October 17, 2025
Good Things Friday (346) and Link Love
1. Did we make it? I think we made it.
October 10, 2025
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Helping folks: This family still needs help to make their home livable since their landlord refuses to do their job.
October 3, 2025
Good Things Friday (344) and Link Love
1. You can always tell it’s been a hard week when I couldn’t think of a good thing. But getting to do my exercises for the first time this week was really nice!
September 26, 2025
Good Things Friday (343) and Link Love
1. TIL that chocolate is fermented. WHAT.
2. I’ve learned more about football from Chris Kluwe on Bsky than anyone else. I really like that he’s politically active, and vocally fighting back against fascism in his local community of Huntington Beach, CA. Now, he’s running for Assembly and we can support him!
Helping folks: This GFM for an old friend of jewelry artist Wings needs some traction.
September 19, 2025
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How this week flew by in a week of Mondays and ended .. oh right. It’s been Very Busy and I have been Very Slow and we’ve had work going on around the exterior all week which has been pretty disruptive. It’s necessary weatherproofing but I’ll be so grateful when the last of this is done.
A friend is being moved to hospice and I’ve scheduled a visit after they’re settled in. I’m not ready to lose them. Stupid sentiment I suppose, is anybody ever? I’m so tired of this relentless grieving of one loss after another, we all deserve an extended period of joy. Well, not the fascists. They can lose all their hate-fueled joy, that’d be ok.
Wins: I sorted TWO big bags of Smol Acrobat hand me downs and put half away for future use and half into the donation bin to share with friends with younger ones than ours. We’re going to have them over one night with all their kiddies, feed them dinner, and have them pick through the bins for whatever they’d like to take away. Win win for everyone!
PiC has to finish his endless painting project first and then we have to find a date before the rush of Fall and holidays and all that overtakes us. Cross your fingers for us that we don’t lose another 3 months before we manage to organize something.
Bestie turned 40 this week ❣️ I’m so proud of her in so many ways. She’s awesome.
September 12, 2025
Good Things Friday (341) and Link Love
1. I’ve been ogling dogs again. They’re very cute and I want them.
September 5, 2025
Good Things Friday (340) and Link Love
1. Coming up with a good office storage set-up/layout is a weirdly slow process. Slow is better than never and sometimes fixing your longstanding storage issues is a multi-step process especially when you’re dealing with many crafting, office, life, and school supplies for yourself and the kids. We could really use more storage space here. I just wish I could settle on one good overarching system and stick with it but I’m always finding that I have time or energy to get 25-50% of the way through, stop, and come back to it months later wanting something “better”.
All that to say, it occurred to me to try rearranging my mask storage boxes so that I could reduce it to one medium bin and all it’s now left me with is a bag of well used old fabric masks, once paired with filters, to figure out what to do with. JB used them constantly over three years and they simply can’t do the job anymore. There should be no shame in repurposing them in the scrap bag but I feel terrible about taking apart the hard work that went into them. But it would be worse to waste the fabric, in the end, so I’ll get over it.
2. Every so often I dabble into beginner sheet music on a keyboard to try and remember what I learned as a kid. I wish I’d been able to muster the discipline to practice as much as I should have back then, the way I was willing to run for track or workout for martial arts, but I wasn’t so my muscle memory is a shabby shadow of what it could be. Another thing to do in retirement, teach myself how to play again. Try to get good enough to play Howl’s Moving Castle for fun.