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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.

Well, I finished it. The Visionary is done, stick a fork in it. Unfortunately I have no brains remaining to make intelligent commentary on it right now or navigate the arcane process of uploading images, so you all will have to wait until I get home tomorrow to see it. : P

Because I am constantly getting myself in over my head, I started a new crochet blanket yesterday. This time I am learning how to do things that are made on a polar coordinate system instead of Cartesian! In other words, I'm making squares right now. Later there will be hexagons. And then after that, I will get to figure out how to attach these all to one another. *cries*

Right now though, I have made...6 squares out of 50. Long project will be long. I just hope I don't have to go buy more yarn because the other point of this blanket was to use up some of my leftovers so I can feel less bad about going and splurging on lovely soft Lion brand yarn. I'm making this blanket in a green and yellow motif (gee I wonder why) and hopefully it will be done before football season for Husband to snuggle under. Given that football doesn't return for almost five months, it had better be done by then!

I call it American/Pride.

The second attempt at this scarf, and I definitely like the results better than the first one. The colors are a little wonky in this photo, sorry. Pen placed next to it for reference.

It’s good to be able to wear a bit of defiance around your neck when you’re out and about.

I decided to make a second attempt at what I'm calling my American/Pride scarf (photos once I'm done). The new stitch that I chose is a much denser weave, so more rows are needed for each stripe of color--specifically, ten. Naturally, I like to forget how many rows I've done so far. So what does a geek do? She grabs a d10 out of her dice bag and uses that to keep track. : P

S	M	T	W	T	F	S
		1	2	3	4	5
6	7	8	9	10	11	12
13	14	15	16	17	18	19
20	21	22	23	24	25	26
27	28	29	30	31

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