Life's too short - and the need for new shoes

I read this quote somewhere, forgot where and now cannot find who it is from either. But I had to make a journal page with it, and I also wanted to try out my new watercolour box and some other ideas that I had stored in my head.
...but now I see that I probably need new shoes ! ha !
(btw. should have flipped that lovely shoe pic over so it points to the right, see that now, well next time....)

dark mood

I don't do this often, because I am a firm believer in positive thinking, but today I am feeling dark and down and I need to moan a bit. I am posting this image of a chunkie I did in September last year. On that 4x4 is an image of a cracked church, it now no longer stands now because of 22/02/11
I drew an angry bat on the roof, maybe that was a hint or a sign ? who knows ? Life is not getting much easier here yet, daily aftershocks and now winter has started, the weather is grotty and wet and the roads are bumpy and full of potholes. Progress to rebuild is so slow, of course, it's an amazing task and nobody ever practises for something like this, I do understand. It just makes you weary and tired, so some days, like today, I find it harder to deal with. I think about the future for the kids and how to make a buck and all I saw today was just grey, dark grey, dark black, so I had to moan a bit. I hope you understand, who ever reads this, and I am sorry, I will have better days again, maybe we have to re-think what to do with our lives.