do the artist date once a week

Went to the grocery store and bought 3 fruits I’d never had before and tried them- a Zulufruit, a pepino melon, and a red pear. Then I sat out and had a fruit picnic to eat each one in the living room.

I actually have an hour and 45 minutes without children. I am going to go to the fabric/craft store and then I am going to go buy a burger, sit there and nibble and write about it.

How exciting is this?!

(You can tell I don’t get alone time much these days!)

Ended up bringing the fiance’ and his sister with me to the super fun crafty goodness that is Handmade Arcade. I want to have a table next year. All robot goodness. All the time…. Now to re-commit and make a two hour artist date happen. Even an hour would be worthwhile. I have forced myself upstairs to the office to get some writing done… but have surfed the internet instead. I got my new blog off the ground. I did my morning pages. I had good coffee. No shame in any of that.

I totally violated my Artist’s Date and added a trip to the circus with the fiance’ and shopping with the best buddy in its place. So much for prioritizing me time. And I didn’t finish any of last wek’s writing excercises and missed two days of morning pages. I feel like I need to start over. I really want to do this thing the whole way. for real.

Just started the Artist’s Way this week. The Artist’s Date is scheduled for Saturday morning. Let’s see if I can sneak out of the house unencumbered.

Went out on a lovely date with myself. Read “Touched by Fire” and drank coffee with Frangelico and some other lovely alcohol in it.

that sits here unnoticed, so I am moving it into the DONE stack. I will also make “I want to do it again!” just so I keep it in my mind.

I love artist dates, I love Julia Cameron…

I stopped around week 8 months ago!!! i have not given up on continuing. maybe this week?

Is eating sushi while reading the Tao just too precious? Or cliched? LOL

I also bought “The Right to Write” and “Walking in this
World,” both by Julia Cameron. “Walking” is the book that is supposed to follow “The Artist’s Way.” Further steps along the path of creativity. I almost couldn’t tend bar with these two books calling my name.

I am going to go on a solo trip to the oyster bar before I go to work!