New Stuff in the New Year

Before the end of 2007, I was desperately looking for some way to change my life in a positive way. I was stuck in a relationship with a Crazy Girl and to make a long story short, it was in no way a positive, fun thing to do. I was slowly limited to what I could do, who I could spend my time with, and what types of things I could have fun with. Any fun was only allowed when the said Crazy Girl was still at work or away for the weekend.
I decided before calling it off with her that I wanted to get back into art. I used to do a lot of it in high school and then in college. I took a liking to black and white photography, which I feel as if I'm pretty good at. I also have talent with ceramics and pottery and painting as well. Unfortunately I don't have access or the money to any of the pottery stuff, so I decided to get back into the photography and painting, something that I've adored for a very long time but didn't allow myself to get back into it, mainly because I had no motivation to do anything fun or creative when I had someone holding me on a tight leash that wasn't long enough to open a paint bottle in the apartment, never mind drive to the store and actually buy the paints.
I now find myself in a position where I have the space, physically and mentally, and the time to start some projects again. I'm very much into abstract painting and am eager to get some new paints to get going. Ideally, I would love to have a side business to sell my art... but I'm not going to put all of my cookies in that basket... It would just be cool to do, mainly to make space for more paintings.
I feel somewhat motivated and excited that I actually got this blog up and running again, which was also on my list of things to do. So, hopefully, when I'm able to scrape up the money for some paints I'll get that going too. Until then, I'm going to crack open a nice bottle of wine and watch some kick ass HDTV since we finally got our cable and internet (woo!) turned on today.