I did a lot of driving this past week. Tuesday, all of us teachers had to go to
Golden for training. It was stupid and a waste of time. I won't bore you with details(they're stupid and boring), let me sum up by saying that was 12 hours of my life I'll never get back. But I carpooled with Carla and Janie and we laughed and gossiped in the car and most of us had a picnic lunch out on the lawn of the facility where we were. It was a golden day in Golden and all of us sharing our lunches in the warm autumn sun was the high point of the day.
This weekend, I went the Colorado Art Educators Association fall conference in Breckenridge. Carla was s'posed to go with me, but she had some family stuff that came up suddenly and she had to stay in town. Bummer.
I don't mind the drive to Breckenridge at all. It's a pretty drive. Across the wide flats of South Park (yes, THAT South Park), turning at Fairplay to head up Hoosier Pass and then down the hairpins to Breckenridge.
The conference was pretty good this year. They had some issues last year and I think enough people complained and they seemed to do better. One of my favorite vendors wasn't there this year, Kozo Papers, but they had a nifty coupon in the schedule book.
I think the best workshop I went to was the Solar Plate printmaking. I've never done this before so it was fun to learn. I can't do it with my kids cuz the plates are metal and have sharp edges and you need turpentine for one of the steps. Oh well, sucks for them. I like the smell of turpentine and I still have some black ink under my nails.
I finished reading "How I Became A Famous Novelist" while I was there. This book made me laugh out loud and was the perfect counterbalance to "The Hour I First Believed". I have two books now from the library "Juliet, Naked" by Nick Hornby and "The Wordy Shipmates" by Sara Vowell. Not sure which I'll read first.
So it was good to come home to Don and Lila and the crazy kitten. Even though the bed I had in Breckenridge was bed and poofy and had 4 poofy pillows, it's not my bed. It was good to be home and have the crazy kitten, like a couple of little girls before her, sneak into our room to sleep in the big bed.
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Turpentine? Are your crazy??? Did you take a picture of Hoosier Pass? I vaguely recall you may have a picture of it in your archieves.
did you bring me back some socks?
No I didn't take a picture of Hoosier Pass because I have several in my archives. No I didn't bring you socks. I didn't make it to The Joy of Sox store. I was trying to economize this trip as I just had to pay off my last root canal bill and Isabella has to get spayed next week. I am...how you say in French...
Je suis cassé. I will buy you some socks when we come to KS. Or I could just rub your feet.
it's cool. they'd probably be really fancy socks and je suis cassé aussi and I just bought some new work socks and that will do me fine. I will accept a foot rub instead for sure
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