To do

1. I need to read in the evenings. I need to get enough done in the day to warrant taking the evening off. It's a creative-person cliché to work late into the night, particularly if you are in the middle of something. It's less to do with stamina and more to do with lack of self-discipline. Things can whisk you away. And sometimes important things should. But mostly with me I tend to think, oh I can get some stuff done after dinner, and I languish around making a meal, then I clean, and then I goof off at the desk and suddenly it's 10'oclock and a cat is put out because he wants snuggling and I am too tired to do much else. And then I don't sleep well. Routine routine routine. I need an evening one again. One that isn't exclusively "watch a thing".

2. I need to tell you that the blade on the immersion blender is VERY sharp. Very. It means using it is a breeze but cleaning it is very tricky, despite the fact that the whole end comes off. I may actually need to buy a skinny tool to do the job.

3. I need to write an "about me" thing on the art blog, since I'm using it as my website. Weirdly I am utterly stumped every time I give it a try, and am considering a.) bumming the job off on someone else (want to write my about me thing?) b.) writing a completely fanciful, fake bio ("When she squints her eyes slightly she can hover several inches off the ground!"), or c.) not writing one, except one expects to see something like that on an arty website, mostly to figure out where someone lives and where one went to school (which I usually either pointedly do not mention, or list in conjunction with the Maggie Nichols Institute of Art and Design.)

4. A publishing house out of HarperCollins published my illustrated version of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. I need to figure out who did the illustrated version of Life of Pi, and get to the bottom of this. I love it! Do other people love it? I want more! I can help!

4a. I need to get to a point where I can illustrate any blog entries lavishly, a bit like Maria Kalman's offerings, which I love passionately. I need to for practice but also because pushing myself that much would be Very Good. Yes indeed.

ALTHOUGH, I don't want to go exclusively writing-on-the-paintings like she has, because while I like the way it looks, it would mean that Iris' page reader would not be able to read the thing. I'm not always wordy over there, but if I am I don't want to exclude.

5. I need to make sure to post to this thing more often.