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5 Days Left - Treating Myself To A Sunday

It's a dreary, rainy Maryland morning. It's the last Sunday I'm in this house. There are only 4 things I want to spend my time on today, all for me. To celebrate the last weekend I spend here.

I really hope I don't have to do anything in that kitchen today. The boyfriend and his sister had such a busy day yesterday that I had to cook dinner and clean all the dishes and counter tops by myself. I resigned myself to all of that work on top of the additional packing I did, but it has totally burned me out. The idea of cooking anything makes my fingers tingle with anger. I am so fed up with this stupid fucking kitchen and the fucking rules about how it needs to be perfect. I want to be rid of it entirely. I want to be out of here already. No cooking today.

Anyway, back to trying to keep myself positive. Today I will focus on:

  1. Drawing
  2. Playing around with Procreate Dreams a bit.
  3. Making sure my laptop is set up for use starting this week so that I can shut down my computer permanently. Then the monitor can be packed.
  4. Learning about RSS and adding the ability for RSS updates to my blog.

Not in that order.

Plus, fit in another stretch session because that really helped. And maybe some Chess as a treat if I do my top three things early.

Important Dates

On the Packing Front

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Okay, so I rearranged and organized a bunch of stuff since the boyfriend made a ton of packing progress on his own today. But I didn't pack anything, so I still stuck by that. Going to be treating our room as a kind of "boxes that need to go first" room. We'll see how much we can fit in the car that's priority, and then the rest can probably stay in here to make room in the now-almost-totally-full living room.

Drawing

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I wasted a lot of time watching drawing videos, but finally got around to working my out some drawing. I am making good use of the loop select tool, which is something I've always wanted to use more of when I started making digital art. I really want to work it into my process. It'll save me a lot of time.

Other than that, I've really fallen out of practice so it feels like I forgot everything. Going to get warmed up drawing a still life before figuring out how I want to move forward from there.

Blog

So I did add a few things to the site today. I've started a resources tab of stuff I like and find useful. I'm hoping to make it easy to look through and navigate as it grows. I'll also probably remove some old links after a while if I no longer find them useful.

I'm very sure the RSS links don't work, but I'm too spent to test them today since I also have to find a few more RSS readers to try out before I know which one I like to use the most. Everything is its own journey, it feels like. It's why you need to enjoy the process, I suppose.

Thinking About Tomorrow

This was my last weekend in this house. Soon, my last Monday starts. I'm so nervous and excited for Friday.

Dates I'm Looking Forward To