12/31/07 9:10 am I may have overslept. Last night I flipped past The Sound of Music, so I watched it (it was still near the beginning). I went to bed at 11. Steve got up at 6:30. I got up to go down the hall, then went back to bed.
12/31/07 1:37 pm Okay. Drawing on canvas is a BUST. I tried on the other smaller canvas - the same size as the one good drg I did. It was awful. And the gesso-over paint surface is inconsistent.
12/31/07 It may have been a good surface to draw on once, but it's not the same on this canvas. I couldn't get the same shading effects. Not good. It was so bad. I didn't even take a digital pic of it.
12/31/07 I got out my Pink Pearl eraser to make dark lines in the pencil, and that totally ruined it and made it look awful. I gessoed over it, so it's gone. No pencil drg on canvas.
12/31/07 2007 seemed to be the year to discover what did not work. Red Woman ptg. is the only good thing I did all year. Everything else was a dead end. Wrong turns I then could not duplicate.
12/31/07 A few nice pencil drgs that were TOO UPTIGHT. Not enough painting the way I want to paint. Blah! I better continue to tear down paper. I only have two j. pieces left.
12/31/07 2:20 pm I made a note last week, while reading over 99 j. pieces - I forgot to write about it. I had so many cravings and food obsessions. And when you read about dieting crap, there seems to be so much emphasis on making it your fault.
12/31/07 Like you're an emotional wreck, you are emotionally unstable because you have all these cravings. And it has nothing to do with my mental or emotional state. It was eating too many carbs! Carbs cause cravings. Carbs make me hungrier.
12/31/07 It wasn't me, it was simple carbs. Well, this is the year I lose weight, or else. Mom was right after all: "Watch those carbos!"
12/31/07 5:11 pm Yesterday I put all the Christmas stuff away. I also got Steve to move several of my bins off the floor or into my closet. The apt. doesn't look quite so cluttered now. I've been doing shredding, but the machine overheated so it shut off.
12/31/07 And I only had two more things to shred. I tore down a bunch of j. paper today. Read through Nov 07 and Dec 07. But I don't want to do a Year in Review. Nothing worked! There's my Year in Review. A few notes: Doug's check finally cleared. After 3 months. [I sent my nephew a check for $75 in September because he and his girlfriend had a baby. It never cleared, never cleared. Finally, I emailed him, and he answered that it was in a stack of stuff and got forgotten, but it was now in his wallet to be deposited. It still didn't clear for a month - it cleared late last week. Note to Self: Cash is NOT a good gift.]
12/31/07 When we were at Susan & Steve's Christmas, we were telling them about the Gettysburg trip. Guess what? It's against the law to take beer across the state line into PA! Who knew? Did I mention the Robocop Enforcement Droids?
12/31/07 I forgot to say that Steve got me Robocop as a Hanukkah gift. And Steve asked if I knew about the Enforcement Droids in the legal disclaimer: I did not. When I talked to Jami last week, I told her about it.
12/31/07 She thought it was funny. But both of us couldn't believe we missed that given the number of times we went to see that movie. That was the summer we moved into the rental house with our friend Christine. BEEG MEESTAKE.
12/31/07 We'd come home and Christine and her friends would be sitting on our couches watching movies on our t.v. and vcr. We escaped to the movies, and the only thing out was Robocop. We moved out after a couple months. We moved way out to Marietta.
12/31/07 At the end of the credits, it says: ...unauthorized duplication, distribution or exhibition may result in civil liability and criminal prosecution by enforcement droids.
12/31/07 Steve wins the Golden Eye Award once again! He was the one who spotted Mr. Hankey in the Southpark opening credits way back in first season (among other things he has spotted).
12/31/07 Did I mention Steve is closing? So I'm home alone this evening. I'm going to open the bottle of red wine from G'burg. 5:42 pm Yay - the shredder recovered, so that's done and put away.
12/31/07 I also poured myself a glass of the Adams Cty. "Three Ships to the Wind" red wine. It's nice and light, not dry. I've been watching Project Runway all day. 5:52 pm I'm having trouble with carb cravings! I've been snacking!
12/31/07 On chips! It will be easier when I go back to my Shit Office Job. I can only eat what I take with me. 6:00 pm I should probably stop at one glass of wine so I don't screw up my sleep.







































































