Gingerbread house is mostly done, just without the tower (I ran out of frosting, got to pick some up at the Michael’s in the upper west side tomorrow.
Also, I pretty much finished this painting I’d been working on for a while. I need to wait for it to dry and paint in the white parts.
After what, 24 years, I’m finally getting the hang of oils. The key is to have a brush for each primarycolor because it’s absolutely impossible to get every trace of something out of a brush, gamsol be damned. I’ve been doing this series of Mac OS icons that I’m hoping to hang in a grid behind my computer desk alongside an impressionist rendition of a row of the original Macintosh icons designed by Susan Kare.
I love being on break because I at least have some time for my hobbies when I’m not working, rather than having all my free time outside of school taken up by work.
My sleep schedule is a whirlwind of crazy—I didn’t feel tired last night, so I got up and put together the rest of the gingerbread house until I ran out of frosting. Then I cleaned up the kitchen, read my Economist for a while, then fell asleep on the couch until 6 p.m. I’m going to try to at least lie in bed until the morning, because I have a ton of last-minute holiday shopping to do.
Derek, as you may know, got me the amazing Beard Head hat for Christmas, but I got a letter in the mail today saying that they were backordered and that I would get it whenever they had it. Le sad!
However, as far as I know I’m getting a table easel and my Chrome bag, which is just fine for me. I’m in so much credit card debt that I really don’t need anything. Well, I should flip over to my work user account and get started. I’ve only got three weeks to get this beta site in tip-top shape.
Also, I don’t know why I don’t have a list of the blogs I read on my sidebar. I’m so behind in redesigning this site—it’s always the last thing on my priority list, but I like the current design. Clean minimalism is my thing these days.