Is It Thursday Already?

The days are going by and I am having trouble keeping up.  Open House this weekend at work and so many things coming into work and orders for wreaths to be filled.  Poinsettias and wreaths for the next five weeks.  And cookies.  We set out plates of cookies for the customers and I have to be very strong and NOT eat any of them.  They aren't very good.

Up top, is the black gessoed page in my journal with some "lines" in white pencil and white Neocolor crayon.  I even attempted some "Deborah" scribbles (I love them in her work).  I need to practice as it looks like it would be easy but it isn't.  Things got a bit crazy in the middle of the square.  I have a total of four blank squares to continue experimenting with lines.  I love the smooth, mat black of the gesso.  The Neocolor crayons really show up on the surface don't they?  I should have made a page of skeletons back on Halloween.  And some crows.

I got two loads of wash done between bedtime last night and go to work time this morning.  And I baked an apple crisp yesterday evening (7 pm) and G had a big, big piece last night.  He said it was so good he could have eaten the entire pan.  Butter.  Butter and apples and sugar are just so delicious together.  I had a teaspoonful, just to taste.  Today is Day Four of the Diet.  I get very hungry about 11.30 each day and desperately want to eat lunch.  That's about it.  I reinstated the nothing after 8 pm rule and so no way to have Tootsie Rolls or anything else.  I can have a cup of tea or some water. I have sugar free Jello in the fridge (50 calories per cup).

The weather inside the greenhouse goes from chilly in the morning to very warm and sunny midday to very cold and dark at closing time.  Most of the employees are getting colds. I knocked wood before typing that I am not sick and Riley is now barking because he thinks we have company.  I think I don't get sick because I keep the house so cold.  Warmth is the breeding ground for germs.  Or, at least, I think that is true.

G and I are going out for dinner tonight after I take a shower.  I don't know where we are going.  Not that many choices in town.  We could drive into Portland but that adds over an hour driving time to the dinner and you know we fall asleep early.  I'll let you know what we did tomorrow.