Weekend recap and daydreams

How are you? Did you have a good weekend? Mine was fab.  I was at the Telephone Factory Art Show all weekend down here in the ATL.  Met a lot of great people, did the very dopey thing of forgetting my camera both days, so no pics...sorry, had a good time overall. Thanks to everyone who came out, shoppers, friends, and new-found friends alike.

I think what I really, really enjoyed about this weekend's show was twofold: a) being in the city and therefore in the company of hip city folk, and b) being at a different kind of art show, and therefore in the company of some especially inspiring artists. Artists such as Todd Alexander and Alex Leopold to name a couple. Click on their names to see some of their work.  Am-a-zing.

Back to a) It was great to be downtown all weekend. My heart and soul are that of a city girl, but in my current incarnation, I'm a suburbanite.  Love my house and the parcel of land that comes with a house in the burbs that was built in the 70s, but I never realize how much I really miss the city until I spend a weekend in it.  Sigh.  Not complaining, merely reflecting.

This suburbs stuff is temporary-ish.   I know I'll have the city back some day.  When we retire at 55 and have an apartment in Paris half the year, or one in San Fransisco.  It's good to dream, isn't it?  Things don't happen unless you dream them up first.  Who was it that said "your imagination is the preview to life's coming attractions"?  Albert Einstein, I believe.   That's my life's adage, right there.

So what else...?

Ooh, can I show you my new boots? 

Ok, enough daydreaming.  

There's a lot of work waiting for me...

So, we're about 2 weeks away from the big day.   I know it, because all the last minute custom orders are surging in.  I'm wading through them right now, I'm about neck-deep.  Not quite drowning yet, but almost. The cut-off for custom orders, even for friends, is about any day now.  I said it was December 1st, but I keep extending it...we're cutting it close though.

As long as we're daydreaming, let's fit one more in before we say goodbye.

I wish I had a pack of elves to delegate tasks to.

Here's what I'd say to them this very moment:

"Hey Etchy, I need 6 custom pendants etched by tomorrow, the silver's over there;  

Hey Washy, the clothes are piling up, get to it, please;  

Hey Chefy, what's for dinner tonight? Organic sausage, lentil, and kale soup, you say? Delish! Well, it's 6:04pm, better get cookin'; 

Hey Cleany, it's that time again, so haul out the vacuum, thanks; 

Hey Shoppy, I left the grocery store without beer, can you please go pick some up?;  

Hey Cardy, there's a stack of Christmas cards waiting to be addressed and stamped, here's the fancy pen, have at it;  

Hey Bloggy, what should I write about tomorrow?"

::snaps out of it::

Alright friends, it's been a fun chat, but all that work really needs to get done, so here's me pulling myself up by my new bootstraps.

I'll see you back here tomorrow.