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People who are quick to point out your mistakes in public, but apologize in private for their hasty and incorrect judgement.

Things are looking up on a personal level.

My husband and I are back to communicating and things have been great!

Work is pretty good. I think I am going to see if I can transfer to this new department permanently.

My art is going well. I actually like what I am creating! :)

When my personal life isn't going the greatest I tend to branch out and involve myself in projects. So far this year I joined the embodiment project and the art journal challenge as well continuing my participation in the 1000 journal project, but that doesn't seem to be enough. I just joined a new project called gluebooks. I love the concept of glue books. Gluebooks are a daily journal where the only requirement is that you glue something to your journal! I like to create at work since I have quite a bit of down time. With my art journal I have a lunchbox filled with art supplies that I use on a daily basis. I love to paint my pages and that tends to be messy and therefore frowned upon. I also tend to spend alot of time working out each entry. With gluebooks all you need is a journal, glue stick and stuff to glue. It is much more freeform and portable. I always tend to rip up magazines and use them in my journaling, but always as an added item and not the primary source of journaling.

With the gluebook I will be able to have a creative outlet and a daily record of my life that the written journal doesn't provide.

For more information on the above mentioned project go here....

embodiment
Art Journal Challenge
1000 journals
gluebooks

Week 2 - Written down prompt is to show what is unchangeable about yourself.

This thought came pretty quickly. I am forgetful. I have always been forgetful. At times it is very frustrating....when I can't remember memories from growing up, or from my wedding day. Conversations I had just a few days ago are already leaving me.

I discovered this week that being forgetful isn't always bad. Yes, I do tend to lose good memories, but more than that I lose bad memories. I don't live in the past and I don't hold past aggressions against people. I am able to deal with each day as a new beginning.

This past week has been one of the roughest weeks for my marriage.
I knew that we weren't at the best place, but I never realized how
far apart we were until Wednesday. Anyway, things seem to be out
in the open and we are working through everything. I still am
confused, but slowly, a little more everyday I am able to see hope.
I am thankful that we caught it when we did and we will both work
to never let things get so bad again.

I am so struggling on this intro page for my journal. I don't know why it is so difficult to describe myself. I created the page once and have since completely took it apart and am now on version 2. I still am not happy, so I am trying to figure out how to really showcase who I am. I am not feeling very creative on this one. Hopefully it is only because it is the first assignment.

I posted pictures of version 1 and 2 in my flickr badge.

I finished my first page for my art journal. I like the message, but am not happy with the way it looks. It is to simple so I may be redoing it soon. A photo is in my flickr photo badge.

I just got into an argument with my husband, well maybe a disagreement since we didn't really yell, but I feel really calm. Normally I would be upset and crying, but I am kind of glad. It seems that lately we are living two separate lives and this disagreement is kind of a wake up call. Either we make a decision to continue or we make a change. I feel good that he is now aware that we clearly are not on the same page. There is definitely things I need to change and there are things he needs to change. It feels good to have that out there. Of course he still isn't talking to me, but he needs to think things over. He'll eventually come around and we will be able to work on the issues.

It's a weird feeling to be happy over a fight.

My head is so full of thoughts that I can't seem to concentrate on just one thing. I always seem to have this problem so I am trying to start writing everything down. That way I can always refer back and not stress about forgetting.

Our first assignment for the art journal challenge is to create one page that introduces you to a stranger. For example if someone was to find your journal how would you introduce yourself to them. How would you describe yourself, would it be just name date, address or would you use characteristics?

I have been thinking about this and I still don't know exactly what direction I would go. I will definitely included my name and email address, but other than that I am stuck.

I am listening to the Lion, Witch and the Wardrobe on cd and I am wondering what exactly is Turkish delight?? I went to the internet to research and I found this page which has a recipe. I still don't know what it is. Maybe I should try and make some.

Anyway, I absolutely adore the Focus on the Family Radio Theatre production of the Narnia chronicles. I am already on the 2nd book. My car trips are now adventures and not just a way to get to work or the store.

I am currently reading "The Fisherman's Lady" by George MacDonald. I want to read more of MacDonald's work. Particularly his faerie tales. I found found that most of MacDonald's work is out of print and hard to find. I will definitely be on the look for his books from now own. MacDonald is the favorite author of C.S. Lewis and even Tolkien referred to MacDonalds writings.

I fell on my butt this morning while I tried to walk down the stairs. It was pretty funny, but my tailbone is sore!

With the beginning of the new year my creative juices are flowing. I just received the latest issue of Cloth, Paper, Scissors and I am extremely inspired by the various altered art projects. I have been interested in altering a composition book ever since I first found Dawn's blog at On the Banks of Bay Creek. I had purchased these really cool composition books from Walmart awhile ago and I think they would be perfect to alter. They are your basic composition book, but instead of the black and white cover they have wild bright colors and geometric shapes.

While searching online for guidance on altered books I ran across an inspiring new blog artful journey.
You can be sure that I will be spending more time here!

Now if I could only get through the dirty work of cleaning the house so I can spend time working on my art!!

2006 entered with a bang! I celebrated the new year at work. Our lovely main database crashed right at midnight which caused my phone to be flooded with panicked customer advocates! We had to forgo the computer system and actually take in call manually i.e. handwriting them and walking the information over to the appropriate people. My first few hours of the new year were spent calming frantic C.A.'s and dealing with upset members stranded on the side of the road and waiting for a tow truck. Fun! Fun!

When I left work at 4 am I called my husband to check in on him. He was at work as well and was so busy that he said hi and bye in 2 seconds flat. Apparently he was dealing w/crazy computer problems as well.

Now only 8 hours later I am back at work. At least today it is nice and calm. Everyone is still hung over and not moving around much which is great! I am by no means awake, but I do have my Starbuck white mocha which makes me happy.

I hope you had a great New Year with no computer melt downs! :P