So, yesterday was day three of my new studio hours, which, if you missed it, my hours are were 4pm to 8pm every night. I must say, four hours is a looong time to paint. As much as I love to paint, I found myself looking at the clock a lot, and wishing the hours would go a bit faster..just like I used to do at my office job. haha It’s true! Since I have the best job on earth, I should be ashamed of myself for admitting that I was a bored artist. It’s the first that’s ever happened, and I hope it never does again. An artist who’s bored??!! Unheard of!!

I found out I can get 9 4×4 inch faces done in my four hours of studio time. I also found out that painting for 4 hours straight makes me dizzy, but that could be because I have this ongoing inner ear problem, which causes vertigo. Or, it could have been the jello shots I started doing because I was so bored. I don’t know. Yawn.

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Basically, I think I was crazy in the head to think I could paint for 4 hours straight every day. What was I thinking? I know I have the attention span of a gnat, so how did I think I could focus for 4 hours straight? I guess I thought because it was painting, and I love to paint, it would be no problem. ha ha I laugh loudly at myself.It was the clock thing that threw me off tho. I’ve painted waaaay longer than 4 hours before..I’ve had some days that I didn’t put the brush down for 10 or 12 hours straight, and it wasn’t a problem at all. But, I wasn’t on any time schedule then. I wasn’t telling myself I HAD to paint for so many hours. Ahh, see what’s going on here? I’m deathly allergic to the clock, and having it tell me when I’ve painted enough for the day. Sooo, no more clocks, time checking, and schedules. That’s for 9 to 5ers, and there’s a BIG reason I’m not an office worker anymore. Omgosh, I hated hated hated being told when I could eat lunch..what if I wasn’t hungry??, when I could go home for the day..what if I need a nap at 3pm??, and all those stupid rules to follow..like don’t eat other people’s food in the fridge..what if it smelled and looked delicious??? Oh, and how those minutes before 6pm would drag ooooooon for sooooooo long..because y’know..I couldn’t leave work until 6 on the dot. Ack!! I don’t want to live my life like that ever again. I guess it doesn’t matter what job I have, if there are too many rules to follow, and I’m watching time slowly tick by on the clock, I balk. It’s just my nature. So, no more of that..instead, I’m going back to what I was doing last month, and that’s a painting, and blog post a day. If it takes me 1 hour or 10 hours to paint, it doesn’t matter. No more clocks!!! No more checking the time. I quit!! ha ha Yeah sure..can’t stop! Won’t stop!!