New year

I Ate'nt Dead?  I have been lurking a lot and using my longhand journal instead of posting here.  It is hard to accumulate the needed emotional activation energy to get over "but I have nothing interesting to say" and "half the time I stick my foot in my mouth anyways". 

But I want to stop sitting in the corner by myself, too.  So I will try to post a bit more and hopefully more about things I am actually Doing.  So here are a few things I have been doing lately.

• Finished a painting yesterday, probably I have a half-dozen or so that I have completed during the pandemic.
• Continuing noodling around with a stained-glass-inspired crochet design.  It is not there yet but I keep finding additional techniques that might work for it.
• After about four attempts across my lifetime, I think I am finally going to get through the entire brick of Les Misérables.  I am about 300 pages from the end, certainly farther than any previous attempt.  I think now that I am 33 I may be finally old enough for this book.  : / 
• I am making bread right now!  I did not jump on the bread-making bandwagon earlier in the pandemic but I...need to use up this yeast.  It says best by July 2020 and the end result already looks a bit dubious.

Oh and in September I got hired for a new position at my place of work that is a lot less front-desk-customer-service and a lot more fiddling with data and making sure All The Things Are In Order.  I am still not at the top of the learning curve and it is an entirely new position in the organization, too, so there is a lot to figure out still.  But at the end of the work day I feel like I have a lot more spoons left, so I am glad to have made the jump even with all the challenges.