It’s a little chilly this morning. I start the mornings with slippers on because my feet are cold every morning, no matter how warm it is outside. And eventually they come off and I am barefoot for most of the day. Pandemic clothing is pretty simple…looks a lot like my summer wear, except there are some t-shirts I can’t wear on Zoom when I’m teaching. I also have to think about what tea mug I’m drinking out of, because some have naked people on them. Plus the drawing that’s hanging up. I pin it up just in case. I’m pretty sure it’s too far away for the kids to see, but why take that risk?
I’m not sleeping well…not falling asleep quickly enough, try to go to bed earlier so the mornings aren’t so bad, but that doesn’t help. Just more lying around trying to fall asleep happens then. And then when the man gets up early, some mornings, I’m so exhausted I zonk out again, but some, I just lie there and ruminate. Damn rumination. It just messes me up. Weird dreams too. Last night, we were on vacation (VACATION!) and in a hotel, and this woman came into our room and started unpacking her stuff, because the hotel/Airbnb/whatever it was allowed people to double book or something? But she was someone I sorta knew? But it was SO UNCOMFORTABLE having someone else in the room, and that’s how I feel about going ANYWHERE right now. It’s just uncomfortable.
I finally FINALLY got to iron stuff on the big quilt last night. It’s not anybody’s fault…just gets too late, or the girlchild wants me to hang out, so I stitch instead. I’m still doing stuff I need to do…it’s just not this big quilt. I picked the fabrics for the third figure, darker…
This disease doesn’t care about you personally, but certain communities are harder hit…relative to health care options and poverty. If you have money, you’re better off? Or insurance? Or access to good healthcare? It all sucks. We should be taking care of everyone. All the time. Not just during a pandemic.
I didn’t finish ironing those down. It was 12:20 AM and I really need to go to bed earlier…but also sleep earlier. I can totally feel it today. I’m braindead and cranky as shit.
I also ironed the fabrics for the two mini-quilts I’m making for Patreon rewards…
That’s the bird laid out.
The heart in hands is on the right. I’ll cut those out later tonight probably. These go pretty quickly…just need to fit them in around everything else. This morning is two meetings, one of which is done (and was a clusterfuck, just so you know…makes me question my ability as a teacher in this situation). SIGH. Big Fucking Sigh.
Anyway. I also did dots. Strawberry, bottom right. Or some other berry? Don’t know.
It looks like a strawberry.
Then last night was this foxy dot…to the right of the white spool…
Ah yes…turned out pretty good, I think.
I also worked on the next Patreon reward embroidery…those are Luna’s legs under the coffee table…
And Kitten keeping me company on the couch…
I’m not sure how offended she is that I am stitching birds, not cats.
Hard to say.
What else is going on? Walks with dogs…
Someone weed-whacked. Hopefully that means fewer ticks.
Because despite that face, Simba hates combing.
Boychild made bagels…
I didn’t even know how bagels were made…
It’s a very strange process. Like how did we decide to boil FOOD in lye?
I feel like more of us should have died in the past just for our weird food practices.
Cats are always asleep…
She sits with me every day as I work…although this was last night…
It looks like the beginning of a horror movie. CATS!
There’s been some food-sharing issues amongst the cats. They are figuring it out. Certainly no one is starving.
And more of the conversations…although this is one I have often (minus my bro…usually it’s just the SIL and occasionally a kid)…
Everyone is going a little stir crazy.
Today? Today I make some decisions about my Advisory class, how I’m going to run it. I hate it, so it needs to change. Today I get some exercise, do some ironing, maybe some cutting stuff out and embroidery. Today I…sigh. I need more sleep. Maybe today I nap. Or draw. Or finish my book (I’ve been trying to do that for four days). Whatever. Today feels sucky. I will fix that. Somehow.
Kathy Nida 
I was on Instagram Live with Gretchen Rubin, and she was talking about foods you can’t make at home, like bagels. Many people said “I make/made them” and she was astonished because “don’t you have to boil them in lye or something?” I looked it up, and the first few sites said to use sugar(!) water. I thought when I made them lo, these many years ago, I used baking soda (or something like that) in the water, which makes sense…alkalinity?
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