We’re up in New England. I’m from up here, and it’s nice to come back where I came from. The water, the history, the rocky granite landscape that formed me down to my bones – it’s nice to be back at the source even if I prefer Colorado or Florida. We got here last Sunday, and we’ll be here until the end of this coming week. Tomorrow morning the class I’m taking starts. I’m incredibly nervous that I will have a mood swing or anxiety and not do well. It’s not a super big community, and word gets around, so hopefully, I don’t embarrass myself with mental instability.
I’m packing a Lisa Frank backpack to bring to class. I’m filling it with my ipad to read on my kindle app, a pretty new notebook my husband bought me to take notes in, my scented highlighters, my gel pen collection, stickers, and even one of my watercolor sets to paint in scripture during down time. So I have my Bible to read, I can pray and study, and I can read other books, too. I’ve got some natural history, art, photography, poetry, horror, and scifi on my kindle waiting to be read. I’ve done my homework and I’m ready to go.
Yesterday wasn’t great. I had to take a really heavy antipsychotic my dr told me to take for mania, and I was drugged all day. I hate that stuff. Hopefully, I don’t go more manic because I can’t take that med the night before I start class or I won’t be able to get up to go to class. So if my mind electrifies tonight, I can’t take anything for sleep. It’s not just that I don’t want to go to class tired or unstable. If I go manic and don’t sleep, I have auditory and sometimes visual hallucinations. I don’t want anyone to see that in my husband’s community. I don’t want to embarrass him. People are not always kind.
I’ve done some creative things this week, but I’ve been physically and mentally not well for much of the week, so I haven’t done as much as I’d hoped. Hopefully this coming week will be a success.
I am using alcohol inks on Dura Lar to make overlays for scripture.
Life at Home 