Hmmm. Well. I sorta forgot to write for a couple of days. I mean, I usually blow off Sunday anyway, but I’m pretty sure yesterday was Monday and today is Tuesday. In my defense, I’ve been busy and out of a normal daily routine, which is probably why the writing didn’t happen. I haven’t hit relaxation mode yet, and honestly, probably won’t over this break. I just have too much work this week.
In good news, there’s lots of kitten interaction, if only to try to figure out where they’re hiding or to introduce them to the other furry beasts in the house. And I should sleep more on a week off. I really should. Oops.
OK, so Saturday, I ironed for a while…this is Figure 3…all done.
Saturday night, I went to watch the man’s band…and two more bands…
Lots of 80s punk…and the man playing as Exene from X.
Like you do. I was tired after all that and went to bed early. Can’t get the sleep or the eating under control this week so far.
On Sunday, I had tons to get done. Unlike some…
Sundays are always too much stuff. But then I got most of Figure 4 done…
At some point, I realized it was well after midnight…that’s a lot of fabrics…
I was almost done, but it would have taken a lot of time to really get done…that’s it. That’s all.
So that would be Monday.
Monday started at the DMV. I needed to get my RealID and I figured now was better than waiting until the last minute…although I made the appointment two months ago, and this was the earliest I could get in. When I got there, they told me one of the pieces of documentation I had wouldn’t work, even though it was on the list they sent me. Luckily, I had another piece in the car (that expired the day before, but apparently they didn’t care about that), so after 45 minutes or so, I was done. I read my book. Good use of time.
A really good use of time was the 4.3-mile walk we did with the dogs…
We missed one trail but eventually found another one heading the same way…well, not that one…
That was the most relaxing thing I’ve done so far.
Outside. With dogs. And boychild. Plus no grading.
The grading is stressing me out. I keep thinking I’ll just do one part of the larger assignment a day, but that’s not necessarily working. And I won’t have enough days…because I’m assuming Thanksgiving through Sunday are lost days due to family gatherings and travel. I really don’t want a lot of these assignments transferring over into December. It’ll be hard enough to get through those three weeks. Plus grades will be due again. SIGH.
Better to be outside.
And it was a good day for it…supposed to be rain starting tomorrow. Lots of it.
Back to kittens…
They have totally different personalities. And they still need appropriate names. Apparently Sharp and Pointy are not options.
This bag was very exciting…
I just watched for a while and drank my tea.
Back to grading, I persuaded Kitten to come out and be sociable, and then she saw the kittens.
She’s still not a fan.
We lost kittens a few times yesterday. They climbed into the drawers from under the table.
That’s now a thread AND kitten drawer.
I finally made it into the studio around 10:30 PM…with the last bit of the ironing to do.
But I got them all ironed down…
Almost 14 hours…the chaos of fabric piled up…
I stayed up way too late.
There we go. 134 fabrics total. The box on the bottom right is the four different flesh runs.
Going for some variety. Every figure got their own red heart fabrics too. Anyway. The next step is to cut them all out. I also have over 3 hours of videos to watch today…not kitten videos, but students. It might kill me, but I’m aiming to finish it…in between buying snow chains and a turkey and making it to my pilates class. The right eye has finally stopped twitching, but I’m still grinding my teeth. Deep breaths. And more exercise. Wait. Dammit. That eyelid just started twitching again. Aargh.
Kathy Nida 