Flurry of Activity and Creativity

Sometimes I am absolutely possessed by a physical need to a. clean, and b. draw. I've dusted, vacuumed, and organized to my heart's content and feel happy that I'll be starting off the week with my room in perfect order. School starts again tomorrow and I am really looking forward to returning to my routine. Whenever I get breaks I feel like I don't know what to do. It's like a birthday present you get but don't want. It's still a present and nice, but there's no joy in it.

I've also been doing some good sketching today. I completed two small pictures and started a larger one amidst preparing dinner for myself, which was very good by the way. I'm currently quite inspired by nature, particularly barren nature when it is stripped of its aesthetically pleasing aspects, i.e. leaves and flowers. Remove the trappings and see what is real. Leaves and flowers die with the season, but the plant remains. The plant is life, the plant is real.

Anyways, that is what I am up to right now. I am thinking of going to bed early with some poetry and a hot water bottle. And a snack. Life's not too bad.

Love, Colette

Good Morning, Bon Jour, Buenos Dias, Buon Giorno, Guten Morgen

I suppose I must introduce myself, although I am not at all good at doing so. My name is Colette, and some random things about myself are that I drink a lot of tea and coffee, I like the smell of freshly mowed lawn, I read anything that will stay still for long enough, and I consider myself an artist. Creating art is my way of expressing of myself and I hope to share some of my works on here at some point.

I have an eating disorder. Some might think that eating disorders are glamorous, but they are not. There are many, many misconceptions about eating disorders out there, and I'm sure I will address them all sometime, most likely in an incomprehensible rant, but I don't want to now. I'm just giving anybody out there fair warning that I deal with this issue and will discuss it frankly and honestly.

So, why do I have a blog? Well, I'm socially inept, which means that, aside from some incredible cyber friends, I don't have anybody to share my thoughts with. I think a lot, but inevitably say little, so this is where I plan on doing some saying!

Love, Colette