Today was the last day of summer.  The park across the street was covered with frost when I woke up.  What the hell happened to my global warming?  Today was still (meteorological? geological? astronomical?) summer, dammit!  Frost.  It actually turned out to be a gorgeous day, just a bit on the freezing side.  It was sunny and windy and really clear and beautiful.

I spent the morning at the grocery store...seems like it took all morning.  Jay asked for piri piri chicken for dinner which I love, but it does require a lot of ingredients.  I made the sauce when I got home, then went upstairs and drew pictures all afternoon for a friend who needs an illustrator for his children's story.  It was fun.  I love drawing pictures and there's not much that's more fun to draw than little kids.  I'd been working on sketch ideas all summer but never got the time to sit down and do the final renderings.  Today I finished two black and whites that I like and tomorrow I'll do one in color.

I also should've primed a couple of footstools I'm doing but I ran out of time.  They are low, about six inches off the ground; round, about fifteen inches across and each has five feet.  One has egg shaped feet, the other has sort of diamond shaped feet.  I have some cool ideas on how to paint them, then of course, needlepoint for the cushions.  I need to finish those by next week.  I also have to do an insert for a glass topped table, a square uphostered footstool, some christmas stockings and small orders.  Oh, and I have to get the pictures together to try to sell an idea I had to the shop.  Usually they tell me what they need, but sometimes I have an idea I really want to paint and if they think they can sell it, I paint it.  I'm not sure about this one, but I like it. 

Zack and I watched Citizen Kane tonight.  He'd never seen it.  It's really hard to explain to kids these days why that movie was so important.  To Zack it was just a mildly interesting story based on a guy he'd never heard of who didn't really do much.  I told him if he wanted to understand it's importance in Film History, to watch it with the commentary on.  He didn't want to.  He just wanted to be able to say he'd seen it.  Fine.  That's what netflix is for.

Tomorrow, fall starts.  It's gonna warm up soon, I'm thinking.

I got a call from my brother today that made me laugh my butt off.  He applied for a job as a building super today and as part of the job interview, they gave him a spelling test.

A spelling test!!

Who ever thought real life would include spelling tests?  You have to realize that my brother, while one of the smartest people I know, can't spell worth a damn.  As he would write; "wurth a damb".

"What the hell?"  he laughed, "Do they think I can't plunger a toilet unless I can spell it first?"

Sometimes it's just not meant to be.

 

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