What I do when I'm not with you...
Feb. 26th, 2020 12:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thanate...has been the subtitle of this journal for over a decade, reflecting my fascination with all the pieces of other people you never see.
After much running around last week, followed by birthday parties for the Megatherium & her bestie (not in that order, but the one I planned involved more kids but far less yelling, since I gave them craft projects & a fairy-themed nature program,) both her Megatheriosity and grauwulf came down with the ick. In her case, she got sent home from school with a fever on Monday afternoon, and thus was required to stay home yesterday; today she reported still feeling kind of icky, but as she was also starting to get bored & insist I play with her I sent her back to school. Grauwulf spent the last two or three days insisting that he wasn't sick and then complaining about unfortunate amounts of mucus and following me around the house and falling asleep on me. I remain confused about what part of not sick this represents. But he is back at work today also, despite lapsing into panic attack mode last night, and the house is quiet except for the washing machine & occasional birdsong from outside.
Yesterday would have been an excellent time to crochet except that my wrist was already giving me stabby pains, so instead I read Austin Kleon's Show Your Work, which was light and comfortable and full of nice ideas and things I already know, and very perpendicular to drinking copious amounts of ginger tea while unable to work on much of anything and being coughed on by my nearest and dearest.
Lettuce Craft is ticking along, and mostly other people are posting lots and I'm keeping up with new topics. (Though, then I did these; would anybody like one?) And I need to post all the party things I managed to take pictures of. (Somehow, managing a room of 10-12 first graders with assorted adults tends to distract one from things like crafting photos... But I got most of the adults to play, too, so yay!) I remain convinced that I don't want to craft as a business (especially since etsy apparently just rolled out a new set of crap) but I keep looking at exhibit space guidelines.
Meanwhile, I have gone off writing again, but am still reading researchy books for the pseudo-Medieval Baltic/fairytale project and jotting down notes trying to figure out how to make the plot go the direction I want it to. (How do I get Prince B & love-interest A out of pseudo-Novgorod to meet the people who can tell them where the girls they're looking for have got to? How many actual salt mines do I have to mash up to make one with the geography I need?... What the heck were salt mines like in the middle ages, anyway, since everyone wants to tell me about iron age & 18th century? Do I want/need that third POV character, and if so, why/why not?)
And the dishes still don't do themselves nor does the coffee table stay usable unless I keep clearing it off. A friend of mine described the organization system she'd found that finally worked for her daughter: draw out 4 quadrants for Things that Must Happen Today/ Things that Should Happen Soon/ Things to do w/o a near deadline/ Things to Outsource b/c you're never going to get around to them. And then you put your to-do list on post-its, so you can move them around as needed. My to-do lists are starting to feel as if I'm buried in post-its.
Oh well. Begin Again.
After much running around last week, followed by birthday parties for the Megatherium & her bestie (not in that order, but the one I planned involved more kids but far less yelling, since I gave them craft projects & a fairy-themed nature program,) both her Megatheriosity and grauwulf came down with the ick. In her case, she got sent home from school with a fever on Monday afternoon, and thus was required to stay home yesterday; today she reported still feeling kind of icky, but as she was also starting to get bored & insist I play with her I sent her back to school. Grauwulf spent the last two or three days insisting that he wasn't sick and then complaining about unfortunate amounts of mucus and following me around the house and falling asleep on me. I remain confused about what part of not sick this represents. But he is back at work today also, despite lapsing into panic attack mode last night, and the house is quiet except for the washing machine & occasional birdsong from outside.
Yesterday would have been an excellent time to crochet except that my wrist was already giving me stabby pains, so instead I read Austin Kleon's Show Your Work, which was light and comfortable and full of nice ideas and things I already know, and very perpendicular to drinking copious amounts of ginger tea while unable to work on much of anything and being coughed on by my nearest and dearest.
Lettuce Craft is ticking along, and mostly other people are posting lots and I'm keeping up with new topics. (Though, then I did these; would anybody like one?) And I need to post all the party things I managed to take pictures of. (Somehow, managing a room of 10-12 first graders with assorted adults tends to distract one from things like crafting photos... But I got most of the adults to play, too, so yay!) I remain convinced that I don't want to craft as a business (especially since etsy apparently just rolled out a new set of crap) but I keep looking at exhibit space guidelines.
Meanwhile, I have gone off writing again, but am still reading researchy books for the pseudo-Medieval Baltic/fairytale project and jotting down notes trying to figure out how to make the plot go the direction I want it to. (How do I get Prince B & love-interest A out of pseudo-Novgorod to meet the people who can tell them where the girls they're looking for have got to? How many actual salt mines do I have to mash up to make one with the geography I need?... What the heck were salt mines like in the middle ages, anyway, since everyone wants to tell me about iron age & 18th century? Do I want/need that third POV character, and if so, why/why not?)
And the dishes still don't do themselves nor does the coffee table stay usable unless I keep clearing it off. A friend of mine described the organization system she'd found that finally worked for her daughter: draw out 4 quadrants for Things that Must Happen Today/ Things that Should Happen Soon/ Things to do w/o a near deadline/ Things to Outsource b/c you're never going to get around to them. And then you put your to-do list on post-its, so you can move them around as needed. My to-do lists are starting to feel as if I'm buried in post-its.
Oh well. Begin Again.
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Date: 2020-03-02 12:42 am (UTC)It's mostly the quantities of things that need done and my brain goes back to my kid's favorite episode of Odd Squad where one of the characters has to hide by covering herself in sticky notes.