Finally, I have a new boss!!! Now this might seem like an odd thing to get excited about, but for me its a big relief. Finally there is someone else working at the TREE House again! Finally someone that can make executive decisions, and reorganize things and get us back on our feet. Plus she's really nice. It seems like she'll be real easy to work with. But I guess I won't know that for sure until later. But at the very least this should lessen a lot of the stress I've been under lately.

I'm realizing now that I've gone over three months without doing anykind of art in my studio whatsoever. There is something seriously wrong with this picture. Its not just a time issue, because I've had time. Not as much as I'd like due to my schedule, but still plenty enough to go down to the studio for a couple of hours and fiddle around a bit. Its not even an energy issue, even though I have blamed it on "being too tired." But seriously, every time I do go down there, or even when I'm at home trying to do something, I just can't seem to focus long enough to do anything worth a shit. I really feel there's some sort of ennui eating away at my soul right now, and my artistic block is both the cause and the result. That is why I am making a committment, right now to go down to my studio some time this week and paint something, ANYTHING, before I leave. Even if its total crap and I decide to throw it out or paint over the next day, I WILL put paint to canvas before this week is through.

And I feel a lot better now having said that.