Tax day came and went without my even noticing it.

My accountant has all my info and usually files for an extension. So won’t know what I owe for quite some time. I am very complicated with a variety of businesses, none of which make a lot of money yet. Not that I won’t someday soon, but not last year – the flooding and other craziness kept me from staying on point with all of my businesses other than Commonwheel Art Festival.

One Wednesday it snowed a wet, heavy snow that caused the MSAC Board meeting to be cancelled. I did lots of posting for the “Old Spokes” gallery show at Commonwheel Artists Co-op. Got the Tweets done also. So grateful that Facebook allows you to schedule posts so can do them on one day and not have to do them daily. Same for Tweets. I use Social Oomph for scheduling Tweets. So not having a 3 hour meeting was very helpful in giving me extra time today.

I had planned on seeing how the show was coming together, but then I didn’t want to walk to the Gallery in the snow just for that reason and I was sure Thursday would be soon enough to check on how Roger was doing with hanging all of the artwork from over 40 artists.

And I was having all sorts of trouble getting the printer to print on a heavy paper and have the color look good for the Artist Statement and Memories pages. I swear, if I do something for the 50th Anniversary it will not involve artist statements or a memories book. Someone else can do that. It really took too much time and I was obsessed with making it look good and be interesting. And it did in its final rendition. It was like herding cats while juggling monkeys to get this project completed. One would think a professional artist would have: 1) A Bio; 2) a Photo of themselves; 3) A photo of their art work that they could easily access and send to anyone interested in their art. Not so for many of these people. And then working with 72 dpi images that needed to be 300 dpi for printing, well, it was interesting.

And I actually took time to watch my favorite, almost my only TV show, Survivor – my guilty pleasure, while I ate dinner. I have a couple of friends who watch it also and we always plan to watch the long finale together. We have dinner first, then settle in to an evening of visiting and watching this show together. Twice a year is about the only time we actually have time together. She was on my Festival committee and quilting member of Commonwheel years ago when we started this tradition.

So on Thursday I did go down to the Commonwheel and it was lovely weather again. Ah, Springtime in the Rockies, so much fun.

I brought three notebooks, the 25th Anniversary, a photo album from that show and this new one. I discovered some people had brought work in that had never responded saying they would bring work. And I had missed printing a couple of Bio pages. So I had to redo the index page and get the other pages printed. Someone had brought in a hand written sheet with photos on it that was one of the original founding members, so I really wanted to include her in the book. Getting the scanner I bought to work was another challenge, but got it working so I could scan her photos.

I was to have the final webinar for Easy Book Content with Tony Laidig tonight, but will have to listen to the replay.

As on this night there is a really fun party held by the Gazette for “Best of the Springs” Award winners. Commonwheel Artists Gallery won GOLD for best commercial gallery after not placing at all last year. Or maybe we missed in just the Indy awards last year. But we were in the top three for both this year. Gold is always a real plus to get yourself noticed all year round. The food at the party is really great. Different winners supply the food and I did eat pretty carefully this year, as it is easy to really overindulge. Skipped the items that were heavy on bread like pizza and sandwiches. Had sushi from my most favorite downtown restaurant, Fujiyama. That alone made my night. But I also got a quickie, 5 minute chair massage that helped relax some of my tight muscles. I know I really need to call Sarah and get a full massage soon.

I had skipped having any alcohol as I was feeling a bit tired and am really glad I did. When I got home, I just kind of collapsed. I thought Glee would be on, but it wasn’t. So I looked at the channels with movies and found Forrest Gump. My roommate had mentioned watching it a few days ago and I decided to just sink into bed and watch it. That was a good idea, as I just felt more and more tired as I allowed myself to relax and let go of needing to be on the computer than evening.

A really wide variety of styles and media of art work made this show really fun to see in Commonwheel Artists’ Gallery in Manitou Springs, Colorado.