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I don’t know what to call it, but I recorded one of Edna St. Vincent Millay’s poems today.

I did spend some time writing today, but it wasn’t very good. I was very tired and my brain just wasn’t in gear.

Yes, I’m a 41-year-old who colors. I adore coloring! I got out my pretty markers today, and colored a lovely mandala. If the scanner would cooperate, I’d post a picture of it, but the scanner seems to have gone toes-up

I got to stitch WHILE gaming tonight! I wrote for a while earlier today, too.

I actually sat down and played the piano for a while, and sang.

The only creative thing I did today was write. I got a fair amount of writing done, though!

So today I did some cross-stitch, and spent time looking and older pieces I’ve done. I really do need to learn to do framing, I think, or I probably won’t ever get them all framed and on the wall.

Sam and I also gamed. In case anyone is wondering why that would count at all, we create stories together in a free-form roleplaying game. It’s a little like improvisational theater, but there’s no audience and we don’t move around.

I mostly did webby stuff today, with a little writing/editing, too. Sam and I tried to game, but both of us were sleepyheads.

So I wrote more today, and Sam and I gamed for an hour or two. I’m beginning to realize, now that I keep up with this, that I do more creative stuff each day than I’d thought

I spent time writing day, doing my Daily Pages a la The Artist’s Way.
I also did more webifying, and got all happy because I resolved a template problem. I don’t “know” php, as in I don’t write my own scripts. I’m learning more and more about it working with other people’s templates, and have gotten to where I can mix and match from different templates to get the effects I want. I also spent some time in mysql, trying to clean up some of this site’s tables to make it load faster.

I mean face-to-face story gaming, not anything on a computer. I suppose some people would call it a “diceless tabletop RPG.”

If it does count, I was multiply creative on day two!

Whether gaming is creation or not, there was the webmistressing today, which does. I tweaked some WordPress templates to work better, and moved more stuff over from my old site format to WordPress. It may not seem like much, but I always rewrite and update as I do that, so I figure it counts. It’s interesting to look back at some of the old content, 13 years after I started the site.

Nope, I don’t have a photo to post, but I got out the drawing tablet for the first time in an embarrassingly long time, and worked on a cross-stitch design. It split into two, somehow, but I’m hoping to post pics tomorrow. I discovered that Patternmaker isn’t installed on this machine, so I’ve made graphics that have to be translated into graphed designs.

I feel that I’m really in the “getting organized” stage, which I should have done last week. But the tablet is attached now, and I know where my stitching bag is. I’ll find out in the morning just what my daughter did with my colored pencils and such, and locate the Patternmaker install CD. Yep.

It did feel great to have time on my schedule devoted to “being creative” and nothing else!

I just heard about Thing-a-Day via Twitter, and decided to join. I’m doing Blog365, and anything that helps me have something to blog about each day is a bonus

I blog primarily at Enemy of Entropy, but I also post at Fibrant Living and Academy Caritas from time to time. I’m moving my other sites, Heartsong Handicrafts and Cynthia Armistead over to WordPress now, so it’s possible that I’ll post there as well. When I do post elsewhere, though, I usually put a pointer on my main site.

I’m a homeschooling mom to a very creative 17-year-old, who I hope to get signed up here. I’m also a college student, writer/blogger, podcaster, and fledgling needlework designer. I’m looking forward to seeing what everyone comes up with!