Well, yesterday i was more work focused but the day just dragged on and I was tired and cold and just meh. We got snow in Tucson which is a rarity. Benton got a snow day (kinda) and ran around like a loon in teh snow showers. We got an inch that then melted away by the evening. But I was kinda done with having had a very busy SCA weekend. Being on camera the whole weekend and much of Monday and I just needed everything to be quiet. I needed a few hours and I took them after an errand after work where I went to the post office to ship a return and get stamps for our new years cards. So got the stamps and then got back into my car to put them on the 65 cards and then drove the car to the outside drop box and got them mailed. I then went home, curled up in bed and did nothing but read. What I should have done was pick boyo up cause he was being a pill and mel had had enough but we worked that out.

Evening I was slow to get to things but I have now all of the seams done on one half of the dress and will start in on the others tonight. But I sat on the couch and we watched the YT channel "Tasting History with Mike Miller" which is fun and informative. Mel got another black belt warped up. I slept weirdly last night. I was tired (exhausted) and couldnt' fall asleep last night. ugh. But I finally did but I didn't get a lot of deep sleep and my REM cycles were really brief. So today will be trudging through work, getting things off that to-do list and then sewing. I have to make good progress tonight.

I will be glad when this project is done...it was good to push my boundaries but I hate being against a hard deadline. Meh. I think next will be snuggly warm flannel Rus pants for me and getting trim on my linengarb tunics. Thus I'm still making SCA stuff. I will also cut out my coat I want and work on that. Plus the scroll commissions I have. which I have one to do next week.

Recently we've noticed that Ben is confused when we use colloquial speech and phrases or idioms. I'm having to explain a lot of them which has been fun and frustrating because I'm not even sure where some of these come from. This mornings was "hold your horses" which is pretty self explanatory if you go rushing into things but to explain it to a 5 year old takes some work.

Anyhoo....just before I left for the convention I put in a large number of hours and paperwork on an engineering task I had been handed. I was given the solution and needed to implement it after testing had completed. This task had a very short turn around and I used all of my resources to do a good job. From the mechanical standpoint the job was good. From the electrical solution I was given it was probably not the best and this was pointed out to my by the production chief versus the one I had completed the task for. I had not been given all of the information to make a good full system decision. but I was also distracted by the timeline and the fact that the con was that week and that I'm trying to be a good engineer, learn things and not make any waves until I get my place in the new program.

The chief is very personable and even though I felt about an inch tall from the very very nice dressing down I felt pretty awful about it. I left work despondent and almost just went home to drink myself to bed. But I decided that with the information and distractions at hand, well, I made the best decision I could. So, meh. I went to knit night and had a nice time and then home for snuggling up on the couch with some tv and a book. I even went to bed mostly on time. My edema while better with a day of wearing compression socks is not perfect and I'm wearing more today. Hopefully by the weekend things can recover and I'm going to get more rest. DAMMNIT!

I've been doing a good job on the EI front. I have been taking that class to heart and just working on some of the strategies. There are lots of strong personalities on the new program and I'm trying not to feed the fire of egos though in this case I may have stepped back too far....oh well.

Chatted again with the chief on another issue which went really well and then brought up the issue that was not good and I apologized. He was a bit taken aback I think and was not worried about things in the way I was. His was really No Harm, No Foul since the decision wasn't completed yet and its scope now is shortened. So that made me feel good though and I'm now able to think a bit better. I had a nightmare this AM and then was stuck in a dream for too long which made my mental state this AM a bit fragile but now better. I'm still hella tired and tonight I'm going to bed early and sleeping until late cause damn.

My A&S projects are progressing so I just need to slam out the docs tomorrow in first draft form and finish the first hat. Plus cleaning of studio from the con mess and getting back to some sewing after A&S is done. A clean studio will make that easier and honestly its not too bad. I just have stuff I packed spreadout and a few bins need to get put back. All good.