I usually time my holidays so they coincide with Bluesfest, but it didn’t work out that way this year. Instead I’m spending my holidays recuperating from Bluesfest.
I only booked two weeks holidays, but I should have gone for more. I get seven weeks annual leave, which is mostly theoretical since I can never take my full allotment, but I do like having all those unused days and weeks stashed away in the Vacation Vault.
The first order of the post-Bluesfest holiday was grocery shopping. After 12 days of “living off the land at Bluesfest,” as Jamie put it, I needed some real food. I had supplemented the festival fare with multivitamins, but I don’t think it helped much. (Even though – and I didn’t know this until I got the bottle home and examined the label under a magnifying glass – each vitamin contains 8350% of the Daily Recommended Allowance of Vitamin B-12.)
On Monday I bought $50 worth of fruits and veggies and $50 worth of other food. That’s a lot of food for one person. Since then, I’ve been racing the fruits and veggies to the finish line, trying to eat them all before they go bad.
So far I’ve eaten grapes, raspberries, bananas and nectarines. I still have to tackle the cantelope, apples, grapefruits and more grapes. And that’s just the fruits.
(Uh oh. This looks like it’s turning into a “What I Had for Lunch” post. Bear with me – I’ll wrap it up.)
I’ve spent the first three days of my holidays eating, sleeping, playing the guitar and doing a little art.
Here are my latest Artist Trading Cards:
Artistic Leap
Requiem for Peace
In the Artist’s Eye
Those are all digital. I’ve also been playing with one of my multitude of Works in Progress – it’s a 12×12 canvas with layers of transparent paints and image transfers (so far, a little boy from Shorpy, a Ziegfeld girl, and a clock) on a background made from some pages from Sisterhood is Powerful, and a map of Indiana. There’s a mugshot going on there next. It’s…um….eclectic.
I wonder how artists are supposed to know when a piece of art is finished? As far as I can tell, I haven’t actually finished anything yet.
Speaking of art, I was poking around in some old files and came across this collage that my son did in kindergarten. It still cracks me up. I think I’ll get it framed.
Anyway, now I’m off for my annual All-Day Breakfast at the Ugly Club.
One last thing – if you need a good heartwarming cry today, read this post by Rachel at Yarn-A-Go-Go.
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