Battles

swallowing a hot coffee, feeling like I could share this coffee with someone.
Getting ready for work, kids, sport, kids, painting

Adjusting

A new job is pretty hard. Working in a social environment is just like landing on another planet.
Today I arrived at work, found a homeless one in front of the still closed door, surrounded by his bros and sis. He was on the floor, bleeding. Huge injury in his head, he had just fallen really badly after an epileptic crisis.

I helped the way I could, put handkerchiefs on his bleeding head (as firemen told me on the phone) and waited for the emergency help.

Then I started my day, a bit shocked I reckon.

4 months

Been smoking for 4 months and it's been fucking good. Incredibly good.
I still have 2 paquets of 20 cigarettes at home.
I smoke, between 10 and 15 cigs a day. Old habits came back fast.

When these 2 paquets are over, I'll be done. I quite smoking despite the real pleasure it brings me. It's too damn expensive. Maybe sexy on the pic, but I don't want to be that slave.

Sigh.

Happy sigh : )

And I thought I was busy?? ha!

Oh God, my new job is very interesting but very demanding on many levels. Without talking of the time spent in metro and tramway.

I finished tonight at 6.30pm, came back home, exhausted, grabbed my sport-bag (the devils are with their dads on Tuesday's evening), when to sweat for 1 hour, finally left by 9.30pm, went for food shopping and I'm just back.

Tomorrow morning, I gotta contact the school very early for summer camp for the kids, then rush to work, then rush back around here to take the kids who will be at a neighbour's till I come back from work.

Meanwhile, there are a hundred of things I gotta do, my head is about to explode : )

And meanwhile really... I gotta get a life!

Tell me it won't be that speed and that hard all the time....

My art in the name of feet

A painting sold, 3 pairs of shoes expected at home.

Mines for work mostly,
my devils' for toes in the air

It's good to sell one's art sometimes :)

Planting my flag on a new planet

First day at work.
Wonderful people surrounding me. My boss gives me 10 days to get used to the place, to the people, to explore every corner of it.
It feels strange to be in a same place for many hours. It feels strange to try to fit to a company's habits. Remembering names is already something : )
Strange to dress for some "official work".  Strange to be part of the massive running workers in the tramway and metro. 40 to 45 min to get to my working place.

I hope though I'll be the perfect assistant I'm expected to be.

Taking care of my babes at the same time, even if only part-time job is something. I never finish just in time when they finishes school and that already requires so much organisation. Thank god, people and friends around are very helpful, always someone to keep an eye over my devils.

I'm tired tonight and nothing compared with the tiredness you get after 2 hours at sport.
Gotta finish taking care of some papers and then I'll work a bit on one of my paintings.

And well, I'm still playing lottery..

Doomed (Vultures are prowling)

Doomed (Vultures are prowling)
... is the last painting I've done and sold. So happy to sell my art sometimes! And this one is truly beautiful, big and imposing : )

I'm working on two others. I will soon contact an old cinema in the Montparnasse district that exhibit paintings and is pretty well known for that. 6 months to wait before showing one's art but it's something I wanna try : )