Music – Anticipating Procrastination by Chrys Albarado

Art Post: January 5th-9th.

Whoops. I did mention that my posts might be weekly…or once a month maybe? LOL.

Time got away from me the past week or so. My bad! I have severe issues with consistency. So much that I’m considering making it my One Word Resolution “consistent” this year.

Part of this struggle is simply for the same reasons anyone else would struggle to be consistent. The other part of it is that I lose time. There’s two reasons for THAT, too. lol.

– I have Dyschronometria. More commonly known as time blindness. I rely heavily on technology, others, and other means of judging time to keep me on track.

– However, I also have a dissociative disorder, meaning, in general, that I actually lose touch with my actually reality for minutes, days, hours, weeks…. You get the idea. When I “come back”, I am usually very disoriented. Sometimes, I don’t know where I am or how I got there or what I was doing. Or how much time has passed or what exactly happened.

Everyone experiences these things to an extent. I experience it in what my previous therapist called, “an excessive amount of time that severely affects my ability to live”.

These things (and a plethora of others) make it a little rough to keep me consistent. When I’m out of it, it’s difficult to say, remember to type up a quick art post. Daily. I’m not quite sure how to handle this. We’ll work it out together, if that’s okay with you, reader. I lost a good amount of time on January 5 and 6, due to weather making me feel very bad. But, that’s absolutely okay. This is one of the reasons I take photos every day of my “work” so in a moment, I will go take a scroll through them and see what I was up to. Yesterday, I spent a lot of time cleaning and working to organize my new temporary workspace. We have some more of that to do for a couple of weeks.

I also came across the fact that my WordPress app was not functioning correctly. It took all day for me to get that art post to publish. I realized, with some assistance, that I needed to switch to JetPack. I’ve done so now. Bear with my while I learn this stuff.

Today is the 7th, (it was when I started typing this. Now, it’s the 17th!!!) so I’ll try to break these down by day…

January 5, 2024

I’m have a psoriasis flare up. It’s affects my nails. So I put special topcoats on the to protect them when I’m having a flare up

It doesn’t look pretty, but that’s not the point. I’m just trying to protect them from peeling, splitting, breaking, or the worst, crumbling. People don’t often think about it. But, your nails exist for a reason and it’s not opening things. They are there to protect your fingers and toes. Trust me when I say this, not having a nail to protect your tips is very painful. So, I do all I can to keep them from damage.

I was told by someone that I should write 2024 out a bunch of times. So, I did just that. I wrote it 115 times, to put these stickers on my new set of markers. It’s good to label art supplies with at least the year you bought them. Art supplies do expire. However, I usually just label the container. When it comes to SHARPIES and CRAYOLA products, I usually repurchase full sets every few years because I use up the crayola products and the sharpies dry out so I end up not having all of the colors. Since my children (especially my oldest who use to jack my sharpies. I’d always know it was him too. They would show back up with a chewed up cap.) love sharpies and crayola too, I put all of the old ones together for them to use and I label the new ones. That way my kids (and my hubs) know which ones NOT TO TOUCH! I’ve not written 2023 on anything by accident since I did this so maybe it worked.

I got a small electric blankie for Christmas that fits me perfect for working at my desk. Usually, when I feel bad, I have to go to my room for my bed blankie. Not anymore!!!

January 6th, 2024

My new desk. Not quite finished, as I do not yet have the trays I purchased to install that will make my desk pretty epic. But, my hubs was putting together my new chair. There WAS a large armchair that I have been using for years here. It was time to get more ergonomic. So, I put the arm chair out in my Cube (she-shed, but I can’t SAY that right, so I named the building my Cube. The building currently has installation installed and the back wall installed. My good friend who was doing the work for me got injured and the building is currently stalled until he is healed up. But, do be on watch, as there will be posts about that soon.

OMG, it’s SO cute and perfectly functional for proper ergonomics. Very important when you have chronic health issues and spend a lot of time at your desk. The little ears are removable, and can be swapped out with anything that has an alligator style hair clip on it. I’m going to be buying or making some cute bunny ears to put on it. It fully reclines, has a foot rest, and even a lumbar massager. It is SO comfortable I took a nap in it the next day.

Some organizational issues going on here that I need to figure out. The cart with rainbow drawers takes up too much space in this little nook and I can’t get past it to my shelves or the white rolling cart, which you can’t even see in this photo because it’s behind the drawers. I just haven’t figured out HOW to make it work yet.

I need one of these in Hyper Mini form for my A5 size sketchbook. Also a non-rusty one. Rust on my pages don’t amuse me.

January 7th, 2024

The Sharpies to the left are labeled. Halfway done.

Coco from Diamond Art Club: Mounted and sectioned off.

Coloring a fuzzy poster!!! I’m learning how to do Timelapse photography for this kind of thing. I don’t need to worry about it recording noise. And it shows my work must faster than just a regular video. My I do want to slow it down a bit. Not quite sure how to do that.

JANUARY 8th, 2024

I completed this on the morning of the 8th. I may go back and do some extra details. Not sure yet.

I like to color certain animals or characters for certain people. This fuzzy poster will be the first to hang up in the hubs’ “room in progress”. IF he likes it when I’m finished.

Woot! All new sharpies labeled!!! With the color name, the Hex and RBG codes for digital color matching, and gold stickers with the year their were purchased on the caps. Yay!

I have been attempting to redo my daily and weekly routines for a couple of years now. I wrote this list months ago. Didn’t have the mental ability to do much else with it. But, I did color code it. I sort and label everything by color. Other systems just don’t work for me.

I did redact some private things people don’t need to see. Lol.

Here on the side you can see the labels for each color circle.

More pages of notes I made. Some of this stuff is repeated in the list multiple times. 🤷🏻‍♀️

I tried to write out the daily tasks on this page that is broken down into 15 minutes blocks. I got super frustrated trying to do it this way. So, I put it away to come back to. Time blindness or Dyschronometria is a massive issue for me. I rarely know what time, or day it is without looking, and I truly have no clue how long things take me. I TRY to time tasks to find out, but I usually get distracted and forget to STOP the timer. I do not know WHY I was trying to organize my list by TIME.

Lastly, THIS was a Christmas present from a friend. I spent a while shuffling these cards. I didn’t want to do them in order.

Enjoy the shuffling. If you like that kind of thing. (I’m really just practicing angles, and lighting for various camera positions.

Now, that’s everything from January 5th – 9th of this year. I will make another post with more days shortly. I’m TRYING to catch up today. But, I also promised to post last years’ art for these dates. So, here we go…..

January 5th, 2023

On this Day, I stayed in bed. I was creating though. I spent the whole day, cleaning up my myriad of playlists and folders playlists on my Spotify account.

January 6th, 2023

Just my thumb. This is the result of a psoriasis flareup. Every finger on my hands looked like this. But, forget about how it looks. It’s extremely painful.

Looks like my art for this day, was simply dealing with the weather flare up of my hands and giving myself a hair trim and putting on a tiny bit of makeup.

January 7th, 2023

On this day, I spent most of my time, curling hand cut leaves made out of construction paper for the paper bouquet of flowers.

I also spent time, looking for meaningful quotes, as I was still dealing with some heartache.

Somewhere around this time, I also started a daily selfie habit. This was the best selfie of that day.

January 8th & 9th, 2023

On the 8th, I had a friend that was sick. I accompanied her to the ER, and she was admitted. I had this coloring book with me. I don’t normally color IN the book. But, I had bought this one for someone else, who didn’t want it and I didn’t exactly bring my printer to the hospital. The book was in my vehicle and I bring crayons everywhere I go. So, I started coloring this page while I stayed with her at the hospital. She needed an emergency surgery. So I was there for a few days and didn’t take a lot of photos.

Okay, Dear Reader. That is all I have for you in this post. I so appreciate your patience, as I catch up here. If I can EVER get my routine sorted (I will. I just need to FOCUS!) I will be able to keep up with these posts a lot better.

Meanwhile, if you are interested to know more about me, feel free to look through past posts. My main livejournal started in 2005, and has been imported here. Take a gander, if you wish.

My next art post SHOULD cover January 10-17th, but I may break that down a bit, depending on how much art I have done in that time frame.

To All of You, From All of Us, here at:

~ Chrys’ NeighborHead ~

Have a Beautiful Day!!!

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