I was really looking forward to my morning Earth Healing Group, but for some unknown reason, it was cancelled.

I was looking for that that to keep me centered and calm as I drove my unfixed car to my Health Appointment. As I was getting ready earlier, I had started to put on a lotion on my body, when I realized I shouldn’t do that. Jumped back into the shower to rinse off again. No essential oils or lotion is a difficult habit to break any morning, glad I remembered in time. This had to be the least painful Mammogram I have ever had, really nice technician also.

Of course, the car acted perfectly on the drive to the Health Center for my Mammogram, and back to the mechanics. I did avoid going on the highway and I was really gratefully to my guardian angels that the trips were uneventful and was able to relax driving this morning.

My mechanic drove me home as a test drive for the car and he took it on the highway. It never did its “hesitation dance” for him. But the Throttle codes did come up for him when he got it back to the shop. Later he called to tell me a rather expensive part was needed. I just didn’t feel comfortable not having it fixed now, and then have this happen later in a way that was unsafe or I was even farther from home. Makes my financial situation even tighter than it already was, but hopefully in April, nothing new will be that expensive.

I have a hair appointment for a cut and perm that I am going to keep on Friday. I am really ready to do something nice for myself! Time for a new look. And I have places to be that night and going into the next month will be nice to have hair that has more curl without much work each day.

I made some phone calls that got me connected to some solutions relating to the Art Festival and a new person with lots of ideas and energy.

My roommate had cooked a chicken meal, but then called to say she wouldn’t be home for dinner. I have never been a fan of stew-like meals. I prefer different foods to be a bit more separated, but her Midwest cooking tends towards stews. It was tasty, but I do hope she takes some for her meals at work the next few days.

Tony Laidig’s Free Expert Media Show was on Puzzles, Contests and Challenges. I think I have enough challenges in my world – oh, not that type of challenge. He revealed the answer to a puzzle he had written 8 years ago that no one had ever solved. It was very complicated and involved many different types of puzzles and challenges one would have to unravel. Interesting Case Study, but beyond anything I would ever attempt. But it did give me an idea for a way to engage people in the Commonwheel Artists Co-op’s 40th Anniversary Gallery show and year. Create a Word Jumble Puzzle with the names of the artists in the show. Plus there is are old photos of members in a meeting in 1977 and a couple around the Town Clock that we could have them try and name the folks in those pictures. Giving a Gift Certificate to use at the Commonwheel Gallery would be an easy prize to offer.

As tired as I was, I was inspired by this webinar to come up with some new advertising approaches for Commonwheel and ideas for a couple of books I could create doing puzzles and word scrambles. Then on Tony Laidig’s Easy Content Creation webinar on Thursday he showed us a site where you can easily create Word Scambles Puzzles for free! I will take advantage of that and present my idea to the Marketing committee next week.

I didn’t see the email from Gary until later in the day. Had wondered why he hadn’t left the logo on my porch, but he had. Just not where I had suggested he leave it. Luckily the squirrels and weather didn’t hurt this large paper file.

My roommate told me she could give me a ride to pick up my car the next day around noon, which would have been perfect timing. But when I got up in the morning, she was gathering things to go to work. Her schedule had changed and she told me her boyfriend could take me. I called my plumber friend and since we needed to get some parts, asked if he could take me to my car and then we would get parts. He had a health appointment and would be back around noon, so we made this plan. When he did get back, he wasn’t feeling like doing anything more than taking me to get my car. I asked if I could take him to lunch, at first he said “no”, he wasn’t feeling even well enough to eat. But after I got my car, he realized he was hungry and could use lunch. He suggested an Ethiopian restaurant nearby that I had never heard of. The owner greeted him like a dear family member. That alone I think made him feel a lot better. I splurged on my meal, had the rose ice tea and we split a very chocolate dessert. The whole meal was Gluten-Free, interesting food and very tasty.

We had interesting conversations about the webinar I had in the morning. Tony Laidig and Felicia Slattery’s third webinar on “Your Genius Factor” spurred me to talk to my friend about what could help motivate him a bit. I want to share some of my notes with him to see if they can help get him out of his “funk” that he has been in all winter long.

I took the Commonwheel Logo to get scanned. Then showed it to or Marketing person. Realized I was close to the Dollar Store and got a few things I needed there, like dish soap that we were on the last drops of at home.

When I opened up the logo file, it was a pdf, not a jpg. So converted it. Then I noticed it had many dust specks and lots of the areas that were black had white spots. Spent an hour cleaning it up. Not worth having a clean logo if it really wasn’t clean! Or Marketer needs a rasterized / vector file, but even though I own Adobe Illustrator, I can’t remember from Tony’s training how to do this simply. I think I will ask him who did one for him, or what training that was in . . .

Walked down to MAC for a Manitou Springs Art Council meeting. I stopped and got my Commonwheel dues paid on the way. I had set out my camera to bring, but left it at home. I told myself to just enjoy the day, and I would have been late if I had tried to snap pictures of the cleared creek areas. As I walked down Lover’s Lane, there was a lovely deer just a few feet away. Dang! That would have been a perfect image, but no camera, no photograph, just the moment in time to appreciate being that close to this lovely creature.

At the Art Council meeting we discussed sending some Board members and Natalie, who had put the proposal together for Manitou to become a Creative District to the Creatives Conference in Salida in very early May. I had wanted to go, but was sure Commonwheel wouldn’t pay for it this year, and it was far enough away that it would involve an overnight stay. The Board decided to send 4 of us, and I do get to go. Gonna ask Commonwheel to pitch in something for the lodging at the Monday Board meeting.

A couple of the Board members wanted to stop for a glass of wine on the way home. I almost got distracted, but since I hadn’t gotten any real work done today, declined.

At home I worked on the Old Spokes Gallery show and put that information and the logo in the DropBox for our Marketer.

Had hoped to get to bed early, but that did not happen.