Snowpocalypse!!!

That's right, SNOW!  In the winter, no less!! 

Yes.  I am being a smartass.  It's just that our local news station has been talking about the snow, the snow, the snow, for about 3 days now.  We got about an inch which melted off before noon today.   I don't mind the snow for me, but I hate that my kids have to drive in it to get to work.  You have to understand that around here, we just don't get much severe weather and this little bit makes people crazy on the road.  People that will be driving around with MY BABIES on the road!  Whew.  Calm down, momma bear.  I feel better now.  

I actually am happy that there's snow on the mountains because I haven't been skiing enough this year.  The thing I don't like about winter is how crappy everything looks in the mud with the dead leaves and ick.  While on my walk today, one of my neighbors had something on their lawn that was either a used pantiliner, or the insole of a ballet shoe, neither of which I am anxious to know the history of. 

On an unrelated note, I am still looking for a job probably not hard enough, but whatever.  I worked at a job I hated for 15 years solid, give me a break.  I have sold some paintings.  As a matter of fact I just sold the one that is on the beginning of this blog, the one with the leaves.  Which I didn't even want to sell, I painted it for the front desk area of my friends' salon.  So I had to paint another very similar one for them to replace it.  I also decided against displaying paintings with the art association for now.  That's a whole other post, though. 

Hello, Old Friend

Well, it's been quite a long time since I've been here.  Since the last time I checked in and imported my archived blog posts here, I was laid off from my job of 15 years, my last remaining dog (Gunnar, such a good boy) passed away from lymphoma, and my youngest son moved to Seattle to go to school (but really, I think, because he wanted to move out with his buddies and try life on his own.  Which I get).

All of which sucks, except the being unemployed part is not the worst thing that's ever happened to me.  Having to pay for family health insurance with no help from an employer is hard to swallow, but other than that, I'm doing a lot of painting, little things around the house, and exercising more.  But I am looking for another job, hopefully one that I enjoy more and is less stressful.   I don't care much what it pays as long as they have good benefits.  I'm selling paintings, too.   The first one on this blog page (the leaves) just sold a few days ago, as a matter of fact. 

I sold a painting through the art association, but after they take their huge commissions, I don't make much.  So I've decided not to deal with them anymore.   I'd like to be civic minded, but they charge us to be members, charge us to display our work, take 30-40% commission on gallery sales, and then ask us to volunteer at the gallery once a month, plus show up at the stupid receptions which frankly, I'd sooner have a colonoscopy.    So yeah, done with that.  There are other places that are happy to have stuff on the walls and don't charge me to display there, and they don't give me size limitations or criteria I must adhere to.  Which is very freeing. 

Since this blogsite is a little more user friendly than the last one, I hope to keep this one more up to date and have more pictures on here.  Cya!