A Toast to the Weekend

I have now missed 2 days.

Actually I remembered before I went to bed last night that I hadn't written a post yet. But I was tired and I didn't want to get out of bed. Girls, I warn you now. This may happen again if my computer is not in the same room as I.

“Inspiration is for amateurs — the rest of us just show up and get to work,” Chuck Close scoffed. “A self-respecting artist must not fold his hands on the pretext that he is not in the mood,” Tchaikovsky admonished. “Show up, show up, show up, and after a while the muse shows up, too,” Isabel Allende urged.

I pulled that from an art article that a friend posted. Guess that makes me an amateur since I sit around half the time waiting for the inspiration to come. Well no time like the present to get started, right?

I did have a fun idea that I want to play with for a possible animated short. Since that's the field I want to get into, I should probably come up with ideas now. But you know what? I think that's the area I've always been supposed to go into. When I come up with ideas, 96.5% of the time they are in scene form. Movie scene form. And more often then not the idea is of something that can't be done with live action. At least, it probably could but it would be easier to do with animation. Animation just allows you to explore all possibilities not just the ones that are accessible by earth's technology.

That doesn't make sense. But hopefully you get my drift, I really don't want to have to try to go through that again.

So this new idea, I'm looking forward to playing with it. And now with my finals done, all I'll have during the day is work and triathlon training. The work will provide me with money (possibly ideas) and the training will provide me with exercise and clear the head for creativity. First thing I have to get through though is this weekend.

I'm going home to visit the family because plans fell through. That's okay, free laundry and free food. And fun bonding time. We have a fantastic family and I'm super blessed to be so close. Well close enough that they can come pick me up since I lack a car of my very own. Someday though, someday.

They should be here now so I need to finish getting ready. You'll love them when you get here and they'll love you. Be prepared though for mocking. It'll be done with love but it will be done.