Dinner, dinking, and drawing.
Jul. 11th, 2002 08:58 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
k_crowTime to myself is definitely a good thing. I can't say I accomplished a whole heck of a lot last night, but I did get my own stress levels to back down a bit.
When I got off the bus yesterday evening, I decided it was way too damn hot to go try and cook something in my apartment. Trekked over to Newport Bay Restaurant, and enjoyed a lovely spinach salad. Generally I want something more substantial than salad for dinner, but not last night. Very tender, flavorful spinach, croutons, bay shrimp, jack cheese, and raw mushrooms. =9 And ranch dressing on the side for dipping so the spinach didn't get soggy. Plus they make this wonderful sourdough bread, which went great with the salad.
Tangent: Why do people get weirded out about going out to restaurants or movies by themselves? I've noticed I get looked at oddly when I go to a new/not overly-frequented restaurant by myself. And I've had many people I know comment that they wouldn't feel comfortable going to a restaurant by themselves. For me, it's a nice treat and a chance to enjoy time to myself.
I went home and dinked around on the web a bit. Looked through some more personal ads on Pearz, though I'm still not sending out any messages just yet. Kinda dismayed at the number of couples who are looking for a 'third'. Not that there's anything exactly wrong with that, but these days I'm way more inclined to getting to know people as individuals. That way I can make new mistakes instead of repeating old ones, at least hopefully. :P
A bit later on in the evening, after I'd showered and![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
lerryn was due home any minute, I finally gave in to an impulse that had been nagging at me most of the day. Y'see, I'd read a character description from another lj'er, and immediately had all these different images come to mind of how to try and draw that character. Nevermind me having zero training when it comes to drawing. *sigh* This is one of those things I get impulses towards every now and again. I'll read something that causes an incredibly inspiring image to form in my mind, and I've just got to try and draw it. The results are enough to make a cat laugh, typically, which then leaves me feeling discouraged and unwilling to try drawing again until the next inspiring image runs across my path.
So, I tried to do something a bit different. I told myself to just sketch ideas, not to make it perfect from the get-go, and not to get mad when it didn't turn out perfect on the first try. Helped that all i could find in the house to draw with was a black ballpoint pen. I *can't* go back and erase one of those. *wry smile* So, for about the next 15 minutes I tried to draw this character. I'm fairly pleased with how well I could look at the good parts of what I drew and be accepting of them, and look at the parts that didn't turn out the way I wanted and think, well, i can try to do other sketches that'll improve how that looks later.
Work so far has been okay, and my alarm clock worked correctly this morning. Still should've gotten more sleep, but oh well.
When I got off the bus yesterday evening, I decided it was way too damn hot to go try and cook something in my apartment. Trekked over to Newport Bay Restaurant, and enjoyed a lovely spinach salad. Generally I want something more substantial than salad for dinner, but not last night. Very tender, flavorful spinach, croutons, bay shrimp, jack cheese, and raw mushrooms. =9 And ranch dressing on the side for dipping so the spinach didn't get soggy. Plus they make this wonderful sourdough bread, which went great with the salad.
Tangent: Why do people get weirded out about going out to restaurants or movies by themselves? I've noticed I get looked at oddly when I go to a new/not overly-frequented restaurant by myself. And I've had many people I know comment that they wouldn't feel comfortable going to a restaurant by themselves. For me, it's a nice treat and a chance to enjoy time to myself.
I went home and dinked around on the web a bit. Looked through some more personal ads on Pearz, though I'm still not sending out any messages just yet. Kinda dismayed at the number of couples who are looking for a 'third'. Not that there's anything exactly wrong with that, but these days I'm way more inclined to getting to know people as individuals. That way I can make new mistakes instead of repeating old ones, at least hopefully. :P
A bit later on in the evening, after I'd showered and
lerryn was due home any minute, I finally gave in to an impulse that had been nagging at me most of the day. Y'see, I'd read a character description from another lj'er, and immediately had all these different images come to mind of how to try and draw that character. Nevermind me having zero training when it comes to drawing. *sigh* This is one of those things I get impulses towards every now and again. I'll read something that causes an incredibly inspiring image to form in my mind, and I've just got to try and draw it. The results are enough to make a cat laugh, typically, which then leaves me feeling discouraged and unwilling to try drawing again until the next inspiring image runs across my path.So, I tried to do something a bit different. I told myself to just sketch ideas, not to make it perfect from the get-go, and not to get mad when it didn't turn out perfect on the first try. Helped that all i could find in the house to draw with was a black ballpoint pen. I *can't* go back and erase one of those. *wry smile* So, for about the next 15 minutes I tried to draw this character. I'm fairly pleased with how well I could look at the good parts of what I drew and be accepting of them, and look at the parts that didn't turn out the way I wanted and think, well, i can try to do other sketches that'll improve how that looks later.
Work so far has been okay, and my alarm clock worked correctly this morning. Still should've gotten more sleep, but oh well.
