Week in Review: Week 135
Daylight is getting noticeably shorter. The one time I made it out this week to walk before work it was too dark to even take pictures. That’s no fun! Work was work-like. We had a tornado on Long Island. While certainly not the norm for this area, I feel like it’s happening more and more. I can think of three separate instances in the past 8 years. I’m tired all the time. I feel like there’s fewer hours in the day and more things I want to do. And TV shows are back! So I’m grateful for this 3-day weekend.
Sunday I stayed home after our long Saturday at Governor’s Island. I got a little bit caught up on blog work, did laundry and watched a movie. It was such a pretty day out, I did get out in the last hour to go sit in the park by the water. The air was good.
Monday I went to the doctor for my scan follow-up. There was a weird chest thing that had me concerned but he said not to be concerned. And cancer-wise, all clear. Alrighty. I go for another scan in 6 months. I still have the one kidney stone I’ve had for several years that so far has been laying low and not bothering me. Yet.
Tuesday I went to an “Intuitive Painting” class with my friend Stacey. We meditated and painted. Hers was pretty, mine was ugly. No, seriously. It was so ugly the teacher said I could paint over it if I wanted and start over again. So I did that. Ugly Painting 2.0 was less ugly, but still ugly. I know I’m talentless with this sort of thing. But I like the process. I LIKE to paint. I just wish I could get to the point where the result was something I actually wanted to look at. Ha. As embarrassing as it is, I’m going to share them both with you. The first one is SO BAD. Like the bloody arm of death reaching up out of the ocean. The re-do is like glowy pea soup arm in pea soup fog. Relatively speaking, I like it better. But that’s really not saying much.
Ugly Arm #1
Ugly Arm #2
I would totally understand if you never came back to my blog again.
The next morning I got to work and someone had put all these boxes in front of the door to my office. Thanks for giving me plenty of room to get in the door. NOT.
I went to a Loft store that now carries plus sizes, yay. They didn’t have a lot of things, but there were some. There will be a fitting room try-on post later this week.
After trying-on, I stopped at a lake park and watched the sky change.
Friday, one of my co-workers brought in a figgy cheesecake. It was deeelicious.
Cute kitty typing. I haven’t tried it yet, but I’m pretty sure 4.5 hours of my 3-day weekend will be devoted to figuring out how to do that.
Sunday, She Shall Who Remain Nameless and I headed up to Wave Hill in the Bronx, which is a gorgeous garden overlooking the Hudson River. I try to get up there once each fall, which I think is its best season. This visit did not disappoint. EXCEPT for the heat and humidity! Not the garden’s fault, obviously, but come on! It was over 80 degrees and like 85% humidity. Still, a lovely visit.
And that’s the week! And yay, I have Monday off, too! What’s everyone doing for Columbus Day??
Nancy
Hahaha, that painting is fun! And the photos beautiful! I don t think the person that delivers the boxes uses his or her head!
hinesley7
Your photographs are just stunning. For real. Maybe you should just stick to photography rather than painting 😉 Only saying that because anything I painted would be way worse than yours!
Fashion Schlub
Thanks! Don’t worry, painting will never replace photography for me. I shouldn’t say never, but…. 🙂
Clover
Well, the background of painting 1 is really nice! Maybe more ethereal/abstract is your niche. 🙂 The color is so pretty and the swirliness of the lines too.
I can’t draw worth a hoot. So much in my head comes out looking like a drunk monkey did it.
It’s lovely how you get out to parks and for sunset so often. You’re so great at soaking up that quiet, still beauty!
Fashion Schlub
Ha, yes, the BACKGROUND is nice! It was a “guided” painting, meaning she kept giving us direction, like “cover your canvas with horizontal strokes,” “change color!” “make swirls!” All done to Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody “paint to the music!” NO NO NO NO NO NO NO! OH MAMA MIA MAMA MIA MAMA MIA LET ME GO! That was the GOOD part. Then we did a guided meditation while that all dried (more or less), THEN she told us to trace out hand and arm on the canvas and either paint inside the lines or outside them…and that’s when it all went downhill, ha.
Jodie
Hey…it’s not the end result of the painting that matters…it’s the process. Just like everything else (well, most things). Besides, being a good painter is overrated. Aren’t they all starving??
I know I say this all the time, but it’s true..your photos are amazing!! You have such an eye….
XOXO
Jodie
http://www.jtouchofstyle.com
Cant wait to see the try on session…..
Fashion Schlub
Thanks for the compliment on my photography. I’m certainly not giving THAT up (though I’d really lost my love for it for awhile with doing too many work shoots and photo jobs), and I do really love the PROCESS of painting. I just thought it would be nice to be able to paint some simple scenes…like my vintage cookbooks on a shelf or a favorite chair. It SOUNDS so easy!
Try-on session coming Friday!
Susan Marinelli
I will echo Jodie here and say it’s not the painting it’s the process. Then I will tell you that first painting is very scary. It reminds me of a desert monster from Beetlejuice. The second is better, but you paint like me, i.e. not at all.
Wave Hill is absolutely gorgeous, and made even more so by your wonderful pictures. I particularly like the one of the little begonias (are they begonias?) growing in the little corner next to the brick wall. I had Friday off, so today I am working, but three day weekends are the best. Unless they are four day weekends.
Glad to hear your doctor visit came out okay, and your worries were quieted.
OMG, I LOOOOOVE figs. I took a cutting of my friends fig tree, and am trying to grow some. So far the little fella is just a stick, but I’ve been coddling him along, and in a decade or so, maybe the birds will let me have a fig. The birds did allow me a few tomatoes this weekend, so today it’s a tomato sandwich with Miracle Whip for lunch. Yum.
I see a yellow floral shirt in that try-on lot, and thought how nice it would look with your yellow sweater. Hope it makes the cut.
Have a good week, Bettye.
Fashion Schlub
Yeah, I should probably not show my “art” in public anymore. It’s too disturbing 🙂
I think it was either a variety of begonia or pepperomia – those little puckery leaves, so cute! It was like I’M GROWING RIGHT HERE, DAMMIT!
Fig plans are popping up all over Long Island as volunteers (as it’s gotten warmer) but they really need protection from the freezing to get figs.
Tomato sandwich, yum.
Iris
I love that you’re trying painting – one of my ‘secret dreams’. I did attend a painting party a few months ago. We painted a little white church – looked pretty easy – NOT. Everyone else’s looked good, mine is awful. But, I enjoyed it. Would love to take a painting class.
Loved your flower pictures and the lovely garden. You know you are a very talented lady – right?
Grace & Peace, Iris
http://www.IrisOriginalsRamblings.com
Fashion Schlub
I’d like real classes, too. I did a paint nite once with Katie, and that was fun and I was actually pretty happy with my painting except that it was sort of a dumb picture, ha. And then it hung out in my trunk too long and got a hole poked in it. But yeah, I’m TRYING. As disturbing as the outcomes sometimes are.
Debbie from Illinois
Yay! Glad your test results were great! Boo, on the kidney stone!
Fashion Schlub
I don’t think this one will ever bother me, it’s too big. It’s only when they get stuck in the ureter trying to get out that they cause pain. This is already bigger than the opening, so as long as it just keeps floating around in there, it shouldn’t bother me. Knock on wood 🙂