Another year already?

Here's a teaser to what I have been up to. Completed. Check it out by being all clicky like here.

Busy being all contemplative like about stuffs. Achieving the status of yet another year under your belt can make ya do that, ya know? But what a wild ride, eh?

Wrong turns to be righted. Some folks and things left on the wayside, for others, the door is still open, and opening wider ! Take a running jump and see if there's a seat next to me!

All I have to say is, as crappy as I feel on the inside, my outsides?  

I look MAHHHVALOUSSS!

What's next on the painting agenda:

music of the day: Charlatans

food of the day: leftovers

mood of the day: hot and hotter

Beans!

Normally I'd be all up in Easters face with my peep adventures and funny photos.

Normally.

Still regrouping ,rethinking, dealing with life I suppose. But I wish you happy whatever it is you celebrate today.

paint

paint

paint.

breath

breath

breath.

UG

Sorry no post lately, we seem to be in a critical mass right now with my dad's illness.

I know you understand.

thanks

here's a photo to entertain.

pudding...

it does a soul good....

music of the day: anything calming like this:

food of the day: I suspect it might be Dim Sum

mood of the day: hello anxiety and not living in the present...hit the road!

Time to paint my loves. Time to paint.

SO

Nothing is simple. I accept that. Lack of sleep notwithstanding , concentration is

at an all time low. Nesting seems a good option until I get myself centered again.

Or find a good 'back to sleep " method that doesn't cost an arm and a leg.

Painting at full force, channeling my inner demons onto canvas is as good as a shrink I think!

music of the day: see above

food of the day: curry chicken

mood of the day: OM

Tease me , I tease you!

Finished another one. To see the whole kit and caboodle go to

my side link for my art stuffs !

Whot a weekend. Nothing got done but some deep dark realizations and acceptance of what will be will be. Meh.

music of the day: Rodrigo y Gabriela, Soft Boys, The English Beat

food of the day: that really BAD lunch I'm trying to forget

mood of the day: Clearer head, slightly less heavy heart, darkening soul with a sliver of gold inside

The Day!

You know what it takes to save what looks to be a super crappy, bad mood, sad kinda day?

Not much. Just a few words can do it.

Today started out with me dreading it. You know, the -"Not feeling like painting, feeling blocked, ugly mood, depressed, menopausal, missing my ex to death -kinda day?" That's the one .

Anyway, I went to the mall to try to at least walk off my blues, while pretending to shop for new clothes. I felt frumpy in all my over sized stuff and NOT wanting to go out in public at all, I tried to assume the "Invisible mode" I'm so good at; Stealth and Fast ( I hate clothes shopping.can you tell? )

Anyway, In Macy's , full frustration mode at not being able to find one thing I liked, browsing but not seeing the baubles, rings and lipsticks before me , avoiding all eye contact with everyone, mood worsening by the second, I hear behind me "EXCUSE ME!" Turning , expecting the worse from an aggressive salesclerk or the super worse, security thinking I'm up to some shenanigans, it was a middle aged woman tapping me on the shoulder. She then said to me: " I just had to tell you how fantastic I think you look! You look so smart and pulled together".

Wahhhhhhhhh? MY mouth practically dropped. "ME?" I responded kind of incredulously .

"OH wow, really?And here I am thinking I'm so frumpy all the time!"

"Yes, I just love how you are dressed and you look so pretty and and stylish"

Well after I thanked her and we exchanged fast pleasantries and happiness of the day to each other, I did a fast look in a nearby mirror to see what maybe I had not been able to see.

O.K, I was wearing my standard bluejeans , black top , hoodie, and funky yoga scarf from World Market,with my romper stomper boots and sharp red lipstick. "Hmm", I thought, " Not as frumpy as I originally thought". That'll do!

I wear my sorrow on my face a lot, most think it's just an arty- moody suffering Wuthering Heights kind of beauty I exude now. Maybe they're right. But dang, I do look o.k.

O.K that's not the point of this post anyway. MY point is, just some nice words , not much of an effort really, can really turn around someones day.

Thank you lady in Macy's that admired me. I will try to live up to it more ! And I won't be so hard on myself about stuff I can do nothing about, and being so hyper critical all the time of myself and make more of an effort to do what I can about stuff I CAN do something about.

Pass it on.

music of the day: Dandy Warhols, Robyn Hitchcock

food of the day: that cool weird sandwich I had in Nordys

mood of the day: lightened :D

Hmmm

Strange things indeed afoot..of the mystical kind. From two different sources too!
Well so far this year has gotten off to a bang ! A long lost friend from my past contacted me
just as my yearly horrorscope predicted, not that I believe in that sort of thing mind you, but hokey smokes! It predicted more than one and in the past 5 days I have been contacted by 2. In the past 4 months? No less than 5. Now if George Clooney calls I really AM gonna have to pay more attention to the mystical side of life!





hey I think I forgot to post this.. It ran yesterday. Much thanks to my pal Mark for asking and digging what I could spew out for him, babe wise!







music of the day: Robyn H. ( again, yeah I know!)
food of the day: avocado!
mood of the day: satiated in a mystical way

HAPPY HAPPY

NEW YEAR me maties!
Since I did nothing to ring in the NEW, save for reflecting on the past year, (You know;what worked, what didn't ,what sucked, who i loved, lost, saved...created...ate......yadda yadda.)
I awoke fresh as a little bunny, and proceeded to spend a good part of the day watching the Absolutely Fabulous marathon on BBC America. For some reason it felt right, running in and out of my art studio literally watching paint dry, running back to the t.v then back to paint during commercials. How goofy am I?

Anyway, ignore that painting I posted down below, decided I hated the neon glow so it's gone..now I can put the mutha' up for sale.
Hows $200.00 sound? Hey! It's a BIGGER painting o.k? And my unemployment ran out sooooooooo mama needs a new pair of shoes..so how bout it sexies?

Insomnia's Bitch
©2012 p.j.leidy

music of the day: Robyn Hitchcock, Black Francis, Mission of Burma (retro rules!)
food of the day: that weird salad in a bag I got today
mood of the day: seriously, It fluctuates between moments of pure joy and appreciation to anguish and pure self loathing.... HAHAHHAHA ( every cartoonists minefield of fodder for a strip..speaking of you notice there IS no strip for today over at webegirls. P.J needed a brain break for a week..but will be back next week!)

Happy New ...yadda yadda

checking search words that led people to my blog today :
moe hay ko and her boyfriend is one and another was: comic pictures of back pain.
Having no clue who Moe Hay Ko is I apologize I didn't come through for you searcher in the Phillipines.
Now comic pictures of back pain..well I'm sure there's something hidden somewhere in this red hot mess I call a blog.

Can't decide if I ruined this painting or not with the neon highlights..anyone? Anyone? Bueller?
Bueller?
Anyway, whatever you decide to do to ring in the New Year , be safe and be silly. It's the only way to live.

If the mood or attitude or whatever you're doing on New Years eve indicates the coming years mood for you , then I better get on the stick here and buckle it all down! Yikes!

music of the day: Faces, Battles
food of the day: choke it down patty!
mood of the day: Insomnia's main bitch now, all bets are off, stay out of my way ! HUZZAH!

HO HO HO

Here, this is about as Xmasy as I can get this year. The photo is from when I used to do a big tree,kinda German style, but stopped cuz it took so long to do and no one ever really saw it. (say hi to Aloysius there in the sweater.I forget the other little dudes name though..I'm a bad mother!)
It was pretty though!

Today is keep on painting day and deal with body crash.
I FINALLY got some sleep two nights running, but at a slight
medicated cost the next day.
I don't care, I slept, I had a weird mystical dream about my ex, I didn't drool too much on the pillow, and I had sheet creases in my face the next day.
All signs of a deep sleep. Praise Shiva!


music of the day: SOFT BOYS, ROBYN HITCHCOCK, Replacements, Big Star.
You owe it to yourself to be at least familiar with these boys!
food of the day: whatever stays down
mood of the day: lighter, breathing, living and loving you.


p.s: George Clooney, your package must have gotten lost in the post. Best you give me a call!

Get ye over to webegirls.com for your holiday treat!


Man, am I a grumpy Gus these days. Lack of sleep will destroy you faster than anything. No wonder they use sleep deprivation as means of torture. I am a tad to grumpy to be socially interacting with ANYONE these days, so I use that as an excuse to be the super anti-social butterfly that I am.

Side notes, me sitting here in my studio with my window wide open and it's like, 28 degrees outside. Does THAT tell you anything about my condition?
Though I've been feeling a bit manic lately, I thought I would be channeling my energy into more painting, not more grousing and gnashing of teeth!


( Great side note, I have now lost so much weight that my little cute plaid punk skirt circa 1991 that I use to wear is now officially too big ! So besides that kinda happy fact, I now have nothing to wear on my rare forays out to the goth club...sigh... I realize all my pals in Atlanta might not recognize me,since when I moved from there I was about 70 pds. (or possibly more )heavier..tee hee...though I don't know how much good that is if I'm dead from exhaustion..but I will make a lovely corpse..Bwahaha)


music of the day: assorted fun, Wussy, MC5 ( yes AGAIN!) , Bassnectar.
food of the day: whatever I can choke down
mood of the day: obviously short tempered and on a fuse so away I hide...

ooooh

that is all..carry on now.

NEW COMIC, NEW DAY.

At the good ol' webegirls.com. Somethings just don't end like you planned, Neither of you
saw it coming. Or maybe you did and just ignored the signs. Hoping for the best, and thinking
you could weather any storm. Just Breath.
Rise above, Surrender. See what comes.


music of the day: waterboys ,assorted fun
food of the day: meh..you call that food?
mood of the day: sleepless surrender




http://grooveshark.com/s/Crown/2SM8Nc?src=5

play LOUD.

too bad...

That could have been us.

NEW COMIC DAY! WEEEEEEEE!

Over at webegirls.com!
So check it out!
Wild night last night so let's just say there's not much else to say that
won't be silly and trifling...not much different from all my OTHER posts
to be sure. But I leave all that deep insightful, meaningful stuff to the
other bloggers . ME? Lately I'm in then out. Too much going on my dearies!
But I love you all.


music of the day: Dean and Britta
food of the day: tuna melt and green tea
mood of the day: satiated and calm

New Painting Day!

"Ah," thought Lola, "NOW this cocktail party is getting interesting".

© '11 P. J Leidy .
4"x4" $ 45 .00



Now onto actually trying to write and ink a Cafe Neurotic strip for the web. Since I haven't actually written or done a comic in a few months now, this might be an interesting try, since my funny bone has been replaced with a color -bone lately. But at least I'm giving it the old college try , eh?

My other worldly distraction of late, let's just call him Mr. A for now, has been nothing short of inspiring and supportive of the usually delicate constitution of my tortured, ink- stained fingered soul . New adventures, mind expansion , and meditation all contribute to
a creative output I haven't had in eons. My gratitude and joy at finding such a glowing hunk of joy that he is , is not given lightly. Plus he makes a killer figure and photo model to boot.. (Hubba hubba! Two birds with one stone!)
We have decided we definitely knew each other in another lifetime.
How else to possibly explain the complete comfort and delight in each others company. How else to explain the calm,glowing Buddha smiles emanating from us both. (Well logically I know, but, why not be all goofy and mystical every now and then.)

Off to be brilliant.


music of the day: Kooks, Mumford and Sons, Capt Beefheart!
food of the day: That vanilla Soy milk I had this morning for breakfast that didn't make me barf.
mood of the day: slight job hunting anxiety with a side of frys.

It was...

...mind boggling to say the least.
the weekend of crazy, "What was THAT?!!" moments.
recovery is ongoing...but I hope the cause never stops.

it's FRIDAYYYYYYY

Laugh you bastards, laugh....

much fun to be had this weekend..much indeed.
I'm a happy camper. And thas all I can say about that..
aheeeeeeen

COMICAL SCHTUFF

O.K at this point I cant' remember what I posted already or not..so forgive the repeats.
Some good news for my 4 fans out there. I am in the midst of prepping a collection of ZERO HOUR and CAFE NEUROTIC strips for publication.. Since the syndication stuff
died a slow painful death. ( as are newspapers..sigh), I am going the self publishing route again. Wait for some fun news and an exciting way for YOU to get in on the action!


Music of the day: retro 80's fun.. nothing sweeter
food of the day: chicken sammich' nothin tastier
mood of the day: thinking of YOU*, nothing nicer!




* you know who you iz.and BOY iz you tasty.... aheeeeen