Art

Once in a while, I get sick of just sitting around the house. Most of my day is comprised of working on school (via the internet), cooking, cleaning my house, and perhaps doing some yardwork. I get to see the people at church once a week, and the Young Women again on Wednesdays. Then Thursday I have Two Good Things, which is my writing group. And I see a lot of Kevin, who works from home 95% of the time. It's a good life, but sometimes I need... a field trip.
So tonight we rode our bikes to Springville. We went to dinner at the Art City Trolley restaurant. The food was good, and there was a neat little ambience, what with the front of the restaurant being a trolley and all. Then we continued our ride to the Springville Art Museum, which is FREE! I didn't know that from the onset, but I was determined to go do something fun, even if it cost ridiculous amounts, as the museums in China do.
The current exhibit, lo and behold, is a quilt show! They were exquisite! It was fun to view them from across the room to see their general look, and then to view them up close to see the immaculate stitching and quilting. Part of me would start to think, "Wow, someday I could..." but before I would finish that thought, the rest of me was reeling with, "I can imagine the extremely freakish amount of time and patience it would take to make something even half this awesome, and I don't have it!"
So I didn't come home wanting to make a quilt to someday put in the quilt show in Springville. Plus, we will be moving in another year, and I don't think I could finish one in that short a time period. Some of the quilts had taken the artist like 5 years! 5 YEARS!!
I like making simple baby quilts. I start them, I finish them, I move on to something else in my life. I think it's the OCD in me that keeps me working at something until I finish with it, and if it's something huge, it keeps me hating it until I'm finished.

And I have a job interview tomorrow! I'm hoping and praying I get this one, so feel free to join in!