Rambly post rambles

[mizarchivist]

• Somerville Open Studios/art/plans: total success. I enjoyed spending the weekend with mangosteen and lifecollage. I've now done enough craft fairs in the last several years to master the zen this time around. Historically I get quite frenetic about making new product. Not this time. I did maybe 8 pieces since Arisia, and that was fine. I was focused on being present and not on sales, so the fact I did quite well was made that much more. I very much hope this works out again next year.  Most notably, I sold my last dragon tin. I have no more dragons! I must make more!! Any suggestions on color themes welcome. I may ignore them, but consider that survey open. Future plans for projects involve using peanut butter/mason jars. I've done a few here and there. They look cool and are a different sort of functionality to boxes. Also, we have an almost never-ending regeneration of empty jars.


• Cope: (or lack thereof) Events like craft fairs steal whatever cope and energy I'd normally have. Today I feel like I've been beaten with sticks, hence me updating rather than trying to be a productive member of the staff. I'm also just low on cope. The spectre of no formal income for Jaime is a Thing of Awful. Not knowing when The Good Health Insurance (and access to my therapists) is a huge stress. (more on the progress side in a sec). The stress is causing everyone at home to be ragged around the edges and harder for me to forgive stupid shit, be present, ... you know. The usual. I am one fuck-up away from a crying jag kind of all the time.


• Jaime/Job/Prospects:. Her interview mid last week went well at academic institution (my alma mater, btw). They are coming up hard against commencement and then summer clean up, so they'll need a Jaime asap. It's a 2nd shift job, which would present a new set of challenges, but steady, full time, permanent, unionized work. In the meantime, the tribe did the tribe thing and Jaime has about a dozen leads to follow up on for side work. I introduced Jaime to the tool, Trello, to keep track of the leads and then forced her to sit down today after lunch so I could walk through it with her to cement in the notion of using it.


• Kid: His teacher thinks he should see a therapist. I'm looking into it via the pediatrician from the list available to use through new insurance. Maybe he does, maybe he doesn't. I think he's just 4 and surrounded by stressed people, but also his daddy is a lady, and maybe he might want to process that with someone not his teacher and not his parent. Otherwise, we are doing OK? He and asciikitty had an awesome adventure that lasted most of yesterday and involved walking all the way back from lifecollage's house to our house. He and I played "store" the other night with his pretend food and cardboard pavers. [Dad loves to tell the story of me playing "bartender" when I was his age. When we moved into the house they're still in, there was a bar in the basement. I'd set up, offer to pour drinks, ask to hear about my customer's problems, and offer cliche aphorisms in response all the while wiping down the bar with a rag. Dad has NO idea where this came from. Kids are weird and awesome]


• Travel/visits: My dad'll be here this weekend. Mom will be here in early June. Jaime/Kid/I will head to Ohio in early Sept to visit family. October I'll be back again for jedipartner1967's wedding (!!). All other vacation time is allotted to cover when the public school is closed this fall. There's a lot of one-off days and vacations, and no idea what Jaime's free time will be like, so have to assume it's me covering.... for now.


• Cultural: Seeing Arcadia with Dad and ascii this weekend; Swan Lake with coworkers on the 13th; rollerskating on the 21st with sweetmmeblue and ahf (yes, I call that cultural); Brandi Carlile with caulay in early June; Doubleclicks in late June... It feels like a lot. I want to go see Verse and Vodka coming up, but I feel overwhelmed, dammit.


• Work: not much? I'm sort of in a lull. One coworker's been out due to vacation then illness then workshop, so generally quieter than usual. My intern is done for the semester. I expect things will pick up soon.

Comments

[trowa-barton.livejournal.com]

Keep the color themes for the dragons.

[mizarchivist]

I'm sayin' I am looking for a theme for the new dragon. It could be anything right now. Last one I sold was green/gold, mostly. The one before that was red/gold on deep blue. Ones before that were blue/silver...

Anyway- I'm excite to start a new one. They take a lot of time, but are worth it.

[42itous.livejournal.com]

Purple blue and gold!

YAY skating

[sweetmmeblue.livejournal.com]

I'd be interested in Verse and Vodka as well.

Re: YAY skating

[mizarchivist]

I've pretty much given up the ghost on having the spoons for V&V.

[drwex]

Good to hear all the updates. I don't feel compelled to comment but am happy to talk about all/any of them at your choosing.

Dragons. So, nerd-tastically D&D separates dragons into two sorts. Bad ones are colors like red and black and good ones are metallic colors (bronze/silver/gold). If you've an eye toward Xmas and then Arisia nerd sales it might work to build up a stable that have these chromatic ideas in them.

[catness.livejournal.com]

All dragons should be purple and silver and black. Except those that are not. :)

Hugs to you for the stressful things. Good for you on being active to deal as much as you can.

Sorry I missed your birthday last week; was on tour and it seems like vacation from the outside, but it's really a lot of work from the inside.

[mizarchivist]

Obvs. purple/silver/black. There is nothing else is there? ::grin::

Thanks for the belated good wishes - I enjoyed the tour pics in the place of faces. Hard work but also fun?

[42itous.livejournal.com]

Your kid walked three miles??? Can asciikitty take the Bear for an adventure?

[mizarchivist]

Hey, you could ask her :)

[asciikitty.livejournal.com]

My fitbit says we walked 5 miles. I carried him a little bit of the way though. (like... half the block before we got home? may 3/4 of a block? a little bit)

I'll take the Bear on an adventure! when we saw you at kickstand the other day, the kid and i had walked up, and then walked home. I like to think it helps him sleep ;)

[mizarchivist]

+1

[42itous.livejournal.com]

You're clearly doing something right: I take Bear over to Mass Ave and she begs me to carry her after half a block!

[asciikitty.livejournal.com]

Well. We take a lot of breaks. And stop and look at things. And have snuggles sometimes. And we've been building up to this for a long time - he and I have been working on walking places for two years now.

[42itous.livejournal.com]

All I can say is you have a lot more patience than I do. I'll try to aspire. :)

[caulay.livejournal.com]

Indigo Girls are coming up next month too....

[mizarchivist]

RIGHT!