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sunday makes

  • a new cushion for the shark shaped cat bed
  • mending
    • hole in butt of pink sweatpants
    • sticky up zipper of new dress
    • cleaning up all the loose threads in a handmade shirt that was washed
  • (i boiled water) fancy pants instant ramen https://shop.momofuku.com/products/spicy-soy-noodles-5-servings I swear I got this for much cheaper at target. I would say it is worth less than $2/serving, but definitely at least $1/serving of better than instant ramen.
  • we had a mastodon/fediverse fiber arts/crafting meetup this morning! it went really well. Planning to do these monthly.

past makes

  • I printed holiday cards on my gocco printer, and sent out almost all of them. It was a two screen process and I like how they came out
  • finished a whimsical dress - very structured pattern, but total baby blanket fabric. I have not been in the mood to wear it yet.

rambling

It's been a stressful couple of weeks, with no signs of stopping. We had one kid with covid, but they seem to be safely testing negative for awhile now. everyone else seems to have dodged it, which feels incredibly lucky, and it's hard to believe.

my husband got laid off from his programming job Friday, along with almost half the company. thankfully - december health insurance, miserably - tons of other people looking and the holiday season is terrible to get interviews scheduled during.

I am theoretically going to get a performance review from my previous boss in the next week or so, and I am dreading it. (I switched teams right as the review period ended.) I am hurriedly starting Thanks for the Feedback https://www.stoneandheen.com/thanks-feedback but I suspect I will not manage to grow up enough to handle it super well in time.

it snowed today, which is beautiful but also reminds me of that time when it snowed and I was so careful and I fell on an icy sidewalk and broke my leg. I'm not going outside in it unless I have to.

and I guess tomorrow I have to be useful again.

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listing all the things that are happening later that i'm stressing about:

  • team "zoomsite" this week
  • last week at work before time off, gotta try to finish at least one thing as well as go to meetings
  • trying a new volunteering opportunity with the family on saturday - we're going to repair donated books so they can be given to children. I will try not to cry WHILE we are there, but I will definitely cry about the whole idea.
    • we need an entire stack of waivers signed for the volunteering, plus pictures of our vaccination cards
  • having a friend over for a sewing day sunday

I will spare you and write about how i'm excited and nervous about hosting thanksgiving next week.

cohost, you get sundays, cause that's when I need to talk out my life choices.

right now I don't want to do anything, and i'm trying to accept that that is a valid option. I will just sit here with a mug of tea and talk to you. (but at some point i will put on shoes and take the garbage to the curb. fine)

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traditional sunday complaining

time change makes it feel both late and early.

I got a lot done, but I feel like I should do more.

I want to order pizza, but will I still want to when it is a reasonable time to?

I should get off my butt and bake an apple cake to have for breakfasts this week.

I don't have the sunday scaries since I switched teams, but there's still a monday apprehension. it requires more examination.

I think I would like to chat with some friends tonight, and I don't love that twitter is still the best way I have to try to pull something like that together. (tweet posted) (sometimes writing it out helps me figure out what i actually want)

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sunday feelings

sunday is about waiting. for some reason, today it feels like the kind of waiting i do in a hotel - where I don't have anything really I need to do. But with the bonus of being home with my kitchen! I was annoyed about feeling bored, and so I tapped into that hotel room feel, and asked myself what I would do differently in a hotel tonight. And that's why I have like 4 more holds on ebooks at the library, and I'm reading a short story collection that I downloaded.

apparently I believe in a true abundance of reading material when traveling, but at home I feel like I should finish the books I have started. Feels great to give myself permission and just start more things.