My depressed genie for commentary please, on the offchance someone has found this site. =)

29/05/06In other news....It was my birthday on sat just gone (27th) and I have to say it was the strangest one I have had (in my memory), not bad, just odd. First off we had to take my dog rosie to the vets to have her stitches removed, appointment at 10.45am, we didn't get to see the vet till after 12.00. so all that time was spent loitering in the waiting area and restraining rosie when she saw a cat, although that ended well for the cat and badly for rosie, I think it was the first cat she has met close up. once we got to the vet it took her less than 3 minutes to deal with the stitches, and we escaped outside to discover there was an orangeman parade in town that day, around about an hour was spent avoiding that. =/ An interesting day so far. the evening went far better, a load of friends and family over for pizza and then 6 of us scarpered to the cinema for X-Men 3 (Opinion is yet to be finalised on the film) overall a good day if slightly odd.
I set up a DVD rental on Amazon on friday, and I was pleasantly suprised to find the first dvd arrived early on sat, exceptional service so far. =)

Acrylic painting is progressing although its proving more difficult than I thought it would be since I have used the medium extensively before, admittedly previously I have always used a very large scale on walls and such, so working smaller was a challenge. I may retreat to watercolours for the next piece.

Over and out.....

Slowly Improving. =)

News Bits:

*One small brown furry dog has been to the Vet and now has purple feet and a white Lampshade like contraption on her head. Photos Coming soon.
*The car has broken down due to damaged front breaks. think we get it back on friday 26th.
*YAY it’s my birthday on Saturday and I am Dragging some friends to x-men 3. (they may resist =) )
*Acrylic painting has been rediscovered in the Celtic dragon studio and a learning curve has been established, photos to follow.
*Plans have been made to get back into Life Drawing, as I feel I need to get the practice in, although in the meantime I am thinking of going into town on sat am and drawing random pedestrians who will hopefully be unaware. A coffee shop may be involved somewhere here if it rains.
*watercolor sketches are in progress to get me back into the swing of things and so I can
finally get Urd's painting finished (am feeling v guilty its taken so long)
*Considering applying for a place in a 5 week Course run at the Ulster university which
seems to want to help start up your business or at least help you help yourself start up.... I feel I need to read more on this before progressing any further.

In general life is getting better, for a while there I felt EVERYTHING was jinxed but I realized that all needed was to concentrate or focus on an objective, what exactly I want to do. I want to improve and I want to make my art profitable or at the very least to pay for itself, in order to do that I feel I have to be more single minded and paint/create more regularly and professionally. Since I graduated I have been applying for any graphics post I see which fits my qualifications, sadly I am faced with catch 22. they all want experience, how do you get experience when all the starter jobs are looking for you to already have experience.
A tricky one methinks.
So any suggestions are welcome, particularly if they are constructive. =)

Returning to the Rat Race...

After 4 blissfull days off, i have returned to work to discover, due to nice weather the phones are dead quiet. so I may resort to tidying out my desk to pass the time.

A quick update on my activities for the past few days,
*Complete re-design of my main site, www.celticdragonstudios.co.uk although this is not yet perfect it is an improvement, and I am continuing to work on it.
*My skills at canine therapy are improving as I have been looking after my Mums dog while she is on holiday, he was not originally very happy about this (he is really a 1 person dog) he has come to terms with his loss and has stopped howling.
*Watched 'Howls Moving Castle' for the third time and I swear it just gets better.
*Made a start on cleaning the house for Mums return on Saturday.
*Scared off a door to door sales man using a jackrussle who conveniently was barking *lots* from behind the door.

Anyway today is a beautiful day, strictly speaking too nice to be indoors working, so providing that it stays sunny I am going to take the dogs to the beach when I get home. =)

Over and out for now.

Ann.

Today has been a combination of ridiculously dull and really irratating mixed up and rolled out again. To start things off with I slept in, only by 15 minutes but it always throws me off my stride, I made it to work fine and the mornings calls were fine nothing terrible, but just enough niggles that you couldn't relax. the afternoon however has been a mess mixed with a disaster, its not even worth talking about here, Office politics are an anoying and unessasary thing and normally only cause more problems and grumbles that there were before the politics became involved.

In other news I am shattered and due to the nearly torrential rain and thunderstorms for the last few days I have been soaked on my way home every evening so far, which I will admitt is mostly my fault for driving a motorcycle (which I love) and since it is open air transport it is an obvious fact that when it rains I get wet.(although lorry drivers could TRY and mis those deep puddles beside me instead of laughing their heads off )

Anyway the evening should be better i am going to watch Howls moving castle again.

Over and out.

Redecorating Trauma

Apoligies for the lack of updates I have been delayed because of my dog. this sounds, I know, like the traditional 'the dog ate my homework' so I shall explain. We have 2 dogs, both are rescued hounds, the first one is Sam who has a few portraits in my gallery here and is exceptionally well behaved, he is my mums dog (naturally) then more recently my mum heard about another dog who needed a home and knew I wanted a 2nd dog, enter Rosie. Now Rosie is a wonderful dog and everyone loves her on sight, she and sam are inseperable and devoted to each other but in no way could you say she is well behaved. so far the most noteable of her destructive fits have occoured when we are out, and this has cost us the hall carpet and 1/2 of the kitchen lino (shredded) ironically even if given dog chews she prefers the lino.This means that I have spent all my spare time and money for the last 2 weeks redecorating the hall and attempting to dogproof our flat. yet I still adore my dog, she is too cute not to adore her, and she is getting better as we have been letting sam set an example and are nearing success with the whole house training idea (btw she is a very small mongrel who looks like an Alsation which has been hit with a shrink ray) The whole exercise has put me extreemly behind schedule on several personal pieces such as updating and improving my website and working on my proposed webcomic (to be) Our hallway actually looks better for the face lift and now has sanded and stained wood floors (also waterproofed) which should hopefully be less appitising to Rosie. Anyway thankyou for your patience and I'll be back soon.