Today is Vacation Wednesday. What ?... You never heard of it? Ok.. .I confess, I made it up, but just because I made it up, doesn't mean it's not real.
Do you think this very busy painting looks like a happy vacation going on? This is not a new painting of mine. I painted it several years back. I didn't date it, but I do have process photos somewhere, so if I really needed to know.....
Anyway, as a pretend artist, I can't say I have a style, but if I did, you would not recognize it by this piece. I mean, I see many different styles all around the net mostly, and sometimes I decide to try my hand at something different that I have never done before. That is what happened with this one. I have to say I wasn't amazingly impressed with myself and it had not been hanging out, but in all my sorting and moving things around lately, I came back across it again and it made me smile, so now it will get to hang out in the house somewhere. I can call it something like Vacation In Rio.....or maybe Vacation in China Towne.... you see the vacation part of it now... right?? ... or is it just a Party In The Park?
Vacation Wednesday came about accidentally a few years back. I mean for real, who chooses Wednesday to use lots of their paid vacation days ? I didn't either till I accidentally had a Wednesday or two off for other things a few years back. It made the work week kind of nice, work two days, off a day, work two days, off two days. No matter when I went to work I only had one more day to go before a day off ! I liked it !
So it began, one year I did that for a month in the spring and the fall to get to enjoy the good weather days a little more. Eventually, it has come to be a thing.... a fall and holiday thing. I save my days (most of them, I have 31 paid a year not counting holidays) and about September, I take every Wednesday off for the rest of the year. Cushie... right? 4 day work weeks, only 2 days at a time. This time, because of covid, I have not taken long weekends much or a week at a time because where would I go? So vacation Wednesday is lasting extra long this year.
The next thing is, what will I do with them? One year I took local day trips to downtown areas looking at art and new stores. Sometimes parks and other places to refamiliarize myself with what is still around here. That was fun. I sometimes use the days for visits or projects. There are not rules.
I stayed up half the night last night and slept in. Now I am at my computer with coffee and this Almond Butter Biscuit granola thingy, thinking on what I may do after this post. Just as I had taken the first two bites a fruit fly landed on it and ran across it real fast. 😣 My immediate thought was.... was he just on the turlet before he came in here? Ugh... if I think it, I have to not eat the rest of it.... I mean, my turlet is freshly clean and I'm the only one that uses it, but I still wouldn't lick it. Now I can't eat the rest of it ! I know... if I hadn't seen it I could have blissfully eaten the rest, enjoyed it and been happy about it.... but I did see it.
sigh
I originally thought I might go to Mom's for a short visit because I did not go last Sunday. When I talked to her a couple of nights ago, I found she had plans, happy plans as she will get to spend the day at my brother's house with two of her Great Grandchildren who live out of town. That will be the sweetest visit, I just know it will.
This photo is of her kitchen window. I took the photo the last time I was at her house. She grows many zinnias every year and this year she gathered lots of little vases from her garage and has displayed some of those blooms in this very happy way. Beautiful and fun....
So going there was out of course.
It's not like there is not plenty for me to do and I do like doing projects around my house too. I did tell you that I'm trying to dejunk my house and it is going so well. Not so many projects to go and it always feels good to get one more done, so I could spend a little time on that, but not all day.
I could also bake something while I have the time. Not Christmas cookies I'm thinking, but I knew Hive account@dswigle could appreciate this Christmas photo since she is including one at the end of all of her posts. I'm thinking on that myself. We'll see.
What may really happen though, is painting. I haven't done as much of it lately. That's not unusual, I usually paint in "spells"..... I mean too, I want too, but my spirit just won't take me too it, however, in scanning through my photos for this post, I found the below photo of some leaves I painted... back in 2014? Really?? Has it been that long??
I loved them when I finished them and had them in my house a couple of years. Then one time my SIL saw them and wanted one for her house. I gave them to her with the offer that if she found they did not fit in her decor afterwards, she was welcome to give them back to me. I would happily take them back and there would be no offense. She understood (or so I thought). I have never since seen either of them hanging in her house and nothing else has ever been said about it. I don't know if she still has them or not. Now ... in my life, I have not had strings attached to anything I have ever given away. Once it's out of my hands, the recipient is free to do whatever, but after never seeing them hanging, not even for a little while, I find I wish I had not let them go. Silly... right? I don't understand me either, but still....it seems I must have had a little bit of an emotional attachment to them since I created them.
In the last several weeks I thought about painting more. It was not on my mind this morning, but once I came across them, I'm thinking that is how I might spend my afternoon. New ones won't be the same, as abstracts never are, but I should be able to do something I love all the same.
It's noon already and I haven't done anything, but isn't that also part of a good vacation too? I think so, get up, have a peaceful morning with some coffee sipping and day planning and day dreaming and... whatever comes next !
My Vacation Wednesday's started 5 weeks ago. I was very productive on the first two, not productive at all on the second two and now here I am. How will I describe this one when it is done? Time will tell as it always does.
Hope you are doing well, however you are spending your day.
could appreciate this Christmas photo since she is including one at the end of all of her posts. I'm thinking on that myself. We'll see.
