I fucking hate it. Last couple of years have been exceptionally hard but I think a part of that is because I'm in a steady home environment (have been the last soon to be five years in September) and so everything is going "Oh hey...we can actually deal with stuff now." Um... can we NOT deal with it that way?! No..... *grumble* It's been so bad I let half of the Etsy lapse into expired listings... That's been fixed. But still....
Tomorrow is the day before Mabon. The plan is to take today and do my special music channel and work on creative projects all day, taking it easy because tomorrow (DR I love you...but I'm cleaning even while you're sleeping) I clean. I super clean. I'm gonna bitch slap this house with cleaning rags so hard it's gonna cry.... or I'm going to be crying from the joint pain on or the other. ( Makes a note to take something with morning coffee so that pain stays away.) Tomorrow WILL see a good house day.
So that I can spend Mabon in peace.
Why is that important?
Witchcraft:
Eh well... The Morrighan has been encouraging me to talk about this and Dagda, Danu, Anu, Cerridwen and the rest haven't exactly been quiet about that either. I've been getting nudges for the past couple of years but this year they've gotten a bit more intense....but I think that's because I'm back to a point in my abilities where I'm not straining to hear them anymore. ....I need to talk to my sisters and brothers about if they can see if any of my abilities are still dead and which ones are recovering and which ones can be saved. There's one I don't want back. Not gonna talk about that right now.
Basically it's a covenant of a kind. There's two parts that I have so far. Grow my hair back out (which I'm keen to do because I've had it short for a few years now. Thing about my hair is that grows really fast so by the end of the year, it's probably going to be shoulder length almost) and take better care of myself. Man they yelled that last one so damn loud that day.
The Bullshits:
So part of my self care is learning that is okay to have bad and down days. "But those are the days I lose time on projects." Yes and that's okay. Instead of fighting those days, I need to let them happen so that they take up only ONE day instead getting stretched out over three and four days. Yeah... bad Evie.
YEEEEE! So I visited with my parents for a week in early July. That was so damn nice! Went fabric shopping with my mom and just got to spend some needed quality time with them. (It'd been almost five years since I'd seen them.) Mom also had several things of fabric that she wasn't going to be using in her quilting (she makes beautiful lap quilts and baby quilts for the Linus Project).
So I have a lot of new fabric. There are:
- Two button up shirts for DR planned.
- At least three quilts for us.
- Maybe close to five wall hangings.
- Curtains.
- About five or six vests for me (Wardrobe changes continue!)
- At least two long sleeve shirts
- One more bib dress
- Couple other indeterminate right now.
This is on top of the two shawls and one more crocheted vest I've been eyeballing making for myself. One of the shawls...is well... special.
SHOUT OUTS:
As you guys know I have really cool people I'm friends with so we're doing two shouts out todays.
One is the Patreon account link to my friend who runs Reel Fun Studios. Carie a wonderful geeky lady and mother to a beautiful daughter. If you could give her page Carie Varner some love and some monthly coin, it'd be appreciated.
Also today I'm giving a signal to the newest Science based book out from my good friend Stephanie Osborn called "Kiss your Ash Goodbye: The Yellowstone Supervolcano"
Personal Stores:
Always be sure to check out what's going with my Etsy The Jade Rose Zen and my Teespring Jade Rose Zen Productions.
Always be sure to check out what's going with my Etsy The Jade Rose Zen and my Teespring Jade Rose Zen Productions.
Time to keep today's momentum going.
