Another late night! Ah Menopause!

What a life! It is now 1:48 AM and I am sitting here wide awake! I just primed a floor cloth and watched a movie (James Bond ... MY HERO :)) and took my little dog out to go pottie and well here I am without a yawn and I have a feeling it might be a long night. I am getting used to it but it can be annoying. I have more painting to do so when my floor cloth gets good and dry I will roll it up and do the priming for another one. For those of you who do not know... a floor cloth is a painted canvas that goes on the floor in place of a rug. It has to go on hardwood or linoleum or some other hard surface. It sits flush on the floor and you can walk on it and everything. Floor clothes were used a long time ago since they were easy to clean and took less time to make than a crocheted rug or a braided rug and they were lighter and could be moved around more easily. Anyway, I am hoping to get some done for Saturday. Just this evening I sold one of my items and got a commission for a painting. I have to say I am somewhat overwhelmed by all the positive input into my work. Remember I told you (I think I did anyway.) that when I started painting it was because 1. I ran out of my own furniture to paint and I am running out of walls to paint in my house, and 2. My husband and my best friend both said I have talent and I need to sell some of my things. Although I have always wanted to do this I just never felt I was good enough. There always seemed to be a new technique or a new craft to master to make me better. It is so much fun to get such a positive endorsement to my work. I don't quite understand it because in truth, it seems so easy to do. I just figure if I can do it then anyone can. My husband assures me that is not the case. He has tried at times to prove it but I am never sure that his attempts are on the level. I cant understand how anyone can paint so badly... He is a computer geek. While this may not explain everything I do believe it helps. My husband sees everything through logical thought. EVERYTHING! No abstract! No Rose coloring! No wavy lines... Just O..O..O..O.. And o...1's. For those of you out there that don't understand that it is how computers speak. I really don't care how they speak, personally just that they get my messages out there comprehensibly. So... Anyway where was I? Oh yeah... I have a best girlfriend who is also a techie. I admire her so much. She talks about electronics like I talk about painting. I think my talking about painting is a little bit more understandable to her than her talking about trons is to me but anyway she is a very logical person. She also is creative in her own right but her creativity tends to be geometrical or linear in nature. Anyway, we wanted to paint her living room and after some discussion and sampling we decided on sponging the walls. This was a tough one for her. The randomness just threw her for a loop. I would go back and get her patterned sponging so it looked more random and show her how to rotate the sponge and overlap it occasionally and just sponge it till it was textured and she would watch then go to another space on the wall and starting at the top would sponge in perfect rows down the wall... We laughed so hard over the painting... She said that doing random was so hard for her it made her brain hurt. We do have so much fun together.. I think probably because we are so different from each other in the way we think. Yet our values and the things we like are very similar. Anyway, we have known each other now for over 23 years. I met Mary when she and my husband worked together in the Navy on flight simulators. She used to come over with about 10 other people to play D&D on Saturdays at our house. She watched me all through both pregnancies and then we moved and they didn't and we didn't see or talk to one another for almost 11 years. When we moved back to the island She and her husband and family were back on the island too. We hooked up and well the rest is best friend history!
Okay so now it is 2:15 AM and I still haven't yawned. Think I will go up to my studio and see if the one floor cloth is done and perhaps prime the other so I will have two to paint tomorrow. Then I will really try to get some sleep. I hope you all are doing better than I am tonight. Sweet dreams. Talk with ya later today after I have slept a while.