Yogurt (vanilla or peach)
Banana
Pimento cheese
Hummus
Saltines
Tomato sandwich on white bread
Soy cheese sandwich
Once a week, (usually on Sunday) I cooked: vegan quiche, made from scratch.
Once a month I bought a nice frozen pizza.
I think I made a salad 3 or 4 times.
Prior to that my L.A. menu for almost 2 years consisted of the following:
Oatmeal with raisins, bananas, cranberries and soy milk
Baked potato with soy butter
Once a week (usually on Sunday) I might order a pizza.
Oh sure, I've sucked down a chess pie here and there, but otherwise, it's standard fare.
So, yes it's a big deal to introduce the tofu chili to the fall menu.
I still have an espresso at 2pm sharp every day.
I came across a blog called daily routines. I like routine. Routine and structure work for me.
Love this one on Mr. Rogers.
I worked on watercolors today- tweaked 2 of yesterday's, and started a new plein air. It was cold today. The garage studio is going to be a challenge this winter. The garage is not sealed tight nor insulated. One of the garage doors is damaged and has a gap between the panels, meaning open air access. I painted in the utility room, standing up, using the washer and dryer as my table. I painted the view outside the window. It felt good to wake up and paint. It's been a while since I pulled out the watercolors. If I had an ideal studio space, and if the house were in perfect order, I would probably never put my brush down. Painting has become a seamless activity like eating or opening the refrigerator door when I think I'm hungry that I almost didn't even notice I had set up and started painting. I didn't want to put it down, but as I said yesterday, with watercolor, you have to pull out and either call it done or wait until it dries. Later, I was lazy and painted on the counter by the kitchen sink. Today was a good painting day. Works on paper, I have missed you.
I have a sneaky feeling I may use the cold as an excuse to paint inside this winter. I have 4 canvases working out in the garage studio, and I need to complete them. They're barely started.
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| Yesterday's plein air, reworked. Untitled tree, 8" x 5", watercolor and gouache on paper. |
2 comments:
Love the watercolor. I think I may do the backyard plein aire. I'm waiting for that time after the first frost (kill mosquitos) and before all the leaves fall from my trees/shrubs (privacy).
Thanks, I'm totally into switching back and forth between extremes, but am enjoying the documentation aspect of these. I was a bit self-conscious at first. There's a REAL plein aire painter who lives up the street and is about my age. I haven't met her yet, but everyone in the 'hood has told me about her, and a friend took some classes from her.
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