In a new direction, of sorts
House on Red Corner · 2005-09-27
EJ went to work today for the first time. Well, sort of. See today, I woke up with the plan and intention of going into the city and putting in some volunteer time with Emerging Artists International. They are an organization who are supporting and organinzing a city wide Open Studio for Artists in New York. I signed on a couple of months ago, and indicated that I’d be willing to help out and well, today that was my intention. I was going to take the Squeakazoid with me and figure out a way to do both.
We went to the address that was on the website, that I had linked to from the email I received. (A special prize, yourself must be given for following that sentence structure, Yodaspeak, I have got.) So there we are on the Westside of Manhattan, in a building with pretty nice galleries and it’s not there that we are supposed to be at, I look up a phone number that I should have called in the first place, and get directions out to Williamsburg.
EJ met a dog named Xanadu as we walked into a studio space that desperately needed some organization. Basically the entire organization is one guy, with some help here and there. So we cleaned and moved things around so that the work space will be much better . I found a spot where Eliza-Jane could play on a blanket and sleep when she needed to, and helped out all around the best I could.
We left and commuted home and she was very happy the whole day. we did not have an hour of nonstop crying, we did have a little bit of time of whimpering but that led right into napping. When she saw Mommy again at night, she was very happy and proud of herself. Our Little Girl is growing up! Ahh!