How to deal with rejection
I knew this journey that I started after being laid off would be full of ups and downs. Mostly downs, but the ups have come in the form...
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LaCalaveraCat
Jan 29, 20232 min read
Sunday Brunch
Today, grandma surprised Natalia with tickets to go see Hamilton. To keep the surprise going, Mike and I pretended that we were taking...
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LaCalaveraCat
Jan 28, 20231 min read
Simple Saturday pleasures
It can get very demoralizing seeing job applications getting rejected. To make myself feel better, I decided to make a simple and homey...
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LaCalaveraCat
Jan 27, 20231 min read
Practice makes portrait
Today’s post is all about graphite portrait practice. I have set myself a goal of doing a self portrait each year to see how I improve...
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LaCalaveraCat
Jan 26, 20235 min read
Screening time
Ahhhhhh. I can breathe a sigh of relief for at least a year now. I just had my screening mammogram today, and the results came back...
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LaCalaveraCat
Jan 25, 20232 min read
Point, click, review
I had been trying to wean myself off of my awful Twitter habit. But, I’ll succumb to the siren call of doom scrolling every now and then...
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LaCalaveraCat
Jan 24, 20232 min read
Arts and recreation
I’ve decided to volunteer more in my community as a way to keep myself busy during “the deciding times”. I had written that as “the dark...
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LaCalaveraCat
Jan 23, 20232 min read
I got laid off; now what?
It’s been a little more than a week since I was laid off. I had been with my company for 17 years. Time during which I got married, had...
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LaCalaveraCat
Nov 7, 20211 min read
Inktober, the daily grind
Woohoo! I’m actually finished with Inktober for 2021. Every year, I feel paralysis when I start, and I always think that there is no...
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LaCalaveraCat
Oct 21, 20211 min read
Hunter's moon
The moon the other night was so orange that it almost looked like a sunset. The Hunter's Moon -- the first full moon after the Harvest...
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LaCalaveraCat
Nov 3, 20181 min read
Late To Art
As my intro page notes, I'm late to bringing art into my life, although I'm glad that I did, no matter how old I am. I've also been...
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