colourlust

The leaves on the Japanese maple beside our house have turned a brilliant red. I find myself stopping by the windows near the front of the house; I can't help but stare, soaking in the pure colour.

I'm very much a primary colour person, drawn to splashes of brilliant hues against an otherwise humdrum background. Our kitchen windowsill is chocolate brown, and a few days ago I bought some apples to line up along the sill simply because I enjoy the contrast of the red against the dark brown. Occasionally I will let myself eat one. :-)



One reason I love my office is because I'm filling it with colour, from the tree I painted in the corner to the wonderful scarlet silk scarf that Andrea sent me. There are still white spaces on the wall, but I'll remedy that soon enough. :-) Nothing matches; my office will never be featured in one of those home interior magazines. Jeff hung up my office spider a couple days ago...a wonderfully garish purple thing with blue and yellow and red spots, a completely frivolous purchase at a craft show years ago. I love it.

Now that things are settling down and I'm happily sequestered in my home office all day, I find I look forward to time spent with friends more than usual. Back at the condo, I interacted with people on a daily basis...smalltalk with people in the elevator, chatting with the front desk security guard (to ask if there was any mail), for instance. Although it's nice NOT to have to talk to people when I don't feel like it and I tend to ignore the phone during the day when I'm writing, I do find I get conversation-starved sometimes by the end of an intense work day, and crave talk about silly things.

I'm hanging out with Jodi tonight, yay! Poor Allison's sick :-(. Jodi and I are seeing Wallace and Gromit's Curse of the Were-Rabbit. As a kid, I think the animation would have creeped me out a bit (esp. the Evil Penguin in one of the episodes) but as an adult, I love Nick Park's stuff.



Something else I like doing at the end of the day: play my harp. It's SO good to be able to play again. Because of my tendinitis, I wasn't playing many instruments for a long while. Now that we no longer have a piano, I'm turning to my harp for pleasure playing. I do still play guitar and flute but for me, these aren't as fun to play on my own (fingerpicking on guitar is still too much for my poor tendons since it focuses entirely on my right hand) as the harp.

With my harp, I can lose myself in my music the same way I used to do when I play piano, and occasionally on flute. So far I like Kim Robertson's arrangements the best (see my harp music collection below) because she tends to lean toward more interesting chord choices and progressions.

Writing's going well, I'm pleased to report. And my comic strip contract with Offpanel Productions is being finetuned. Their terms are extremely reasonable, especially the fact that I keep all rights to my work. Now that the administrative stuff is mostly complete, I'm working on getting the first six strips ready.

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