Day of art and photo

Yesterday was "my day" in the photoclub to take one brilliant photo....easier said than done, but I really tried my best, and had a really good day (needless to say, D was at his dad's..).

Art, music and films have more or less disappeared from my life since D, but I really hope they all could come back, little by li

ttle. Yesterday I noticed how much I had missed taking part in art events - it really is nuturing for the soul - and gave me inspiration to venture out into that field myself.

Ar

tists had their studios open for visitors for three days over the

weekend, so everyone could come and visit. One girl had created installations in some barns (lovely ones, I always admire them when I pass). In the last one you could write a wish - mine also hangs on the wall :) .

Did I get one brilliant photo - no. Before the art-part, I also visited a sailing-competition in Monäs.

Since it was rainy and windy, the conditions weren't the greatest and I didn't notice I had gotten rain on my lens :(. Afterwards I continued to a wonderful beach nearby - Storsand (in Monäs). I used to visit it at least once every summer when I was younger, this summer I would've liked to take D there, but on the hot days there was always something else and after this I think it'll be too cold there, since it's the open sea.

Last week my cousin and his daughter brought me a new (used) computer - they had easy access to them since they both work with computers (my cousin with Nokia). They spent the entire day transferring files and other things, but Photoshop they didn't manage to save for me and I couldn't find the disk I had it on, so now I have to try to learn how to edit my photos in another program - and of course it doesn't work exactly like Photoshop and I'm so frustrated since I don't have the time to learn!!! Grrrrr. So some of the photos here are a bit dark and others I simply don't have the time to do anything about - and the best I have to save in case they will be chosen by the photoclub - those you will see next year :). I had a terrible headache last night - I guess it was the wind that caused it, my head seems to be sensitive to strong wind. But that's also frustrating, since I should've slept as much as possible, since D is away, but instead I was away for many hours waiting for the painkillers to kick in. This summer has really been terrible when it comes to sleep. So many things have kept me awake or awoken me - D (lots and lots of times), tenting..., thunderstorms (we've had a lot of them), trips....

(Have to write now when I have the chance, in a few hours I have to pick up D in Seinäjoki and who knows when I'll have time again....)

I actually found an ad for a job, which would've been perfect for me. Making interviews, writing articles, giving out info - but it included work in the evenings and weekends at times and also a fair bit of travelling. I thought really hard about it, but came to the conclusion that I simply cannot do it. I need to have a calmer year, when I can take properly care of us all three plus the house. I will try to manage with the jobs I have and hopefully my creativity will kick in when it hopefully finally will have a bit of space and time....I'm really prepared to get a loan if I can't managed to scrape together enough with my part time jobs, but I feel I can't cope with lots of pressure and a fully-booked timetable for every day. I can only hope there will be other opportunities in a year or two, when D again is older and I hopefully feel less wound up and overwhelmed.

For a long time I've been wanting to visit a house "Akkatalo" (Hag's house...but I think the name also refers to something ancient, the artist had a lot of references to the Gilgamesh epos). Yesterday I finally did - and fell in love! Now I know where to take friends who visit :) (remember to click again on the collage once you've opened it, to get a better look at each and every photo):