Last night I sewed instead of working on my paintings. It’s my way of procrastinating. I suppose it could be worse. I could have procrastinated by sitting around, doing nothing. But lately, I just call that being pregnancy tired, and the only thing I can really procrastinate against when I’m “pregnancy tired” is sleeping. But yeah, last night I had energy that should have been used for painting. But things needed sewing anyway. I sewed this table cloth and napkins:
And I sewed some more diapers too. But I have 23 days until my deadline and 4 paintings to finish. I’ve only just barely started two. My energy levels wax and wane with this pregnancy, so when I have energy, which is so very rare after 5pm, I really should be cranking away on these paintings. Looking at charts and graphs about common pregnancy symptoms, it appears I’m scheduled more for tiredness in my third trimester so my hopes of finishing these, while holding down a full time job, doggy class, baby class, and getting all the house/baby stuff done might be unrealistic, but I’ve never missed this deadline. So I’m thinking about that a whole bunch.
Yesterday I had a meltdown. Probably calorie related. It’s been hard getting enough to eat. A bowl of cereal sounds like heaven to me right now. Easy, yummy food that requires no work. Mmmm cereal, I love you. Someday we will be together again and I will treat you with the respect you deserve. My meltdown prevented me from going to my old favorite prenatal yoga class in SE. I had to cry and eat hamburger and take a nap instead. I’m realizing I’m at that use it or loose it stage of pregnancy. And if I don’t get back into a regular stretching and strength routine, I’m gonna regret it.
Now that I’m in a work countdown, I’m starting that list of all the things I’m going to do. Marathon appeared on the list. It’s been bothering me I never completed a full marathon. A half just won’t do, I want the full monty. Mostly the list consists of a regular daily art practice and lots of walks and jogs. Those two activities sound heavenly. I’m feeling really thankful I haven’t gained too much weight because it seems like recovery won’t be that bad. So I guess I’m ok living without cereal for a little while.
My baking scale came in the mail today. I was going to use it for all the fantastic whole grain bread I was going to make, but now I can’t use it for that. I weighed my cottage cheese, just to have something to weigh. It was pretty fun, but not as fun as weighing flour.
But speaking of weights, and waits for that matter, I’m going to do some exercise while I wait for some work assets to be delivered. ttfn. or… Should I paint while I wait? Shall I procrastinate on exercising but painting? Or procrastinate on painting by exercising? Or procrastinate by continuing to blog until I get my assets and I have no time to do either? Hmmm…