Audra Jennings

As I talked about yesterday, there have been some things stressing me out and making me anxious lately. I really haven't said that in a while. There have been things that have at one time or another, but I haven't flat out said it in as many words. (Even though one particular thing has been nagging at me for about a year now and has gotten progressively worse.) My mom isn't always the most sympathetic person on the planet. To her defense, she comes by it honestly. (I don't always feel terribly sympathetic myself.) However, she has a new question, and I think it's one asked out of concern. "Have you been coloring?" If you scroll back to last week, I wrote a little bit about joining the coloring band wagon. In the past week I have. To the extent of trying to decide if I am going to use some gift card money to get me more really nice Prismacolors. I dug out more colored pencils from my art supply stash, and the expensive ones are really so much better. ...

For Christmas, Mom and I joined the bandwagon and bought each other coloring books. She thought they were neat, and this kind of thing is right up my alley. Sometimes lettering crafts is actually a form of stress release for me -- when I'm not stressed out trying to get 20+ items in one week in between craft show. It has seemed odd to take two days off work to have a four day weekend last week with Christmas. Other than Thanksgiving (when I actually had a three day craft show) I just haven't had a span of more than one day off since last Christmas. After taking another 4 day weekend this week, I'm going to be so confused not know what day of the week it is. Add to the day job, I have been working on crafty product for months and months. I've actually been able to take a break from that too. It's been so odd to not be working on the latest project. I've needed the break though. Even just on a mental level. I know that coloring is supposed to relax you...