Tuesday, December 30, 2008

Beginning





Squeakers, my lovely cat


I had a hard time falling asleep last night (finally did so after midnight)...I just wanted to flip a switch to turn off my brain for a bit. I thought..."maybe just a pause button"...which I guess is what I got, because I've been awake, thanks to the cat, since 5 am. My cat has been in this nasty pattern of coming into the bedroom early in the morning, trying to get me up to give him his spoonful of "the good stuff" (canned cat food). Sometimes he sits beside me as I sleep and lightly "paws" me in the face as if to say "hey, it's time". When I ignore that, he jumps up onto my dresser and starts knocking things off. That's what woke me this morning. (Yes, I know...just shut the bedroom door...then he just annoyingly paws at the door) He is overall a lovely cat, but not so lovely so early in the morning.
When I was trying to fall asleep, I was thinking about all the different art projects I want to work on. And yet, when I was in the studio earlier in the day, I felt unable to start. Starting is sometimes so hard. It's easy to feel distracted by too many ideas and hard to know where to begin. I guess the important part is just beginning.
I'll update later on today's beginnings.

1 comment:

pinkglitterfae said...

I can totally relate to this post, lol! I too, think of all the art I want to work on the next day, but when the time comes, I can't seem to focus, too many projects and ideas in my head, and I end up wandering around aimlessly :-)

Your little cat Squeakers is such a cutie! :-D
Would it work if you got him into the habit of getting the good stuff in the evenings?