This is the Websters Dictionary Online definition of tired.
1: drained of strength and energy : fatigued often to the point of exhaustion2: obviously worn by hard use :run-down3:trite, hackneyed
— tired·lyadverb
— tired·nessnoun
I found this little cartoon from A Church for Starving Artists blog. This is how I feel on those days when I have ten million things to do and no time for a nap. I will be in my car driving and forcing myself to stay focused on the street. Right now I am feeling drained because my son is a child who gets on a tangent and won’t let go of an idea until he knows it will be brought to fruition.
This is how I normally look at the end of the day but today was a bit more tiresome than usual cause I screwed up and had two bottles of beer a big no no when your on Zoloft. I woke up this morning about 11 and felt sooo hung over. Sometime soon I will put up a before and after picture of what I look like with makeup and my hair done versus the picture here with no make up and my hair up in a pony tail. Yeah I llok kind of serious here I was getting a bit agravated at the Dynex webcam I have and then tried to take a picture with the digital camera so I could upload it. Then it took another hour to lighten it up and try to remove some of the digital camera noise with my paint shop pro. So this is my tired and aggravated look LOL.
In 1998 I had the privilege of visiting the country Japan with my military unit. The Japanese use trains as their mode of transportation. During one of our trips back to the base from downtown Tokyo, I looked up and practically every Japanese person and a few visiting Americans had their heads slouched, fast asleep! It was a Kodak moment to say the least. Very few of us were wide awake. Train rides make one Tired!
Tracy Russell www.candlebizmom.com
This is the run down building that I have to look at every morning, noon and night from my living room. I took the picture today with this no name brand digital camera that my friend gave me awhile back. I tried to clean it up a bit and crop it with my paint shop pro program. Recently someone tried to burn the building down and I also recently found out the owner has been trying to sell it for the last three years but no one wants to buy it because of the condition it is in. I think the city should buy it and then level it. It is a haven for stray cats, other animals, and homeless people who come over here to my building and scavange through peoples cars.
I want to expand on the earlier exercise I did . I went back and wrote down the key words that really stood out in my mind and want to point them out so I can have a better idea of what I am looking at in my present situation.The words that stand out for me are as follows:
tired
smelling
looking at
run down building
overwhelmed
wish
ready
changes
live the good life
I have an idea that I want to go with that I have been thinking about the last two days since I originally set out to do that first trek into creative journaling. I am wanting to see what all these things look like in my minds eye as well as how others see these words. For example what does tired look like to me and to another person. What does ready look like to me and to another person? You get the idea. Is it an image that comes to mind? Perhaps it is the way a word is presented in the way of a font and color on the internet. Even more so it could be a list of synonyms. Even though a word may be clearly defined in the dictionary it seems that we can still have different interpretations of how that word looks to us.
I am not exactly sure how I want to proceed with this experiment as of yet, but it is an idea worth some looking into and embarking on.
So I found this book at a book sale called The Creative Journal: The Art of Finding Yourself by Lucia Capacchione and I thought it looked pretty interesting. In the first exercise she has you take any tool of your choice to just randomly draw. Well I decided to use paint shop pro with the paint brush tool and just make random lines with gradients. Actually it is more like a series of curly cue’s.
The red,purple,black and orange gradeint pattern reflects the levels of intense hard ship in my life and the light blue with the center represent the few and far between calming periods with the safe place to land in the center. The safe place to land represents my faith that things in my life will always be challenging but I can get through them because I am a survivor.
How do I feel right now?
tired of this small apartment, tired of smelling the cigarette smoke of my neighbor above me, tired of looking at this run down building across the street, slightly overwhelmed with school, wish I had a TV that got channels, ready for a nap, wish my son had a place to play basketball instead of the run down alley behind the apt building we live in, ready to make some drastic changes in my life and to live the good life for a change
I went through just this morning and looked through my Paint Shop Pro files I had stored on my external hard drive and moved them all over to my Paint Shop Pro program. In doing this I was able to finally locate some cool hearts for my signature tage that I am going to put at the end of each post. I tried to find a gradient and picture frame that would look seamless in my posts. I knew exactly what I was looking for I just had to sit down and hammer the details out.
November 23rd, 2007 by wildheart4vr
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