and the next and the next and the next .... pass the mnms ....

JOY post 5 ... cause it's the fifth of december, ya know .....

today's joys: pottery class, lunch with pals, little.e.beck.artist explaining the fine art of hot chocolate and marshmallow goop .. and making me some , it is SO easy to make girl.beck.artist happy, 

preparation: my fave christmas prep of the day was restocking our candy jars (in real life, this is probably not xmas prep, but it made me happy, so it is WAY elevated in importance) .... when i groceried i picked up candies .... tossed the end of the candy corns and washed all our assorted jars .... and made way for the red and green .... 

so ... we have mint mnms, red hots, jelly bells (cherry and lime), pretzel mnms, traditional mnms, and dog treats ... well ... the dog treats are always there, the other five are new today .... you would think i'd given girl.beck.artist a handful of money the way she was all giddy and gleeful over the sweets .... 

serenity:  i have a girlfriend at pottery.... cw ... and today i said to cw, in the context of a conversation about something or other, "yup, i've been working on serenity" ... and she did not even laugh at me ... she nodded wisely (she's way wise) and said that IS such a good idea ... and we talked about how even thinking about being calm can make you calmer without even trying hard ... like, a couple of deep breaths and thinking about those breaths just shakes everything out .... or shake might be the wrong metaphor ... it eases all the extraneous stuff out .... all of this conversation was while i was using a sponge to clean off my jeans and shoes ... apparently i was a bit dramatic and enthusiastic in my glazing techniques today .... so it was an active serene ... is that possible? 

happy shot of the day: these are the glazes in the studio where cw and i worked today ... ha ... who are we kidding? not work! 

so the glaze at the bottom in the orange bucket is clear ... and then 2 is white ... 3 is bone ....if you count up to 8, that's where i was, at mexico point green ... or maybe that's celadon and mexico is 11 .... anyway, about halfway up on the continuum to black glaze at the far end ... 

here's my thought of the day .... first you date someone ... and everyone says when are you getting married ... get married ... when are you buying a house .... get a house ... when are you having a baby .... have a baby ... when are you having another baby .... and then your family is all settled and your just here ... and no one ever asks about the next thing anymore .... it's like for a while there life is all set out and most people follow a particular path in some manner or other .... but then when you get HERE ... things are less clear ....since people don't know the next thing, they don't say when are you doing that particular thing...   so ... i guess you're just supposed to be serene while you figure out the next thing ....and if you can't be serene, eat some mnms .... i'll share ...