Well on the one hand, yesterday I started to feel like I was on break. On vacation (staycation…can’t afford to go anywhere). I felt less like school was hanging over me. On the other hand, I still don’t seem to be able to sleep at night. I can’t FALL asleep, even when it’s really late. The shower is dripping (fixing that soon), it’s too warm, animals are making noise, even the human ones, my brain is racing. That! That’s the real problem. I almost got up last night to meditate at like 1 AM. That might have been a smart thing to do. I’m feeling it today. Ugh. I’ve been exercising too, so that’s not helping either. It SHOULD help, but it’s not. Ugh. Always a work in progress. Until I die.
I’m glad the brain is trying to vacation though. It should bring me along.
So yesterday was this…
I don’t really need all that hair for summer. Some of my upkeep is going to require me to use a razor. I’m cool with that.
And then I quilted this for a bit until I got annoyed…
I got most of the way down one side. I’ll do more today. Maybe. I think I need more thread.
Then this guy was Way Too Close. Satchemo. I need to be able to breathe without cat hair going up my nose. His paw is reaching out to caress my cheek…
Because I’m not petting him. It’s not because he loves me. OK, maybe he loves me. But only because I pet him.
Then I set this up to sort all the pieces for the current quilt. There’s always a cat involved when I’m working on the light table…
This guy came to visit. Too big. Legs. Bug. Eeek.
Luckily he was on the outside of the window. We walked the dogs in there somewhere, and then I finished sorting…
Ate dinner and worked on these…I think I only have 5 left…of the red.
Which means 80 left of the other colors. But the embellishments are easier for those balls. Simpler. Less time-consuming. Maybe?
So hopefully it will go faster. And all those balls will get filled up and then I’ll sandwich it and put it away for three years before I quilt it. NO! Not that. I don’t know where I’m putting all these in the house anyway. They’re wonderful and brightly colored. They deserve to be hung. Maybe I’ll rotate them.
After all that, I eventually made my way into the office, cleaned up the mess, laid out the first 100 pieces, and started to iron. At 10:30 PM. Just like normal!
There are two figures hidden in the landscape…they’ll be more obvious when it’s ironed to a background and outline stitched…but I didn’t want them to be really really obvious.
I made it well into the 200s last night.
This part is usually really meditative. Not sure why my brain isn’t cooperating. Right now, I’m so incredibly tired. Ugh.
OK, this is funny. I got a phone call while writing this and then realized my meeting was at 11 AM, not 4 PM, so I kamikazed off to that and totally forgot about this. FUCK MY BRAIN. Seriously, it’s impaired. So it’s good I’m making decisions about wills right now, right? Yeah. Shut up. It’s fine. Gonna go paint some ceramics now. Can’t deal with the rest of anything.
Kathy Nida 