Getting things done…

Posted on September 6, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged College, Life, overwhelming, Paperwork, Politics, Prevarication, Thought, Time, Work4 Comments

At last!

For a few months I’ve been putting things off. I used to sort things out regularly and efficiently in my old job, but when I left things changed.

I was always at the beck and call of people, sorting out their problems. My mind would work through possibilities and come up with solutions.

When I finished work I tried to get elected as a Councillor. I still wanted to help people and saw it as a way of using my skills. But the electors chose someone else. My political party had lost support. Then I regrouped and started a college course.

But as the months have gone on I have felt more and more overwhelmed. Putting things off to the end of semesters. Leaving the paperwork sitting on my desk. Why? Prevarication…. I wasn’t trusting myself to get things right. A couple of things had gone wrong and I was scared to try again. Would I succeed? Could I cope? Health issues for both me and hubby have increased my stress levels..

Anyway, today I did half the things on my list (about four of them) I’ve got more to do but I feel better about it.

Fingers crossed I can do more tomorrow.

Too many Ads

Posted on September 4, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged 2021, Ads, ate night, coverage, Humour, irritation, Life, Memory, Paralympics, Repetition, TV ads3 Comments

I’m watching the last day of the Paralympics. It’s been a wonderful display of talent and sporting prowess. My only dislike? Repetitious ad breaks! Yes I know who the sponsors are. I don’t need reminding every five minutes!

Let me put this out there. I’m not in the market to buy a new car, some new technology, or a new TV. I’m not interested in the channels new dramas, and if I did I wouldn’t need to be told over and over again when it’s on, my short and long term memory is fine… Its still 2019 isn’t it?

Joke….

Feeling owlish

Posted on September 4, 2021September 4, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Design, Digital drawing, Drawing, Fun, Life, Owl, Pattern, Shaking, Sketching, Symmetry2 Comments

Using the digital drawing app on my phone I just did this. There is no chance of it being celtic as its a finger drawing and my arm shakes too much to draw straight or neatly curved lines.

Still it was fun to use the mirrored curves tool (what is it called?) to create this. I liked adding a bit of p

Celtic horses again.

Posted on September 4, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, black fine liner pen, Celtic art, Drawing, Horse, Life, Sketching, triple pattern2 Comments

I do love celtic style art, and I love horses too, but sometimes the complicated patterns are mind boggling. Trying to copy them freehand is just so difficult. Perhaps when I drew this I could have done a third as a template and then copied the pattern for the other two thirds? Or using one of the tools that allow you to draw daisy type patterns digitally. Maybe I will try.

Excellent Blog Post from a Bike-rider and Occupational Therapist in a COVID Unit

Posted on September 4, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Covid19, Friend, Illness, Life, reblogged, Shared, Time, Virus1 Comment

“COVID cases are on the rise again and I just finished another tour of duty on the COVID units. Most of my patients this week were not vaccinated. I was vaccinated in December and January. While it is true that I am now magnetic, that’s just my personality and I was that way before the […]
Excellent Blog Post from a Bike-rider and Occupational Therapist in a COVID Unit

I saw this on my friend Martha’s blog and wanted to share it because the misinformation and strange ideas about the vaccines are really dangerous. I am fully vaccinated and hope that if you can get it you do get it. I know that it’s not available everywhere but it should be shared worldwide to try and fight the dreadful virus.

Speedy snail 🐌

Posted on September 4, 2021September 4, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, Black ink pen, Drawing, Fun, Humour, Life, Sketching, Snail, speedy2 Comments

Thursdays #bandofsketchers prompt was slow so I decided to draw a speedy snail after watching wheelchair racing at the Paralympics. I used the pink and green ink that had bled trough from the other side of the page together with fine black ink pen to indicate a wind or breeze. I guess I could have drawn a couple of leaves being blown about in it or the snails eye stalks being blown back? Do they have four eye stalks… .

Shakey Arm typing

Posted on September 3, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged aging? Hard work, Frustrated, hard to type, Life, Poem, Poetry, shaking arm, typos, unedited, Why?Leave a comment

Wibbld wobble

Tyoenig with a

Shakey Arm.

The phone wibbled

As I tye

I’m not goikng to.

Correct what

I type.

Shaking and vibratung

How do i catcb

Tye letters as

They dance under

My fi get?

Spend agrs

Correcring

Grrr!

The vets

Posted on September 2, 2021 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Black and white cat, Cat, Home, Life, Lost, Scary?, Stuck, Tuxedo cat, vets3 Comments

Today has been busy. My cat came home at 3am, his legs and mouth had some sort of tarry substance on them. He came in and drank water for about ten minutes, then I wiped his eyes and mouth and legs gently to remove some of whatever was on him. I even trimmed some fur off his tail because it was so gummy.

Today I had a good look at him, one of his eyes looked strange and he was still very thirsty so I took him to the vets.

I found out he has an ulcer on one eye and he has damaged his mouth possibly from trying to bite through or on something. He’s lost a lot of weight too. We still don’t know where he’s been. Tonight he’s on a drip at the vets but he should then be able to come home. I hope he will be OK.

Art lunch

Posted on September 1, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Abstract, Art, Art lunch, Black and white drawing, Drawing, Life, Sketching, StrawberryLeave a comment

Abstract strawberry and drawing of a strawberry. Done at an art lunch my friend organised at the warehouse at Etruria Industrial Museum. Just a chance to meet up with some artists I haven’t seen for months. It was good to see them in the flesh!

What to do next? Think about getting involved with community groups, I’m not good at networking so this is a good thing for me. It gets me to think about my artistic life.

Installation frustration

Posted on September 1, 2021 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Annoying, can't print, Frustrated, Ink, Life, printer problem, Technology, USB cable, WiFi2 Comments

Three hours wasted!

I had to buy a new printer/scanner because I couldn’t get the ink for my old one. So I thought I’d upgrade.

Big mistake! I started reading the instructions, popped in the disc to upload the new info. Then I put paper in and opened up the printer to install the inks. So far so good…

But, I clicked on a link on the screen and wondered why the WiFi setting on the printer looked like my old printer control screen? Still I did what it said and then decided to try and print. You guessed, there was an error linking up the computer and the scanner.

OK, I decided to link it up with a USB cable because the WiFi appeared not to be working. No joy. So I read the instructions a bit more and you had to press a WSP button on your router to get the computer to pick up the signal. I came downstairs and found the button. Pressed it, so it flashed. Back upstairs… Signal strength not strong enough. So I looked at the instructions, went back a few pages and set it for USB again, and working offline.

Then, I looked at the instructions again. Why was it showing the old control panel??!!

I realised that the disc had not whirred, it hadn’t installed. I’d wasted two hours! So, feeling foolish, I booted it up.. It said do this and that (already done) then do something else, yes, done. OK it seemed to be working. I checked the printer pattern. The printer whirred and a sheet of paper came out… Blank! Invisible ink? I tried cleaning the printer head. Nothing. I took the ink cartridges out. Their bases were pierced and I could hear ink sloshing… Strange. I rang the shop. They didn’t know what was happening so I said I would go back in the morning.

So.. I have a printer with ink, that is linked to the computer. But despite three hours, it won’t print, there is ink and paper, but the ink isn’t flowing!

Grrr, I want to print leaflets about my cat… And I’m stuck.

Mallaband-Brown

Tag: Life