How the mind works..

I was working on a book in my room with a/c because my studio is filled with mosquitoes and I am now freakishly afraid of them since I recently contacted Dengue Fever by one of them. Every time I see one I scream as if a T-Rex just entered the room and run out to get some bug spray.

Anyways, as I was saying, I was working on a book on my bed when I suddenly had a huge craving for chocolate. Went to the kitchen and found none. Looked in my secret places where I usually hide them and nothing. I decided I will let that go, but just couldn’t get the chocolate out of my head.

Twetted about it with my lovely friends, that by the way you should follow them on twitter because they are awesome (NVCrittenden, andibutler, tinekemeirink. JannieHo, Jessica_Lopez and GaiaBordicchia), until I realized it was no use. I had to go get me some chocolate.

As I’m driving to the store, I’m thinking how I should be working on the book instead of going out to look for real fatty snacks that make my soul happy but my hips not so much and then suddenly I get a hint of an idea for one of the spreads I was struggling about 10 minutes ago.

I get to the store and buy 3, um I mean 1 bar of chocolate and drive back home again. I tried to get back to my previous vision when a Mamma Mia song starts playing. It’s the one where the three dads and the girl are in the boat. I start picturing that scene and then my mind shifts to the two hunky actors. If I had to pick one, who would it be? Colin Firth definitely! There is only one Mr. Darcy and he is it. But Pierce Brosnan looks better than ever now that he is older because he is not so skinny and I love his grey hairs and all. And then I think who the heck that third dad was? Anyways..

My mind then shifts to the scene where the girl dives in the water and I think to myself, actors really must have knowledge of a lot of stuff in order to do movies. You know what I mean? They have to be prepared for basic things like do a cartwheel, blow a really big bubble gum bubble or dive.. all of which I can’t do. Seriously.

I realized if I was her in that movie and the director yelled “action” I would throw myself in the water like a cannon ball because I wouldn’t be able to dive.

Then I pictured myself being interviewed on a TV show and like those actors that say, “I prepared for that part in martial arts for many months” or “ I had a language specialist teach me to speak Japanese during the making of the film” I would say I had a personal trainer that taught me how to dive?! What a looser..

And then my mind shifted to how lovely the coast of Greece looks in that movie and that I would love to go there someday. And I pictured me in a white dress, sitting in a balcony of one of those white houses with beautiful red flowers sketching away while drinking a glass of red wine. Then I thought how dangerous to drink red wine wearing a white dress so I switched to white wine.

That reminded me that I should be sketching in my a/c room instead of in the coast of Greece so I got out of the car and as I was opening the door of my house my vision came back and this time very clearly! I ran upstairs and turned the a/c back on, grabbed my sketch table, pencil, eraser, chocolate (yes!) and sketched away.

Moral of the story, if you have a craving for chocolate by all means go look for some. :o)