Creativity, Inspiration, and Artistic Ability

I'm meeting a friend at Barnes & Noble today but since I don't drive/have a car, I hitched a ride with Stu a couple hours early. I brought my knitting, some drawing materials, my secrets journal, and the computer.

So here I have a whole day to craft.

I've drawn a few sketches, played some solitaire, and mostly puttered around the internet with a vague idea of writing something. Sigh.

I knitted a fourth pair of slippers last night which I am currently wearing. They're sky blue and I have an urge to applique a sunflower on the tops of them. I need a big needle with a hole big enough for yarn, so I guess it's a trip to the craft store sometime next week.

Spring break is next week. Nothing much going on...I'll be home alone for a few days and I intend to soak up the solitude and just breathe for a while. I've got a dollhouse to finish, some mini projects, and an outline/beat sheet to write for my ScriptFrenzy episodes.

I've been inundated with creativity lately.

The weird part of it is, it really has to do with my menstrual cycle. It's gross, I know, but here's how it works - when Aunt Flo visits, I get the urge to create things. I knit, I draw, I write, I go crazy for a week just creating stuff. It's an urge that I can't even control. And for some reason, I always draw much better when I'm on my period.

Is that weird?!

So I've modded a shirt, knitted four pair of slippers, made some miniatures, painted the dollhouse, and written a poem so far and I have three more days to go. I always wonder what will strike my fancy next as I make a mad dash through the week.

What does that mean for me? Will this always be my most productive time? What happens after menopause? Why do I feel this huge urge to make things? It's weird. I've thought about it a lot and I have no answer to these questions. Sometimes I'm in so much pain (like the first 2-3 days) that I just have to lay down all day, and then I feel like I waste time when I could be productive (that is crazy, I know, because there is absolutely no way I can do anything when I'm in so much pain!!!).

It's such a strange phenomenon that I can't help remarking on it. Does anyone else feel this way? Maybe it's God's way of comforting me while I endure the week-long horror of shedding my uteral lining. :P Ugh.

Whatever it is, I'm ready to complete something today and I don't know what it is. Probably more knitting. 1 more pair of slippers to join my collection. One more drawing to put in m portfolio. Maybe a short story I can work on getting published? Who knows.

All I know is that my muse is tugging me away from the computer. And that's a good thing.