First week of 2017

Hello!

Welcome to my annual attempt at staying current on this blog.  Surely I will give up in a few weeks, but until there here is what I was up to this week:

-Monday I worked and worked out, then went home and put in some time on my documentary's trailer.

-Tuesday I went to work and went running at night.  Then I put in more work on my documentary's trailer.

-Wednesday I went to work and the gym.  When I got home I had a bee in my bonnet to take the xmas decorations down, so we did.  Pine needles everywhere.  I also tried to fix my broken monitor but that didn't happen...but it did keep me up until 3am!

-Thursday I worked and was very tired.  I passed out cold at 9pm.

-Friday I woke up at 4am, went running, worked, and I attended three art gallery openings.  This year's first show of Gallery1988 was a pop-up pin shop.  Enamel pins are huge right now, probably already oversaturated.  Part of the reason I was there was to say thanks to them for the last show of 2016, the Coen Brothers tribute that I was part of.  The mail was delivered while I was there and they opened some small gifts from other artists that had exhibited with them during the year and I realized I should be doing this too.  I looked online and saw many galleries posting gifts they had received from artists saying thank you, so I think I should definitely get it together next year.  At the very least I would like to design my own holiday card or thank you card to send to galleries, if not art gifts.  Anyway, the next gallery show I went to was at La Luz De Jesus gallery in Wacko Soap Plant in Los Feliz.  I have been in this gallery many times but never attended an opening night, and it was great.  Finally met Matt Kennedy in person, and he introduced me to Steve Rude in person!  Steve was in town for the night just for the show, which was all about his work.  There was some amazing stuff there, very inspiring to see in person and he was so gracious and warm.  Lovely family as well.  Last gallery was Sugarmynt in Pasadena for a new solo exhibit by DefectiveBarbie.  It was watercolor portraits with a lot of surreal drip effect elements, very cool.  I talked to her a bit about her use of watercolors on canvas, which you don't usually see.  Some of my friends happened to show up at that gallery and we went out for drinks after and it was fun.

-Saturday we did some house hunting.  I went running and completed 21.5 miles for the week!  I worked on my running doc.  We had dinner with Jesse and Marika, Everett and Emma at Outback.  Emma was a little pill, but she is tiny and cute so it's ok.  Everybody is healthy, so much better than holiday break when they were all sick.  I couldn't sleep and I was up until 7am working on art for ClexaCon.

-Sunday we got up and went to see the same house from yesterday but this time with our agent.  it was ok.  I was destroyed all day by lack of sleep and mostly just laid around and watched the Golden Globes.