Just a Thursday

For some odd reason, I would like the world to have the option of knowing how my Thursday is going.

I am feeling sort of awful today, so I did not really consider stepping outside until 6:30ish for a very long walk. I woke up near 9am and went back to bed until about 10:30. I drank coffee and watched Mansfield Park. 

Before I begin my new job on Monday, I have some material with which to familiarize myself, one of the items is a Civil War novel called The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara. I have never really read a war novel on my own and when forced to read The Red Badge of Courage in school, I did not care for it at all. This one is not bad so far. I only just started but one of my favorite people is Major General John Buford, mainly for his outlook on things and his intuition. He talks to himself a lot, and I can relate. Colonel Lawrence Chamberlain is second with his empathetic view towards a very tired bunch of Maine infantrymen. I like his view on things also and how he talks to his soldiers.

That was my afternoon from about 12:30 to 4pm. I then decided it was time for foodish things. I made a green juice of spinach, parsley, cabbage, cucumber and lemon. It needed more lemon.

I grew zealous while cleaning my two gigantic bunches of spinach and just about washed each leaf, one by one, eeever so carefully. 

Cleaning my juicer swallowed a good portion of my netflix time.

Yep. That's spinach.

I decided it was way too gorgeous to not go for a walk. So I did; just around the neighborhood, up and down the roads and avenues, admiring the general splendor of the Tudor-style houses that surround the area nearby. There are enormous beach trees canopying many of the streets; weeping willows and ginkgo bilobas make frequent appearences. Three of my favorites.

I also started finishing an old painting of mine yesterday. Travelled with me from home, when I moved to Brooklyn with the intension to finish right away. Until yesterday, I had not touched it for four and half years. 

 The original thumbnail.

 How it's looked since March 2007 with the original photo.

Progress report: water brushed in. Need to add a boat in that negative space there on the left (might just end up being a cliff or something), add in the finishing details, and put a tree in the foreground.

Too bad the images come out so tiny...