Juice me up!

Pretty good weekend, albiet not a very productive one. The wife's folks came up for a visit. The bots took a liking to grandpa's hat:



Meanwhile, I am enjoying the new life. Facebook drama free and I seem much happier. A great decision. Sometimes you just gotta cut off the problems that are always bringing you suffering. One by one for a year now I have been doing just that. Getting my hoarding under control, changing my mind to positive, staying away from major depressing mainstream news, staying productive weekly, branching out for new art gigs, etc. And today one the BIG TWO I began to tackle once more. I've started a juice fast. Here is a mixture of kale, cucumber, lemon, apple and ginger root:



I know. You want to tell me why or why not to do such a crazy thing. But believe me, I will not listen. My mind is made up and right now, I am detoxing from the addiction of habit, food comfort and the addictive elements that they put in our food. Lots of crap. I just did almost two miles on the treadmill and I feel fine. I'm on my way. If you want to know why I am doing this, either Netflix stream or rent the following documentaries: "Food, Inc" and "Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead." After that, you will know.

The next few days are going to be hard on me. Its a detox period where I will be going through withdrawls and major headaches, nausea and sickness. Food additive addiction is a lot like heroin addiction. Problem is at the end of the day, you still need food to live! So its time to fight with myself. My goal right now is to survive ten days. If I can do that, I will decide to continue to 30 or 60 or not. I might just do the ten days and then move to a juice, juice, fruit/salad as a meal thing. But processed foods is something I now avoid. No soda either. No coffee.

I hesitate to talk about this stuff publically. But as you longtime followers of me and my work, you deserve to know. the problems an artist goes through is core to them and their work. And this is a problem I intend to fix for good. And I am just trying to occupy my mind right now, thats why I am blogging about it.

Anyway, I am off to work on some Walking Dead cards and then some doodles. Who knows. Just anything to keep my brain distracted.

T