The Art & Poetry of Mary Coleman

Today I took a Ritalin and just powered through most of the grid drawing on the canvas. I needed to get as much as possible all in one go because it’s like ripping off a bandaid, the longer you take, the worse the pain and I truly find this part of the painting process painful. If I draw it out over many days it just makes me super anxious and prone to procrastination. Wednesday I will finish this drawing once and for all. I only have the legs of the right hand figure left which should be pretty easy.

Tomorrow I am getting two more fillings replaced so I won’t have time to do art in the morning. I’ll take my oral sedation an hour before the appointment and then I should be alright. It takes away all the anxiety of getting a shot in my mouth.

I am going to get up super early to strength train because my appointment is at 8 and I need to take my sedation at 7. So I’ll get up at 4am to exercise. That means I’ll go to bed around 8pm tonight. I should still have an hour to read my book before bed and I plan to finish Jane Eyre tonight.

Today’s Schedule:

1. Up, apply for work, brush dog’s teeth, water plants, eating window opens
2. 8am running
3. 8:30 shower/dressed
4. 9am breakfast (eating window closes) take Ritalin
5. 10am pick up groceries
6. 11am work on outline and finish as much as possible (listen to Mansfield Park)
7. 1pm take dog on a walk and meditate
8. 4pm eating window opens
9. 4:45pm start dinner
10. 6pm eating window closes
11. 7pm read the rest of Jane Eyre (I only have two chapters left)

These are the books in my house that I own but have not read yet and plan to get through this year. I’ll add this list to my New Year’s Resolutions post which is a sticky at the top of my blog.

1. Dust by Hugh Howey (last book in the series and I still need to get through it)
2. Parable of the Sower, Parable of the Talents, Lilith’s Brood, Wild Seed, Kindred, and Fledgeling by Octavia E Butler (all gifts from my uncle)
3. Filth by Irvine Welsh
4. The Pox and the Covenant by Tony Williams
5. The Fall of Hyperion, The Rise of Endymion, and Endymion by Dan Simmons (I’ve read the first book of the series Hyperion)
6. The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley (started but still unfinished)
7. A Book of Luminous Things (poetry compilation I started awhile back but have not finished)
8. The Great Influenza by John M Barry
9. The Black Death by Philip Ziegler
10. The Complete Short Stories of Roald Dahl Volume One & Two (volume one I started already)
11. A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Tool (started but unfinished)
12. The Complete Poems of Anne Sexton
13. Nothing to Declare (poetry compilation)