{"id":383,"date":"2018-05-12T20:31:07","date_gmt":"2018-05-13T00:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lostmyhearing.com\/?p=383"},"modified":"2024-02-17T14:23:59","modified_gmt":"2024-02-17T18:23:59","slug":"paint-it-again-sam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lostmyhearing.com\/?p=383","title":{"rendered":"Paint it Again, Sam!"},"content":{"rendered":"

The other night as I was falling asleep, a thought hit me and I said to DHH, “Honey, I don’t think I can dive into a swimming pool anymore!” He told me not to worry about since a) we don’t have a pool, and b) it’s been years since I’ve done it anyway. That left me with some thoughts because lately, I’ve been realizing I can’t do everything I used to. So, being stubborn and someone who won’t just quit, I’ve decided that instead of focusing on what I can no longer do, I’m going to focus on what I can do. I’m going to try new things, go back to some old things, and maybe even forget about what I can’t do. Or find a way to do it differently. (Do pony rides take people over 6 years old?)<\/span><\/p>\n

Between being unable to hear and having some physical challenges from arthritis and injuries, I had to think about what would give me the most pleasure and the least pain and frustration. \u00a0I have a beautiful fully equipped drawing table, but since I hurt my hands, it’s very hard for me to hold the pencils, pastels, or charcoals for very long. \u00a0And my control is less than stellar. \u00a0But wait, I thought. \u00a0I can still hold a brush. \u00a0Epiphany time. \u00a0Why not go back to painting?<\/p>\n

For DHH’s birthday, I took him, Darling Son, and Wonderful Daughter-in-law \u00a0to a place where you paint and they have coffee, etc. \u00a0It’s a social artsy activity and we had a blast. They used acrylic paint which really did make sense, especially so the paintings would be dry enough to take home.<\/p>\n

But I’d never used acrylic paint before. \u00a0When I was young, I only painted in oils. \u00a0All the classes I took were for oils and the only paints I have are oils. \u00a0But you know what? It was really fun. \u00a0So when I had my epiphany about going back to painting, I thought well maybe I’ll try acrylics. \u00a0They’re definitely easier to clean up, which makes things much easier for me.<\/p>\n

I’ve been painting with the acrylic paints for a week now and I’m having so much fun with it so today DHH and I went to an art store to buy some larger sized tubes of paints and some paraphernalia to go with the acrylic. \u00a0I’m now properly equipped.<\/p>\n

The nice guy in the store who was helping us was surprised that I’d go from oils to acrylic. He said, “That’s a step backwards, you know.” \u00a0I smiled at him and said, “I know. \u00a0But it’s still a step.”<\/p>\n

I wonder what else I’ll do and how I’ll twist it a bit to accommodate my needs. \u00a0Life is exciting!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The other night as I was falling asleep, a thought hit me and I said to DHH, “Honey, I don’t think I can dive into a swimming pool anymore!” He told me not to worry about since a) we don’t have a pool, and b) it’s been years since I’ve done it anyway. That left […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lostmyhearing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lostmyhearing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lostmyhearing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lostmyhearing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lostmyhearing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=383"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/lostmyhearing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":557,"href":"https:\/\/lostmyhearing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383\/revisions\/557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lostmyhearing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lostmyhearing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lostmyhearing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}