Today is a chocolate kind of day, don't you agree?  I wish I had a half-dozen or so of these right now.

My big goal this year has been to take myself more seriously as an artist.  And part of doing this means working on my official website.  I have a really fun idea for the front page, but it involves lots of time spent in Photoshop and writing code and such...not fun.  It also makes me feel a bit like I am just playing around.  Does anyone else have this situation?  I have to do this graphics work if I want my website to look good, but it just feels like I am sitting around coloring. 

Anyway, recent happenings have me thinking about that a lot...the great thing about being an artist is that my job is to create things.  Well, considering this is something I am compelled to do regardless, it is a funny thing to consider work.  Does that make any sense?  LIke, I have to carve out time to take pictures in a day or I will have no photos.  Maybe this is just my motherly guilt coming through.  Have you moms ever noticed that if you can't check things of an imaginary list you sort of feel like you have nothing to show for the day.  Maybe this stems from some persistant need to proove that as a stay-at-home mom I DO work all day, and I'm not sitting around watching soaps.  Or that, for me, photographing food and painting a picture IS work for me. 

Just some thinking out loud today.  And opinions?  Do you struggle with this too?