Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Beauty and Exhaustion

If the Olympic games broadcast goes until 11 pm each night, I'm in deep trouble. As it is, I usually go to sleep at 10 pm and awaken at 3:30 am. That allows me to take my shower and spend 2-3 hours on the computer before I leave for work (and another 1-2 hours on my laptop). That's only 5-1/2 hours of sleep on a normal night, so by Saturday I'm a sleepy wreck and I sleep in on Sunday morning to 8 or 9, sometimes until 10. But now I'm getting 4-1/2 hours of sleep and I'm going to be a zombie. But I can't miss skating, and snowboarding, and luge, and...and... Oh heck! I really love the Olympics but I will be a total disaster by the end of the 16 days.
And I am delayed on my etching project because I have not received my Tengwar translation yet. I should get that within a day or two, but it looks like I'll be able to etch the copper next week. And at this rate, one more week is not the end of the world. It's more "par for the course".
So, today is a busy day before the shop opens, and I would like to continue to clean up some more designs that I wanted to etch for diferent projects. If I'm going to etch some items, I might as well etch a lot of them. It's easier for me that way. And maybe my tired brain will free up my creativity a bit more because any barriers I have placed in my mind will be weaker because of lack of sleep. This may all be good for the creative process and I may reap these rewards over the next year or more. At least that's the optimistic viewpoint LOL.

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