A Tuesday that feels like a Monday. I was pleasantly surprised that I didn’t actually draw the wrong day of the week. I am back at my desk today. With invoices to send out and new jobs to check in and some bits and pieces to do on an ongoing project and some scheduling and cash flow checks. The next couple of days are quite light, though, on publishing work, for me, so I will be using that time to do some art biz admin. And also a bit of shopping. I did make the silly mistake of thinking I would have three days for that, rather than the two I actually have. Because today is Tuesday and not Monday.
I feel mostly good about being back at my desk and very pleased with having had such a restful weekend. I read a whole novel! (It’s Not What You Think by Clare Mackintosh – very good and clever and page-turny.) But… I do also feel like I got a glimpse of how my life could be, at some point in the future. And it looked and felt good.
Which is kind of where the ‘just start’ and ‘a new day’ in the picture sprung from. Rather than waiting for that mythical day when the ideal becomes reality, I think I want to pick ways to bring the ideal to my life as it is now. I just need to work out which bits can come in at this point in time, rather than expecting them all to be able to fit. And, of course, I have let ‘social’ scrolling seep back into my days far too much of late, so I can just start by swapping that out for some of the good stuff.
Thanks for hanging out. See you tomorrow.
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