Talk About Tuesday

 

In Which Time Management Is Hard

So.

I've been up since 9AM.

You'd think, with about 10 hours spent awake and active, I'd have written this up already, right?

I... totally forgot it was Tuesday.

Several times.

My bad.

I will say this, though, I had a fairly busy day! Went for a walk and bought some treats for myself, then worked on more crochet projects, stripped my stack of blankets and sent them to the laundromat, worked on digital art!

I also contended with some shockingly seasonal temps! It was all of 36℉/2,22℃, there was ice on the ground, and I had to break out my big red blanket last night. That thing can easily keep me warm even when it's 10℉/-12,2℃ and the heat is faltering. Honestly, I'm stoked. It means I can break out my Star Wars or Buffalo Plaid Fuzzy Pants or my fox pajamas, wear thick socks, dig out my sweaters...

And shop for another winter coat because my plaid wool peacoat is maybe a bit threadbare these days.

We found a fairly affordable parka at the Mart of Walls, and honestly, it's the warmest thing I've ever owned. I put it on for a moment today and had to take it off because I immediately overheated.

Gonna have to wait for a 20 degree, cloudy, windy day to wear that sucker.

I do have one thing to say about this past week, though...

I may be developing arthritis. I say this because the other day, my left leg was in agony. It wasn't the same stabby pain I get when my sciatic nerve acts up, either, it was deep and stiff and it built with every pulse of my heart. I would have worried more that it was a DVT or something like that if it had been in my artery/vein areas. Instead, it was right at the ligaments, cartilage and bone. It felt like I'd wrenched my entire leg.

It was so terrible I had to take ibuprofen and lay perfectly still for 8 hours. The next day, Friday, had my leg fine, but since then, my hands and wrists have ached a bit.

It's mostly been my right thumb, right where it meets the palm. I'm right-handed.

Joy, joy.

I'll be okay. I just wanted to whine lol. 

Anywho, my plans for this week are to finish this digital art, post it on Thursday, and show what else I'm making for Christmas next Monday.

I'll be back to complain about the weather next Tuesday :)

If you'd like me to do something else in addition to the digital art (or in place of, depending on how much time I've got), feel free to buy me a Ko-Fi with a message telling me what category you'd like to see - Animal, Vegetable, Mineral, Dedbert, Location, Geometric, Word.

I'm going to go run my dinner dishes downstairs and gently stretch my hands and legs and spine before changing into my coziest jammies and cuddling into my flannel sheets.

Go Enjoy Something!

FC

Talk About Tuesday

 

In Which I've Had A Productive Week
(And It's Only Tuesday)

So far this week has been pretty great! On Sunday, I got to hang out with my guy, and we talked about a bunch of writing stuff that gave me some new ideas and I ended up writing about 350 words in the story I'm writing featuring the Cooper character and the animatronic ideas I posted a while ago on a couple of Thursday Art Walks. I'm too lazy to go link them here, but they're back there, I promise lol.

I also did some crochet today - just one round so far on the Secret Project, but hey, that's how it is sometimes!

And I've got some ideas of what to do about my next crochet project, too! And I feel like writing more! And I'm just on a wonderful creative upswing again!

It was so warm the last few days - reached nearly 60℉/15,6℃ on Sunday, made it to around 52℉/11,1℃ yesterday - but today is cloudy and gray and only around 46℉/7,8℃. The chill in the air is very appealing to me, though it does mean I've spent today inside rather than enjoying the weather. It might even rain later today, so inside very much appeals!

The cat has been enjoying the weather lately, too. She's been getting hours-long walks every day this week, and that includes today - though she noped out of the breeze lol.

My plans for the rest of this week are simple enough:

Tomorrow I'll sketch and brainstorm art ideas

Thursday I'll post an art blog

Friday I'll go for a walk

Saturday & Sunday I'll work on crochet so that on Monday I'll have something to blog about

Next Tuesday I'll be back to blather!

It's my younger sister's birthday coming up. I hope I can finish her gift in time!

No word on what it is here, though, since she might see it.

Also gotta make some stuff for Mother's Day!

And prep for Father's Day, since I miss it every single year somehow...

What else have I been up to?

Hmm...

Well, I've been watching more episodes of Ghost Adventures as I keep doing research for my future ghost hunting story. Most of the time I watch GA, though, I end up screaming "HAVE YOU NEVER HEARD WHAT A FERAL CAT SOUNDS LIKE? THAT'S A CAT IN HEAT, NOT A WOMAN!" or "OF COURSE THE DOOR SHUT, YOU'VE GOT THESE STUPID BULKY 2009 CAMERAS AND YOU JUMBLED IT CLOSED!" or "NOT A GHOST, JUST A HOMELESS DUDE - LEAVE HIM ALONE."

It's... cathartic.

I think I've already run out of interesting stuff to talk about lol! Boy am I dull lol :) I prefer it that way - being boring is a difficult thing. It's hard to be boring in a world that demands predictable extroversion. World says "party! get wasted! record yourself for social media's sake!", but I say "curl up on your creaking bed with a cup of coffee and a novel and enjoy just being for a bit."

And most importantly,

Go Enjoy Something!

FC

Talk About Tuesday

 

In Which Today Sure was a Tuesday...

I'm a very boring person. I like being boring - it provides a minimus of stress (which I *still* don't cope with well, but let's not talk about that lol). It also means that I have a certain level of predictability to my own life.

So when I found myself holding a strange iPhone in the middle of the local Walmart while my mother complained loudly about the lack of cat food in stock I was a tad flustered.

Thankfully, it just took tapping a screen once to get someone's attention and the phone was dropped off, I picked up my yarn (I needed red and green for a project and picked up some purple because I had run out), grabbed a Dr Pepper, and tested out a gift card I hadn't used yet. It worked, thankfully, because I hate using gift cards for the first time and having them fail. There are always so many questions that I can't answer. I don't know when my relative bought this for me. I don't know where the receipt is - probably in their purse halfway across the state. Let's be real, people rarely buy cards for themselves.

So the shopping trip, aside from finding someone's iPhone on the floor near the baby aisle, was pretty short. Except there were a lot of little things that weirded me out.

• There was almost 0 cat food
• Ditto on the litter
• It's really hard to look for your shopping party when you cannot see out of your foggy, foggy glasses
• My mask works really well at filtering out scents (which bodes well for its ability to reduce germs) but for some reason my eyeballs still feel the parfum and fragrance in the air and they will tell me all about it, leading to dry, itchy eyes all day long.
• There was a dude in the parking lot who tried to walk up to the car as we tried to leave to get us to sign a petition of some sort. Just... no. If people are already in their car and about to pull up, you do not approach!!!

So that was weird. And yes, I used hand sanitizer when we got in the car, washed my hands several times when we got inside, and I'm leaving the yarn alone for a couple of days while I try to math out the patterns.

Because somewhere, something has gone... s t r a n g e.

One section (which I'm reproducing on either side of this project) is 17 stitches across.

The other section is between 12 and 16 stitches across, depending on what versions I use.

This does not math without some weird, unattractive placements.

But that's for next Fiber Monday's discussions lol.

For today, I have this to tell you:

Stardew Valley is hella fun, books are really cool, and kitty litter is HEAVY.

That's it. That's what I have to say.

Schedule:

• Thursday will be more art (possibly with new art supplies!)
• Saturday might be me blathering about video games
• If I remember to post it, I should have a Tea Blog for Sunday lol.
• Next Monday I'll talk more about my crochet math problems. Hint: it involves working from knitting patterns and also with size issues.
• Next Tuesday will be more blathering like this.

Today's weather was a damp 28℉(-2℃) with sticky snow flurries. Right now, it's actually 32℉ (0℃), and I don't know that it's still snowing, but with the stiff breeze we've got, it feels like 18℉(-8℃). Wind is currently 15-22mph (24-35kph). It's very, very dark out.

My cat has moved exactly twice today. Both times were to new blanket tents.

I have moved... about 15 times today, and I'll move another dozen or so before I sleep because I get restless and weird as the night goes on.

Well, I think that about covers things for today.

Thanks for hanging out and listening to me blather!

Go Enjoy Something!

FC