Patience and Blog Fever

When I first began this blog I tried to post everyday.

I hoped that someone was out there reading it, but I really wanted to have a place where I could share my ideas, hopes, daydreams and inspire creativity. I have learned so much in the last three years about the internet, websites and blogging and have slowed my writing down to the point where I only share what I feel is absolutely essential. You see, as I blogged I made friends in the real world and soon my empty calender filled and spilled with lunch dates and crafty get togethers! It seems amazing to me now, how many friends I have, but I used to spend so much time alone, and while that did give me the time to be creative (some would say prolific) I felt as if the only people who understood me were the people that I interacted with online.(Now, my close friends who read this know that I know that they know me. ;)  Just a shot of NyQuil and I'm writing like a Nobel Prize winner! Just keep reading, it'll get better).

It's so easy to do a search and find the things you love. It's not as easy in real life when you have to physically go to where the people are and run the risk of being laughed at for your mismatched socks and crazy apron get ups that seem normal and whimsical online. I used to have Blog Fever and I read them non stop. I couldn't help myself. The lure of stunning visuals and intriguing imaginative creations was a pull I couldn't resist. Chocolate and sex paled in comparison! I had to lurk and comment and link and post! It was obsessive.

It has taken me years to "get a life" but it will never be the same as escaping into Blogville with my trusty needle and thread and digital camera. Our lives have changed so much in recent years, the technology that has become commonplace was unthinkable 20 years ago. As we watched the Simpsons 20th Anniversary special last night I realized that I was the age that my son is now when it came out. I remember when it was on the Tracey Ullman show and how the shaky animation was so endearing. Homer has changed a tiny bit, but really he is still an oaf. A donut loving oaf who loves his wife and family even if he can't say or do the right thing all the time.

Kinda like me, I guess. I don't always do what I say, no matter how good my intentions are, I get overwhelmed and stall out when ideas don't work as I envisioned. I guess I am trying to say that I am still working on the 12 days of christmas and while the world has moved on I am still stuck in Christmas Town. I finished the 10th day but it didn't make it out of Flickr. I have 11 & 12 drawn out and have started working on them. Then the husband got sick and now I have it too. Coughing, aching, sneezing, wheezing, can't sleep because he is coughing. yuck. I tried to put a pillow over his head to muffle the noise but that really didn't help. teehee, cough, cough.

Anyway, he is better and now I am dragging. I will finish when I finish.

When I filled the squirrel feeder this morning there was frozen water in the plant saucers on the table out back! I wanted to take a picture but it was so cold I had to get back inside. I know that most of you laugh at that but for us on the Gulf Coast of Florida- there is never any ice in the winter! We are usually at the beach getting tan this time of year. Strange. anyway, where was I?

I'm getting to the above mentioned Patience part. Thank you for yours.

ahh, the wonders of cold medicine.

I was wandering, stumbling,  through the internet fog this morning and I saw this wonderful handmade book by Randi Parkhurst, paper artist and bookmaker demonstrates her book creation, “PATIENCE”. Original music provided by Laura Inserra. I just had to share it here with you. It made me feel joy. I hope it brings you some as well.

Patience from Glowing Heads on Vimeo.

That's why I blog.

stay well and warm, my blogville friends,

xo, kim