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Well, I've sucked at keeping this updated since the world has gone so sideways in so many directions that my thoughts are usually WTFNOW? But well, there has been good along with the sour.

A bulleted list of the weirdness of the world:
1) MIL does not have cancer but now has a temporary colostomy bag. Mel spent a few weeks taking care of her right before Pennsic.
2) We went to Pennsic which was an adventure with a 7 year old. There was drama with cancelled flights at the start of our trip but Dom was with me since Mel was in Washington.
3) Got to spend time with Bertana who surprised us with coming to Pennsic
4) Wander got into a car accident and totaled her Fit, but she now has a shiny new HRV.
5) She also got a shingles flair which was awful and coincided with her Worldcon trip
6) My deputy got a shingles flair...I'm seriously thinking of getting the vaccine early wtf.
7) We had a crown tournament where we surprised Dom with a knighting.
8) Invested Andromeda as a Laurel and that was fun including hosting Cayswan.
9) Work literally blew up...it made youtube...not pretty.
10) Work sucks in other ways with a design that was very very poorly done and now we have to fix it to get paid....basically doing 2 years of work in 2 months. Lots of OT, zapping any mojo for anything I have
11) Went dairy free after Pennsic...I feel better in a lot of ways
12) Been consistently hitting the gym and running about a 5k each time I go. Its hard but satisfying when I get it done. Been getting 2x a week for the last month. I hope to make it to 3x a week.
13)Benton has been having some issues at school. They switched him to a different teacher (there was another kid whose energy made both of them spin up high) and also will be putting him into 3-4 grade reading and science since he's above where his classmates are. That is going well but man it took a bit to get him settled.
14) Been catching up on Great British Bakeoff and started Lords and Ladles on Netflix. I also highly recommend Power of Greyskull which is the He-man how it became a thing story. Very intriguing and engaging.
15) I'm waffling on fabric for my stepping down clothes and found a combo of fabrics that looks like Strawberry shortcake....which would be funny...and apropos and I'm not sure. Getting second opinions tonight.
16) The only thing of the last week I have been able to accomplish has been some knitting on my Spectra Shawl and its turning out. I'm now on the second ball of Noro.

So, in all things are stressful and weird but we are surviving. That is the important thing. Right now my sanity is being replaced by to-do lists, spreadsheets and booze.