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[kittydesade]

Having a hard time getting back into a routine where I get up, get ready, get into the office at a time and start working, which isn't really what I want to be doing given I want to work remotely from home. Still I've got a few months to work on it, assuming I don't end up going back to the store which... I don't even know. I'm trying not to think too hard about that, since I don't get a big say in that part and I do have an alternative plan. Assuming the school ever gets back to me about remote work. I guess I'm going to send a follow-up email tomorrow.

Note to self: that is a stressor. It's not a big stressor because there is kind of a plan. But it's a stressor.

The tomato plants are growing, they're putting out tomatoes. I have one cherry tomato that's ready to be eaten, sadly just one, and a handful more that are ripening which means it's time to break out that recipe I downloaded involving cherry tomatoes and chicken. I have a couple paste tomato plants that are getting towards 5' tall, which is. Wow. My tomato plants don't usually do that well. And fortunately it's the paste tomatoes, which I now know exactly what to do with. I just. WOW. We've also been getting daily rainstorms, which is nice as far as not having to really water all the outside plants.

Also I ate my first blueberry off one of my bushes. It doesn't have that many berries yet, but it wasn't one of the berries that was on it when I bought it, it was a new berry. So I am deeply, deeply happy.

I picked up kind of a new hobby? It's not much of a hobby and I have a bunch of leftover beading gear anyway. But of course instead of touching (most) of that I went on Fire Mountain Gems and got a whole bunch of new beads. See, I got these bracelets that are basically a bunch of round pumice beads on a length of elastic and I liked them so much I think I wore them for two or three weeks straight. I don't have them on as I type this but mainly because I was doing dishes. So I decided in my infinite wisdom to get materials to make more. I got the wrong (slightly too large) size of bead the first time but it's fine, it worked well enough, and I placed a second order to get the correct size of bead and now I know, plus this'll keep me amused for the next couple of years. Now I just have to find a place to put them. The bracelets, not the beads, I have a couple cases I never filled with minis. And find the damn superglue to seal the knot, I know it's around here somewhere.

(The boy was heading out the door to work yesterday while I was unstringing beads into one of the separated boxes. He asked what I was doing, I said resurrecting an old hobby, he sighed as he left. Today when he came home I was looking for the superglue and he was all "Oh, I thought I put it here, hang on." We didn't find it but it's nice to know he actually is supportive of my absurd hobbies even as he rolls his eyes fondly.)

Though speaking of resurrecting old hobbies I do need to get my ass moving on the various cross-stitches. I have patterns and thread and have assembled them into projects I want to do, I just haven't picked them up in a few days.

(It's still been a rough few weeks and I'm working on remembering that doing things I love to do, wear makeup, play guitar, etc, is a good way to make things less rough when I'm not being actively hammered by stressors. It's a work in progress.)




1. Finish leaves on cross stitch, start letters.
2. Rearrange the oven-side cabinet
3. More of the dishes on the far side of the main kitchen sink
4. Pick up office floor half done? ish? Got the art supplies and the trash/shredding done
5. Clean up bed in guest room
6. Do sheets from bed in guest room, set 1, set 2
7. Fold and put away laundry
8. Dishes, undoubtedly
9. Move peppers outside