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What Day is it Anyway? Tuesday, May 12th, 2020

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May 12, 2020

Wow! When did it become Tuesday?

 

While knitting lots, today, the sky looked like this:

No. Not my photo but Pixabay.com

There were winds and lots of tiny hail and rain that made a lot of noise. It looked like we’d have a huge lightning storm but we only heard the thunder once. But, darn it, it is still cold. I know I will be complaining in a few days about 110 degrees heat. But it is May and I would appreciate 80 okay?

I guess I could catch up on my binges. I finally finished Grey’s Anatomy over the weekend.

 

Then I talked to my daughter who reminded me that I needed to catch up on This is Us.

I’m sad because even though I love those two shows, being done leaves me flopping around with that no friends to watch zone. Oh during that time my son and I found Little Monsters. We laughed and so enjoyed it. I know. Zombies. But it was more about how a kindergarten teacher saves the kids and a very messed up band member. I may have to watch it again soon. It made me happy.

Even though the weather is making me hurt, including my hands, I want to get back to finding something to watch while knitting. Those socks don’t knit themselves!

Happy

#WDIIA

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Escapist Coloring Club–May 11, 2020

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May 11, 2020

Last month I didn’t even get to the coloring. But I think we need this fun escape. So I prioritized. And my hands were hurting from socking too much. I think I have a dozen socks in the process. My new X-Wing fighter is a lot of fun to figure out. Yet I still haven’t finished my daughter’s and her boyfriend’s sock. They are close but that last bit at the cuff is the part I can’t do on auto-drive. I need to watch what I’m doing and not miss stitches. So that bit on the bottom right is my daughter’s nearly done sock. The yarn tied on each of the wings is to keep a big tangle from happening from sock to sock. The bottom wing is me trying to figure out certain stitches and how I can move the wedges around instead of increasing and decreasing.

Oh, yeah, this is about coloring!

Here is the before:

This time I needed the smell of crayons.

I need new pens or something as the colors are just not as bright as I wanted. And they certainly don’t show up on the cell pic. Well, it was fun to sit and color regardless. Next month I have a better project and new coloring instruments to play with.

Here’s the preview:

More places to put the colors!

Thank you, Linda, for the Escapist Color Club!

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What Day Is It Anyway? Mother’s Day Edition

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May 10, 2020

I feel loved. Pizza and phone calls from my adultrins. I love my offspring. Smart fun people that surprise me with their ideas of life and love. Mother’s Day is often with all of us in different parts of the world or country but I am so happy about the phone calls. With all that is going on now, this year was even more special. It is so sad that folks can’t get together, but I’m glad we can still hear the voices of the loved ones and see their faces. We’re planning a Zoom birthday party at the end of the month. Covid or not, we are not close enough to see each other, especially with jobs and other responsibilities, so it’s only a little different. We are all thankful that we are all healthy and can be together in any fashion.

I hope your day was good. I know Mother’s Day means we are missing some people. Like my own mother or my aunts or my cousins or my grandmothers, many gone before us, and many scattered all over. Mother’s Day is about fem history. And regardless of the relationship with them, we have all had mothers. Nobody got here without one. That I know of. Maybe the test tube has made some, but I’m not sure it happens. So it is a day to contemplate the kind of mother you had, the kind you become, and the results of being one. So regardless of the birth experience,

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Stream of Consciousness Saturday May 9, 2020

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May 9, 2020

 

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Per Linda:

Your Friday prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is “cave.” Use it as a noun or a verb. Enjoy!

This is my happy place. A cave with the ocean view. As a teen, my favorite beach had one of these. Now the cave is locked up. I’m glad it was open for us. So cool! It is nice that I can put this picture up here to soak the picture in. I haven’t been to a beach for a couple years.

I have loved the caves in my youth. Big pretty ones with stalactites and stalagmites. But I’ve spelunked a couple with just sand and walls.

Yet the house is often the cave. And lately not in that safe way. But a stifling way. All I need to do to stop that thought is thinking of my wonderful caves of the past, especially with the beach and I can feel my blood pressure ease.

And now that I have pulled myself back to my safe cozy place, it is time to get off the computer. I hope you are finding your safe cave.

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What Day is it Anyway? Friday, May 8th, 2020

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May 8, 2020

Friday, fun day! I played with the new toys/ I now have two socks going on the X-loom. And I got to Zoom with friends! At last, Christmas happened again. UPS pulled up. Like everyone else, I just let them put it on the porch. The rooster called out over and over that there was something new on the porch. Roosters are the new watch-dog. Yeah, Kali just laid on the couch and sighed, eh, no need to get crazy.

New calligraphy pens, Tombow. Now more toys to play with! Remember Christmas as a kid? It was so hard to decide what to play with first. Yeah. Today’s theme. Knitting wins now. In fact, I think my hands are itching to knit. Happy Friday, everyone!

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What Day Is It Anyway? Christmas

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May 7, 2020

I am so excited! Some of the things I ordered from a small business came today!

That huge X? I can make four socks and a hat at the same time on the same loom! There are two hooks, both are great! The little loom attached to the yellow yarn cause I couldn’t resist working with a loom key chain has twelve pegs. I think I’m making a yellow snake. The one attached to the red yarn? I couldn’t resist a tiny sock (24 pegs). I nearly forgot to blog or do my Duolingo I was having so much fun! I can’t wait to get started on my X-Wing. No, not the official name. CinDWood actually calls it the X-loom. 3/8 XL Scarlett Royal has a lot of YouTubes for all three of these looms. Here’s just one:

 

 

That is a smaller X loom. I can’t wait to start playing.

Oh, and I got this from Ebay:

It seemed bigger on the site. But I think I can make it work.

Okay, time to go play! Oh, and the trash is out so I know it is Thursday and will be Friday in an hour!

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May 6, 2020

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What Day Is It Anyway?

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May 5, 2020

This is what I’ve been spending most of my day on:

Oh, and when my brain didn’t work I started these:

Both for charity.

When sitting got too much and it was gorgeous outside, Kali and I took a zoomie walk/run around the property. She’d run ahead and hide and jump out with what looked like puppy-laughs and I walk-ran to keep up with her to find her. It was so much fun. I doubt I hit a thousand steps, but it was more than I would have had in the bad temps of last week. I hope we get better at this so I can improve and lengthen our walks.

This What Day Is It Anyway I think is Tuesday. Cinco de Mayo/Taco Tuesday was plastered all over FaceBook. But I don’t spend a lot of time over there. So in my day, I lost the day many times. I took a fibro-flare seriously over the weekend and all day Monday. So I missed my writers’ group. The reason is that the pain was too much to keep my brain working. I had even started my prompt a few times. I knew where I was headed with it. But then I couldn’t hold my laptop without it hurting. I hate fibro for its way of deceiving me. I’m not sure about whether or not it isn’t the flu or covid or… It is only when it gives up that I know it was a flare. It was worse when I was working. I couldn’t tell, how do you call your boss and say, I don’t know if I can work today. It feels only tired, hard to wake up. It is only when it hurts so bad that I know I can’t be at work. It is only the aftermath of one step too far that lets me know. Remember exercise that you do 10 steps today, and increase to 20 tomorrow? I used to be able to make big increases and improve lots every day. No way can I do that now. 10 today 4 tomorrow, zeros and back to 10. If not flare. It is hard to know when it is too much. I always feel like such the ‘Fairweather friend’ in that suddenly I’m not there where I wish I were. If it were just pain, I could do it. But suddenly there are no words. Then the next day you wonder if that were true. Did it really hurt that much? And how long was I out? Well, shoot! I missed a weekend and Monday. So here is Tuesday.

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Happy Star Wars Day

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May 4, 2020

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Review: Fire by L.B. Gilbert

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May 3, 2020

FireFire by L.B. Gilbert
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Is it the pandemic or what? I think I would have loved this book before but…

Tanya Eby, narrator, was quite good at the many voices it took to tell the story. I tried just using the text-to-speech and found that dull. Maybe if my eyes were good enough to follow along I would like it more. I would have been able to get deeper into the story. Ms. Eby’s voice brought me into the world of the fire elemental.

I must have enjoyed it because I listened to the end. I did like the main character. But often I tired. I honestly don’t think it was the writing or character development. I really think this could have been the most exciting book ever. It was just my inability to concentrate. So don’t take my word for it. Check it out. Maybe when life settles I’ll try it again and see if I don’t actually love it.

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