of things I need to get into various people for various things. That and I have some stuff I need to ship out.

I also want to get the various photos I have taken over the past two months off my camera and onto my computer. I haven't updated my photos in a coon's age.

But first Caroline and I have a couple things we need to do together that we always do on Thursday which will take me to about noon if it goes true to form.

I am grateful for all I DID get done in the Month of January.

Writer's Block: An Artist Is...

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Something I didn't consider myself until much later in life. I have always considered myself a craftsman but not an artist. I was clever at figuring out how to make props and costumes for various reasons and I can reduce just about anything to puppet or doll size. But then a friend encouraged me to enter my puppets in an art show. I got my first Artist ribbon on my convention badge and how people perceived me changed because of that ribbon. I also won a popular award for my puppets at the show. And because of that I started to call myself an artist.