Whirlwind of weeks....
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ianukI think I have a journal post on my other computer that I never finished or started or something. The last few weeks have been nothing but working very long hours and being so brain drained all I want to do is read something not technical, preferrably fluffy and well written. My cosplay stuff is coming along but not at the pace I wanted but at least progress has been made. ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
lferion helped me pattern out a 1950s dress and we will turn the dress into Hawkeye dress that will be lovely for tooling around the convention with scribe_ari in her Ironman dress and I will get the planned Star Wars dress too. I'm currently in the middle of making a crinoline for the dresses and need to eff with my sewing machine to make it not sew well so I can use it machine baste. I'm not going to hand baste 17.5 yards of tool...nope.
Other things going on...my ears are still not better and a return to the doctor showed more fluid build up. We are trying a whole new variety of painkillers and allergy meds to see if we can get the inflammation down in my head to allow my eustatian tubes to drain so I can hear clearly. Its partially working but man I hate taking so many pills.
Book reading I finished Green Boy which was #11 for the year and am now in Victory also by Susan Cooper. I think after this I will get back into the Honor-verse and pick up a few other books from Seanan Macguire. I have been reading entirely too much fan fic but seriously, my brain is goo by the time I get home. I have processed so much eningeering paperwork of late that speaking is almost hard at the end of the day. I almost cried at knit night when Vicky (owner of Grandma's) wanted me to tech something out when I was just DONE for the day. But the goals are in sight with work and we've been doing good and will most probably hit our deadlines. Also got some good compliments on things at my mid year review but again have to really work on the soft skills and stop being the "scary engineer" and be the "likeable soon to be manager engineer". Sighs. Being passionate about something and not scary people is hard for me...sighs.
Other weird things and maybe its my way of coping is I have story ideas from stuff I wrote in HIGH SCHOOL that keeps hitting my head. It also keeps reminding me of the co-writer of some of that and I keep getting daily reminders of them and its weird. Guys been dead a long time now and why there are still reminders its weird. Probably the need for my creative mind to get back into gear but I'm scared to see what I blow the dust off of...I'm not even sure I have soft copy of that any more on media I can read. Will have to check the floppies. Just weird.
My mother has now planned her funeral and was not creeped out that I want to have diamonds made with some of her ashes. Since the technology became available I've been interested...was glad she thought that was neat too.
Benton is basically potty trained now and refusing to wear a pull up at night. He's even gotten up in the middle of the night to poop which is something. Its really nice I have to say. Additionally he's also liking to take showers versus baths which is easy to do. Plus with my ear, not having to bend down like that is good. He's doing okay at school and is napping almost regularly there which is nice but we can't get him to do it at home. Oh well. He's growing again it seems and you see the huge difference since a few months ago. We went to court night at the park last week and people couldn't believe how all he was.
Mel's birthday was a few weeks ago and we had a household/scriptorium party for him full of games and food and fun. It was all ages and it was a very good time. We also had a nice time atbrennabe and Don's wedding reception. Benton made me draw TMNT drawings for him to color as a gift. My first fan art!
Other than that I've been knitting a bit and working on a blanket for Anya's boy and have plans for Theresa's new baby's toy too. Just not enough time it seems.
We also got a new bed over the weekend. Its a Serta Icomfort memory foam mattress and OMG comfy. I've stopped having to use extra pillows for my legs...so nice. Its also way thicker than the old futon was so I'm probably going to have to shop for new sheet soon.
I have not been able to get back to the gym due to the ears...I get dizzy when I bend weird and I almost passed out last time I tried so taking it easy but watching what I'm eating pretty closely to good results. I did manage to get in a bike ride that is promising for me and I had no issues with dizziness there so that was good. The Road Boars are going to be trying to do Saturday rides for the next while which will be good. I need to get back in the saddle more and having a planned activity with people is good. Solo when its hot and way to early to be up on a weekend is not fun.
So, this week is lots of work and hopefully finishing my crinoline and getting the two dresses sewn and down to finish work so the following weekend we can pattern out my Kabuki kimono and be good. Then it will be working on the Victorian. Oof and the accessories. Lots to do.
Fanfic recommendations:
Bond-verse : Ordinary Numbers
Sherlock specifically Mystrade Fic:
1) Human Remains. A very slow build fic with angst and you really need to be caught up on the show. Which I finally did. WIP.
2) 365 Days of Mystrade. Two writers basically doing a fic a day..mostly a disjointed in time verse and really fun. WIP.
Plus I've been reading other stuff and as that finishes I'll post here.
lferion helped me pattern out a 1950s dress and we will turn the dress into Hawkeye dress that will be lovely for tooling around the convention with scribe_ari in her Ironman dress and I will get the planned Star Wars dress too. I'm currently in the middle of making a crinoline for the dresses and need to eff with my sewing machine to make it not sew well so I can use it machine baste. I'm not going to hand baste 17.5 yards of tool...nope.Other things going on...my ears are still not better and a return to the doctor showed more fluid build up. We are trying a whole new variety of painkillers and allergy meds to see if we can get the inflammation down in my head to allow my eustatian tubes to drain so I can hear clearly. Its partially working but man I hate taking so many pills.
Book reading I finished Green Boy which was #11 for the year and am now in Victory also by Susan Cooper. I think after this I will get back into the Honor-verse and pick up a few other books from Seanan Macguire. I have been reading entirely too much fan fic but seriously, my brain is goo by the time I get home. I have processed so much eningeering paperwork of late that speaking is almost hard at the end of the day. I almost cried at knit night when Vicky (owner of Grandma's) wanted me to tech something out when I was just DONE for the day. But the goals are in sight with work and we've been doing good and will most probably hit our deadlines. Also got some good compliments on things at my mid year review but again have to really work on the soft skills and stop being the "scary engineer" and be the "likeable soon to be manager engineer". Sighs. Being passionate about something and not scary people is hard for me...sighs.
Other weird things and maybe its my way of coping is I have story ideas from stuff I wrote in HIGH SCHOOL that keeps hitting my head. It also keeps reminding me of the co-writer of some of that and I keep getting daily reminders of them and its weird. Guys been dead a long time now and why there are still reminders its weird. Probably the need for my creative mind to get back into gear but I'm scared to see what I blow the dust off of...I'm not even sure I have soft copy of that any more on media I can read. Will have to check the floppies. Just weird.
My mother has now planned her funeral and was not creeped out that I want to have diamonds made with some of her ashes. Since the technology became available I've been interested...was glad she thought that was neat too.
Benton is basically potty trained now and refusing to wear a pull up at night. He's even gotten up in the middle of the night to poop which is something. Its really nice I have to say. Additionally he's also liking to take showers versus baths which is easy to do. Plus with my ear, not having to bend down like that is good. He's doing okay at school and is napping almost regularly there which is nice but we can't get him to do it at home. Oh well. He's growing again it seems and you see the huge difference since a few months ago. We went to court night at the park last week and people couldn't believe how all he was.
Mel's birthday was a few weeks ago and we had a household/scriptorium party for him full of games and food and fun. It was all ages and it was a very good time. We also had a nice time at
brennabe and Don's wedding reception. Benton made me draw TMNT drawings for him to color as a gift. My first fan art!Other than that I've been knitting a bit and working on a blanket for Anya's boy and have plans for Theresa's new baby's toy too. Just not enough time it seems.
We also got a new bed over the weekend. Its a Serta Icomfort memory foam mattress and OMG comfy. I've stopped having to use extra pillows for my legs...so nice. Its also way thicker than the old futon was so I'm probably going to have to shop for new sheet soon.
I have not been able to get back to the gym due to the ears...I get dizzy when I bend weird and I almost passed out last time I tried so taking it easy but watching what I'm eating pretty closely to good results. I did manage to get in a bike ride that is promising for me and I had no issues with dizziness there so that was good. The Road Boars are going to be trying to do Saturday rides for the next while which will be good. I need to get back in the saddle more and having a planned activity with people is good. Solo when its hot and way to early to be up on a weekend is not fun.
So, this week is lots of work and hopefully finishing my crinoline and getting the two dresses sewn and down to finish work so the following weekend we can pattern out my Kabuki kimono and be good. Then it will be working on the Victorian. Oof and the accessories. Lots to do.
Fanfic recommendations:
Bond-verse : Ordinary Numbers
Sherlock specifically Mystrade Fic:
1) Human Remains. A very slow build fic with angst and you really need to be caught up on the show. Which I finally did. WIP.
2) 365 Days of Mystrade. Two writers basically doing a fic a day..mostly a disjointed in time verse and really fun. WIP.
Plus I've been reading other stuff and as that finishes I'll post here.
