Sunday was expectedly sad. Monday was unexpectedly stressy. Tuesday was… bleh.

I feel like I’ve been “phoning it in” so far this week. I can’t “get my head in the game”. And I’ve been so tired. I came home from work and slept for hours, and didn’t feel refreshed at all when I awoke. Tonight I’ve felt the beginnings of a cold coming on, and I wonder if I’ve stressed myself into it. I’m thinking about staying home tomorrow and just sleeping and reading.

As I took Dido for this evening’s walk I was at a blank for what to draw, because I’ve felt blank. A blank canvas would have been cheating, so I thought “Draw something happy.” If I’m not anything now, I should draw something like I’d like to be, and happy is that. So I drew Gabriel held in his daddy’s arm, and doing a typically amazed and curious look at the camera as I snapped his pic. Thinking about how he looks at the world, so amazed, so interested, just brings a smile to my face. And then I remember just how amazingly loud he can be when he wants food, and than brings a smile to my face too, because he goes from sweet, and curious, to OMFG GET THE BOTTLE NOW! Of course, I wouldn’t be so bemused with the volume if I had to live with it. It’s amazing how blaze Tammy and Matt have become. They’re all “yeah yeah, getting the bottle, dum dee dee, continuing conversation” while Gabriel tries to wake his namesake. I think it’s a survival trait on their part.

I’m not really thrilled with the drawing. It looks like the product of taking a flash picture of someone in the dark with a cheap camera. And it doesn’t quite capture the feel of the original, which was warm and cute, and made you go “awww”. Maybe drawing in his father’s dark Hawaiian shirt behind him would have helped.

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