{"id":37467,"date":"2014-07-21T10:54:51","date_gmt":"2014-07-21T14:54:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/?p=37467"},"modified":"2014-07-21T11:03:07","modified_gmt":"2014-07-21T15:03:07","slug":"a-sleeping-painting-stay-cation-in-my-perfect-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/a-sleeping-painting-stay-cation-in-my-perfect-life\/","title":{"rendered":"A sleeping, painting stay-cation in my perfect life"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"sleep_2342068b\"<\/a>The past several months I’ve been seriously catching up on my sleep. The beauty of a sleeping disorder is when the pendulum swings, the insomnia disappears, and I sleep many times throughout a 24 hour period.\u00a0 Sleep changes everything! When insomnia hits, it can last for months and years, but I’m used to it so I take natural herbal sleep supplements when it does –> those links here<\/a>.\u00a0 I’ve been having vivid dreams since I’m getting plenty of REM sleep.<\/a>\u00a0 It’s a fascinating meditation: deciphering my own dreams throughout the day to find the personal meaning and correlation.\u00a0 I’m always on the lookout for the personal spiritual lesson in everything. Yes, it’s all about me.<\/em>\u00a0 <\/em>More dreams = more contemplation = more insights = more the creative juices flow.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0I wrote how –> my new art studio<\/a> was inspiring me, so I’ve been in there playing with the acrylics.\u00a0 It’s easy to get lost in painting, the time flies and it’s a mental vacation getting to paint until I’m tired, then nap and get up and paint again.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/p>\n

My mind and body love all the sleep we’re getting! I’m lucky to have carved out a life for myself where I am the boss and can sleep and work at my own schedule.\u00a0 And lucky to have attracted a partner who has done the same.\u00a0 When I sleep at night, our working\/sleeping schedules sync up and we enjoy lots of hang out time! When I don’t, we still connect several times a day. He’ll stop by for coffee and breakfast on his daily walk.\u00a0 We’ll run business errands together, the post office, the bank.\u00a0 Nearing sundown, I’ll see if he wants to go to the pool for an hour and we hit the grocery on the way back. We’re both self employed, both writers, plus both workaholics so we spend much of our time working, and that suits me fine.\u00a0 We alternate between shop talk, deep and meaningful conversation and slapstick laughter.\u00a0 It’s my fave combination \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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So, the increased sleep has let me lighten up on work some, and I’ve been spending time relaxing.\u00a0 In the heat of the summer, I tend to let the yard go on autopilot except for mowing and pruning on a weekly walk around the property.\u00a0 Since my most of my property is under a deep oak canopy, mowing the front and back takes 20 minutes. I’m an in-the-garden gal when the weather is cool, but at 85+ heat and humidity, and misquitoes, I’m happy to have the new paint studio inside to play in. Painting gives me as much satisfaction as my long Spring days spent gardening: energized in the doing of it and worked to completion at the finish.<\/p>\n

This morning we moved some tables around to give more space in the art studio for the stand up easel.\u00a0 We moved the water cooler to the south wall and the teas overhead.\u00a0 It gave a lot more room!\u00a0 And I’m getting ready to move the stereo to open up more space. I’ll keep you posted.\u00a0 But first… I feel another nap coming on.<\/p>\n

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