Plantains anyone?

Hi all. I did do a drawing this weekend, although I had planned on doing much more. I had planned on painting. It's so hard to drag out all the paints and get messy. It's easier to just drag out a pencil. One doesn't have to exert oneself with a pencil and the only mess that it ever makes is a smudge here or there. A pencil just is. Its not flashy and doesn't pretend to be special and it serves me well. I think even if there wasn't a mess to deal with, I would still prefer the pencil. Three cheers for the pencil, the undervalued member of the art supply community. Now to get back to my drawing, it was done for the weekend drawing event, however, I did not post it at wetcanvas. When you post your drawing, then you have to comment on everyone else's drawings and paintings and I just did not feel like doing that this weekend, so I'll just post it here. This is a woman from some island (I don't remember which one and there are a lot of islands out there, so I'm not going to guess) preparing something with plantains. I do love plantains. I'll take them baked, I'll take them fried and I'll take them in a little chip. So, I would imagine that I would like whatever this woman is going to prepare.


It's back to work for me today. I feel like I didn't get much of a weekend (well, I suppose not as it was actually only one day) because I was too busy running around. I suppose some people would constitute running around doing stuff as a weekend activity, but I tend to like to use my weekends to do not much of anything. I do my stuff (including most of my socializing during the week). Having a schedule such as mine (working one day every weekend and having a day or two off during the week), enables one to do things a bit differently than the rest of the world. That's one of the few things (very few) that I like about my job.

Oh, and speaking different schedules, I have found a new and improved day and time to wash clothes: Monday morning. At this time, I don't have to fight anyone for the washing machine and, for some reason, it feels less like a chore than it does on Sunday night.

Edited to add, if by some reason you ever want to read a link or look at a picture that I post on twitter, I have found that clicking on the link on this page, will not do the trick as it tries then to load the picture or article in the small sidebar space. You have to click on "follow me on twitter," which does not actually mean you will be "following" me on twitter, it just takes you to my twitter page. And speaking of twitter, even though I thought it was silly at first, I have found that I'm actually really liking it (it is useful). For instance, I am following some NPR news sites and they keep me updated with links and some more obscure things like the International Rhino foundation and Manchester libraries. It is a great and easy way to keep up with information on subjects that you are interested in. And it can be fun to just write silly little tweets now and then as well.