Loving this retirement thing

It's odd to realize that I've been retired for 4 months already.  It's not what I imagined really.  I thought I'd have all this time to fill, but instead, I have no time to fill at all.  I feel like I have to make time to get the things done that I want to get done.  Don't get me wrong, I'm not complaining.  I'm loving it!  Truly loving it!

I've been taking a watercolor class.  I painted the ugliest pepper ever this week.  I endeavor to paint a good one prior to our next class on Wednesday.  I did of ours learn a lot through this failure and am sure I can correct my erroneous ways.  In addition, I spent time with a new friend this week and learned to needle felt.  so far I've only made a couple very simple shapes, but t's a start and I'm a bit hooked on all the things I've been seeing on Pinterest that are needle felted.  Of course, the trouble starts when I have to decide how I'm going to spend my time.  Shall I do some felting today?  Perhaps I will work on perfecting my pepper.  Go to the cafe and sketch (did that yesterday and loved it).  I've been watching some Pastel painting videos and I really want to get back to that as well.  Not to mention the acrylic abstracts that I've become addicted to playing with.  On top of all that, I saw some beautiful machine stitched collages this week and really want to try my hand at that as well.  Hmmm.  I've got a problem of lack of focus.  That's obvious.  If I do it all I will get really good at nothing - most likely.

I was rather hoping it would happen naturally.  I'd just gravitate towards the thing I love most.  Well, that of course is my husband and I do feel like we are spending more and better time together which is great.  But that aside, I'm going to need to decide where I want to concentrate.  Well, it's late and I'm going to sleep on it tonight.  We'll see where that goes.  Probably will do some soul searching and goal writing for the next 13 months and that should help me focus.

I'll post some pictures of my simple felting endeavors and perhaps a new acrylic work tomorrow.  I promise, you will never see the failed pepper!