As my panic attack subsided, iTunes started playing Christmas music in the next room, so I was motivated to get out and quick. (I like Vince Guaraldi’s Charlie Brown Christmas. In December.) It must have been luck that got me out, because the next time I got in (having thought I had figured it out the first time), I had quite a bit more trouble getting out. Must have been reading the instructions that caused all the trouble. Anyhow, inversion table enthusiasts: keep a cell phone handy when you first invert.
The weather here has been nutty. (Summer in San Francisco?) When I first got back it was 90 degrees. Three days later (it’s always three days) the fog comes in and I have to turn on the heat at night. Then two more days pass and I have to close all the windows because the forest fires burning north of here have filled the air with particulate matter. (Check out the ’sunset’, at right.)
As I’ve been trying to get started back on various work projects I’ve been plagued by really important questions, like “What does coffee and wine taste like mixed together?” and “If I’m wearing underwear while doing laundry, does that mean I have too much spare time?” But I did have one more thing to finish before getting on with a new work project: one last painting from Utila: this is the view from our cabin, where we took three days off from the twenty-something crowd. I think in this picture we are waiting for Lisa to come with the boat, which you can just barely see in the distance at the right. It’s my first seascape. Ahoy!
And speaking of painting, I had a quasi-celebrity moment a few weeks ago. I was checking out an Open House (home for sale) in the neighborhood, when I saw something familar on the bulletin board in the kitchen. It was my flyer for interior paintings! There was some pretty nice art on the walls in the place too, not just Ferrari posters–made me feel fabulous all the way home.
