Happy as a...

...pig in a puddle of mud.

Actually, I'm not that happy. Feeling pretty blah this evening for the most part. But I am trying to get back into making a creative mess here in this room. There hasn't been much drawing or painting for weeks.

So..I have my paints out and have been layering red and pink paints on blank pages in my art journal, in anticipation of the collages I want to arrange and glue on them. So far this summer, during my walks with Jewel, I have been spotting scraps of paper and assorted discarded things by the side of the road , and picking them up and hoarding them in a bin by my desk.

I have it in mind to make some kind of "found object" collages, maybe with a color theme--all pink or all red, for example.

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With "pink" on my mind and pink paint on the table, I sketched out this porcine mud wallower . Oink! (is "wallower" an actual word? As in, "wallow in the mud"?)

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I was feeling really happy last night, though.

First of all--I finally got out to see Mamma Mia!

I met some friends from the book club for the 7:00 show, and Rachel came along, too. We laughed, we cheered, laughed some more(Pierce Brosnan's singing is dreadful, but in a wonderful way, Julie Walters was riotously funny and the Dancing Queen and Does Your Mother Know scenes were hysterical, as well), we clapped and sang along (there were some rows behind us where there was actual out-of-the-seats dancing going on). When the movie ended (huge amounts of applause) and we were getting out of our seats, my friend Lisa said we have to see it again! And we shall (I want to see this with my mother, definitely)

I was still in a happy bubble when I got home, with me singing "Take A Chance On Me". Badly, but if Pierce Brosnan is allowed to sing ABBA songs, then so can I.

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Then I watched two episodes of Conan O'Brien that John had taped from the two previous nights.

I loves me some Conan. Just his facial expressions make me laugh! And on the second episode he had comedian Tom Papa on, whose routine had me laughing LOUDLY. I had never heard of this man before.

Hmmm...maybe I need to watch some more Conan tonight.