Merry Christmas To Everyone!

Good times and Safe Travel to All!

Sometimes life throws you a curve and you are initially devastated, and sometimes you are elated. ...and sometimes you are "a little from column A...and a little from column B."

This is one of those times. I was laid off from my position of 4½ years and I feel... I feel mostly free and strangely happy. but also a little afraid of the unknown future.

The job I had was not in the art field even though that is what I went to college for. I was an IT Manager and although my last job did have some rewarding moments, and paid reasonably well, the stress level was off the chart at times, (it put me in the hospital on one occasion), and the drama was something else.

I like to think of this event as a great birthday present as I turned a year older on Friday.

I now have a moment to breathe, reflect and plan.. Ahhhhhhhhhhh...but what's next?

I am a tinkerer and an artist. I get equal amounts of joy: building and working on gadgets, making art in different mediums, learning new wonders, teaching others...

So many avenues... But what to do?

Pursue my art career like a rabid wolf?

Go back to school?

Restart my Information Technology career?

When I was in the hospital I made a kind of "bucket list" (if you don't know, it is a list of things you want to do before you "kick the bucket", or die, and I highly recommend the movie "The Bucket List"). Do I focus in on those?

...Or do something else entirely different?

I hate that saying.

Scratch that.

I hate that it is true and that often when it's used, It never really encompasses or conveys what people are feeling. It is just a way of letting people on the sidelines put a summary on some event.

Sigh!....

One minute, you are talking to someone about whether you believe the possible end-of-world scenario that is supposed to happen in 3 years time, and speaking about the value of life.

The next you get a call from a friend, informing you that her mother has just died from a heart attack.

I...


...

Finally!!

A few days of uninterrupted sun!!

Woo Hoo!

Times to shake things up! Move those gears!

What's everyone doing for the summer? (or winter?--for those south of the equator)

Anybody else experience this quirk??

I take the time to organize my favorites and I make sure
to Hide images with nudity so they don't show in the "Featured"
section because I use my DA as sort of a "visual résumé"

Yet, when I load up my page to show some of my co-workers BAM! there's a
nekkid woman chilling on my DA homepage.

again I say..WTF?!

I could been showing it to someone 'important' and gotten a worse audience response than some giggles...