Tuesday, January 20, 2015

Yesterday's Day

Yesterday was spent in preparation for my Wine and Watercolor class tonight that the Chisholm Trail Arts Council is putting on. They are using me as a fund raiser. There will be 20 + women tonight painting and drinking. Some will seriously want to learn watercolor while others will be there to party. I think this could be right up my alley, since I am rarely serious and wine will loosen uptight watercolorists. As a warm up, I have my little girls art class this afternoon (no wine). We will be doing drawing techniques. I need to start taking photos and showing what I teach. But that would be way too serious for me.

Yesterday I also went to my usual early morning workout. Our class has dwindled to just three of us. Sometimes we have others join us, but not on a regular basis. There is a young girl who has joined us a few times in the past, and she showed up yesterday morning. I'll call her K. It seems that K has gotten engaged this past week and now has incentive to come to exercise. She is a tall girl and a bit overweight, but still very attractive. I enjoy her.

Yesterday's exercise class was filled with lots of girl talk with K telling us about her engagement, how he proposed, wedding dates, venues, dresses, etc. K currently lives with her boyfriend. She told us that he had gone to her father and asked to "trade her for a new leaf-blower." We all got a kick out of that story. She went on to explain that her boyfriend knew how important it was to her for him to ask her father's permission to marry her. She said that her father kept him talking for "45 minutes" - that he did not make it "easy" for her boyfriend. While I smiled and nodded my head, I was thinking: Really?! Seems pretty easy to me - after all, you already live with the guy. Why bother to ask for her hand when you already have her? It made me wonder if he had asked the father earlier, "May I sleep with your daughter? Can she move in with me?" Now that would have been something!  I know, I know. That is just how it is in the world today. But still, I thought girls are making it way too easy these days.

Yesterday's workout was lots of arm exercises. Then I cut 20 mats for my art class and cleaned 20 whiteboards for palettes. Then I packed up and went to town to set up for the wine class watercolor class. Today I am quite sore, but I was down a pound or so. And I 'm excited about art today. I'll let you know how it goes.

4 comments:

Okie Dokie said...

I gained 5 pounds over the holidays. It's very depressing. I think I'll go to Mazzio's and drown my sorrows in cheese...

Bag Blog said...

Okie, I think I will go with you.

Jo Castillo said...

Class preparations take so much time. People ask why I don't teach more. I teach now every other month 2 hours. Takes a week to get ready.

I am back to my weight before summer in NM, which means about 5 pounds. I just count calories and eat what I want. Worked so well for Joanna, that I do it. I really don't write it down everyday like she does, but know my limits. To loose more I have to exercise more or quit my wine and chocolate. So basically I'm holding as I am. I think I am too old to give up chocolate!

Bag Blog said...

Jo, at the end of the evening, the CTAC ladies said they would pay me their going rate. Since we had not really talked money and this was a fund raiser I was not sure what to expect. Then they added that some people donate their pay. PFFTT! I worked long and hard and put in lots of my own paint and supplies. I took the money and ran.