Oh yays!
I’ve been such a crankypants that I’m trying to find good things to think about. So here’s a small list.
1. OMG YAYS my picker came! The box is outside, waiting for the studio to be ready. The OOPs man just came and delivered it. Hopefully, if the equipment and fleeces start piling up on the deck, the damn landlady will get her ass in gear and will finish removing the evicted dude’s furniture, and clean and have it ready for me this weekend.
2. Speaking of the UPS man, I have a crush on mine. He has a very manly mustache, and is quite attractive. Mrrowr.
3. New cotton sleep pants. My legs will never see the light of day again in shorts or a short skirt. This is my compromise while I’m at home.
4. I’m glad I put the pants on about 60 seconds before the UPS man came to the door. It would have been an interesting conversation otherwise.
5. Getting some black plastic bags to do my annual “shake and bake” of my fleeces that have not yet been used. It’s finally going to be warm and sunny enough here this weekend to warrant using them.
6. Receiving the quilting fabric order, and notification that the second fat quarter club shipment is in the mail.
7. Realizing I should find a quilting teacher.
8. Setting my first attempt at making Balm of Gilead out in the sun to steep. While I didn’t collect the cottonwood buds myself, I have high hopes that the simple recipe will turn out marvelously. I found that this helped soothe my hands and wrists when I’d been doing too much typing and knitting, as well as my knee when I fell HARD at my B&B during Madrona. A friend made the first jar I’d used, and she did collect the buds herself. I am not that adventuresome (bugs live outside, don’t you know), so I ordered some and am tinkering. We’ll see how it goes.
9. Fresh strawberries from the farmer’s market, along with a chocolate ganache in regular and cayenne from Chocolate Serenade. The booths were side by side, and the chocolate vendor had a lightbulb and bought strawberries from next door for customers to dip in the ganache to sample. Totally awesome. I’m so going to eat myself sick on these things.
10. Ghosty!mew didn’t hiss at me when I went out to feed her just now. Watching a cat go NOMNOMNOM is always happymaking.
Anyone who reads this - please send good vibes that the studio aka crafting space will be ready this weekend. I need to excavate my apartment from under all the boxes of materials I’m planning on working with in the coming six months or so, and I’d really, really like to get this all moving.
Happy Friday!