Stess's Journal

I got all set up to paint, since my parents are out of town for the weekend I figured I could paint in my room without getting into trouble (I just have to keep the window open so that the whole house doesn't smell like turpentine. mmm) But of course, it's been so long since I've painted that I forgot how long it took to prep canvas. I bought pre-stretched canvas, but I always put an extra layer of gesso over them, which you are supposed to let dry for 24 hours. Whoops. So now I'm all set up to paint tomorrow. I have my grandfather's old easel set up, which is cool.

In other news I think my scalp is reacting to whatever dye my stylist used yesterday because it itches.

Ok ok...don't everyone go at once, because of Geocities and bandwidth etc, but...

My website LIVES!

It's just an index page with a link to this lj, my porfolio, and the new site I made about my book, but check it out, because I'm super proud of it.

Why is it the best V-Day ever?

Because my day had absolutely *nothing* to do with Valentines Day. :) For the first time ever, I wasn't surrounded by friends passing out Valentines or getting roses or teddy bears from their boyfriends, or heart balloons in the student center, or being depressed and dissapointed because I'm missing out on something.

Today my mom and I had a girls day out, and it was great. She went to her Embroidery Club this morning, loved it, and then we went to lunch at this really cute restaurant called "Ye Old Library" because it was the original building of the Carmel Library. Then we went to this quaint little town not too far from us and went in antique stores and art galleries and knick-knack shops and I bought a really cute brown hat for me to wear in the winter, and was inspired to start doing art again. AND I got chocolate covered cashews, and $10 from my dad for v-day. Then my brother rented a classic - Bill Cosby stand up. "Dad is great, He gives us Chocolate Cake" never gets old.

And as I said, today I decided two things. 1. I bought a digital camera with my Christmas money. Time to make use of it. I shall now carry my camera whenever I go out, and look for fun stuff to photograph. Just for fun. 2. I need to start making art again. Playing video games and staring at a computer all day is not a good use of my creative energy. I should paint! Do those woodcuts I promised katysdiary forever ago! Of course, my mom is threatening to take said work and then take it to the art gallery we went to today that features local artists. Note to self: Make it, then Hide it.

Adams assigned us a book. I read it in 45 minutes.
It touched me. From Addicted to Mediocrity by Franky Shaeffer:

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Amen. A thousand times over.
Anyone in the media/arts or interested in art/music/literature/media/poetry/dance/whatever should read this book. Everyone.