Okay, I admit it–I’m sort of a slob. I live alone, and thus can do things like eat my hastily-thrown-together dinner out of a bowl while sitting in front of the computer. That’s what I did Saturday evening, in fact. And after finishing my dinner, I occupied myself with other tasks, leaving the bowl on [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘life’
February 21, 2009
The Thursday night all-you-can-scavenge buffet.
The City of Seattle, in its infinite wisdom, has decided to include kitchen and yard waste pickup along with regular trash collection. For no additional fee, you get a little 13-gallon wheelie bin; if you need a larger container you have to pay for it. It’s pretty clear what is allowed in the kitchen waste [...]
February 9, 2009
Thrift score!
I’ve intentionally structured my life in such a way that I almost never have to drive anywhere. I live in an urban neighborhood, within walking distance of stores, the post office, and bus lines to anywhere else in the city. I’m self-employed, and thus my commute involves getting out of bed, going downstairs to make [...]
February 7, 2009
Waiting for paint to dry.
January kicked my ass (not necessarily a bad thing, mind you). Then it somehow slipped away, and now I’m a week into February, looking up and saying, “Oh, hell–is it the seventh already?”
I won’t bore you with the details, but the highlight of last month was spending a few days in San Francisco, roaming around [...]
January 9, 2009
No, it never stops raining in Seattle. Ever.
Between pouring rain and snowmelt following the Christmas storms, western Washington State is a mess.
Seattle, at the moment, is an island. Both I-5 and I-90, the major freeways into the Puget Sound region, have been shut down, and probably will not re-open until Saturday or Sunday. Long stretches of I-5 are under floodwaters, and I-90 [...]
January 4, 2009
Snow. And books. And saying “Yes.”
Good lord–it is snowing again. Really snowing. And it’s been sticking ever since it started to fall at about 6:00 PM. The street is completely whited over, and my sad, hummocky mess of a lawn almost looks attractive (as snow hides myriad landscaping sins).
This means Seattle will once again be in a state of paralysis [...]
February 26, 2008
Creating space.
I haven’t been blogging because I’ve been painting. Simple as that.
And when I haven’t been painting, I’ve been trying to impose some sort of order on my studio.
I own a house, and I live alone, which means I can use any room in the house as a studio. I’ve chosen the living room because it’s the largest [...]
January 11, 2008
Oh, the places I’ll go…
I believe in simple, easily-kept New Year’s resolutions. Why make a conscious decision to to do something horrible and depressingly necessary at the beginning of each year when you could do something fun and pleasurable instead? It’s not as if you don’t have 364 other days to beat yourself up for being fat, broke, and/or out-of-shape. New Year’s resolutions should be about [...]
January 3, 2008
Is this thing on?
Back on December 8, I created a blog over at Blogger in order to write about getting my creative life in order. The holidays and all their attendant craziness came and went, and somewhere between December 8 and today I forgot the login details for that Blogger account. All attempts to log in and finally [...]
