Falling for the Olympics

I did something very unexpected this past week.

I bought a television.

Please blame it on the Olympics. I'm considering returning the television to the store when the Olympics are over. Well, I don't know. I'm sure another sporting event will be aired again soon. Hopefully on ice...because, sports are so much better on a slippery surface. Man, I love the Winter Olympics.

Someone asked me what my favorite event was and my #1 favorite would have to be Falling and my #2 favorite is Crashing. In fact, there should be a compilation DVD of all of the skiers, skaters, and (curlers?) slipping and falling. I would watch it over and over again.
You're probably wondering who just hacked into Jean's blog. It's me, guys, really.
Jean loves watching sports.
A lot of people never thought I would have an iPhone either. Anything can happen, people.
So yeah, every TV screen I see now makes me wish it had the Olympics running. While pumping gas--- Show me the Olympics!
That would be way better than the advertisements they blare at you in the checkout line of the grocery store.

A kindergartner could do that!

I was doing some sketching over at my sister's this weekend and stepped away from the kitchen table for a minute. My kindergarten-aged nephew took advantage of the semi-blank sheet of paper I left out. Well, I had begun my own little sketch on that sheet, but he was able to finish it in a much more inspiring way. My sister and I, both being very artsy and teacherly, quickly analyzed his great artwork.

I couldn't help but make connections to the streetscapes of the artist Egon Shiele. I was fortunate enought to visit many of them up close when I was in Vienna last month at the Leopold Museum.