The Lair of the Emerald Serpent

Izzie has been a bit of a strange serpent of late. There’s serious drama over at the Dursleys. By next Friday all will be revealed. Until then there is nothing to do but keep the forked tongue crossed.
Combined with some recent posts from Catness and crazy troppo weather, it’s sort of triggered a serpent mid life crisis.
Last year had a lucky escape with a dodgy witchy wart gone feral. It got nuked in the nick of time but in the light of recent events, I cannot help but think that if I had lived in the USA a simple 1 hour nose job would have cost an arm and a leg.

But the autumn equinox brings relief from the sizzling summer and the promise of all sorts of green and growing things.

The whole business of goals and the search for some worthwhile purpose on this earth got the serpent to thinking that all the happiest times had one thing in common without exception - some project to be working on - be it tiny like a simple zentangle, a bit more ambitious like an 8 week online course with homework assignments and deadlines or some crazy hairy scary audacious goal like paying off a $25,000 mortgage in 250 days (it actually took 200 but was overshadowed by the evil scheming of DodgyDonald clone Dolores)


So it might be an idea to dust off and rejuvenate those long dormant spark plugs with some new grand project.
There’s been plenty of those that end up getting written down over and over again in the little green 5 year plan notebook. But it’s time to tweak those rituals a bit
Like Nanowrimo - what is needed is a real rather than an arbitrary deadline.

( Grand Plans )


The Sneaky Tricksy way of getting stuff done.
Next best thing to having a private army of Zombie minions

Oh the Izzie had grand plans for the weekend. As is the case with all art exhibitions, the longer it goes on for, the less likely you are to see it due to the mistaken belief that there’s still plenty of time

Did manage to see the “Van Gogh, Dali and Beyond” show at the city art gallery just before Halloween. It was very strange being able to drool over some amazing paintings, especially Van Gogh’s olive trees. Anywhere else in the world you would have to jostle for a place in the crowd and could hope for a glimpse or two of the masterpiece at the most. On the day I visited I could have easily spent hours drooling over the gorgeousness up close and personal with hardly a human to be seen. There was ten at the most and that was when a guided tour came through
But there's something so incredibly tiring about visiting museums and art galleries so had to give up after nearly 3 hours or so with the intention of coming back again

Less than a month later the gallery announced that the remaining three shows in the six exhibition deal with MOMA of New York was going to be cancelled due to rising costs and lack of ticket sales.
The offerings at the Fremantle Arts Centre are not quite in the same league but now and again they do get a few gorgeous creations. The latest batch of shows are due to finish on 19th January. Was supposed to peek during a recent visit two weeks ago but spent too much time squiggling. So this Saturday was going to be the big catch up. Was also going to pay a visit to the gorgeous Carriage Cafe which is always an inspiring place for plotting and planning

( Sunshine on steroids )