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Brain Spasms

IT'SSSSSS AAAAAAAALLLLLLLLIIIIIIIIIVVVVVVVVVVVVEEEEEEEEEE!!!


I know you all thought I died or forgot all about you, but here I am! Luckily, I've been doing really well in grad school but as you can guess it has a huge demand on my time. I have friends complaining they never see me anymore. Because even when I do have time I'm doing laundry or falling asleep.

As a quick catch up on my life this summer I lost my sweet puppy Charlie to kidney failure. We had him for four great years and we tried to make the end as comfortable for him as possible. It was pretty heart wrenching to see how weak he was and all he wanted me to do was hold him all the time. It was really hard to let him go, but we knew it was his time. About three weeks later as hard as it felt to commit myself to loving a new dog I went to the shelter and rescued an adorable giant schnauzer/German shepherd mix. We named him Freddie after Captain Frederick Wentworth in Jane Austen's book Persuasion. (Yes, I'm a book nerd.)


He loves attention and is a total bed hog. It's a good thing he spends most of his time being adorable. I felt really good about rescuing him and he's been really good for my allergies. The poor thing had separation anxiety really bad at first and we can tell he's still adjusting but he's fitting in the family just fine.

My only other update is that I bought a new car. So much for a trip to Europe! I decided that after 185,000 miles on my old car that was 15 years old that I should still trade it in while I could get something out of it for a new car. I now drive a 2012 Dodge Avenger and I love it! The only problem is I don't have one of those clicker button thingys that opens the doors. It took me a while to figure out how to bypass the car alarm without it!!! That was an annoying weekend for my neighbors, I'm sure! So my new car and dog are both great.

As for the brain spasms as you saw in my title, I have recently discovered that trying to invest my brain into studying over time causes spasms of creativity that is bursting to come out of my head. I'm NOT kidding. Trying to suppress my creativity and time to craft and art has been hard! I finally gave in on one Sunday and literally crafted for a straight 8 hours until 11:30 PM when I had to stop to pick up a friend from the airport. Otherwise who knows how long I would have kept going! So that was fun. I'm hoping to forgo future spasms by crafting myself to death during the break so I won't want to be creative..... we'll see how that goes. So far I've made salt dough ornaments and painted them, made a pumpkin table center piece, crocheted a baby blanket, and started doodling in my sketch pads. Cross fingers for me. I have a month and a half until school starts again!

Here's the current sketch I'm working on.

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