baked a pumpkin tonight
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rugessnomeeurgh I can't tell how much not feeling good is ...physical and how much is depression creeping on (nor how much of that is ...seasonal? well, how much is attributable to day length in particular, mostly. There are definitely bad memories for me about this season.)
Mind, last week I was in my almost-inverted schedule state, but that usually results in somewhat insufficient sleep even when I am not grasping at the straw of "just staying up through it" to try to readjust it, so I may also be experiencing accumulated tiredness. :/
Went for a walk ~yesterday (well. Sunday. it's technically Tuesday as I write this but I'm still in Monday's wakefulness), which was nice, but a) I think I may have gotten slightly too much sun to my face or something, as there was very little shade, and... I scratched some of it and now it... kind of hurts, and b) [I've been struggling to get up the courage to go in for a significant dental issue which in the meantime has the side effect that] I've been having trouble eating and haven't been walking a lot which combination I think caused the otherwise moderate walk to deplete my energy and that also made me feel blah.
Tonight we made tomato-based beef-vegetable soup again and it tasted pretty good... I have been very grateful for soup in recent times due to the teeth issue.
I've watched a few somewhat older movies I had never seen in the past few weeks (Mean Girls, Labyrinth), although they are... not new favorites.I may have gotten distracted from the latter by the thought that a certain terf may have used a line (someone messing up Hoggle's name) to name a major thing...
At the end of September I finished quilting (but not the binding of) a baby quilt, and a pair of socks I had been working on, and approximately last week I picked up a pair of socks that were about 3/4 knit--I was on the second heel flap--and have now finished those, albeit with about six extra ends due to what is probably moth damage.
I did not have a good time at my September fiber festival due to high anxiety and relatively hot weather but I found a Byzantine chain maille bracelet kit in a craft shop on the way back and did that in about 3 sessions over the month transition. Unfortunately I am not really sure what to proceed onto here... possibly another small kit project would be a good second step... I still feel like I'm somewhat inept at closing rings, and it seems somewhat of a strain to my hands, albeit less than free motion quilting was to my arms.
In the past few days I've worked on another bobbin lace sample (albeit just a smaller scale repeat of a previous thing, to practice with somewhat smaller thread), but I failed to notice that I was meant to switch grounds between the diamonds...and then failed to realize at first that a half-stitch diamond would in fact mess up the pairs of bobbins... Technically I finished all the lacework on that tonight but I didn't finish off the ends or take it off the bobbins/pillow.
I can't figure out whether I was mistaken when I previously thought I had somehow lost exactly one bobbin... or else now I've lost two, because I think there's an even number in the main bag...
I've been working on a tatted mat WIP too, but then I picked up a different project, a doily I had started that feels less interminable), and first ran out of shuttle thread for the round... (improvised a remedy by extensive use of the shoelace trick) and then my progress was halted because I tried to close a ring and it messed up, seemingly due to ply damage or irregularity causing one ply of the thread to end up in a bullion like twisty configuration that is not conducive to pulling thread through tatted work... Dealing with it feels a bit overwhelming at the moment
(oh, and I have been tossing around the thought of doing some more ~calligraphy stuff but the problem is I haven't really cleared off a work space...yes, I also think clutter is aggravating my issues.)
And I don't think I've really mentioned here but I'm taking a few online classes via the local community college and they're ...sort of going well (one has finished thanks to being an eight week session but I haven't managed to get signed up for the following class as I had meant to...), although I have my annoyances (one instructor hasn't posted any grades for over a month đ) and I am running up against the gauntlet of mid-semester bureaucracy, due to things I need to do (including that following class) that are not going as smoothly as I would've liked. đ
tbqh the prospect of trying to get back and finish my bachelor's degree at the four year university has felt scary the past few days
Mind, last week I was in my almost-inverted schedule state, but that usually results in somewhat insufficient sleep even when I am not grasping at the straw of "just staying up through it" to try to readjust it, so I may also be experiencing accumulated tiredness. :/
Went for a walk ~yesterday (well. Sunday. it's technically Tuesday as I write this but I'm still in Monday's wakefulness), which was nice, but a) I think I may have gotten slightly too much sun to my face or something, as there was very little shade, and... I scratched some of it and now it... kind of hurts, and b) [I've been struggling to get up the courage to go in for a significant dental issue which in the meantime has the side effect that] I've been having trouble eating and haven't been walking a lot which combination I think caused the otherwise moderate walk to deplete my energy and that also made me feel blah.
other minor slightly gross issue
And I think I have a small boil, again, near where a bra band would normally sit... which isn't quite where it's been the couple times before when this has happened, but pretty close, and is also slightly painful :PTonight we made tomato-based beef-vegetable soup again and it tasted pretty good... I have been very grateful for soup in recent times due to the teeth issue.
I've watched a few somewhat older movies I had never seen in the past few weeks (Mean Girls, Labyrinth), although they are... not new favorites.
At the end of September I finished quilting (but not the binding of) a baby quilt, and a pair of socks I had been working on, and approximately last week I picked up a pair of socks that were about 3/4 knit--I was on the second heel flap--and have now finished those, albeit with about six extra ends due to what is probably moth damage.
I did not have a good time at my September fiber festival due to high anxiety and relatively hot weather but I found a Byzantine chain maille bracelet kit in a craft shop on the way back and did that in about 3 sessions over the month transition. Unfortunately I am not really sure what to proceed onto here... possibly another small kit project would be a good second step... I still feel like I'm somewhat inept at closing rings, and it seems somewhat of a strain to my hands, albeit less than free motion quilting was to my arms.
In the past few days I've worked on another bobbin lace sample (albeit just a smaller scale repeat of a previous thing, to practice with somewhat smaller thread), but I failed to notice that I was meant to switch grounds between the diamonds...and then failed to realize at first that a half-stitch diamond would in fact mess up the pairs of bobbins... Technically I finished all the lacework on that tonight but I didn't finish off the ends or take it off the bobbins/pillow.
I can't figure out whether I was mistaken when I previously thought I had somehow lost exactly one bobbin... or else now I've lost two, because I think there's an even number in the main bag...
I've been working on a tatted mat WIP too, but then I picked up a different project, a doily I had started that feels less interminable), and first ran out of shuttle thread for the round... (improvised a remedy by extensive use of the shoelace trick) and then my progress was halted because I tried to close a ring and it messed up, seemingly due to ply damage or irregularity causing one ply of the thread to end up in a bullion like twisty configuration that is not conducive to pulling thread through tatted work... Dealing with it feels a bit overwhelming at the moment
(oh, and I have been tossing around the thought of doing some more ~calligraphy stuff but the problem is I haven't really cleared off a work space...
And I don't think I've really mentioned here but I'm taking a few online classes via the local community college and they're ...sort of going well (one has finished thanks to being an eight week session but I haven't managed to get signed up for the following class as I had meant to...), although I have my annoyances (one instructor hasn't posted any grades for over a month đ) and I am running up against the gauntlet of mid-semester bureaucracy, due to things I need to do (including that following class) that are not going as smoothly as I would've liked. đ
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17/10/24 16:33 (UTC)Re: Mean Girls, my spouse was also a late watcherâwe watched it together during our twenties, and I donât think it landed as well for him as it did for me when I saw it as a new release. Watching stuff thatâs become a cultural touchstone like that is always so hit or miss⌠I really connected with The Breakfast Club when I finally saw it, but then thereâs always the risk of thinking that the tropes are tired and the datedness shows through too strongly. But hey, now you can have informed opinions on them!