Chore Day, December 5, 2020: Laundry, Vacuuming, Baking, and Arting

Bedside lamp and pillow and Monet print, Corel Painter, Sargent brush

Today was a normal chore day. I welcome normal. I love a day when there’s no snow, no wildfires, everyone is healthy. I ask for nothing more than normal.

For the record, I did all of the laundry, vacuumed the entire house, baked some quinoa flat bread for fun, and tested Rebelle 3. Rebelle is known as the best digital watercolor app, but oil painting is coming in version 4. It looks like it will be awesome. I want it!

Even though my day is normal, I have problems: I like Corel Painter, and I like Rebelle, and I like Photoshop, and I like Clip Studio Paint Ex. That’s a lot of likes. Am I spreading myself too thin? Time will tell where I eventually focus my attention.

My other problem is that I have to create a page for this blog that displays my books. That’s a good problem. The next problem is that I have a Tumblr site that gets updated when I publish a post here…but the images are not exported to Tumblr. I have to get into a groove so that I upload every image to Tumblr. The last problem that I’m aware of is that I need to do better with social media, by which I mean post regularly to Instagram. I should be posting there every time I create a post in this blog.

Chore Day, Nov 23, 2019 - Baking Day

Today I baked 32 v-dog bean & sweet potato patties for my furry brethren, 8 lentil burgers for the humans, 30 delicious chocolate-oatmeal cookies, a dozen muffins, and two quarts of vegetable broth. As always, everything was WFPB. That’s Whole Food, Plant Based.

To wind down from a busy day in my tiny kitchen, I sketched this anonymous person. I was inspired by the cover of Leonard Koren’s Which "Aesthetics" Do You Mean?: Ten Definitions. The background music for this mood piece was Take Five, from Dave Brubeck’s Take Five album. Desmond wrote this famous song, not Dave Brubeck. All in all, it was a great day.

Staring at the sun