Well, I've been MIA from posting since I've had a scribal project in big works and then I had an allergy flair that laid me out, Benton got sent to DC for school trip and work was even more special two weeks in a row.

So, last I updated Benton and I were together for the week with Mel on travel. He and I survived and did good. Very little yelling and he got video game time while I did painting in the evenings. Friday (12th) had Mel home and I headed to the happy hour for Frank's send off to another program. I dressed up and put make up on and that was nice. Got to catch up with a lot of folks who had moved programs and it was nice. I was able to treat one of my engineers to drinks for a thank you and get hugs from folks I hadn't seen in a while. Sat we grabbed Ari and headed up to Phx for Cerridwen and Val's wedding. It was a lovely day, perfect weather, strong drinks, good food, party games (I still rock at corn hole). We headed home happy and satiated and Benton got a slew of kids prizes for games and things he had played. I also got to knit a bit and reconnect with knitting Cerridwen cause worlds collide and friends are friends and you didn't realize it.

Sunday I worked on the scroll and Po came over for faces and kibitzing while I got the text finally settled. I basically made it sound like a medieval recipe to make a laurel and it went like this:

To Make a Laurel (As Written)
Take a thousand words or more & sound hem forthe and drawe Þe Nobles and Crowns togidre unto a fayre procession.

If Þou wilt, lete hem be led by a fayre goode cooke dressyt yn fine raiment & high upon her hede the grandest hattuz fer all to knowe.

Bring forthe all good grene Laurels and gather togidre and caste hereto norot to fewe, ne noȝt to many the fine vestments to fit as to that noble order henceforthe, and add to writ all rank, privilege, and rights togidre fore all tyme.

And thus, we serue it forthe this Saint Agnes Day, Anno Domini MMXXIV in Anno Societatis LVIII to proclaim Magdalen Venturosa as a Companion of the Order of the Laurel. Set by Our hands hereto and hereafter.

Kona Cyng, Aesa Cwēn 

Took some wrangling to get all of the correct things in but since she is already a Pelican I didn't need to put in a patent again which would have made things awkward. I rather liked it. Plus her Hubby was doing a Chaucer piece in full old English to open her ceremony. So he read the scroll.

Anyhoo...with a few more hours painting it was done and just needed calligrapy. Work that week was nuts. I was super tired and trying to get things done was hard. Tuesday was my birthday and it was very meh. I dressed nicely since I had to be in work that day but the plan was pretty meh. Nothing special. I did bring in donuts. Mel and Benton had kung fu and fighter practice. My day shifted drastically when we got evacuated from our building and not with the fire alarm. We didn't know what was up but security had us move north of the road loop and instead of hanging at the covered area near the bus stop we headed to one of the large cafeterias to wait. We weren't sure what was going on and they wouldn't let us go south to our cars so we waited. A few hours later we got sent back to work since the suspicious package had been dealt with. Yeah they had evacuated a blast radius. But it was dealt with and we were okay. It was just a bit nerve wracking. But by the time we got back to our desks at 2pm we were all just cranky. evac news

I left work and came home and sat on my phone playing games until it was time to get Benton. I should have cooked but we picked up Canes which was not what I wanted so it tasted meh to me. But I managed to get the practice on the scroll text using a crap chisel pen and a legal pad. It had been almost 2.5 years since I had done any calligraphy so I had to practice a few times. The early gothic I used to do has not changed into a fine batarde so that was a surprise. Mel got home very late and I was cranky...he had gotten me flower (tulips and other things for my birthday which was nice but the cats kept trying to eat them). It wasn't a great birthday and just plain weird.

Anyhoo, work was nuts the next day too but I got home and did a trial run on a piece of tracing paper to the tracery of the scroll setup. I did one half and then went down a nib size and that dialed in the text for how I needed to do it for the real scroll. I made very large G&T and got at it. I'm very pleased with the result and I only made two typos. One I forgot a word and I glossed that in later and I missed a letter in her name and had to scrape and fix it. but overall it was done. Then I had to draw in the bumpers and the fancy initals I had left off. Thursday i painted that all in and then started in on the gloss. A gloss is
where a text had extra notes or translations or errors fixed later in the margins. I took feedback from friends, associates and KW peeps to add into the gloss. I used a drafting nib to write it in my own handwriting/printing. It fun and I then put spiders in the painting and elsewhere in the text areas. They are her heraldry and it was fun to hide them.

I had Friday (19) off so I ran to michaels to get foam core and made the enclosure. its been a while since I had done that but it turned out nice. I then went and helped Bridget get a battery in her car. Kia designed things dumb and I don't have a 6 inch extension for my craftsman set so I had to remove the air filter and have her hold the cowl back for me to get the dumb battery bracket undone but we got it done in an hour even with the drive to and from the autoparts store. Got home in time to pick up Benton and get his ID card and then got a massage and home to a grumpy husband. Who thought we had to be someplace at 6pm and I got home at 630 and I'm like my dude, its always a 90 minute appt and the thing doesn't start until 7pm. He chilled after that. We headed to Thyra's for Magdalen's vigil and it was old home week. Tati and Mingo arrived from Meridies, Ann and Tonius came in from Midrealm. Bridget came since her car was working and brought Maddie who is 24 OMG. Benton played with the mini aussie puppy and ate a lot of the food...which was tasty what I could eat. I mostly drank the cocoa puffs beer from Dom and chatted with people. We got home about 1045pm and we all crashed.

Saturday was Meet the Masters and Mel had packed up a bunch of weaving things for him and Floki and I packed up my scribal stuff and when we were packing Benton started throwing up. And was not stopping. I had the scroll to deliver, We were both supposed to speak to Magdalen and yeah. We made teh decision for Mel to stay how with the kiddo and the puke. I drove across town to the event. hiked my stuff in after getting the scroll signed and setup everything just before court. I sat at the back of court with Ari and Bridget and the crew gathered for the Laureling. I did not know that Magdalen was going to sing her way in for presenting the boar's head . She had the Whiskey Bards (tucson local ones). It was quite the affair. I was to speak as teh royal peer for Ivan and I and I guess I did okay cause everyone said I was inspiring. oof. But from a Royal peer you need those who make the ambience, who culture the experience of the SCA, who wear those hats you see in painting and go WTF is that?! That is Magdalen. There was an audible gasp for the scroll which is always the best part(tm) and everyone was amazed at the gloss.

You can see the scroll progress picts here.


I got the scroll for display during the day and I set up my scribes desk and callig'd 3 scrolls while chatting with Po and Ari and Dominique. Dom was across the walkway brewing beer and chatting with us too. We had a lot of school kids come and chat with us and I did a quick tour of the inside folks. Afternoon court was good and we had packed up beforehand so it was easy to go home. I had been checking up on Benton and Mel and once he stopped puking 930am...he slept until 2pm and then was pretty good.

I was hot and tired since it was low 90s and slightly windy that day. I got a shower and texted Ari and we had family dinner out for Sushi. (benton had good noodles and broth). It was nice and quiet and just the family with Dominique since she was staying with us. It was nice to chat and talk and then go home to rest. I was weary.

We slept in a bit and Sunday was a lasy day but I went and got things for Benton's trip and got my toes done. I was feeling odd though when I got home. And I will talk more about that in the next post.

I'm still reading "Making it So" #14 of the year.

So I managed to sew a lot over the weekend. Not finished where I wanted to be cause everything took effing forever and then I nerfed things and then I was being picky and then....yeah. I also managed to make Benton a coat (still needs neckline binding, hems and a button loop). Which is good honestly. So things I need to finish by Thursday night:
1) hem on apron
2) straps on apron
3) trim on apron
4) hem on underdress
5) Finish Benton's coat
6) find yarn for travel knitting (mitts for Sir Justin)
7) Gather things for gift basket
8) Pack for trip to SC

Benton is off school today and I'm making him take down the tree and I will help him put things away. I have to pack the house lights away which is rearranging things in the laundry which is okay. Its just things I haven't gotten to and then am too tired to do. But I'm back in the sewing groove though and the featherweight needs to get a service...its skipping stitches. I pulled out my kenmore and after I oiled it its still kind of rough So when I finish things for the war I will take them in for service.

So I sewed, I slept and I read this weekend. I finished Iron Widow which was excellent. Fast paced and epic with giant robots and Chinese/Korean mythology and feminism. Its a wild ride. And the clincher at the end is oooh boi. Plus a very cute poly trio.

Now I have to pick a book to read and have books for travel so I will need to see what is on my Kindle queue and if I have paperbacks to travel. I only have hardcovers on my TBR by the bed right now. Those suck on airplanes.

While I'm tired and my shoulder hurt from hunching at my sewing machine I feel good and accomplished. This is good.

Have I made it to the gym or to yoga? No...I'm okay with that...the month before war is always nuts. I'm giving myself some grace.

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Its been a few weeks and we attended Kingdom A&S Collegium and Competition. I taught my leather care class to one person but handed out a bunch more handouts. Had a nice princesses tea with the Roses. We spilled some good tea while drinking arnold palmers. Had great BBQ from Sir Suttons food truck and at Rudys. I stood way too much and was hurting by the end of the day. I tend to lean to the left naturally and that was not good. But I managed to do some knitting on the musselburgh hat and chat with friends. We also got to watch Master Balldrich get asked to enter the Order of the Laurel and that brings me joy. I will be speaking for him as a laurel at his ceremony.

We had a stressful week of work of finance crap I hate. I thought I was short $3M and its there just odd and yeah...so much annoyance. I was very stressed.

Benton stayed home from me day tripping Melee camp. I had spent Friday doing things with mom's estate and this is a mess with the land. Hopefully we can work it out after a new extensive site survey is done. Cause its going to either be reasonable or messy (like putting Jerry's will into contest). We shall see how my step siblings are about it.

I was given permission to start easing off boot usage. And I wore it Saturday for Melee camp cause that ground was hella uneven and then a chunk of Sunday when I made homemade eggplant DF parmesan with zoodles, and a cinnamon swirl zucchini bread. OMG. very tasty and it makes two loaves. I used one zucchini and we still had enough left over for mel to make fritters (use ritz crackers for the bread crumbs..so good) and still some left over. SO I gave one of the other zukes to my housekeeper.

I'm within an inch of starting the crown decreases on the hat. I've barely read and been playing a lot of games on my phone again. Its okay its what it is...I got a massive migraine on Sunday night at 1am. And I was down for the count for two days. I slept a lot and missed work and yeah. Not great. Probably stress, dehydration and weather change all combined. We got a huge set of storms come in on Tuesday. Spicy kept cowering from the thunder, running to the windows to yell at the rain and snuggle up on my chest. It was cute.

Today I'm at work. I wore the boot to walk in since its like 1/4 mile and then switched to my shoes. I've gone down the stairs just not up them yet. We shall see.

Wednesday was our 20th Wedding Anniversary, we've been to busy to do anything planned. Mel suprised me with Flowers and then suggested we head to dinner out as a family. We hit Sachiko Sushi for tasty noms. We got done and then the boys were in frantic pack mode for the Golden Dragon Tourney. They left in the van just after I left for work today and I will be all by my lonesome until Sunday night. Which will be nice. I have a one shot game with Erika doing D&D on Saturday. I have plans to pick up the house a bit and finish that hat. Enjoy some me time and just relax. I will probably do some work but most of that is dictated by some things going on today to make some new info going through. All good. Not as much stress.

So there were are...I'm still reading the Enchantress and its meh. I hope I can crank through that and move on to somethign on my active TBR.

so update...nuff said

When last I wrote i was heading into the weekend for my Apprentice to graduate to the Laurel. I had a dress to finish, which I did on Thursday. It was finished enough to wear. I did not get the over the shoulder and sleeve seams hand finished but it was done enough to wear. I got clothes for Benton expanded/fixed to have things to wear. We got up early on Saturday and made our way to the event and it went really well even though my apprentice was almost late for her own ceremony. She had got to do her makeup at the start of court and they were super quick with all of the awards and I sent zoe to go get her. But it turned out well. Baron Master Sym did a wonderful presentation of what the ceremony is for and explained each part. We were able to cajole the Crown that they had nothing to do but say the oath. It worked well even though HRM tried to only nave folks stand for the candidate and my hubby said he would stand for the knights and speak for them as well. Which is his ducal prerogative. It was a busy day of art and chatting with people. We left after court and headed to Rudy's for BBQ. It was storming which was a weirdness for Phx considering September in Phx had more rain than Seattle. But yeah. It was strange. But almost all of Hrafnheim had dinner together. which was nice. We even got Deletha and the kids.

And other than sleeping in on Sunday the rest of the week was pants. Pants on fire.

Sunday night I got a call from mom's assisted living facility that her g-tube had fallen out. This is her feeding tube that we aren't really using much anymore but for end of life they may need to...so I took her to the emergecny room. We had a new hospital open up and they were very nice and they put in a foley (catheter) since they did not have g-tubes in stock. Monday morning it fell out again. We had it replaced. So I spent more time in the ER from Sunday to Monday than I did sleeping. So I struggle bussed the rest of the week and then was arguing with the oncologist about scheduling for them to install a g-tube. But they basically said that they would let it heal over if it fell out again. So Friday when it fell out I just told her caregivers to bandage it and keep an eye on it. Also during that week we had her PET scan. We went out for lunch to Millies Pancake Haus and she gorged herself on a full stack and most of a bottle of syrup. This woman is a humming bird.

Saturday was an event down in Sonoita. Surprise surprise there were speakers for the candidates...the queen loves to hear them. So that is a good thing. We attended for a laurelling of Mistress Eilith who was originally from Outlands and when she was Baroness of Citadel of the Southern Pass (El Paso), I gifted her my Grace as Queen. She had travelled and provided choral music and it brightened my day when I felt like pure ish. I had given it to her at Battlemore so her kingdom could see her awesomeness. So we were glad to see her get elevated.

Sunday was somewhat relaxing but more tiring. Mel left on business and Benton and I needed to get some chores. I was done by the time we got back from the grocer but it was okay. Mel landed safely in Utah and I got a nice evening.

Monday was a Monday and then it was way more of a Monday after the call from the oncologist. I had read teh PET scan report on Saturday and while it looked dire I didn't read it the way he did. Its not that I don't trust him, I just didn't see it as bad as it is. Re-reading it and previous reports...yeah its bad. Even two months ago he mentioned hospice care but this conversation it was "we are stopping treatment immediately
and start hospice care" He stated it was days to weeks left for her to live. While that may not be the complete case...shes under 100 pounds and is weak and her memory is going so this is the beginning of the end. We knew the caner was winning. Just weren't sure when we'd be in the last quarter. I guess its now.

I called and told Mel and when they were on the way home by plane his boss said he was to take the next day off to take care of me and Benton. I was just going to handle things by myself which is so not the right answer at all. I was glad she said that and I took the day as well. Had a meeting with the assisted living staff, told mom the news, got hospice care set up so at least that part is handled. Its going to a be a slow grind until its not. I'm just exhausted...can't seem to concentrate well or sleep enough. Probably drinking too much but meh. Honestly. I'm not getting drunk.

It better news I managed to finish the #35 book which is Saints and Sinners by Jennifer Roberson, I also started and finished #36 Susan Vowell's The Partly Cloudy Patriot...omg the corrallary between the 2002 election and now and Trump and stuff was fucking eerie. History does repeat...wow.

Now I'm in #37 for the year which is Quantum of Nightmares by Charlie Stross. Back in the New Management series. I like some of the characters but not all of them. But its still a trip. I'm about half way through. Next on the docket...I'm uncertain. We shall see how this one ends if I read the next one right away.

But that is life in a nutshell...pretty sucky.

The last two weeks have been busy with appointments with mom and SCA work. I had a scribal assignment that needed to to be done for Coronation. I don't do the hand the piece was based on and had to practice and get my hands to do a square quadrata. Then I find out that the person who did the amazing illumination had been callig'ing in a totally round batarde hand. Bitch! you sent me the expemplar! I matched it! We had a good laugh. Luckily she is a dear friend and was tickled I was trying to make her scroll look even more on point. But its a lesson for me that I can learn new things and to ask the right questions. It was a really nice weekend minus a few weird things.

I had planned to drive up on Friday night that way we had a 20 min drive to site versus 2.5 hours. This was a really good plan and we used the nice box lady to help us not get stuck in a huge traffic collision on I10. Then Saturday was nice, we got to site, had help getting things setup and it was just a nice day of hanging with the hosuehold peeps and watching some fighting and chatting and drinking and me working on putting trim on the last tunic I have. Got that done just as the crown was stepping down and then we had a step up court in not enough light....this was planned poorly. And then the new King wanted another Knight's circle. I have an 11 year old, its 730 at night and we didn't leave site until almost 9pm. Luckily things got packed and loaded and mel just had to pick up his stuff. We could leave tents up overnight so we just got things set and home. Benton got a shower while I hit MOD for pizza and then I got a shower. I was so dirty but so glad that I wore my greek on a hot and dry day. I looked good and was cool. So late night. By the time I got to bed the boys were both snoring. Benton had spent all day playing with kids on the play ground and the field to the side and being an awesome kiddo with all of the little kids. We had two sets of different parents that told us how awesome he was. Makes me proud of my kiddo.

Sunday we slept in and then hit site...we weren't planning on spending the whole day but we did. Rook was there fighting and Dominique came back out and we had a wonderful falconer named Ysabel and her Harris Hawk Oscar who sat with us while I worked on my reign hood which now finally has the seams finished and the hem done. Now I need to make the thin trim for the edges and do the embroidery. I have a plan, it will be slow but nice handwork for courts and the like. I did get called to be stunt signet since Sam didn't show and we needed names on scrolls etc. I did it but was a bit annoyed I didn't get told it was my job that day. I'm fine doing it but my quick kit was really poor on supplies. I need to get things set for travel again. But it was fun to sit with our principal herald and get some information. This new crown will be interesting. Mark was crown a long time ago and things have changed (for good and bad) so some things will have to be adapted for them. Our Queen is new to this society having only starting coming out during my last reign. The roses are stepping up to help her so I need to see what else we can do.

We got packed up and headed to Rudy's for dinner. Rook had never been and he was very happy to have a new place to know has good food. We then got home about 830pm. We still need to take tents out of the van but personal stuff is done. But man we are all tired from the weekend. Made my monday really hard

I finished book book 13: McLaurin's Lady. Started and finished Book 14: Spirits of New Orleans and started Number 15: All Systems Red by Wells. I'm liking murderbot.

When last I wrong almost a month a go. Things were progressing at work on things, the porch project had progress and my shawl was back on track. The now status is the last month has been busy and so short! Well, On the reading front. I finished #17 Mortal Danger which was a re-read from a long time ago and it was fun. I think read #18 Squirrel Girl and the Great Lakes Avengers which is comic pack of all of the SG and the GLA. So much fun in that...OMG. Then I started #19 Blood Lines by Eileen Wilkes and that is been okay thus far. I've been sucked back into some really long fanfic.

Mel and I managed to get packed and rolling to GWW with only forgetting one thing and that was the banners. Oops but of all of the things to forget that was one of very minimal impact on our enjoyment of the war. Lol. We took a very different route than we used to and it did not involve crawling up the I5 for hours. It was nice and through country we haven't seen before. It went up the 215 and then onto back highways to meaner north and west to the I5 which we were on for like 15 miles. It was nice. Found out our site with Gullibursti was in the same spot we always camp. The rest of Atenveldt was over on the other side. It was nice and having flushing potties and sinks right next to us was awesome. Well, the ladies had that. The men's room was out of order and they had a priv and handwash station. I brought projects to work on and money to spend and that was my plan. We had a really nice time camping with Roger and Rochelle. Their new little storage trailer with integral kitchen was super neat. Our camp was nice and period looking and just cozy. Without the banners folks couldn't find us but meh, it works okay.. It was so nice to sit and chat with people. I hit up the fiber area and taught Rochelle to spin. The class lists weren't much of anything I wanted to learn or didn't know and that was okay as well. I bought a new necklace from Maggie that has period beads in it. We got trim and things at White Wolf and Phoenix. I picked up a few pairs of earrings from Mistress Morgan and just a lot of other things. We had breakfast and lunch in camp and then hit merchants for dinner. The meat pie vendor...OMG.from Oscar's Meat Pies and wow. We ate a lot of them.

I managed to help marshal the field and castle battles on Saturday. We were there for Bjorn's knighting and they were short marshals and well, I'm authorized and can marshal its all good. It was a good time and very weird being on the Caid side of things. I did get to yell at my husband for fighting around a corner and explain very nicely to archers that no, you can't fire across the field in the direction they were since it was into spectators.(head desk). The scenarios were not complex we just had to remember when archery was and the shooting conventions. Keeping it simple which I really like. Sat and chatted with lots of folks and just enjoyed being at an event with no responsibilities and no requirements to do anything. It was so good. I put in 4 hours for marshalling and then handed my volunteer tickets to a newcomer who was there to find out about the auction. :)

All of my photos are at 2021 GWW Album

I had fun with some night photography and just in general had a nice time.

Got back and the porch project is now done except for minor cleanup and painting. Woot! I did have a very down week though last week. Not sure if it was allergies (fuck california) and the let down of fun times or hormonal or moon stuff or mercury being mercury? but I was off last week. Better now but still annoying cause I was doing good before that. So we shall see how this week goes.

Coronation is Saturday and we drive to Prescott Friday. Should be a good time.

I taught at a very small kingdom collegium this past Saturday of my Top 10 Books Class. The collegium was small due to lack of advertising and the staff not really being communicative. I'm going to make a nicely worded email about it but when we had hundreds at the same event the year before and like 15 people this year...that is an issue. Time to be a good peer with good critique.

So, it was nice that I got to sit and chat with Kaye who moved to Britain a long time ago now and I knit and chatted and shared info where I could. Benton and Skylar were having a play date and were very happy to let me sit on a Zoom while they played video games. Lol. They did really good though and I got changed into my normal clothes and then back to the studio to watch my videos and knit. Once Skylar left with Bonus Ari and Paul content. I got to play Graveyard Keeper until dinner. Mel got home and relaxed and I continued to play. Which was nice.

Sunday was knitting and gaming and we attempted to get BB-8 and the girls to meet...which didn't go well. We laughed and BB8 hid under the piano while the girls were locked up. Lol.

The previous day with Ari was cause she dropped off Cornish Pasty Co food for us and that is what Sunday dinner was and it was lovely. We've been going through watching Clone Wars...still going to be weeks before we finish but that is okay. Wow, we still didn't need Jar Jar ever...seriously. But its been good.

This week I've decided I'm switching things out from HIIT to weight lifting. I hit weight night last night which was shoulders and arms. Wednesday will be legs and I plan to do HIIT Thursday and Saturday. So that is my plan. We shall see how it goes. I can lift when I'm having allergy issues if my energy is up. So that is good.

I'm now reading "Will my cat eat my eyeballs" which is delightful and fluffy. So that is also good.

I've had a week out since I realized that drug interactions were making me miserable and things are better....still took a bit and I've had some lingering effects.  My allergies are...okay. I've had to hit my rescue inhaler more but I'm okay.  Didn't hit the gym and that was sad for me. I needed the rest on Saturday.  Benton and I hung out and watched TV. I missed my collegium telecon due to me and them not listing time zones correctly.  MST is not MDT ya'll.  Ugh.  But it was okay.  I also realized that my classes I've been teaching lecture style...should probably have slides.  So I spent part of Monday getting them translated to slides. I will still send out the updated handouts but the slides will be good for talking points.  I'm used to doing this for work so its not that hard of transition I just feel dumb that I haven't thought of it until now. Lol.

I teach 8-19am on Saturday at the Outlands Collegium. The classes will be recorded so that will be good. I now need to get my books pulled and my beads pulled.

I worked the POD on Sunday and managed to get sunburned a bit. I did reapply but I missed the back of my left calf and the front of my right shin?  So I have fun tan lines.  I will make sure to use my rub in stuff on Friday first and then use the spray to layer protection.  I had to dig shorts out cause it was 95F.  I also was standing on asphalt road running traffic so reflection was a thing.  Got home exhausted but felt good.  I got a shower and cooled down and then sat on the couch like a lump. Mel made us a nice dinner of roast beef, turnips and green beans with a great gravy.  I had an early night and my sunburn wasn't sore at all really. I notice it a bit on my calf but not really, it looks way worse than it feels.

My brain is back on working almost normal? I feel the energy and motivation to do more than sit and read which is good. I hope to get back to my shawl and the scroll work this weekend.  I work the POD on Friday, Teach Saturday and then Sunday give blood so probably knitting...I do want that shawl done for my birthday but I think that is too much.  Its not half way yet.  Such tiny yarn and my hands do not like that...or its the cotton...not sure. But I could also just make a hat to go with the cowl I just made...its squishy and has a matching hat....we shall see. Its not really accessories season now but I still like handwork.  Course I have baby gifts to do as well.  Sighs.  Need to finish that damn commission.

So everything is better and we have a plan for Family dinner on May 7th which is going to be awesome.

I'm working and working on the dress. I made really good progress on seam finishing. I have just the items around the sleeve to do. I did the same on the other side on Tuesday so I should be able to do that tonight after the gym. Yes, I'm going dammit. I didn't Tuesday and that was more mental health related. I'm okay with that. Just trying not to make that a habit.

So Friday I have "off" but I have volunteered for a Leadership thing for work which is in the morning. I'm going to sit and sew during it and they can cope. So if all goes Well I will be at hems on Friday night since friday day will be the hem silk and attaching all of the tablet weaving. Course I realize I may just bind the hem...hmmmm....decisions. Two birds, one stone and all that.

I will chat with the brain trust and figure it out.

I woke up this AM with a stoopid headache from crunching up while sewing...so I'm sure it is that. And its been stoopid windy and the weather change but its really probably just sewing.

Well, I slept good last night though it took me a while to get out of bed this morning. The weather is changing and reading about my friends in Alaska and California without power due to winds and knowing that the weather is heading our way by tomorrow after noon. So my brain is doing the "sleepy snuggly" thing with me in a freshly washed bed. (I did bed laundry yesterday and that just makes sleepy so nice on fresh sheets and blankets).

But I got up and am now trying to plan my day. Yesterday was good. I had energy. Benton took the ornaments off the tree and we got it fully taken down and boxed up before dinner. After dinner mel helped me with Tetrising the closets the xmas stuff goes into and then I hopped on the Southern Scriptorium Monday night zoom. Its our 20th year now of being a scriptorium. Also, yesterday was 25 years together for mel and I...our dating anniversary. So that is also nice. It was also a Monday in 1996.

During scribble we had more folks on who were there to art and chat which was nice. I got the neckline on my dress tacked down with tiny whip stitches. Tonight I need to put away laundry and work on the dress or hat. We shall see how I am after hitting the gym. Cause yes, I'm going. Even if I'm tired.

Trying to keep this momentum up cause the deadline is in two weeks. Yikes!