Beading the system
Yesterday was such a crappy day that dad and I didn't feel like doing anything. (Had mom not already had plans, she likely would have joined us.) Dad's also not feeling well, so he got acquainted with a bottle of Robitussin and spent the day face down on the couch. Oh, but first, he managed to find my tiny house show on A&E of all channels and I ended up watching that for a couple hours. (He's not really a fan of tiny houses, but he did watch the majority of one of the episodes. He likes This Old House and stuff like that so I said he might like the building portion of the show.)
I eventually forced myself to do something constructive and managed to upload all my Monday camp pictures, so three days down! I do have one more day that's completely labeled and ready for uploading; unfortunately, it's Saturday, so I have to get there first. :P I think my Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday pictures just need labels and they're good, but Friday's pictures still need sorting. Because I ended up conducting for part of the morning rehearsal, I'd handed off my camera to one of the dads--the only one not playing in the percussion section, as it turns out--and he took WAY more pictures than I was expecting. Plus, I have the pictures from the dress rehearsal, and the bonfire, and it's always the day where I take the most pictures. But it would be nice to know that I've at least gone through them and trashed the ones I don't want to keep.
After that, I had this very strong urge to get out my bead box. I likely mentioned it when I got it a few years ago-- this container from The Container Store (naturally) where I've stored the majority of my beading materials. I think there are a few things that don't fit in it and are in the original plastic drawers I kept my crafting books in. Anyway, I had one necklace that was pretty close to being finished, plus a second that I needed to fix; that's the one that broke while I was at Erik's memorial service in 2015. That was that crazy whackadoodle week in July where so much happened that it was overwhelming--and that's saying something given that the entire month was like that, so yeah, no way was I going to fix it at the time. I'm not sure I've really beaded since, actually, now that I think about it. But it was weighing on my mind, and I really love that necklace. It's the black and crystal one, where I took a design and modified it. There's a tassel on the end that broke, and when I pulled it out, that's all that needed fixing, just the one tassel. Everything else appeared intact. Sweet. So I got that fixed, and I completed the other necklace, which is like a netted choker. I'd also had an idea for a modification to the netted choker design and started on that. I then worked on it today because, again, I had no motivation to do anything worthwhile, AND I had a headache for much of the day. Beading, particularly this kind which is basically weaving with beads, is a good way for me to sort of meditate and get my mind off things. Put Harry Potter on in the background, and there you go. Also, I've realized that HP6 has several of my favorite quotes from the series in it (for some reason, I often have "He senses my presence!" in my head).
Here's the weird thing: My urge to fix the broken necklace was very strong yesterday, like I was compelled to do it. What was yesterday? Erik's birthday. Coincidence?
Given the weather, yesterday was very strange. Weirder for me--you know how I complain that it floods by my job when it rains heavily? Well, it rained heavily enough by work yesterday that the intersection near there made the news; it flooded so badly it had to be closed. Like, video and everything. And the video showed that there were barricades up. See, now, I don't recall barricades going up when I've been there and it's flooded, so it must have been *really* bad there for a time. So glad I didn't have to work yesterday. Curious what happened and what the people who *did* work have to say about it.
I eventually forced myself to do something constructive and managed to upload all my Monday camp pictures, so three days down! I do have one more day that's completely labeled and ready for uploading; unfortunately, it's Saturday, so I have to get there first. :P I think my Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday pictures just need labels and they're good, but Friday's pictures still need sorting. Because I ended up conducting for part of the morning rehearsal, I'd handed off my camera to one of the dads--the only one not playing in the percussion section, as it turns out--and he took WAY more pictures than I was expecting. Plus, I have the pictures from the dress rehearsal, and the bonfire, and it's always the day where I take the most pictures. But it would be nice to know that I've at least gone through them and trashed the ones I don't want to keep.
After that, I had this very strong urge to get out my bead box. I likely mentioned it when I got it a few years ago-- this container from The Container Store (naturally) where I've stored the majority of my beading materials. I think there are a few things that don't fit in it and are in the original plastic drawers I kept my crafting books in. Anyway, I had one necklace that was pretty close to being finished, plus a second that I needed to fix; that's the one that broke while I was at Erik's memorial service in 2015. That was that crazy whackadoodle week in July where so much happened that it was overwhelming--and that's saying something given that the entire month was like that, so yeah, no way was I going to fix it at the time. I'm not sure I've really beaded since, actually, now that I think about it. But it was weighing on my mind, and I really love that necklace. It's the black and crystal one, where I took a design and modified it. There's a tassel on the end that broke, and when I pulled it out, that's all that needed fixing, just the one tassel. Everything else appeared intact. Sweet. So I got that fixed, and I completed the other necklace, which is like a netted choker. I'd also had an idea for a modification to the netted choker design and started on that. I then worked on it today because, again, I had no motivation to do anything worthwhile, AND I had a headache for much of the day. Beading, particularly this kind which is basically weaving with beads, is a good way for me to sort of meditate and get my mind off things. Put Harry Potter on in the background, and there you go. Also, I've realized that HP6 has several of my favorite quotes from the series in it (for some reason, I often have "He senses my presence!" in my head).
Here's the weird thing: My urge to fix the broken necklace was very strong yesterday, like I was compelled to do it. What was yesterday? Erik's birthday. Coincidence?
Given the weather, yesterday was very strange. Weirder for me--you know how I complain that it floods by my job when it rains heavily? Well, it rained heavily enough by work yesterday that the intersection near there made the news; it flooded so badly it had to be closed. Like, video and everything. And the video showed that there were barricades up. See, now, I don't recall barricades going up when I've been there and it's flooded, so it must have been *really* bad there for a time. So glad I didn't have to work yesterday. Curious what happened and what the people who *did* work have to say about it.