Yesterday was a challenging day.  It didn't start out that way.  I was really looking forward to my Saturday, but then I got hit with a migrane.  The nasty, zig-zaggy, rainbow aura started while I was in the shower.  SUCH a disappointment. 

I am always THANKFUL:

1)That I actually get an aura and have time to take the 4 ibuprofin I need to take to cope

2)My migranes are really nothing like some I have heard about and that my husband gets once in a blue moon.  I can function - uncomfortably, but I CAN function.

These headaches didn't start for me until I was in my lower 30's and I didn't even recognize the first one as what it was - until I got my second one about a year and a half after that. 

I usually get them once every six months.  I've had a whole year reprieve until two weeks ago... and then again yesterday.  I was really shocked that I was getting one again.  I'm praying that it's not a sign of things to come. :(

I was angry when I got the aura and went ahead and plowed through the majority of things I wanted to get done yesterday.  I hate that it just blows your whole day.  Not stopping and sitting it out probably made it last longer than usual, but I really didn't want to give up my day! 

I'm finding myself enjoying using watercolors in my visual journal:

The picture of the girls rollerblading is one I did from memory (didn't actually have them to look at), because I forgot my camera on our walk.  Somehow, it never fails; when I don't take the camera I wish I had, and when I do, there's not much new around that I want to capture.
Ah, well, I do have this fond memory of them at least sketched and journaled now.

You can see from my "new things" list, that I have, thus far, stuck to my resolution purchase used things this year - outside of art & craft supplies, food & health & beauty, and underthings.  So it was SO exciting yesterday to find this treasure at our Goodwill bookstore's 2nd anniversary sale!

Everything in their store was an additional 25% off!  This whole group only cost me just over $9.00!

This is my favorite find!!  Only $1.70 for a complete, barely used set!!  I really like watercolor pencils and was so excited to find this.  It almost made up for that pesky headache.

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Feb. 4, 2007 - Treasures indeed!

Posted by HarmonyArtMom

Can I come over and play too?

I hope you have a reprieve from your migraines. I get them occasionally with pain and more often the optical kind where I have floaters and flashers, just annoying.

I love to watercolor and your journal is fabulous. Thanks for sharing and inspiring.

Barb
Harmony Art Mom

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Posted by Kelli

I'm sorry to hear about your migraine. I also get them about every 6 months, although I had two in the last 3 months recently. I keep a bottle of Migraine IBProfin in my purse in case I get one while I'm out. I always get the aura or "eye thing" as I call it. LOL Your journal looks great and you got some wonderful new books. I love watercolor pencils. I can't seem to get the paints to do what I want.



Kelli



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