Wonder Weekend
Since law school has ended, I often find myself in search of new hobbies. This weekend, I decided I was going to paint a picture. Now, you first need to understand that I often have these grand ideas of greatness and if I don’t carry them out right away, the desire soon fades away. But, this time I am proud that I actually went out, got a canvas, bought some acrylics – because I like painting with acrylics – and painted a picture – and I finished it. This is no small feat for my “Scanner” personality.
I often adopt new hobbies and start them and never finish. Like those pants I was going to make for myself. I bought the pattern, the fabric, measured, pinned and cut out the pattern. THEN – I couldn’t thread the darn sewing machine, so there they sat for about 4 years until I moved out and decided to just get rid of them because clearly I would never finish. Then there were the scarves I was going to knit for all of my friends for their Christmas gifts because I taught myself how to knit. Um, I’ve been working on one scarf for three years and it pretty much hasn’t even reached a length suitable for my fun-loving, 7 pound Yorkie.
Then there was the pottery. I wanted to make a vase, but the class was too much so I thought I would just go to my local Paint-Your-Own-Pottery place and paint a mug. By the time I picked out the mug and the paint and soon realized that the paint doesn’t go on the darn thing in any recognizable cover, I was quickly over it, but had already paid so was committed to failure. I still have that mug, although it is nothing to call home about.
So anyway, I painted outside on my patio listening to the morning chirping of the birds. And I loved it. It relaxed me and I had a fantastic weekend. Maybe I should just quit bar review now and start selling art. Anyway, here is the product of my work.
LOL. You can call me VincentinaVanGone.
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