Been too busy to write...which is lame...and annoying

Its been 3 weeks since I last posted. Yikes! Well, a lot of things have happened. Work is getting more stressful. We have budget cuts and its down to three of us to do the work of 5-6. Sighs. I've been authorized all of the OT I can handle (and probably some I can't) but to me that seems weird...why pay for three people to charge OT when you could have kept one more person? Sighs. So, doing more with less. I have managed to work on my studio and have used it successfully to do sewing. I did a ton of repair work on things the last weekend. And we have successfully kept the house up since our house Yule. So we have been spending time keeping things tidy. Just don't ask me about the floors...I still need to mop.

This year I don't seem to be as stressed about Estrella. Course I don't think anything is in comparison to us being heirs last year 9 days before the war. We've been knocking out some awesome on the scroll front and icka_imp has been rocking on the shields. Srsly, that girl rocks it. I will post the picture of the latest after the war. Its for Duke Edward Grey of Lochleven from the East. Most of you will remember him from various Estrella's as the East Crown. Well, he's going to enjoy the Hrafn hospitality and he's been wanting to store a shield with us and well, Icka knocked it out of the park.

I'm still reading the fairytale anthology and what I have to say is that most people's writing styles in this are not to my taste. They are weird and oddly voiced. Dunno. About 1/3 of the stories I'm okay with but the rest....meh.

I hope to finish that this weekend. I had some good news at the doctors thus far. My kidney doc agrees that an ultra sound will probably exonerate my calcium condition. As long as the extra calcium hasn't formed kidney stones I'm good and never have to go back. On my general doctor they found I have, of all things, a Vitamin D deficiency. Guess even though we are in the land of the sun we are all really good about using sunscreen and wearing long sleeves etc to have a deficiency. Issues that this deficiency can cause are: depression, weight gain, muscle weakness, fatigue, GI issues etc. All of which I've been having issues with. So, a lot of my enuui has not been in my head but in my biochemistry. Which is good for me.

I've gotten myself back on track with my eating clean and getting back into the gym. Its been hard but I'm making changes in my work schedule to make it so I can go to the gym no matter what happens. I'll be working more at home in the evenings but its really important that I take care of myself as well.

Benton has had a few rough times but he's doing okay. We are hoping a week of having time with his SCA family gets him over a few hurdles. We have the plans for his small 3rd Bday party in the works and that is good.

I've been working on Cosplay stuff for Dragon*Con with Ari and danabren and the fabric for my victorian is now all bought. Just have to get working on the sewing. My goal is to have two of my costumes done for Phx Comic Con and then finish everything else over the summer. All good.
So, what I'm doing: 1) Victoriana GI Joe Baroness, 2) Star Wars 1940s dress, 3) Molly from the Dresden Files (pre-turncoat), 4) Kabuki Tean Titans Raven for a Kabuki DC group. I plan on marching in the parade with the GI Joe folks. I'm excited but all of this is uber challenging for my sewing skills since most of it is not my usual thing. All good though. Challenging myself is a good plan.